{"text": "With 92 percent of the country’s viewers watching content on dedicated video websites and related apps in Q4 2016, China is entering a golden era of entertainment consumption, characterised by consumers’ growing appetite for quality, catered content, and the convergence of multiple devices.\nFor marketers, these developments are sharpening the country’s advertising opportunities, and online video platforms—in particular, iQIYI—are exploring new content marketing channels in close collaboration with brand owners.\nAccording to an iResearch study, China’s online video advertising sector reeled in Rmb33.4 billion (US$4.9 billion) in revenue last year, and iQIYI is no longer limiting its reach to video hosting alone. The platform is utilising its dedicated user base and massive content library, and making a mark with its iJOY marketing model (see overleaf).\niQIYI’s CMO, Vivian Wang, explained how at the iJOY marketing conference held in Beijing in June: “There’s a new market for video, where advertising and content have fused, and consumers are highly engaged with the medium. Aggregation is getting more personalised and efficient, subcultures like anime and hip-hop are finding an audience on our channels, short videos have shown rapid growth, and in-feed ads are booming.”\nCMO Vivian Wang speaks at Beijing's iJOY marketing conference\nOwning the entertainment value chain\niQIYI currently boasts 310 million daily active users, including 150 million on mobile. This places it at the top of China’s video-streaming industry, and a healthy second in the app industry when ranked by engagement time, trailing only WeChat. Founded less than eight years ago, the video platform has a footprint worthy of a closer look.\n“We’ve developed a ‘one dish many ways’ business model for content producers,” says CEO Tim Gong. “Whether it’s advertising, paid membership, franchising, copyright sales, gaming or ecommerce, it’s the same recipe throughout—distribution and monetisation.”\nOriginal content generates more traffic and has long-term business value. And platforms that once prided themselves in streaming video are gaining an advantage when they also take charge of the production and creative direction of their content.\niQIYI is an exceptional case study for this: seizing this opportunity, it has invested heavily in its own native content with a healthy ecosystem behind to support its growth expectations.\nXiaohui Wang, chief content officer at iQIYI, said that investing heavily in its HEAD IP (intellectual property) content—its top-tier content, that which receives the highest popularity scores and largest audience size—is part of its content strategy.\nWang estimates that—in addition to the 90,000 independent videos produced daily over 30 channels—iQIYI is ramping up its in-house offerings “producing 1,000 hours of HEAD content throughout 2017”. He has high aspirations for iQIYI: “We are establishing ourselves as the best online-streaming platform, the best player in internet native content production, and the best ecosystem of content.”\niQIYI partners with Xiaomi, vivo, Yum!China, VIP.COM, and FAW-Volkswagen at the iJOY marketing conference in June\nCapitalising on star power\niQIYI’s content investments are a unique strategy: the group now relies on its star-making power with new talent, going so far as to double-up as talent scout and employer. Because of its grassroots approach, iQIYI-only dramas, IP-based dramas, and internet-native dramas are in high demand.\nIn 2016, iQIYI produced 25 original internet dramas that generated 31.2 billion click-throughs. Its content was ranked No 1 by weighing more than one third of all internet dramas in China.\nYing Dai, vice-president and general manager of internet dramas at iQIYI, explains the approach: “We don’t just stand backstage, we collaborate with film production teams in their search for promising actors. We want to communicate with these individuals at the start of every new project, and nurture them on their journey to the screen.”\niQIYI now commissions multiple-season productions to maintain quality—a technique popular TV shows in the US use. Episodes are released on a weekly basis by design.\nIn addition to new talent, well-established actors and hosts also co-produce iQIYI’s original content. Bin Jiang, vice-president and general manager of programme development at iQIYI, said of the effort: “Celebrity-produced shows and IP-extension shows are two drivers of our internet variety shows.” IP-extension shows refer specifically to subsequent seasons of successful variety shows, which drew in extra large audiences for iQIYI, garnering 7.1 billion views in 2016 with an advertising revenue of Rmb2 billion.\n“Aggregation is getting more personalised and efficient, subcultures like anime and hip hop are finding an audience on our channels, short videos have shown rapid growth, and in-feed ads are booming”\nVivian Wang, CMO at iQIYI\n“We are establishing ourselves as the best online-streaming platform, the best player in internet native content production, and the best ecosystem of content”\nXiaohui Wang, chief content officer at iQIYI\n“We don’t just stand backstage, we collaborate with film production teams in their search for promising actors”\nYing Dai, vice-president and general manager, internet dramas at iQIYI\n“Celebrity-produced shows and IP-extension shows are two drivers of our internet variety shows”\nBin Jiang, vice-president and general manager, programme development at iQIYI\nCreating a content atlas\nFrom in-feed ads and offline events, to licensing opportunities, iQIYI’s iJOY marketing model has opportunities across the map of content:\nIP crossover: iQIYI’s marketing capability provides greater flexibility for brands, allowing them to reach a wide range of consumers across a variety of online mediums by implementing pan entertainment strategies. “Successful companies that deal in media are knocking down their long-standing silos of film, TV, literature,” says Michael Chen, vice-president of sales at iQIYI. “Pan entertainment is the new standard. We’ve constructed a comprehensive upstream-to-downstream production chain to live among video: literature, animation, ecommerce, gaming, and other formats.”\nIP soft-embedment: Video ad spots—regardless of their placement—are easy for viewers to skip, and likely come off as a hard sell. Rather than disturbing users with a 30-second ad spot wedged haphazardly within a video, iQIYI vouches for a more fluid process for embedding branding. Brands make their home on iQIYI through mediums such as well-placed mascots, on virtual goods in a mobile game, or featuring as a location in their latest miniseries.\nO2O interest flow: Online-to-offline experiential marketing is paramount in providing a closed-loop content experience for consumers. iQIYI has taken to the ground with offline events for its 523 million online users, including iQIYI Comic-Con, iQIYI All-Star Carnival and iQIYI Summer Operations.\nCompleting the communication cycle, users can also engage through ‘Bubble Circle’, the company’s built-in SNS system—314 million of iQIYI’s users are under 30, and 35 million of those younger users engage daily on the platform.\nChen believes that targeting the younger demographic means keeping communication portals open. “We’re currently in the age of Marketing 2.0, where online and offline worlds feed each other reciprocally. Our face-to-face events and Bubble Circle facilitate engagement, and we’re eager to dive into Marketing 3.0, where innovative technology like AR and VR play a more powerful role throughout.”\niQIYI’s integrative marketing solutions tap into entertainment trends\nIP licensing: “While Hollywood gathers 70 percent of its income from licensing, the sector only accounts for 2.5 percent of income in China’s film industry,” explains Jared Ren, vice-president of licensing at iQIYI. “This signals a massive opportunity for growth in the coming years. It’s green lights all the way for us.”\nBrands like Disney and Marvel have established vast and diverse content libraries built on characters whose emotional resonance spans decades. iQIYI seeks to build this same rapport with audiences through content collaboration, a strong digital presence, retail goods, offline entertainment and even a planned theme park based on iQIYI content.\n‘IN’ advertising: “iQIYI pursues marketing with the aim to combine brand and conversion,” says Frankie Fu, vice-president of sales at iQIYI. Along the way, the company’s DMP leverages automatic tags powered by big data, collecting user interests to increase the precision of audience targeting.\nAs a product of these developments, iQIYI has seen an increase in programmatic buying, and has committed itself to setting benchmarks for transparency, accurate metrics and brand safety across its services and the market as a whole.\nIn-feed ads: iQIYI is the first player in the online streaming industry to release in-feed ads as a major advertising strategy. The sector subsequently saw 2,000-fold growth in just one year, opening the doors for brand conversion.\nFred Mao, managing director, corporate development sales department at iQIYI, outlines the native advertising landscape in China: “The country now has 665 million mobile netizens, which makes up 95 percent of all Chinese netizens. Knowing this, a rapidly growing number of SMEs have laid a solid foundation for the explosive growth of in-feed ads, and independent research shows that 50.4 percent of mobile users are in favour of these ads.”\n“We’re eager to dive into Marketing 3.0, where innovative technology like AR and VR play a more powerful role throughout”\nMichael Chen, vice-president, sales at iQIYI\n“While Hollywood gathers 70 percent of its income from licensing, the sector only accounts for 2.5 percent of income in China’s film industry. This signals a massive opportunity for growth in the coming years”\nJared Ren, vice-president, licensing at iQIYI\n“The country now has 665 million mobile netizens, which makes up 95 percent of all Chinese netizens. Knowing this, a rapidly growing number of SMEs have laid a solid foundation for the explosive growth of in-feed ads”\nFred Mao, managing director, corporate development sales department at iQIYI\n“iQIYI pursues marketing with the aim to combine brand and conversion”\nFrankie Fu, vice-president, sales at iQIYI", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Eighteen inmates and a guard were injured Monday when members of two Black Muslim factions fought each other at the Adolescent Remand Shel ter on Bikers Island, it was learned last night.\nOnly one of the injuries, to an inmate, was serious enough to require brief hospitaliza tion, a Correction Department spokesman said. He said the disturbance erupted from an argument between two leaders of the factions over a Biblical interpretation, and that picks fashioned from bedsprings were used by some inmates.\nThe spokesman; Agenor L. Castro, said Correction Depart ment officials had since been in touch with both factions to avoid another flare‐up, and that Muslim officials had said they would also talk to the inmates.\nThe shelter houses close to 2,000 youths between 16 and 20 years old. News about the flare‐up was not made public Monday because it was felt “not serious enough to warrant that kind of news release,” Mr. Castro said.Continue reading the main story", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Lt. Brian Davi, A.A., Public Information Officer\nCentral California Women’s Facility\nWith Associate of Arts degrees in hand, 38 inmates at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) shucked off their pasts and took steps to a much brighter future.\nFamilies clutched inmate-designed ceremony programs while educational administrators and graduates offered inspirational speeches during a recent ceremony.\nWarden Deborah K. Johnson recognized the hard work of the inmates.\n“Your past does not represent your future,” she said. “Each of you has opportunities to improve yourself, your families, community and especially your children.”\nFaculty from Feather River College, based out of the University of California, Merced, awarded the AA Degrees in front of the graduates’ friends, family, teachers and CCWF administrators during the Sept. 5 ceremony.\nWarden Johnson congratulated the class of 2014 for stepping up against the odds of being incarcerated and taking the positive step toward being role models at CCWF. She also lauded dedication to challenge their minds to become future educated members of society upon release.\nSince 2009, CCWF has graduated approximately 150 inmates with AA degrees from Feather River College or Coastline College.\nAccording to officials, many of the graduates are the first in their families to receive a college degree.\nFor many graduates, this AA degree represents the first step in their life-changing endeavors as many said they want to continue to further their education.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Aug 20, 2013, 3:07 PM EST\nMajor League Baseball did what it had to do: the league just announced that the Red Sox Ryan Dempster has received a five-game suspension and an undisclosed fine for intentionally throwing at and hitting Alex Rodriguez with a pitch in the top of the second inning of Sunday night’s game.\nIf it hadn’t suspended Dempster, the league would have been sending a message to the rest of baseball that throwing at a batter intentionally — or, at the very least, unpopular ones like A-Rod — was acceptable. That’s simply untenable for a league which purports to disapprove of pitchers throwing at batters on purpose.\nJoe Girardi was fined due to his animated argument with umpire Brian O’Nora.\nThe Red Sox have two games off in the next week, so Dempster is unlikely to even miss a start, *\nrendering this more of a five-game’s-salary fine as opposed to an actual suspension. That is, assuming he doesn’t appeal. Which, given that many are saying that Dempster hit A-Rod because he disagreed with Rodriguez being allowed to play pending the appeal of his own suspension, would be pretty rich indeed.\nUPDATE: No, I was wrong. He still gets his salary, which makes this 100% symbolic, minus the fine.\nNov 26, 2014, 10:04 PM EST\nHere’s the farewell Instagram post from third baseman Pablo Sandoval, who signed a five-year, $98 million free agent contract with the Red Sox earlier this week …\nNov 26, 2014, 8:18 PM EST\nJackson was limited to 11 minor league games in 2014 due to a right wrist injury that ultimately required surgery.\nNov 26, 2014, 6:43 PM EST\nFrom FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal comes word that the Padres have shown interest in trading for Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp …\nNov 26, 2014, 5:10 PM EST\nThe Dbacks were not in the picture until very recently. But better late than never.\nNov 26, 2014, 4:25 PM EST\nSince there’s no such thing as a stupid question …\nNov 26, 2014, 3:58 PM EST\nDon’t tell the people who like to hang out in the bleachers. They may not realize it, actually.\nNov 26, 2014, 2:30 PM EST\nIt sorta makes sense I guess, even if it never goes down.\nNov 26, 2014, 2:14 PM EST\nRodriguez was projected to make around $2 million via arbitration.\nNov 26, 2014, 1:40 PM EST\nAn intriguing scrap-heap pickup for the Rays.\nNov 26, 2014, 1:15 PM EST\nThis year he played at Triple-A for the Angels, hitting .332 with 25 homers and a 1.017 OPS in 95 games.\nNov 26, 2014, 12:59 PM EST\nRonald Guzman is the Rangers’ 17th-ranked prospect.\nNov 26, 2014, 11:19 AM EST\nCapuano is 36 years old, so finding a guaranteed big-league job for 2015 could be difficult.\nNov 26, 2014, 10:47 AM EST\nDrafted in 2012, free agent in 2014.\nNov 26, 2014, 10:30 AM EST\nNov 26, 2014, 10:15 AM EST\nEither the Rangers or the Twins had the winning bid.\nNov 26, 2014, 9:44 AM EST\nNeed some dingers? I know a guy who can get you some dingers, man.\nNov 26, 2014, 9:13 AM EST\nSo who plays third base?\nNov 26, 2014, 8:00 AM EST\nIt’s like clockwork. A team signs a big free agent or two and someone argues that baseball is doomed without a salary cap. It’s always baloney, of course.\nNov 25, 2014, 10:12 PM EST\nMax Scherzer, a client of Scott Boras, seems comfortable with slow-playing this market. We’ve seen loads of rumors and reports involving the other prominent free agent ace, Jon Lester, but it’s hard to identify which teams are in the running at the moment for Max. The Giants may be one …\nNov 25, 2014, 8:47 PM EST\nVia Jeeho Yoo of Seoul’s Yonhap News, right-hander Lucas Harrell and outfielder Jim Adduci both agreed to one-year deals Tuesday in the Korea Baseball Organization — Harrell with the KIA Tigers for $900K and Adduci with the Lotte Giants for $650K.\n- Yasmany Tomas signs a six-year, $68.5 million deal with the Diamondbacks 68\n- No, the Red Sox signing Pablo and Hanley is not proof that baseball needs a salary cap 158\n- Red Sox announce four-year, $88 million deal with Hanley Ramirez, DFA Juan Francisco 33\n- The Cubs have offered Jon Lester “north of $135 million” 68\n- Pablo Sandoval’s deal: five years, $98 million plus an option 43\n- Kyle Seager, Mariners close to $100 million extension 26\n- The 2015 Hall of Fame ballot is out — Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez are new on the ballot 286\n- So what would the Red Sox look like with Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval? 49\n- The 2015 Hall of Fame ballot is out — Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez are new on the ballot (286)\n- No, the Red Sox signing Pablo and Hanley is not proof that baseball needs a salary cap (159)\n- More Hall of Fame ballots like Adam Rubin’s please (138)\n- Report: Pablo Sandoval chose the Red Sox over the Giants because he felt disrespected (135)\n- UPDATE: The Pablo Sandoval-Red Sox deal is done, pending a physical (133)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Pilar Sanders is a model, actress, and reality television personality from the United States of America. Over the years, Pilar Sanders has worked on a range of projects. Walker, Texas Ranger, The Jamie Foxx Show, Veronica’s Closet, Pilar Sanders: Prime Time Love, and others are among her credits.\nTable of Contents\nWhat is the Net worth of Pilar Sanders ?\nPilar Sanders is a joyful woman who enjoys spending time with her family. As a result of her labor, she is now well-known and wealthy. In addition, her total net worth is expected to be over $5 million US dollars in 2022.\nBiography and Early Life\nPilar Sanders was born on October 10, 1974, in Elmira, New York, in the United States of America. She is currently 47 years old. Her father’s name is Dan Biggers, and her mother’s name is Jeanette. Scottie Biggers and Kandie Biggers are her two siblings. She is of Christian faith and is of American ancestry.\nView this post on Instagram\nShe is also of African-American ancestry. According to astrology, her zodiac sign is Libra. In terms of her official education, she graduated from a local high school in her hometown. She also completed her post-secondary study at a university.\nHeight and Weight\nPilar Sanders is a stunning woman with a fantastic personality. The actress stands at a height of 5 feet and 9 inches. She is 59 kg in weight. Furthermore, the statistics are 35 inches breast, 24 inches waist, and 35 inches hips when it comes to general body measures. Her hair is black, and her eyes are a dark brown tone.\nCareer and Professional Life\nPilar Sanders is an actress, model, and reality television star. She had always been fascinated by the entertainment industry and aspired to pursue it as a career. She has finally realized her lifetime ambition. Pilar Sanders has worked with various modeling agencies during the course of her modeling career, including Irene Marie and Ford Models. She has also sponsored a lot of brands as of today.\nView this post on Instagram\nIn addition, she has appeared in a range of television ventures. Her television credits include Walker, Texas Ranger, The Jamie Foxx Show, Veronica’s Closet, LL Cool J’s in Da House, Deion Pilar: Prime Time Love, and more. She was also a co-founder of Prime Time Achievers. Streets of Blood, The Mob Squad, Deion and Pilar : Prime Time Love, and others are among her cinematic credits.\nStatus of Relationship\nPiler Sanders is divorced when it comes to her love and private life. She is, however, in a relationship right now. James Prince, also known as Prince, is the man she is dating. Rap-a-Lot Records’ President and CEO is him. Deion Sanders was her previous husband. Deion is a professional football player as well as a baseball player.\nThey married on May 21, 1999, and after 14 years of marriage, they divorced on June 28, 2013. Shilo, Shedeur, and Shelomi were their three children, and they lived a good life. She is not involved in any other relationships. She is forthright about her gender preferences. Sanders hasn’t had any problematic events as of today.\nFacts of Pilar Sanders\n|Full Name:||Pilar Sanders|\n|Born Date:||10 Oct 1974|\n|Best Match for Marriage:||Gemini|\n|Height:||5 feet 10 inches (1.78m)|\n|Net Worth||$5 million USD|\n|Eye Color||Dark brown|\n|Birth Place||Elmira, New York|\n|Siblings||Scottie Biggers, Kandie Biggers|\n|Kids||Shilo, Shedeur, and Shelomi|\nOriginally posted on @", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "25-Sep-2011 Source: HeliHub.com\nKevin Kelly, spoke this week for the Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada – which represents some Newfoundland offshore workers – and called for the Sikorsky S92 to be replaced in offshore service. Kelly works on the Hibernia oil platform east of St. John’s, and was reacting to the 20th September issue with a Bristow Norway S92 which had to turn back to base after a problem en route to a North Sea rig (See HeliHub.com page for this incident).\nNew Democrat MP Jack Harris, who presented to the Wells Inquiry into offshore helicopter safety, agreed with Kelly that Cougar should consider replacing their S92 fleet.\nThe Canadian offshore operations from Newfoundland, are very sore about the S92 after the much-publicised Cougar Helicopters crash in March 2009 which killed 17. The Canadian media were hot on the case of the Bristow Norway incident, including one outlet contacting HeliHub.com to see if we could help with our European connections – they were seeking a representative from Bristow Norway be interviewed within the hour.\nThe Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) said Wednesday it has reviewed the incident and confirmed that the S-92A choppers transporting workers to offshore oil installations east of St. John’s have been inspected and are airworthy.\nWilliam P Johnson – HeliHub.com US correspondent", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hundreds of new jobs are headed to Colorado Springs, Mayor Steve Bach announced Monday morning.\nThe company Stellar Restaurant Solutions, which started locally, works as a call center for some of the nation's biggest restaurant chains. When things started to expand, they thought about moving out of Colorado, but thanks to some changes have decided to stick around.\nHaving Stellar expand means hundreds of jobs to start--and maybe even thousands down the road.\nStellar's CEO Steve Bigari says the decision to stay in the Springs didn't come lightly, and had a lot to do with Bach.\n\"We need someone to treat us like we belong...to help use the resources of the city as appropriate to help streamline decisions and help get things done more quickly; get us quality people; and get our permits on time. He's completely changed the heart of the city towards business,\" Bigari said.\nBigari said the quality of employees here in Colorado also played a big part in their decision to stay.\nThe expansion is already underway, but it's unclear when those jobs we'll be available. We'll let you know when we learn more.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "from October 9, 2018\nThis is a\nNederlog of Tuesday,\nThis is a crisis\nlog but it is a bit different from how it was until 2013:\nI have been\nwriting about the crisis since September\n1, 2008 (in Dutch, but\nsince 2010 in English) and about\nthe enormous dangers of surveillance (by secret services and\nby many rich commercial entities) since June 10, 2013, and I will\ncontinue with it.\nmoment and since more than two years\nproblems with the company that is\nsupposed to take care that my site is visible \nand with my health, but I am still writing a Nederlog every day and\nI shall continue.\n2. Crisis Files\nfive crisis files\nthat are mostly well worth reading:\nA. Selections from October 9, 2018:\n1. Homeless America\nThe items 1 - 5 are today's\nselections from the 35 sites that I look at\nevery morning. The indented text under each link is quoted from the\nlink that starts the item. Unindented text is by me:\n2. Brazil’s Bolsonaro-Led Far Right Wins a Victory\n3. Historian Howard Zinn Warned Us About the Supreme Court\n4. Why elite men like Brett Kavanaugh lie and cheat without\n5. Bias – The New Impartiality\nThis article is by\nChris Hedges on Truthdig. It starts as follows:\nIt is 8 a.m. I am in\nthe small offices of Street\nRoots, a weekly newspaper that prints 10,000 copies per edition.\nThose who sell the newspaper on the streets—all of them victims of\nextreme poverty and half of them homeless—have gathered before heading\nout with their bundles to spend hours in the cold and rain.\nI say, which I do because\nI did not know most of the things mentioned in the above\nquotation (and Street Roots looks OK to me).\nThe men and women, most\nmiddle-aged or elderly, sit on folding chairs that hug the walls. They\nare wrapped in layers of worn and tattered clothing. Some cradle small\ndogs. Others cup their hands around disposable coffee cups and take\nsmall sips. The weekly newspaper was founded in 1998. It focuses on\nissues surrounding social and environmental justice as well as\nhomelessness. It also reprints poems and artwork by the 180 vendors,\nwho buy the paper for 25 cents a copy and sell it for a dollar.\nThe average age at death for a\nman is 51 and for a woman 43. Nearly half succumb to alcohol or drugs,\n28 percent are hit by vehicles and 9 percent commit suicide. Life\nexpectancy plummets once you become homeless. From 50 to 80 homeless\npeople die on the streets of Portland every year, and many more in its\nHere is more from the article:\nThese men and women,\nand increasingly children, are the collateral damage of the corporate\nstate, their dignity and lives destroyed by the massive transference of\nwealth upward, deindustrialization\nand the slashing of federal investment in affordable housing begun\nduring the Reagan administration. The lack of stable jobs that pay a\nliving wage in the\ngig and temp economy, the collapse of mental health and medical\nservices for the poor, and gentrification are turning America into a\nliving hell for hundreds of thousands of its citizens. And this is just\nYes, I think that is quite\ncorrect. Here is the last bit that I quote from this article:\nAs we barrel toward\nanother economic collapse, the suffering endured by those on the\nstreets will become ever more familiar, especially with the corporate\nstate intent on further reducing or eliminating social services in the\nname of austerity. Nothing will halt the downward spiral other than\nsustained civil disobedience. The two ruling political parties are\nwedded to an economic system that serves the corporate rich and\npunishes and criminalizes the poor and the working poor. Over half the\ncountry is probably only a few paychecks away from being on the streets.\nI think this is quite\ncorrect as well - and to provide one comparison between my Dutch self,\nwho has been ill since nearly 40 years, whose illness was not\nregarded as real until March of this year (2018), and who has always -\nfor 50+ years - earned less than the least possible legal\nincome in Holland (mostly because the dole pays less, and I have\nbeen in the dole for 32 years):\nI have been living very carefully indeed, but then I can - at\npresent, at least - survive for some five months without any pay\n(thanks to my pension, that is also again lower than the lowest\npension, but more than the dole).\nAnd I do not know how long this will last, and in Holland pensions have\nbeen lessened as well.\nAnyway... there is a lot more in this article, and most is\ndepressing, but is also strongly recommended.\nBolsonaro-Led Far Right Wins a Victory\nThis article is by\nGlenn Greenwald on The Intercept. It starts as follows (and no, I do not\ncopy titles which are three lines in length):\nFor the past\nthirty years, Congressman Jair Bolsonaro was a fringe extremist in\nBrazilian politics, known mostly for outlandish,\ndeliberately inflammatory quotes\nin which he paid\nhomage to the most notorious torturers of the 1964-1985 military\nregime, constantly heralded the 1964 coup as a “defense of democracy,”\na female socialist colleague in Congress that she was too ugly to\n“deserve” his rape, announced that he’d rather learn that his son died\nin a car accident than was gay, and said he conceived a daughter after\nhaving four sons only due to a “moment of weakness.” (Last September, he\nused Google to translate a Brazilian epithet for LGBTs to, in\nessence, call me a faggot on Twitter).\nHis policy prescriptions\nwere even more deranged. Western media has often referred to him as\n“Brazil’s Trump” but that is wildly inaccurate, understating the case\nby many magnitudes. In temperament, ideology, and personal history,\nBolsonaro – a former Army Captain during Brazil’s notorious 21-year\nmilitary dictatorship – is far closer to Philippines President\nRodrigo Duterte or Egyptian dictator General Abdel El-Sisi than Trump.\nI say, and I did not\nknow most of the things mentioned in the above quotation. Here is more\nHe has criticized monsters\nsuch as Chile’s Pinochet and Peru’s Fujimori – for not slaughtering\nmore domestic opponents. He had advocated that mainstream Brazilian\npoliticians be killed. He wants to chemically castrate sex\noffenders. In all respects, the hideous Brazilian military dictatorship\nthat took over Brazil and ruled it for 21 years – torturing and\nsummarily executing dissidents, with the support of the US and UK in\nthe name of fighting Communists – is his model of governance.\nAs a result of last night’s\ntruly stunning national election in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro has been\ninstantly transformed from marginalized clown into the overwhelmingly\ndominant force in the country’s political life. Bolsonaro himself\nfell just short of winning the 50% needed to win the presidency without\nWell... I conclude two\nthings from this quotation: First, Bolsonaro is a very dangerous total\nidiot (not in the sense that he is without brains but in the sense he\nis without any morality or ethics) and second, but with much\ncertainty, that either most of the Brazilians are utter idiots\n(intellectually) who have been grossly deceived by their media or\nthat these elections have been frauded.\nI do not know\nthe last two possibilities is more realistic, and my main reason is\nthat I do not know enough about Brazil.\nHere is more from the\nBut given the margin of\nvictory, he is the\noverwhelming favorite to win on October 28 against the second-place\ncandidate, ex-São Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad. Haddad is the\npreviously unknown, hand-picked successor anointed by Lula, the\nex-two-term President who had been leading all polls until he was\nconvicted on dubious corruption charges and quickly imprisoned so as to\nbar his candidacy, then silenced by Brazil’s right-wing judiciary with\na series of remarkable prior restraint censorship orders barring all\nmedia outlets from interviewing him.\nBolsonaro won with most\ndemographic groups. In the state of Rio de Janeiro, Bolsonaro\nwon a shocking 60% of all votes cast, winning every\nneighborhood and district, most with more than 50% of the votes cast.\nI must say that I find\nthat pretty suspect, as is the following:\nWhat was most startling was\nhow wildly inaccurate Brazil’s typically reliable polling data turned\nout to be, under-estimating the far-right wave by such a massive\nquantity that it’s difficult to describe in words.\nWell, one plausible\nanswer is that Bolsonaro won so much because the elections were\nfraudulent. And no, as I said above, I do not\nknow how likely this was\nfor lack of information about Brazil.\nHere is the last bit\nthat I quote from this article:\nI do not think I\nwith this, in part because I myself think that any halfway intelligent\nperson who likes democracy (and that should be the most) can and should\nknow that even a failing democracy is considerably better and safer\nthan a tyranny, which is what Brazil seems to get as its next\nIt’s all part of a global\ntrend, undermining liberal democracies, fueled by their own failures,\nthat has no end in sight. Quite the contrary: the trend seems to be\naccelerating, with each country’s similar movement synergistically\nfeeding and strengthening one another.\nAnd besides, if I were Glenn Greenwald (who is not only an\nBolsonaro, but also a homosexual who lives with his Brazilian friend in\nwould want to move out from Brazil. And this is a recommended article\nin which there is considerably more.\nHoward Zinn Warned Us About the Supreme Court\nThis article is by\nJacob Sugarman on Truthdig. It starts as follows:\nThese are the facts. The\nSenate majority, which the Republican Party currently holds with 51\nseats, presently represents 18\npercent of the country’s population. Following Brett Kavanaugh’s\nconfirmation, four of the Supreme Court’s nine justices have been\nappointed by presidents who lost the popular vote. Two of those\njustices attended the same D.C.\narea prep school.\nIf the United States\ngovernment faces a legitimacy crisis, it’s one that has been building\nfor 18 years, if not longer than that. In 2000’s Bush v. Gore\ndecision, five conservative justices determined that Florida could not\nconduct a recount of its heavily disputed election results—a decision\nthat effectively handed the presidency to the Republican\ncandidate. “Although we may never know with complete certainty the\nidentity of the winner of this year’s Presidential election, the\nidentity of the loser is perfectly clear,” John Paul Stevens, who was\nappointed by Gerald Ford, wrote in his dissent. “It is the Nation’s\nconfidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.”\nI more or less agree,\nalthough I think I should remark that many judges and many prosecutors\nare elected in the USA, which does not seem to me the\nbest way to select them, simply because most voters will not have\nadequate ideas about the law.\nHere is Howard Zinn:\n“It would be naive to\ndepend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women,\npeople of color, dissenters of all kinds,” he wrote. “Those rights only\ncome alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike,\nboycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.”\n“The Constitution gave no rights to working people: no right to work\nless than twelve hours a day, no right to a living wage, no right to\nsafe working conditions,” he continued. “Workers had to organize, go on\nstrike, defy the law, the courts, the police, create a great movement\nwhich won the eight-hour day, and caused such commotion that Congress\nwas forced to pass a minimum wage law, and Social Security, and\nActually, I do not\nthink it is naive to believe that it is the duty of the\nSupreme Court to - also - ¨defend\nthe rights of poor people, women,\npeople of color, dissenters of all kinds¨ although I probably agree with Zinn that it is naive to\ndepend for this on the Supreme Court.\nHere is the last bit\nthat I quote from this article (and it is by Zinn):\n“No Supreme Court, liberal\nor conservative, will stop the war in Iraq, or redistribute the wealth\nof this country, or establish free medical care for every human being.\nSuch fundamental change will depend, the experience of the past\nsuggests, on the actions of an aroused citizenry, demanding that the\npromise of the Declaration of Independence—an equal right to life,\nliberty, and the pursuit of happiness—be fulfilled.”\nWell... yes and no:\nYes, I agree that ¨fundamental changes¨ probably do depend ¨on the actions of an aroused citizenry¨, but then again ¨equal rights¨ of any\nkind are legal rights, so the law does get involved -\nsomehow - in any case. But this is a recommended article.\nelite men like Brett Kavanaugh lie and cheat without consequences\nThis article is by\nChauncey DeVega on Salon. It starts as follows:\nBrett Kavanaugh is now a\nSupreme Court justice. The FBI's limited investigation of the\nsexual assault accusations against him was clearly\ninadequate. Numerous leads were ignored and dozens of potentially\nimportant witnesses were not interviewed. Moving beyond a political\ncover-up to a level of gross malfeasance, the FBI -- at the direction\nof Donald Trump's White House -- did not interview either Christine Blasey Ford or Julie Swetnick, two\nof Kavanaugh's three known accusers.\nIt was clear from the\nbeginning that this \"reopened\" background check was used by Donald\nTrump's White House to provide a fig leaf and an excuse for those\nRepublicans whose consciences were \"troubled\" by the numerous and\ncredible allegations by multiple people that Brett Kavanaugh actively\nparticipated in a culture of excessive drinking, sexual harassment,\nviolence and perhaps rape while a young man at Georgetown Preparatory\nSchool and then Yale University.\nThis ploy worked. Like\nTrump himself -- indeed more so -- Kavanaugh is a member of the white\nmale elite. As such he has been taught that he is entitled to power as\na birthright. The Supreme Court is his destiny. Like other elite white\nmen in America, Kavanaugh and Trump have also proven themselves to be\nmaster liars for whom the rules of normal society do not apply. There\nis to be no accountability for the rich and powerful in America.\nI think this is more or less\ncorrect, but I did not like the interview that follows with a\nprofessor of education (which I am sorry, but is not a science)\nand I totally skip that.\n– The New Impartiality\nThis article is by\nKit on The Off-Guardian. It starts as follows:\nWell... the ¨example¨\nPreston gives is boloney, and he might as well have said that 2+2=5,\nwhich also is not believed by anyone except by the near\nbrain dead. What Peston really seems to believe, if he is\nhonest, is this:\nn. not partial or biased, treating or affecting\nThat’s the dictionary definition of the word\n“Impartiality”. Up until very recently, it was not a complicated or\ncontroversial concept in any way. But these days meanings are rather\nmore fluid than they used to be. Free speech doesn’t necessarily\ninvolve being able to speak freely. Democracy doesn’t necessarily\nAnd “impartial journalism”\ndoesn’t necessarily involve being impartial.\nAt least, according ITV’s\npolitical editor Robert Peston. Speaking at the Cheltenham literature\nfestival, he’s quoted in the Guardian as saying:\nImpartial journalism is\nnot giving equal airtime to two people one of whom says the world is\nflat and the other one says the world is round. That is not balanced,\nWell... in a solid sense I\nagree with Kit, but I also think it is less nonsense than\n(on which no one sane can believe the Wikipedia\nanymore, which seems to grow worse every day) and it is totalitarianism\nbecause deciding what the truth is is not\na function of\njournalists, nor of editors, nor of those who pay these, but must\nbe done (correctly or incorrectly) by the readers or viewers of the\nBut that’s not TRUE\nimpartiality anymore, according to Robert.\n[impartial journalism is\nabout] weighing the evidence and saying on the balance of\nprobabilities…this is the truth. It is the role of a journalist to say,\n‘we’ve got these two contradictory arguments, I’m now going to advise\nall of you which is likely to be closer to the truth.’”\nUnder Robert’s new and\nimproved version of “impartial journalism”, one side would get more air\ntime because they are probably right. The other side, the wrong\nside, would get some time to make their case, but afterwards a\nfriendly (and “impartial”) servant of the state would tell all their\nviewers to ignore it. That it had been declared officially wrong by the\npowers that be, and all good citizens should disregard it entirely.\nThis is, of course,\nThen there is this in the article:\nTelevision news has a\nsimple task: Provide an unbiased, open and honest platform to supply\nthe public with information.\nRobert’s words attack this\nvery idea, instead turning the news into a means to enforce\nstate-sanctioned consensus through emotional blackmail and manipulative\nThis follows a disturbing\ntrend, a direct flow from no-platforming on campuses, to calls to shut down RT or banning Alex Jones from social media.\nIt can all be read as one thing: a direct, media-driven push toward\nstate-backed censorship under the guise of protecting the public.\nEnforcing a one-sided consensus under the false-flag of a sacred duty\nto “truth” or a hallucinatory public virtue.\nWhatever mask it wears –\nwhatever veneer is layered on its surface – the solid body of the issue\nis still the same: censorship.\nI agree mostly with Kit,\nexcept that I do not think Preston´s journalism is either nonsense or\ncensorship, though I agree it probably entails these, but it is\nand indeed quite explicitly so.\nHere is the last quotation I\nprovide from this article and it occurs near its end:\nYes and no, and my point\nis easily seen if you ask ¨how is the truth presented (in journalism,\nor in any other instance)?\" And the answer to that is - alas - that\neven what seems to be the truth according to the vast majority of\nscientists (as in climatology) may these days either be not\nreported at all, or else gets often reported in a strongly biased way.\nThe truth doesn’t require a\nshield. The truth isn’t fragile or vulnerable or soft. It doesn’t need\nguards to protect it, a filter to clarify it or a marketing campaign to\npromote it. The truth doesn’t need a bullhorn to blare it out or\ncensorship to prop it up. The truth is a lion, not a lamb.\nFinally, there is also the point that there are several other\ndefinitions of being impartial, two of which are these.\nFirst, here is the definition from the Cambridge English Dictionary\n(under ¨American English¨):\nAnd second, this is from\n(also called evenhandedness or fair-mindedness) is a\nprinciple of justice holding that decisions should be based on objective criteria, rather than\non the basis of bias, prejudice,\nor preferring the benefit to one person over another for improper\nI think either definition\nis better than the one offered by Kit, but her article is\nend of 2015 that\nxs4all.nl is systematically\nruining my site by NOT updating it within a few seconds,\nas it did between 1996 and 2015, but by updating it between\ntwo to seven days later, that is, if I am lucky.\nclaimed that my site was wrongly named in html: A lie.\nThey have claimed that my operating system was out of date: A lie.\njust don't care for my site, my interests, my values or my\nideas. They have behaved now for 2 years\nas if they are the\neagerly willing instruments of the US's secret services, which I\nfrom now on suppose they are (for truth is dead in Holland).\ntwo reasons I remain with xs4all is that my site has been\nthere since 1996, and I have no reasons whatsoever to suppose that any\nother Dutch provider is any better (!!).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Gay rights activists in Poland vowed Thursday to defy a ban on a parade that Warsaw officials imposed in hopes of preventing clashes between participants and a group opposed to gay rights. Warsaw mayor Lech Kaczynski on Monday ordered organizers to cancel the fourth annual Parade of Equality, planned for June 11, citing plans by a youth organization to hold a counterdemonstration at the same time. The mayor said he wanted to prevent attacks on the gay rights activists.\nBut Szymon Niemiec, the head of Poland's Gay and Lesbian Association, denounced Kaczynski's decision as a violation of the constitutional right to free expression and said his group would hold its parade as planned. \"It turns out that this country isn't democratic even though it recently joined the European Union,\" Niemiec said.\nHe said his group has sent a letter to provincial authorities asking them to overrule the ban.\nEarlier this month, hundreds of gay rights activists were attacked with stones, eggs, and firecrackers during a march in the southern city of Krakow by counterdemonstrators. Police officers fired tear gas and shot rubber bullets into the air to keep the two sides apart.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Our invasion of Iraq caused all kinds of problems only now being more fully recognized. The financial cost is now estimated at more than $2 trillion while thousands of returned troops have post-traumatic stress disorder and there is a total lack of personnel and facilities for their care. And now there is ISIS.\nSome pundits and politicians (the usual suspects) have declared there would be no ISIS if President Obama had not removed all American troops from Iraq. They forget that a status of forces agreement, signed before President Obama took office, stated all American troops would leave except those assigned to our embassy.\nA better declaration would be that if we did not invade Iraq in 2003 there would be no ISIS. Saddam Hussein simply would not tolerate it.\nPerhaps we should remember that it is our inherent strength as a nation that forms the strength for our foreign policy. As we use our resources policing the world, we abdicate our responsibility to provide domestic programs that educate our people to make America strong economically so we can address our social, political and environmental needs.\nGeorge J. Motsay, M.D.\nUpper Macungie Township", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "Every so often, we receive questions from listeners about CKUA. As such, we’re pleased to present Marc’s Mailbag, wherein our CEO/Monthly subscriber/campaign leadership donor, Marc Carnes, answers some of the more interesting queries we’ve received recently. This month’s edition finds Marc speaking about our advertising and financial model.\nQuestion: “Why do we hear advertising on-air if CKUA is listener supported?\nWith advertising limited to only two minutes per hour, we still receive questions from listeners about why they hear advertising on CKUA. The answer is two-fold: from a balanced financial perspective, it would not be a good idea to turn down revenue from interested advertisers. Secondly, many of our advertisers are also listeners, which is where the “listener supported” aspect can really be amplified.\nSince many of the business-owners that we work with are fans themselves, advertising is a means by which they can support CKUA more significantly while doing something good for their company. I’d be hesitant to turn down a fan who wants to support CKUA in the spirit of cooperation and mutual benefit. The goal is to present their messages in authentic ways that complement our programming, and we do this in three different ways.\nAdvertising and sponsor messages. You will will not hear an ad on CKUA that you can listen to on another station. Our team works with the client to write ads which are voiced by our hosts, creating a familiar sound and style that you identify with. Blasting you with endless commercial radio-sounding advertising would have you reaching for the dial faster than Baba could say, “And a sweet good morning to you.”\nFeatures. Whether through music discovery or the stories behind it, curious minds are drawn to CKUA. That’s why you will hear segments on subjects directly or tangentially tied to our programming. For instance, Indigenous Pathways celebrates the importance of arts, culture and identity. The How of Wow recognizes that creativity brings about technology and innovation. And Notes on Wellness calls attention to the importance of self-care, in which music and the arts can play a powerful role. These are all examples of features presented through partnerships.\nArts and Culture partnership messages. Prior to the pandemic, CKUA would promote and sponsor more than 150 artists, venues, and events annually. In doing so, this helps to promote the creative people and work that add so much vibrancy to our communities. We are proud of our role in exposing artists to new audiences, filling seats, supporting creative sector jobs, and contributing to a rich Canadian cultural context. And we can’t wait for it to return, with a flurry of creative output and social gatherings. (Remember those?)\nWhat’s more, we want you to love the community-minded businesses we love. By presenting our advertising and sponsor messages the way we do, recent surveys have shown that nearly 90% of listeners would shop at a business seen as supporting CKUA.\nTo build a thriving community takes all kinds. We appreciate the organizations we get to work with and who share the same values as those of our audience. When done right, it’s a beautiful relationship.\nShameless sales plug: If you represent a business and would like to share your love of music, arts and culture across Alberta and beyond, we’d love to hear from you!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On proper punctuation; or How to speak so people will listen\nQuick, how many spaces should you use after a period?\nIf you answered two, you are, according to Farhad Manjoo of Slate, “totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.” I’m a two-spacer myself, always have been, on account of that’s the way I was taught in my fifth grade typing class. It’s really never been an issue. I double-tap the space bar after each period literally without thinking, the habit is so ingrained.\nAnd yet, I’d consider changing my ways to be more correct (I was a copy editor for goodness sakes, and a damn good one at that) if only Farhad wasn’t such a humongous dickhead about the issue.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Here's how McCutchen chose his iconic No. 22\nThis story was excerpted from Justice delos Santos’ Pirates Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.\nAndrew McCutchen has worn only one number as a Pittsburgh Pirate: No. 22. With the double deuce on his back, McCutchen became a five-time All-Star, a four-time Silver Slugger, a one-time Gold Glover and the Pirates’ first MVP Award winner since Barry Bonds. But back in 2009 when he was the new kid in town, McCutchen intended to wear No. 22 for just one season.\nAs McCutchen was reintroduced to Pittsburgh on Friday, he shared his original intention for No. 22 to be a one-and-done, as well as what ultimately changed his tune.\nMcCutchen was -- and still is -- a fan of Ken Griffey Jr. He described Griffey Jr. as his idol, likely watching countless highlights of The Kid during his childhood in Florida. So when McCutchen made his debut with the Pirates in 2009, he, too, wanted to rock No. 24. There was just one small holdup.\nWhen McCutchen was called up, pitcher Tom Gorzelanny was already wearing No. 24. Instead of Griffey Jr.’s digits, McCutchen wore No. 22, an aesthetically pleasing number, but not his digits of choice.\nMcCutchen predicted that Gorzelanny likely wouldn’t be on the team in 2010, which would open the door for him to wear Griffey Jr.’s signature number. Sure enough, the Pirates traded Gorzelanny ahead of the ‘09 Trade Deadline. But while McCutchen had the opportunity to make the switch, his tone shifted when he looked into the stands and started seeing the No. 22 -- his No. 22.\n“As the season went on that year in 2009, I started to see people wear my jersey,” McCutchen said. “I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to keep 22.’ I would feel bad if I wore 22, then the following year, I’m wearing 24.”\nMcCutchen may not have worn No. 24 with the Pirates as he envisioned, but in 2022, he finally had the opportunity to do so with Milwaukee. Last Spring Training, McCutchen was in the middle of discussing the opportunity to wear No. 24 when Mike Vassallo, the Brewers’ senior director of media relations, gave McCutchen a phone with Griffey Jr. on the line. For the full story, click here.\nUpon returning to Pittsburgh, McCutchen didn’t have to worry about bartering with teammates to reclaim his number. Not only was the No. 22 vacant, but no Pirate has worn the number since McCutchen was traded. McCutchen credited the organization, specifically clubhouse and equipment manager Scott “Bones” Bonnett, for taking care of the number during his five seasons away from the team.\n“I’m sure Bones has had his dustups with some guys who may have come and might have wanted to wear 22,” McCutchen said. “I've got to thank those guys for preserving it, and also respect the players who have come here for not necessarily requesting it. It speaks a lot for them.\n“I appreciate them, and I appreciate anyone who played a part in it. It’s nice to be able to wear it and to know that no one else wore it ever since I’ve put it on. Ever since Xavier Nady left in , I’ve been wearing 22.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "You claim you can party like a pro, but can you really?\nLike a lot of other things in Los Angeles, our booze-and-drug-fueled nightlife is perhaps more fantasy than reality.\nA new analysis of mobile location data from America's most-populous cities found that L.A. didn't even rate when it came to staying up late on New Year's Eve:\nYep. L.A. didn't even make the top 10 of stay-up cities ranked by Sense Networks.\nThe winner was Miami, which had the most active users up between 4 a.m. and 5:59 a.m. The company notes that …\n… Los Angeles and its celebrity population are missing from the list; residents did not stay up late enough to make the top 10.\nPerhaps all the kids raving Monday night turned off their phones so their parents couldn't find them with the Find My iPhone feature? (This would have shut them out of Sense Networks data, theoretically).\nOh, heck, it's true: Despite our rep, L.A. is an after-hours backwater. We have a history of comparatively conservative policies when it comes to boozing and dancing, despite our status as America's medical marijuana capital.\n[Warning, NSFW language]:\nAnd we've been to Miami. You can find a party 24/7, even on weekdays, during its annual Winter Music Conference in March. Really.\nL.A. didn't make the top 10 of cities that turned in early, but a few SoCal cities did: Chula Vista, in San Diego County's southwest end (hi mom!), made number 3 on that list; Long Beach was a runner up.\nCalifornia knows how to party? Um, sure.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Why is Donald Trump within a whisker of the White House? Two-thirds of the country can’t even name the three branches of government. If we don’t revitalize civics education, we will be entrusting our future to people who know little to nothing of the way our government works. The way we are going, one of these days a Bernie Sanders or, heaven help us, a Donald Trump will not just be a candidate for president. He will actually become president, writes Max Boot.\nThis election year is memorable for many reasons but among the most important is showing Republicans the cost of their infatuation with “alternative” news sources. The right’s addiction to its own news has become destructive. Whether Trump wins or loses, conservatives need to re-evaluate their infatuation with “alternative” news sources that tell them what they want to hear and join a more mainstream conversation that includes different points of view.\nThe American people tend not to trust Hillary Clinton, despite her and Bill’s best efforts to combat these sentiments. In this review of Joe Conason's book, Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton, Carla Anne Robbins explores why the Clintons have had trouble with their public image.\nIn this intriguing prequel to his upcoming book, Sebastian Mallaby reveals a new side to controversial former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan. Greenspan was often accused of trusting too much in markets and being blind to the effects of bubbles, but Mallaby shows that Greenspan, in fact, was the man who knew.\nTrade Policy Has Become Politically Unpopular. These Steps Could Help Rehabilitate It. This piece is based on a new CFR discussion paper authored by Edward Alden and Robert E. Litan, titled “A Winning Trade Policy for the United States.”\nTragedies keep occurring in war, despite the best intentions of U.S. troops. Micah Zenko provides recommendations to reduce the inevitable human errors in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq that have led to avoidable civilian casualties.\nCongress overrode a presidential veto to enable the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts. But the law will be a thorn in U.S. foreign relations, and plaintiffs will not likely get justice, says expert Stephen I. Vladeck.\nPresident Obama and his defenders are trumpeting the new aid agreement with Israel as proof that he is the best friend Israel ever had in the White House. In fact, it’s a bad deal and should be treated the same way Obama treated prior agreements he didn't like: It should be forgotten by the next president.\nLearn more about CFR’s mission and its work over the past year in the 2016 Annual Report. The Annual Report spotlights new initiatives, high-profile events, and authoritative scholarship from CFR experts, and includes a message from CFR President Richard N. Haass. Read and download »", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "For more than three decades, the global economy was defined by unbridled integration and unprecedented interdependence. Neither political spats nor localized wars could slow the globalization train. Markets were markets, business was business and multinational firms became more multinational. Not anymore.\nIn this new era of strategic competition between China and the West, disengagement is the order of the day. While this trend is likely to impede economic growth, increase business costs (via supply-chain restructuring) and raise prices for everyone, the economy that loses the most might well be China’s.\nThe People’s Republic would not be where it is today without globalization. International trade, investment and capital-market access drove economic growth, while knowledge transfer — aided by engagement among students, scientists and academics — enabled technological leveling-up.\nTies with the outside world also forced China to introduce a legal system capable of establishing and enforcing contract and intellectual-property law — and the expansion of China’s economic might enabled the country increasingly to project power abroad.\nHowever, in recent years, the openness that underpinned globalization — the “rising tide that lifted all boats” — has given way to a geopolitically focused, zero-sum mindset. International commerce and finance have increasingly been shaped by national security considerations. Export controls, the blacklisting of companies and restrictions on market access in sensitive sectors — such as certain cutting-edge technologies — have become commonplace.\nThe Sino-American rivalry has reflected and accelerated this shift. The US has targeted China with a variety of measures — including restrictions on imports, exports and investment — and added dozens of Chinese companies to its so-called Entity List.\nOther countries have also increased their scrutiny of Chinese investment and restricted certain types of commercial exchanges with China. Sanctions over China’s human-rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong have been introduced as well.\nChina might not have initiated the disengagement process, but it seems committed to seeing it through. In refusing to condemn Russia’s war on Ukraine, its leaders made clear that, in their view, the US — and the West more broadly — is in terminal decline, and now is the time to challenge the existing world order.\nBeyond retaliatory sanctions and tariffs, China has been ramping up its efforts to become self-reliant in advanced technology and science, through highly state-centric and protectionist industrial policies. Its goal is to “sanction proof” its economy, especially by de-Americanizing its supply chains.\nThe extent to which this is possible is impossible to know precisely, but China’s efforts to achieve self-reliance certainly cannot succeed across the board. As The Economist reported in February, China is struggling the most in areas where supply chains are longer and more complex, such as mRNA vaccines, agrochemicals, computer operating systems and payment systems.\nIn semiconductors, China remains dependent on foreign suppliers, despite government investment worth tens of billions of dollars. China has similarly failed to break its foreign dependency in aerospace and automobiles, and its efforts to develop a yuan-based alternative to US-dollar-based finance and payment systems have yet to gain traction.\nHowever, China’s bid for self-reliance might not only fail — it could backfire. As The Economist report also pointed out, when Chinese companies are cut off from foreign competition and expertise, their capabilities are stunted.\nDespite the unfavorable economic consequences, we should expect geopolitics-driven disengagement to continue. China is certain to try to build an alternative financial infrastructure, and the US would delist Chinese firms from its stock exchanges.\nThe US Congress is reportedly considering legislation to restrict or prohibit US foreign direct investment abroad in several sensitive sectors, much as it does to Chinese investment in the US. Trade measures aimed at diversifying supply chains and ensuring supplies of critical inputs, such as rare earth elements, are also to be expected.\nAs disengagement progresses, many critical sectors — such as the Internet — are likely to split into two distinct blocs, each with its own rules and standards. The divide in digital standards, data management and usage provisions, and network equipment and telecommunications services would grow. Market-access restrictions and new approval and licensing requirements would proliferate.\nThese changes would come when China is already grappling with several serious challenges, including unfavorable demographics, a weak property market, an over-extended banking sector, stalled productivity, politicized governance, and the consequences of its “zero COVID” policy. China’s economic “miracle” seems to be well past its peak. Annual economic growth could well drop to 2-3 percent in the coming years, meaning that the official goal of doubling per capita income and GDP between 2020 and 2035 cannot be realized.\nThis slowdown could have far-reaching consequences. For starters, China’s ability to compete with the US would be compromised. China’s economy might never overtake the US’, especially if the yuan’s value falls by 20-25 percent over the next few years.\nMoreover, prices for commodities — especially those that are key to China’s housing and construction sector — would decline. While the higher costs of newer, more regional supply chains should generate inflationary pressures, weaker Chinese demand and a cheaper yuan could reduce them.\nForeign investment flows into China would decline, with funding increasingly allocated to other Asian countries or emerging markets.\nWhile China would not become “uninvestable” (as long as military conflict does not break out), international investors are likely to keep their China portfolios underweight. Although the yuan is likely to enjoy a status on par with the Japanese yen, the British pound and the Canadian dollar, it cannot come close to displacing the US dollar.\nChinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) has staked his government’s legitimacy on China’s continued prosperity, but that is becoming increasingly difficult to deliver — and disengagement is an important reason.\nGeorge Magnus is a research associate at the University of Oxford’s China Centre and SOAS University of London.\nCopyright: Project Syndicate\nNo matter what indicator you use, Russian President Vladimir Putin is winning in the energy markets. Moscow is milking its oil cash cow, earning hundreds of millions of US dollars every day to bankroll the invasion of Ukraine and buy domestic support for the war. Once European sanctions against Russian crude exports kick in from November, the region’s governments will face some tough choices as the energy crisis starts to bite consumers and companies. Electricity costs for homes and businesses are set to soar from October, as the surge in oil income allows Putin to sacrifice gas revenue and squeeze supplies to\nIn an August 12 Wall Street Journal report, Chinese sources contend that in their July 28 phone call, United States President Joe Biden was told by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping (習近平) that “he had no intention of going to war with the US” over House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s then upcoming visit to Taiwan. However, there should be global alarm that Xi did use that visit to begin the CCP’s active war against democracy in Taiwan and globally, and that the Biden Administration’s response has been insufficient. To hear CCP officials, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) spokesmen, and a\nMuch of the foreign policy conversation in the US over the past two weeks has centered on whether US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi ought to have visited Taiwan. Her backers pointed out that there was precedent for such a visit — a previous House speaker and US Cabinet members had visited Taiwan — and that it is important for officials to underscore the US’ commitment to Taiwan in the face of increasing Chinese pressure. Critics argued that the trip was ill-timed, because Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) would likely feel a need to respond, lest he appear weak\nUnited Microelectronics Corp (UMC) founder and former chairman Robert Tsao (曹興誠) on Friday last week pledged to donate NT$3 billion (US$100 million) to help Taiwan protect itself from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression. While still UMC chairman, Tsao gained a reputation for supporting unification with China and backing parties such as the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), the New Party and the People First Party, which have similar leanings. During a TV show on Monday, host Clara Chou (周玉蔻) asked Tsao which politicians he now supported. Tsao said he had supported the New Party when it formed, had become disappointed by People First", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "April is National Volunteer Month and Hillsboro’s volunteers give so many hours of their time to make life better for all of us.\n03/13/2017 9:34 AM\n2017 will be full of activities and events in Hillsboro. Make sure you save these key dates before you make plans to travel.\n01/04/2017 3:00 PM\nWith severe cold expected this week, the City of Hillsboro offers warming stations at four locations.\n\"...Hillsboro is an inclusive and welcoming place where we all work together to lift each other up...\"\nThe City of Hillsboro's redesigned Spanish-language newsletter, ¡Creciendo Juntos!, is now available.\nThe City’s website – www.Hillsboro-Oregon.gov – has been upgraded to be an even better resource for residents, community partners, businesses, and visitors.\n10/25/2016 12:50 PM", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ARLINGTON -- White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu wasn't thinking about the double needed to hit for the cycle when he stepped to the plate in the ninth inning of a 17-7 loss to the Rangers Saturday night at Globe Life Park.Derek Holland, who was long gone from his start\nARLINGTON -- White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu wasn't thinking about the double needed to hit for the cycle when he stepped to the plate in the ninth inning of a 17-7 loss to the Rangers Saturday night at Globe Life Park.\nDerek Holland, who was long gone from his start by the time Abreu hit near 11 p.m. CT, couldn't stop thinking about a second straight miserable trip to the mound. Good or bad, these are the sorts of games the White Sox expect during the course of a now 46-74 rebuilding season.\nBut even with a big-picture view and hope for light at the end of the tunnel, the losses don't become any easier.\n\"We are not here to lose games,\" said Abreu through interpreter Billy Russo. \"We came here every day with a purpose and that purpose is to win games.\n\"It's tough. It's tough when you lose, even when you lose by one run or the manner which we lost today. But you have to learn from the losses. You have to find things to learn from them and to try to correct and to apply the next game.\"\nTen hitters came to the plate during a five-run White Sox first inning off Texas starter Martin Perez. Abreu singled during that rally, tripled and scored in the fifth and homered in the seventh.\nIn that leadoff at-bat in the ninth, Abreu pulled a broken-bat single into left to match his career high with a fourth hit. He has hit in eight straight games with five home runs, eight RBIs and six multi-hit efforts during the streak.\nInstead of thinking about making individual history, Abreu simply was trying to keep his hands inside the ball.\n\"You know, unfortunately we are passing through a bad moment,\" Abreu said. \"It doesn't matter what you perform on the field. If the team is not winning, you are not going to feel good or happy.\n\"Fortunately for us, today's game is over. And now we have to think about tomorrow's game.\"\nHolland made his first start at Globe Life as a visitor, writing \"thank you\" on the back of the mound in tribute to the great memories he had pitching for the Rangers. He won't have many great memories from Saturday, allowing seven runs on six hits in 2 2/3 innings.\nIt was good for Holland to be back in Texas, but his theme was similar to Abreu's. His ultimate goal is to do better for his team.\n\"That's really what means more to me right now is my team and being able to help them, do my part to stay in the game longer and pitch better than I have been,\" Holland said. \"These guys have been working their [tails] off to be where they are right now, and for me to not do my job is just upsetting.\"\nScott Merkin has covered the White Sox for MLB.com since 2003. Read his blog, Merk's Works, follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin, on Facebook and listen to his podcast.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "With it being Halloween day, we here at A Gaming Website reminisce over the characters that made us cringe in fear (and maybe other things). With all the scary games out now, finding video games with actually scary monsters is quite the challenge. Games seem to be focusing more on cheap jump-scares rather than developing truly frightening enemies that instill fear into the player. To give credit to titles that gave us those fearful enemies, we present the top 10 scariest monsters in video games. (Characters from movie based games will be neglected from the list i.e. Alien from Alien Isolation)\nGatherers (Amnesia) (Honorable Mention)\nUpon release of Amnesia: Dark Descent, gamers were introduced to the horrific sight of the Gatherers. These disfigured beings were the main antagonists tasked with stopping players from escape. Without anything to fight back, the player must use their wits to evade the Gatherers to progress through the story. These Gatherers search castle Brennenburg for the player, but sadly lack much intelligence when hunting. Nevertheless, being unarmed, these claw wielding monsters are enough to ensure your lack of sleep.\n10) ReDead (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)\nFew action-adventure titles are as recognized, and remembered as the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. With that being said you wouldn’t expect such a title to appear on the scariest monsters list. Those who have played OoT remember one monster to instill fear into you. The ReDead are the evil zombie creatures that walk the earth during Ganondorf’s rule. With the ability to freeze the player with its terrible screech, there is nothing worse than slowly watching the ReDead walk towards Link until it wraps around him eating away at his hearts.\n9) Crimson Heads (Resident Evil Remake)\nZombies are scary, it’s that simple. Slow shambling corpses inching their way towards you ready to devour your flesh is a horrific sight. What if when you put down one of these terrible undead they came back again? In comes the crimson heads from the Resident Evil Remake the living redead zombies that are faster, and more vicious, that the previous incarnations. Crimson heads are formed by the re-death of normal zombies that don’t have the cranium destroyed. Donning a red skin color with an even higher hunger and you easily have one of the scariest monsters in the Resident Evil series.\n8) Shibito (Siren)\nThe normal concept of a zombie is an undead being who has lost everything about what they once were. Siren’s adaptation of zombies known as Shibito are a new look at zombies. Shibito are intelligent beings that retain some of their personality traits from when they were living; those who worked in the fields before their infection still work the fields sort of idea. With that being said, Shibito are smart enough to hunt the player and use weapons against you.\nWhat makes the shibito scarier than normal zombies is the fact that they don’t stay dead. Shibito only fall into an unconscious state for a set amount of time that varies. Some Shibito could revive instantaneously, while others could take a few minutes to come back. The fact that these beings can’t die, are intelligent enough to hunt you down, and use weapons is easily the reason why they are some of gaming’s scariest monsters.\n7) Necromorphs (Dead Space Series)\nYes zombies are scary, but they just wobble towards you at a speed of 1 mph? What makes it even less scary is the fact that they scratch you or bite you, not really too scary. What if zombies had sharp claws, and ran at incredible speeds with the ability to tear you to shreds? The Necromorphs from Dead Space are just that.\nThe Necromorphs aren’t like zombies where a well-placed shot will put them down, you’ll need to completely dismember them. Cut off their legs and they’ll crawl, cut off their arms and they’ll bite you, cut off their head and they’ll swing wildly until they find and kill you; creepy enough right? Coming in a variety of different forms, the Necromorphs are more than enough to scare the hell out of you whilst they disembowel what’s left of your corpse.\n6) Lisa (P.T.)\nArguably the scariest game of all time, P.T. (Playable Trailer) puts players in a seemly inescapable looping hallway that deteriorates through each pass-through. Listen to the radio on your travels and you’ll learn about a pregnant woman named Lisa. This horrific one-eyed being stalks the player as they traverse through the seemingly endless hallway. With her eerie crying, and the ability to haunt the player, Lisa is without a doubt one of the scariest monsters in gaming. Just don’t let Lisa grab you, if twisting your neck 180 degrees, and who knows what else she does to your dead corpse.\n5) The Groom (Outlast: Whistleblower)\nWhen you here the name Outlast, you expect over an over-the-top horror experience with disturbing characters. In the Outlast DLC story, Whistleblower, players are “treated” to one character that tops the cake for insanely creepy beings in the Outlast franchise. Eddie Gluskin is a patient at the Mount Massive Asylum for killing, and mutilating various women; he already sounds like such a loveable guy…said nobody ever! Eddie Gluskin, once escaping incarceration, is out to find the girl of his dreams; thus earning the Groom moniker. The main problem is Gluskin intends to make the player his wife by mutilating you, and removing your manhood. If there is one person on this list I especially don’t want to be left alone in a room with, the Groom ranks pretty high!\n4) Kusabi (Fatal Frame 2)\nThe Fatal Frame franchise is known for providing incredible jump scares that make players almost fly across the room in fear. What many players who haven’t played the franchise don’t know is that the series provides foes that instill nightmares into grown-adults. The Kusabi is a being that appears across the second and third installment of the series, and like many of the beings on this list, is somewhat immortal.\nThe Kusabi is born from a failed ritual where the person is continuously slashed, hanged, and thrown into a hellish abyss. After seeking vengeance upon the village that murdered the victim, the Kusabi destroyed the village and shrouds it in darkness; and guess what village you’re in (hint, you’re not in the safe village). With the ability to kill the player with one touch, and immortal in various parts of the game, the Kusabi is one nightmarish spirit. If that wasn’t enough, in Fatal Frame III: The Tormented the Kusabi can appear randomly to attack the player; maybe you should just avoid the village that sacrifices people.\n3) Alma (F.E.A.R.)\nThere are many things that walk this Earth that are just pure evil, little girls. One little girl that stands out is Alma from the 2005 hit F.E.A.R. This little girl is out for revenge against the Armacham Technology Corporation, and she knows how to exact that revenge. Armed with incredible psionic powers, Alma can tear a room full of people apart with her mind. With such powerful abilities, the player can only run upon seeing this dark-haired devil child; or face a horrific death that would make most people vomit upon witnessing the aftermath.\n2) Pyramid Head (Silent Hill 2)\nThe bogeyman differs from person to person portraying the viewer’s biggest fears. For James Sunderland, his bogeyman happens to be Pyramid Head. Pyramid Head is a being that wears a giant helmet stalking the grounds of Silent Hill. Contrary to popular belief, Pyramid Head is a type of being rather than just one; so there are many different Pyramid Heads that roam. Not only is its presence alone ominous, the pure brutality and obscene actions that Pyramid Head commits on the demonic beings themselves proves that Pyramid Head is one monster you don’t want to see in a dark alley.\n1) Reborn Laura (The Evil Within)\nWhen you hear the title The Evil Within, most gamers will immediately associate the game with Walmart brand version of Pyramid Head known as The Keeper; or the informal name Safe Head. While The Keeper was an incredibly intimidating foe that would cause nightmares for gamers for weeks, there was a foe far more scary in the game. Ruvik’s sister, Laura (or Reborn Laura) is a walking spider-like monstrosity. While being nearly immune to bullets would make Laura a threat to behold already, she can teleport throughout the map to consistently stay on Sebastian’s back; and cause players to consequently s**t their pants. Just remember to keep your distance from Laura’s grab attack, one touch = instant death!\nDo you agree with our list? Let us know what monsters you think should have made the list in the comments below, and make sure to check back daily for new gaming content!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Illumina (ILMN) Given Daily Media Sentiment Rating of 0.29\nNews headlines about Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) have trended positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Illumina earned a daily sentiment score of 0.29 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned media headlines about the life sciences company an impact score of 44.9373408986032 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company’s share price in the near term.\nHere are some of the news stories that may have effected Accern Sentiment’s rankings:\n- Azumio Introduces DNA-Based Insights into its Fitness Platform (finance.yahoo.com)\n- Insider Selling: Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) EVP Sells 1,671 Shares of Stock (americanbankingnews.com)\n- Illumina, Inc. (ILMN) Hits 52-Week High – Modern Readers (modernreaders.com)\n- Illumina Introduces a New Genomic Era (fool.com)\n- The Illumina, Inc. (ILMN) Director Sells 20000 Shares of Stock (expressnewsline.com)\nShares of Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) opened at 199.23 on Thursday. Illumina has a 12 month low of $119.37 and a 12 month high of $199.82. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $176.74 and its 200 day moving average price is $172.43. The stock has a market capitalization of $29.09 billion, a PE ratio of 39.97 and a beta of 0.83.\nIllumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August 1st. The life sciences company reported $0.82 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.68 by $0.14. The firm had revenue of $662 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $642.38 million. Illumina had a return on equity of 19.69% and a net margin of 30.27%. Illumina’s revenue was up 10.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.86 earnings per share. Equities analysts anticipate that Illumina will post $3.65 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.\nA number of research analysts have issued reports on ILMN shares. Deutsche Bank AG set a $175.00 price target on Illumina and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, July 28th. Canaccord Genuity raised Illumina from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and boosted their price target for the company from $170.00 to $215.00 in a report on Monday. Vetr downgraded Illumina from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $197.84 price target for the company. in a report on Wednesday, June 21st. Morgan Stanley reissued an “underweight” rating and issued a $122.00 price target (up from $115.00) on shares of Illumina in a report on Monday, July 10th. Finally, Barclays PLC reissued a “hold” rating and issued a $150.00 price target on shares of Illumina in a report on Wednesday, July 19th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have issued a hold rating and eleven have issued a buy rating to the company. The company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $177.01.\nIn related news, Director Frances Arnold sold 825 shares of Illumina stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $174.77, for a total transaction of $144,185.25. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 8,816 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,540,772.32. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, Director Jay T. Flatley sold 15,000 shares of Illumina stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $175.53, for a total value of $2,632,950.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 534,176 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $93,763,913.28. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 134,010 shares of company stock valued at $23,946,015. 1.60% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.\nIllumina, Inc (Illumina) is a provider of sequencing- and array-based solutions for genetic analysis. The Company operates through two segments: Core Illumina and the consolidated variable interest entities (VIEs), which include the activities of GRAIL, Inc (GRAIL) and Helix Holdings I, LLC (Helix). Core Illumina consists of its core operations.\nReceive News & Ratings for Illumina Inc. Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Illumina Inc. and related companies with Analyst Ratings Network's FREE daily email newsletter.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Unlike many pro athletes a generation ago, when soccer players Joanna Lohman and Lianne Sanderson came out in their early twenties, their families, friends and teammates were more than accepting.\n“When I told some of my ex-teammates, they didn’t care,” says Lohman, 31, who now plays for the Boston Breakers with Sanderson, her partner since 2010. “They were like, ‘Whatever. That’s great.’ ”\nSanderson, 26, who also plays for England’s national team, tells PEOPLE, “Our families were so understanding. We certainly have friends and people who have reached out to us who weren’t that lucky.”\nIndeed, fans and strangers reach out to the engaged couple, asking them for advice.\n“I get people writing to me probably bi-weekly telling me about their journey and how they don’t know how to come out and that they don’t know how to tell their parents,” says Lohman, speaking with PEOPLE exclusively for a portfolio of gay professional athletes on their choices to play and live openly. (Watch a video of all the athletes below.)\n“I try to give them advice and make them feel like they’re not alone. Everyone wants to be accepted. When they see me and Lianne out on the field, they think, ‘Wow. If they can do it on that stage ‘ It gives them power to really live their lives honestly.”\nLohman, who has played on the U.S. women’s national team, volunteers with Go! Athletes, an organization committed to ending anti-LGBT bias in sports, speaking at colleges about her experiences as an out athlete.\n“I never thought when I started playing soccer that I would ever have this platform to truly make a difference,” says Lohman. “Never did I think it would be through my sexuality, but I’m very open and honest. I like to interact with the fans and hopefully they believe that I’m down-to-earth and accessible.”\nSanderson understands what it feels like to be singled out. Growing up, she was the only girl on an all-boys’ team. “If I was playing in a game and I was getting a goal, some of the parents would say, ‘Oh. She’s only a girl,” and say derogatory things about me,” she says.\n“My mom and dad would get upset, but then at the end of the game, those same people would come up to me, shaking my hand and congratulating me. It shouldn’t have even gotten to that point.”\nHearing those comments only made her more “inspired,” says Sanderson, who turned pro at age 14 and played on England’s World Cup team at 19. “It didn’t really affect me. I think when you get older things that people say may affect you more. I just wanted to play soccer and wanted to run around in the mud and be outside.”\nFor more on Joanna Lohman and Lianne Sanderson and the exclusive portfolio of gay professional athletes, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Daily news refers to the day-to-day reporting of events and topics in a specific area, such as a city, state or country. This can include news from the world at large, local news, sports and other information relevant to the area in question.\nThe New York Daily News – the first American daily newspaper printed in tabloid format.\nThe New York Daily News was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the Illustrated Daily News and later renamed to Daily News. The paper was the first American daily newspaper to be printed in tabloid format, and the largest circulation newspaper in the United States for over a decade.\nIt was a sensational and colorful publication, covering crime, scandal and violence, lurid photographs, cartoons and entertainment features. At its height, the News had a circulation of 2.4 million copies a day.\nToday the Daily News is a largely digital newspaper published by Tronc, a Chicago-based media company. The newspaper is available through subscriptions to its mobile app and on the internet via desktop browsers. The newspaper has been in the news for its coverage of the 2016 presidential election and the saga of New York Times journalist Michael Wolff.\nThe Daily News has a rich history as an influential and innovative news source, and has been recognized for its numerous achievements. The paper has also been noted for its use of technology to create an innovative and interactive news experience.\nUsing cutting-edge technology and smart data analysis, the Daily News identifies trends and developments where business, politics and economics intersect. Their reporters and editors work hard to bring you the news you need in an easy-to-read format.\nThis award-winning newspaper is a great way to stay on top of the latest news, sports and celebrity gossip. Whether you are a local or a visitor to New York, there’s something for everyone.\nA Daily News subscription gives you the best of the paper, on your terms. It’s the perfect way to keep up with your favorite writers and columnists, and discover all the latest from the city you love.\nIt’s the best of the print newspaper in digital form, and the perfect way to get the latest news on your device. Its simple user interface, and the interactive features it provides, will enhance your reading experience.\nOur digital newspapers are designed to be the most convenient and cost-effective way to read your favorite print newspaper. All of the articles, stories and pictures are fully digitized and indexed for easier searching.\nYou can access the content on any computer, tablet or smartphone that has an internet connection. Then you can download your favorite news content for offline reading.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Sunday Mail’s chief football writer Scott McDermott appeared on the latest edition of the Record Rangers podcast, during which he spent some time talking about Rangers midfielder Joe Aribo.\nYou could certainly argue that Aribo has been enjoying a positive 2020/21 campaign so far with the Glasgow club. He has currently got the joint-fifth-highest overall WhoScored rating (7.34) of any Gers player for the 2020/21 league season, scoring four Premiership goals so far this term.\nOn this podcast, however, McDermott shared that he still thinks the £900k-rated man, who joined Rangers from Charlton Athletic on a free transfer in the summer of 2019, can take his game up “another couple of levels,” with the journalist sharing that he believes Gers manager Steven Gerrard shares that view.\nHe said: “He does frustrate me at times, only because you know how good a player there is in there and you know the attributes that he’s got.\n“In terms of doing that ‘number 8’ role, he’s got everything. He’s rangy, he can go past people, he shields the ball brilliantly, he looks after the ball probably better than anybody in the league in terms of holding people off, I think he’s got the ability to kind of stride forward and travel with the ball and get Rangers up the pitch and break lines – something I don’t think he does enough – and I would hope that’s part of his game that will develop.\n“I think there’s no debate, he is better in that midfield three, breaking forward, but I think Gerrard will just want a wee bit more. I think he’ll be pleased with how he’s developed since he arrived at Rangers, but there’s definitely more to come with Joe Aribo, there’s great potential there and I think there’s still another couple of levels his game can go to.”\nDo you expect more from Aribo?\nYES, HE WILL IMPROVE\nNO, HE'S PEAKED\nTIF Thoughts on what McDermott had to say about Aribo…\nYou could say that McDermott is somewhat harsh in saying that Aribo frustrates him when you consider that the Nigeria international has arguably been one of the Gers best performers this term, completing the second-highest number of dribbles (1.6) and the fourth-highest number of key passes (1.5) per league game of any Rangers player, per WhoScored.\nHowever, perhaps his claim that Gerrard expects more from the midfielder is a testament to the potential he believes Aribo has, and that could certainly be seen as encouraging for the 24-year-old.\nSo, with just over two years remaining on his Ibrox deal, it will be interesting if McDermott is right in saying that Aribo has still got more to offer the Gers as his Rangers career progresses.", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "The robot HERB uses new software to sort through clutter. Photo by CMU\nPITTSBURGH, May 18 (UPI) -- Clutter can be distracting and make it hard to get work done -- not just for humans, but for robots, too.\nNew software designed by engineers at Carnegie Mellon University is helping robots cut through the clutter to accomplish their tasks, whether that's navigating a messy living room or retrieving a milk jug from the back of the refrigerator.\nWhen researchers tested their new software on their Home Exploring Robot Butler, or HERB, they found it not only aided HERB's clutter-cutting abilities, but also enhanced the robot's creative problem solving skills.\n\"It was exploiting sort of superhuman capabilities,\" Siddhartha Srinivasa, an associate professor of robotics at CMU, said in a news release. \"The robot's wrist has a 270-degree range, which led to behaviors we didn't expect. Sometimes, we're blinded by our own anthropomorphism.\"\nDuring problem-solving tasks, researchers observed HERB using techniques they had never taught it, like cradling an object in the crook of its metal arm.\nResearchers also tested their software on NASA's KRex robot, the space agency's latest lunar rover model. The ability to avoid craters, lava flows, hills and debris is vital when traversing the surface the moon.\nThe software works by teaching the robot about the physics of its surroundings, so that it can understand what objects can be moved and how. The software makes the robot aware of which objects are delicate and which are unmovable.\nThe algorithm also helps the robot map out a strategy for navigating around obstacles. For each task, the robot uses its software to determine what combination of maneuvering and object rearranging will allow it to most efficiently cut through the clutter.\nResearchers are scheduled to present their new software on Thursday to attendees of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, held this week in Stockholm, Sweden.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Russians certain men should provide for their families — pollSociety & Culture October 17, 8:52\nEgypt invited to Astana talks on Syria as observer — sourceWorld October 17, 8:15\nRussia dismisses UK media claims on oil products supplies to TalibanRussian Politics & Diplomacy October 16, 21:37\nPoll shows Russians satisfied with life, ready for hard timesSociety & Culture October 16, 21:06\nFIFA: Indian schoolteacher and her son to attend 2018 World Cup opener in Moscow for freeSport October 16, 20:23\nOperation in Syria nearing completion — Russian defense ministerMilitary & Defense October 16, 19:54\nRussian Navy’s aviation to get 10 upgraded antisubmarine warfare helicopters a yearMilitary & Defense October 16, 19:23\nSoviet youth festival: memories from the pastSociety & Culture October 16, 18:01\nRussian-US outer space flight simulation project kicks off in NovemberScience & Space October 16, 17:42\nMOSCOW, April 29 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Health Ministry has drafted a bill over the donation of human organs, parts of human organs and their transplantation. The document bans the taking of the organs from the underage orphans, aide to the Russian health minister Lyalya Gabbasova told a press conference here on Monday.\n“For the first time the term “donation of the human organs” was defined,” she noted. One of the most important provisions of the new document is the defining of children’s organ donation. The bill permits the (posthumous) taking of the organs from children. “This is permitted with the will expression given by the parents,” Gabbasova noted. “The taking of the human organs from the underage orphans is banned,” she noted.\nThe taking of organs from children is fully banned according to the effective legislation.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "EASTTOWN – There are 111 local qualifying sites in 43 states for next month’s U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club, but for West Chester native Jeff Osberg, there was really only one choice.\nOsberg, 28, knows Waynesborough Country Club as well as he knows any golf course. His father, Rick, was the head golf pro there for more than a decade.\n“It’s a comfort level I have here,” he said. “I enjoy the course. I love the layout. It always plays difficult. When I looked at where the U.S. Open (local qualifying) sites where going to be this year, I was excited to see it here.”\nAll that local knowledge helped Osberg, an amateur who now lives in Manayunk, place in a tie for third in a field of 122 vying for just seven qualifying positions on Thursday. His 1-over-par 72 was just a single stroke behind mini-tour professional Mikel Martinson of Charlotte, N.C., and amateur Oliver White of Lower Gwynedd.\nAnother local golfer – West Chester’s Chris Gallagher – is among the other four qualifiers who now advance to 36-hole Sectional qualifying. Amateur and former Ches-Mont champion Braden Shattuck (Aston), Travis Howe (Charlotte, N.C.) and Mark Summerville (Jupiter, Fla.) also advanced.\nA professional who currently competes on the eGolf Tour, Gallagher sank a 10-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a seven-man sudden death playoff to grab his spot after carding a 74.\nOsberg, a Huntingdon Valley Country Club member, also had some challenges to overcome. Just six months removed from back surgery, he bogeyed three of his first 10 holes.\n“It’s really been the last few weeks that I started to hit it again,” Osberg said. “I spent a lot of time in the rough (Thursday). I struggled putting. I wasn’t in trouble a whole lot, though. I was very pleased with how I hit it.”\nOsberg began his late surge by nearly driving the 339-yard, par-four 12th, and then added another birdie at No. 15 following a well-executed flop shot to get to even-par. He missed a tricky downhill slider to save par at the 17th, but finished with a par at the finishing hole.\nOsberg will head to Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, Md. for Sectional qualifying on June 3. He smiles at the notion of setting foot on Merion for the U.S. Open on June 13-16.\n“It would be unbelievable,” Osberg said. “I love the golf course, but it would be nice because you have family and friends (rooting for you) as the hometown person.”\nNaylor is medalist at Mid-Am Qualifier\nWillistown resident William Naylor shot a 1-under-par 70 to grab a share of medalist honors at a Golf Association of Philadelphia Middle-Amateur Qualifier on Monday at French Creek Golf Club in East Nantmeal. A member at Applebrook Golf Club in East Goshen, Naylor topped a field of 135 and earned one of the 39 qualifying spots for the Philadelphia Mid-Am, set for May 22-23 at Fieldstone Golf Club.\nNaylor attributed his effort to consistent ball-striking. He hit 13 fairways and 15 greens in regulation. The 39-year-old insurance consultant carded bogeys on two of the first eight holes, but went 3-under over the final nine holes, including birdies on Nos. 11, 16 and 17.\n“I started to get a feel for the greens,” he said.\nDuring the winter, Naylor spent time in Naples, Fla., and joined Calusa Pines Golf Club. He said it made a big difference in his game.\n“The (Calusa Pines) course is so hard,” Naylor explained. “It kind of taught me what good scores mean. I’ve become a lot more relaxed playing golf. I’m starting to enjoy it a lot more.”\nOther local qualifiers include: Loch Nairn’s Freddy Henriquez (T5, 74), Chester Valley’s Joshua Isler (T8, 75), Kennett Square G&CC’s Michael Zieg (T11, 76), Stonewall’s Jim Simmons and Kennett Square’s John Gosselin (T19, 77), and Whitford’s David West (T31, 79).\nWest is runner-up in Philly Am Qualifier\nTwo days later, West shot an even-par 72 to share runner-up honors at a Golf Association of Philadelphia Amateur Championship Qualifier on Wednesday in Yardley. Finishing just one stroke off the lead, the Whitford member grabbed one of 29 berths into the 113th Philadelphia Amateur, set for June 18-20 & 22 at Aronimink Golf Club.\nThe only other local qualifier was Downingtown Country Club’s Kevin Delaney, who tied for 27th with a 77. There will be two more qualifiers, including one May 18 at Broad Run Golfer’s Club in West Bradford.\nWCU golf outing to debut June 18\nThe inaugural Golden Ram Golf Team Invitational is slated for June 18 at Penn Oaks Golf Club in Thornbury. Proceeds will benefit the West Chester University Men’s and Women’s Golf Scholarship Fund.\nThe Edwin B. Cottrell Trophy will be awarded to the low gross winner and the WCU President’s Cup goes to the net champion. Registration and lunch begin at 11:30 a.m., and a 1 p.m. shotgun start is planned. An open bar, hors d’oeuvres and dinner will follow golf.\nCost is $150 per person or $550 for a foursome, and includes cart, gifts and prizes. Sponsorship opportunities are also available. For more information, contact Kelly Erisman, Assistant Development Director, Athletics, at 610-436-2405 or firstname.lastname@example.org.\nPSU-Great Valley outing at Applecross\nThe second annual Penn State-Great Valley Golf Tournament will be held May 21 at Applecross Country Club in East Brandywine. The outing supports community programs and scholarships for students in the new, regional undergrad engineering program.\nThe program begins with lunch at 11 a.m., and a 12:30 p.m. shotgun start. Dinner, cocktails and a silent auction follows at approximately 5:30 p.m. Cost is $200 per person.\nFor more information, contact Alex Pratt, assistant director of development and alumni relations, 610-892-1253 or email@example.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Editorial: Job well done with Christmas decorations\nNovember 30, 2016\nAnyone who has recently taken a drive down Legion Avenue in Whitehall will have noticed the numerous holiday decorations.\nSimply put, it looks awesome!\nLast Saturday, members of the BY's and Ag Cats 4-H Clubs, Whitehall Chamber of Commerce members, town employees and local residents came together to decorate the town for Christmas.\nThe Ledger would like to thank each and everyone who took time to participate, and a special kudos to the 4-H members that helped decorate. These kids are learning at an early age the importance of taking pride in where you live and how you take pride in it. Wh...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What's best, bottles or cans?\nPosted on February 17 2020\nIt's a personal thing, this can vs. bottle debate\nWhich do you prefer to drink from? Pour from? Be seen with? Is there really a taste difference? A variation in fizz, perhaps?\nOskar Blues brewery in the good ol’ U.S. of A. started the canning trend back in 2002. In the UK, it was a whole 11 years before Camden Town picked up on it, followed by Beavertown in 2014. Now there’s no escaping the cans – and shops and fridges have been hugely more colourful as a result.\nBeyond aesthetics, what’s the difference?\nA lot is merely perception. We tested it, running a blind-tasting with a crowd of beer lovers (the same beer – one packaged in a can, one in a bottle – both poured into and served from a glass) and found no-one noticed a difference.\nWhat about a metallic taste, you say? If you have to lick the outside of the can first, then maybe you’ll get that hint of metal, but we wouldn’t recommend that! It’s certainly not coming from the inside of the can, since 1935 cans were given a very thin polymer lining, putting a halt to that metallic taste.\nSo that puts to bed the argument of taste difference. However, there are reasons for favouring a can over a bottle …\nOn an environmental level\nCans are 100% recyclable and the metal can be used again and again, with no loss of quality. Recycling a can takes just 10% of the energy required to make a can from scratch. As for glass, it’s more expensive to recycle and loses quality every time it’s recreated.\nWhat’s more, cans are lighter (just 20% of the weight of a 330ml bottle), making it easier to transport from brewery to drinker.\nCans are much more sensible for the festival-goers or picnic-enjoyers among us. No-one wants to lug heavy bottles around … and you’re less likely to smash a can too. Plus, a can requires no additional instrument and no huge dentist bill when you stupidly think your teeth are up for the bottle-top challenge (we’ve all been there).\nAnd it can’t be just us that realises that cans are easier to stack in the fridge!\nMany brewers (but certainly not all) prefer cans for their beer because there’s no chance of light-damage. UV rays can cause a reaction in beer dulling the character of the hops or creating an unpleasant raw-onion aroma and flavour. Yuck. Tucked away in a can, there’s no chance of that.\nAre there any positives for the bottle?\nYes – bottles stay cooler longer. A can will warm up more quickly in your hand. But a can also gets cooler quicker. So, actually, no…?\nI guess the real difference is down to you. What do you prefer putting to your lips? Personally, we always pour our beers in to a glass!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Zimbabwe have won the toss and opted to bat first in the final ODI of the three-match series at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.\nGreen Shirts have an unassailable lead of 2-0 in the series and are aiming for a whitewash while the visitors are looking to finish the series on a high.\nPakistan have made four changes in their squad. Hard-hitting explosive batsman Khushdil Shah makes his ODI debut. He has replaced Imad while Faheem , Haris and Abid Ali sit out. Mohammad Hasnain, Wahab and Fakhar make their way into the final playing XI.\nZimbabwe makes one change, Donald Tripamo comes in for Carl Mumba.\nLeave a Reply", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A Co-Fellow Conversation: Perspectives on Eliminating Malaria\nStacey Naggiar and Chipasha Mwansa are 2016–2017 Global Health Corps fellows working to address malaria with PATH in Zambia. In honor of World Malaria Day, they interviewed each other to highlight their perspectives on malaria elimination.\nA year ago, neither of us expected to have the word malaria in our job titles. And yet here we are, a Zambian and an American working for the NGO PATH, alongside the Zambian government, to take on the bold task of eliminating malaria.\nGrowing up worlds apart in Lusaka and New York, our experiences with malaria have been different, running the gamut from completely commonplace to totally foreign. Yet we both found our way to malaria eradication work through a similar belief that everyone has the right to access quality healthcare.\nAs Global Health Corps fellows, we entered into our roles with the Malaria Control and Elimination Partnership in Africa (MACEPA) project at PATH not fully aware of this unique moment in time for Zambia and malaria elimination. This World Malaria Day, the Zambia Ministry of Health has announced the National Strategic Plan to Eliminate Malaria by 2021. We are humbled by the opportunity to be part of the fight and to have a front row seat to history.\nIf a year went by without any of us getting malaria we would be surprised…\nStacey: Chips, my first question for you is… have you ever had malaria?\nChipasha: (laughs) Yes, more times than I can count. As far back as I can remember, malaria in my home was a very normal thing. If a year went by without any of us getting malaria we would be surprised and it’s something that would even invoke conversation if we didn’t suffer from malaria.\nStacey: Many of our readers might not understand what that’s like. Can you tell me a bit about what it’s like to have malaria?\nChipasha: I would have a fever and be throwing up, no appetite, no sense of taste, and a terrible headache. Even without going to a hospital or confirming what it was, we would all just know — “This is malaria.” I have taken chloroquine, quinine, Fansidar, and Coatrem, trying to find a medication that worked for me. Sometimes I would even have reactions. And malaria would do the rounds — if one person in the house had malaria, everyone would go through it. I took it as anyone would take any other disease like a flu or a cold. It was a part of my childhood and even into my early adulthood.\nStacey: When was the last time you had malaria?\nChipasha: I think the last time I had it was five years ago. And when I look at my community, it’s also become much less common in recent years. Even when you go to a health facility within Lusaka and say you think you have malaria they will ask if you traveled out of town. This shows that malaria in Lusaka is decreasing, though there are still imported cases in people coming from malaria-ridden districts. Prior to joining PATH, I really did not pay much attention to malaria but I recall hearing announcements on local media saying that Lusaka was declared malaria-free. It’s clear the malaria burden has significantly decreased across the country.\nStacey: Fast forward to the present day — tell me about your role as a malaria surveillance officer.\nWithout evidence from the field, we cannot know that we’re moving towards elimination. That’s what this job is all about.\nChipasha: My role as malaria surveillance officer is to analyze data that comes in from the field reports of community health workers and facility staff. These reports are used for decision making, so I follow up as needed to make sure everyone involved reports on time. I’m also involved in training community health workers in malaria case management, testing, and treatment. Without evidence from the field, we cannot know that we’re moving towards elimination. That’s what this job is all about.\nChipasha: Stacey, what about you, what does your role at PATH entail?\nStacey: My job is two-fold. One aspect of it involves working with teams like yours to develop training materials like videos and brochures to educate both community health workers and community members receiving malaria prevention services. The other role is to bring stories about progress against malaria to a larger Zambian audience and the world.\nOne thing I didn’t know before working on MACEPA is that when you reach low levels of malaria transmission, as Zambia has done in the Southern Province, it becomes more difficult to measure, see, and communicate success. That’s why I think it’s incredibly important to tell these stories. If we take our foot off the gas now, so close to the finish line, interest and funding to end malaria might stop and we could end up right back where we started. It’s a no-brainer that people should not suffer or die from a preventable disease.\nChipasha: Me too.\nIf we take our foot off the gas now, so close to the finish line, interest and funding to end malaria might stop and we could end up right back where we started. It’s a no-brainer that people should not suffer or die from a preventable disease.\nStacey: From where you sit, is elimination possible?\nChipasha: It is. We have evidence of eliminating malaria in some districts including Lusaka. All that’s needed now is concerted effort from all players working towards elimination. This includes community members themselves because one of the biggest challenges we’re up against is that people often don’t use the tools that are available, like sleeping under mosquito nets or allowing their homes to be sprayed. These particular challenges are behavioral, traditional, and cultural.\nWhat about you, Stacey? From the work that you’ve been doing, taking part in village meetings, witnessing campaigns like mass drug administration and indoor residual spraying, do you think malaria elimination is possible?\nThe bottom line for me is always that malaria is preventable and curable… countries need to fix problems with much larger systems in order for malaria to be gone for good.\nStacey: For the same reasons you mentioned, yes, I think it’s possible. There was a time when malaria was endemic in the U.S. but I grew up not even knowing about malaria. Also, last year Sri Lanka was certified as malaria-free by the World Health Organization. The bottom line for me is always that malaria is preventable and curable. But we know that infectious disease is also influenced by poverty and poor education. So I think countries need to fix problems with much larger systems in order for malaria to be gone for good. That’s a huge and complicated task. I also worry that the investment we have seen from foreign countries is at risk given the current political climate. This means national governments, especially those heavily dependent on aid, need to increase their financial commitments to health budgets. It’s also an opportunity for the private sector to get involved. To sum it up, I’m concerned but yes, I do believe it’s possible.\nLet’s switch gears. Looking back over the last nine months of the fellowship, what has most surprised you?\nChipasha: What has surprised me most has been the amount of work taking place behind the scenes. The community health workers who are doing a big part of this work are volunteers who don’t get paid. That just shows how committed people are to seeing malaria be eliminated. People have put earning an income aside to do this noble work. I hope they are not forgotten.\nStacey: I’ve also been blown away by the effort on the side of PATH and the Zambian government to train thousands of community health workers to find every last case of malaria. And by the community health workers themselves who have stepped up to make a change. It’s really powerful to see how much pride they have in learning these skills and serving as role models in their communities.\nChipasha: So Stace, what are you going to do after the fellowship?\nStacey: One thing at a time! I don’t know yet. You?\nChipasha: I don’t know yet either. But if we eliminate malaria, we can do anything.\nTo learn more about PATH’s malaria eradication efforts, check out this video.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Design and architecture shape our world. On DnA: Design and Architecture, host Frances Anderton talks to designer, users and critics about the latest in products, fashion, architecture and more, in Los Angeles and beyond. Photo credit: Marc Goldstein\nOctober 11th, 2016\nEpisode 156 of 224 episodes\nThe LAPD Academy in Elysian Park has undergone a makeover, as the department adapts to an era of community policing. An MIT freshman has created what's believed to be the first fingerprint-enabled smart gun. And a French artist finds inspiration in the cracked concrete of the Los Angeles River.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "console.debug(‘TRINITY_WP’, ‘Skip player from rendering’, ‘is single: , is main loop: 1, is main query: 1’);console.debug(‘TRINITY_WP’, ‘trinity_content_filter’);\nA Joint Administrative Order between the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), the Games and Amusement Board (GAB) and the Department of Health (DOH) was released on Monday providing a guideline on the conduct of physical and sports activities during the Covid-19 pandemic.\nMeaning, the 12 teams in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) and the six squads in the Philippine Football League (PFL) can now start their conditioning as early as August 3.\nPBA commissioner Willie Marcial clarified that resumption of practices will only begin six to eight days after the swab testing.\nPSC Chairman Butch Ramirez expressed relief that the JAO has been finalized after over a month of collaboration with both agencies.\n“We all recognize the importance sport plays in building one’s strong immune system, what we just wanted to ensure was that they keep safe and away from the virus while they are doing it,” explained the sports chief.\nRamirez, signed the joint issuance along with GAB Chairman Abraham Mitra and DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III. It covers non-professional sports under the jurisdiction of the PSC, professional sports under the GAB, professional and non-professional persons in sports like athletes, coaches, trainors, promoters and other parties involved in the conduct of sports like venue management, local government units, schools and workplaces.\nConditions and requirements for the conduct of sports are given for five risk severity ratings we now observe from high risk (enhanced community quarantine) to areas considered low risk or those classified under the Modified General Community Quarantine.\nAt present, the PSC is mid-way its online consultations with the different national sports associations (NSAs) to help them craft a guideline this time for the return of training of the national team, specifically those who are gunning for, or have qualified for the Olympics.\nGet more stuff like this\nSubscribe to our mailing list and get interesting stuff and updates to your email inbox.\nThank you for subscribing.\nSomething went wrong.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It’s been a while since I posted a trailer and today a couple of them caught my eye. One of them is one of my most-anticipated holiday releases and the other is one I hadn’t even heard of before but the subject matter intrigued me!\nSo let’s start with the one coming out on Netflix first…\nGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery\nSo the Rian Johnson-created detective Benoit Blanc is surely giving Agatha Christie and Sherlock a run for their money! It’s making Johnson and its star Daniel Craig plenty rich too, with Netflix outbidding Apple and Amazon to acquire the rights to this one and its sequel for a whopping $469 mil! The first one released by Lionsgate grossed over $311 mil on a $40 mil budget, no small feat for an original whodunnit movie not based on original IP.\nThis time, Blanc travels to Greece for his latest case, specifically a private Greek island where tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) invites his friends for a getaway. The Grecian scenery is perfect for a December release as I know I’ll be dreaming of an island getaway all Winter long. Joining Craig and Norton is a fantastic ensemble cast: Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista.\nThe trailer looks like a lot of fun! I’m actually hoping there’ll be a theatrical press screening for this before it drops on Netflix on December 23.\nToday is the first time I learned that there’s a movie being made about Joseph Bologne aka Chevalier de Saint-Georges! If your first reaction is ‘who?’ well, that’s all the more reason a movie about him ought to be made. I had the privilege of seeing The Anonymous Lover, a romantic comedy Opera performance by the Minnesota Opera last February, as part of a celebration for black composers.\nPer Wiki, the movie chronicles the rise and resurgence of Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a French-Caribbean violinist and composer who rose to fame through his musical prodigy. But a complicated love life and the racism of the ancien regime lead to a falling out with Marie Antoinette and Saint-Georges realizes that things must change.\nChevalier has plenty of accomplishments in addition to being a musical genius that inspired Mozart himself (per this article). He was apparently Queen Marie-Antoinette’s music teacher and confidant, an elite musketeer of the King’s Horse Guard; a master swordsman and Europe’s fencing champion, a military hero who championed the French Revolution, as well as being quite the ladiesman.\nKelvin Harrison Jr. has been on a roll starring in music-themed movies. He was in Cyrano (where he displayed his singing prowess), as well as in Elvis as B.B. King. I like both of his performances and am glad to see him as the lead this time around. He’s a charismatic actor with looks and talents to spare. He’s surrounded by a great ensemble cast: Minnie Driver, Samara Weaving, and Lucy Boynton as Marie Antoinette. Unfortunately I’ve got to wait until April 7, 2023 for its release.\n6 thoughts on “Double Trailers Spotlight – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery + CHEVALIER”\nNow those are 2 films I totally want to see. Chevalier looks more interesting of the two in terms of period pieces and such but also a look into someone many might not know about.\nYes exactly, Steven! It’s great they finally highlight a black composer whose astounding work is barely known to the world.\nGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery does look fun, hopefully it delivers! I read that Netflix plans to release it theater for about a month before it hits their service in late December.\nYeah I’m hoping there’ll be a press screening at the theater for Glass Onion!\n‘I fully agree about the ‘unfortunately’ part regarding Chevalier. Trailers don’t tend to make us wait six months anymore and I got a little too used to that, I guess. As for Glass Onion, it looks great but I can be patient. 😁\nYeah, I didn’t expect to have to wait THAT long. I thought maybe it’ll be released around Christmas time. Oh well, I know I’ll be watching!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle is expected to miss Sunday's season opener against the Chicago Bears with a groin injury, Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle.\nKittle suffered the injury during practice on Monday and has been sidelined since.\nHowever, there was some optimism that he would play after he told reporters Friday he was feeling \"significantly better\" than he did earlier in the week and would do everything possible to play against the Bears.\nKittle previously missed 11 games over the past two seasons due to injuries and hasn't played a full season since 2018. He missed eight contests in 2020 and three more last season, failing to perform up to his typical standards as he played through pain.\nThe 28-year-old caught 71 passes for 910 yards and six touchdowns in 14 games last season.\nRoss Dwelley and Tyler Kroft will get more work with Kittle out of the lineup. Wide receivers Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk and Jauan Jennings should also see a heavier workload.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "An extinct porpoise has been discovered in San Diego, California.\nWhile out monitoring the site of a new Chula Vista development San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist Richard Cerutti noticed something was out monitoring the site of a new Chula Vista development when he spotted a pointed object that was poking out of the dirt. It was precariously close to a large bulldozer. Cerutti explained heavy equipment has to be watched to avoid accidents.\nHe explained: “We keep them from backing up. They sometimes hit fossils.” That was back in 1990. Had Cerutti not been keeping an eye on things, the skull would very likely have been buried if not accidentally destroyed.\nCerutti, however, knew immediately he’d discovered a special specimen. Upon closer examination it resembled a common dolphin skull. Still it had a pronounced underbite. The lower jaw extended outward similar to a probe. That particular feature is not common to any type of porpoise alive today.\nThe skull was placed on display as part of the museum’s “Fossil Mysteries” exhibit where it would remain a mystery for 20 years. This week, after two decades, researchers have finally determined that the skull in question once belonged to what is now an extinct porpoise that lived off the California coast approximately three million years ago when scientists state a great deal of San Diego County was still underwater.\nThe San Diego Natural History Museum’s curator of paleontology and one of the authors of the new study, Tom Deméré, said: “This is something new, something brand new. Not only new but bizarre. In the sense that this animal we found has a structure in the lower jaw that’s not represented in any living dolphin or porpoise.”\nThe research chose to name this extinct porpoise Semirostrum ceruttii after the paleontologist who discovered the skull. Cerutti was honored to have the new species named after him. He said: “I was really surprised. When you’re in this business, this is kind of the reward after years and years of finding fossils.”\n(Image courtesy of Bobby Boessenecker)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Read more about this case:\nThe New York Times: Freelance Writer Accuses The Atlantic of Defamation\nThe Washington Post: Ruth Shalit Barrett sues Atlantic for $1 million over retraction of viral article, allegations of inaccuracies\nLaw360: The Atlantic Accused of Defaming Writer of Story it Retracted\nWe look forward to hearing from you.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Yes, she is a bit younger than the Rachael Ray you see on the Food Network, and she does have golden blond hair. But if you dare to question 10-year-old Rachael Ray of Fremont about her identity, you are likely to get an earful.\n“I AM Rachael Ray. I have a birth certificate to prove it!”\nNot only does she have proof of her name, she also has a snapshot of the day she met the brown-haired Rachael Ray face to face.\n“It was so funny. She writes, ‘To Rachael Ray,’ then she realizes it’s her own name,” Rachael says with a giggle. “She looks up, and she goes, ‘Shut up! Is that your real name?'”\nSince Rachael was born years before the cooking show host hit the big time, she definitely wasn’t named after Rachael Ray, and she’s used to getting yak-back about her name. Thankfully, our Rachael is a fan of the cooking show host. When she was 7, she even had a Rachael Ray birthday party. Guests dressed as chefs and got little cookbooks filled with family recipes for things such as cheeseburger soup.\nAnd since she is a cook, when the new “Rachael Ray Yum-O! The Family Cookbook” ($22.50, Potter Books) arrived, it made perfect sense to appoint our East Bay Rachael to cook up a handful of the recipes to see if the book is worth the money.\nAssisting in her Fremont kitchen are friends Alasha Dunn, 9; Megan Liebig, 11; and Isolina Zambrana, 9, all seasoned cooks who have made more than a few yummy things to eat in their own kitchens.\nThe afternoon starts out with a giggle and a lot of silliness, but then hunger sets in, spurring our young chefs to action. Rachael divides her workers into teams and assigns recipes. It looks like a great plan.\n“Where’s the chicken broth? What is chicken broth?” asks Megan.\n“What is a skillet?” asks another.\nAfter a little deciphering and decoding, the four are on track. Two are quickly dumping ingredients into a pan for soup while the other two clatter for pans to cook up their That’s Shallota Flavor Spaghetti. They put some water on to boil, then stare at the shallots, puzzled.\n“So we cut these all up and put them in the pan?” Rachael says, semiconvincingly. She’s not quite sure what a shallot is or how to cut it, but she’s game — until she cuts into the first one.\n“Eeeew. Oh. Uh!! This smells. This is. Oh,” she says. “How many of these do we have to cut?” Rachael forges ahead, haphazardly chopping tiny bits of onion away from the whole. Her partner Isolina does the same, but with a bit more gusto. But three minutes into the job, they are overwhelmed.\n“Uhhhh. I can’t do this! Ow, ow, ow,” says Isolina. Her eyes are stinging with tears. Rachael is so skunked out by the smell of raw onion that she’s backed across the kitchen.\n“We. Need. Help,” she bellows to the others, who are quite busy redecorating the entire kitchen with shreds of cheese meant for their taco soup.\n“Here, you hold (the grater) and I’ll push the cheese,” Megan suggests. She pushes and a tiny bit of cheese comes out of the holes. “This is not working!” Megan exclaims, waving the shredder in the air for emphasis — sending cheese bits flying.\n“OK, I’ll hold it and you try,” Alasha offers. It works, except that the shredder isn’t exactly centered on the dish. Oblivious, the team continues to grate — with the bulk of their cheese falling to the floor — until one of our chefs takes a step closer to the counter. “Yuk! That’s where our cheese went!” Megan says. “This is so gross. I’m stepping on cheese. It’s sticking to my feet!”\nCheesy feet, however, doesn’t stop this team, which has completed one recipe, and is ready to start another. They abandon their cheesy mess and head to a clean spot in the kitchen to start prepping berries for their parfaits.\nAs they whack nearly a third off the top of each strawberry — Who needs a huller, anyway? — and dice up the remains, they glance at the continuing distress from the shallot corner and offer assistance.\n“Here, put these on your eyes. It feels good,” Alasha tells them, offering strawberry ends. The shallot team giggles but gives it a try. “It works! It really does!” Rachael says. There remains one small problem, however. If their hands are busy pressing strawberries to their eyes, they have no hands left to complete their shallot caper.\nThe hungry team brainstorms. “Sunglasses!” Rachael says, grabbing a pair and putting them on. “I look cool!” Even better, Rachael’s mom, Lisa Ray, emerges with a set of swim goggles.\nGoggles in place, Isolina takes the lead, reducing the mound of purple of shallots to bits as our young Rachael disappears into the other room, overwhelmed by the chaos. Being a kitchen star is tough work.\nMeanwhile, the breakfast parfait-taco soup team shows signs of weariness. “Hey, we’ve done two recipes and you guys haven’t even done one,” Megan throws out. When she gets no response, she just keeps talking.\n“Here’s a quiz!” she shouts to the team. “What attracts water more? A wet sponge or a dry sponge?” She pauses, then offers the answer. “A wet one because water attracts water.”\nShallots are finally headed toward the pan — but not without a teamwide chant and ceremonial dousing of what the girls call “eeee-vuuuu!”\nIt’s two hours into the cooking adventure and the team has one last recipe to tackle — chicken fingers.\nMegan and Alasha take on the mammoth task of grinding 3 tablespoons of garlic flakes. One holds the spoon over the sink, the other grinds the flakes. Even though half the spice is falling into the wet sink, the two forge on, undaunted.\n“Man, this is taking a long time,” Megan exclaims, trying to be patient with Alasha’s persistent twisting of the grinder. “It doesn’t look like we are going to have enough,” she says, halfway through the task. “What are we going to do?” A hungry bystander can’t bear to keep her mouth shut any longer. “Do you think maybe you should do that over a plate?” The suggestion is welcomed and the task completed in about 2 minutes.\nTenders make their way to the oven as the team begs Rachael to approve a few shortcuts — they nix the onions for the dip, decide carrot sticks will be carrot chunks. And the celery ribs? Never mind.\n“I’ll tell you one thing,” Megan says. “These aren’t 30-minute meals!” After about 2½ hours of cooking, the four are seated at the table, ready to evaluate their work — and the other Rachael’s recipes. First, they dig in to the soup. It’s a hit.\n“This was the easiest one and it’s so good. I’m making this again,” Isolina says. Second up is the pasta. The girls take two bites before Isolina heads into the kitchen for more cheese. “It just tastes plain. Like noodles. This is not my favorite thing.” The tenders are devoured, the parfaits downed top to bottom.\nTummies full, the young cooks sneak out of the kitchen into the backyard, hoping the explosion of strawberry hulls, cheese, bits of shallot and spatters of yogurt will be magically cleaned up. Much to their disappointment, it doesn’t happen.\n“Do we have to do the dishes?” they ask. Yes, they must, and they do, with Alasha taking the lead, plowing through countless dirty pots, pans, plates, cups and more.\nReach Jolene Thym at 510-353-7008 or at email@example.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jordan Davis' mother doesn't want the killing of her son to be looked at as a hate crime. The 17-year-old Davis, a black teenager, was shot and killed on 23 November by a 45-year-old white man named Michael Dunn, after what has been called a dispute over loud music.\nAccording to reports, Dunn pulled into the parking lot of a convenience store where Davis and his friends were sitting in their car. The man asked the teens to turn their music down, at which point he and Davis exchanged words. Allegedly, Dunn then pulled out his gun and shot at the vehicle eight or nine times, hitting Davis twice.\nDavis's mother, Lucia McBath, doesn't want to interject race into the case of her son's killing – because she wants justice. She and the rest of Davis' family know full well the divisiveness that comes when you start throwing the term \"racist\" around.\nWe're barely nine months past the period when the killing of Trayvon Martin dominated the news, and already the deaths of the two teenagers are being compared. Both happened in Florida, both at the hands of men identified as white, and neither of the teens was armed with anything more than his blackness. In both cases, the shooter says he felt threatened and, because of this, has the potential to walk because of Florida's controversial \"stand your ground\" gun law.\nThe ambiguity of the definition of \"threat\" under the law grants so much latitude that it isn't hard to see why George Zimmerman, Martin's killer, would argue he felt threatened by what he described as a black man wearing a hoodie who appeared – to Zimmerman's limited knowledge – to be on drugs. Or that \"four black men\" (the prerequisites for a gang, if you ask some) in a car posed an imminent threat to Dunn's life, even though the police have not recovered the shotgun (or any weapon at all) that Dunn claims he saw before shooting. \"Stand your ground\" sets the bar incredibly low for what constitutes as a threat, and when deadly force can be deployed to neutralize that threat, men like Dunn and Zimmerman are emboldened to act as vigilantes.\nThere are, however, important differences to note in these cases. Dunn, unlike Zimmerman, was arrested almost immediately and there doesn't appear to be the same type of gross incompetence on the part of the police handling his case as there was with Zimmerman. The main thread connecting the two still holds, though: a 17-year-old black teen is dead.\nFor me, another name came to mind when I heard the news of Davis' death: Oscar Grant. It's not an exact comparison by any means, but I think of Grant, the 22-year-old black man who was shot and killed by Oakland police officer Johannes Mersehle, because of when he was murdered. It was New Year's day 2009, a little less than two months after the election of President Barack Obama. Jordan Davis was killed the day after Thanksgiving 2012, not even three full weeks after the re-election of the nation's first black president. While a country celebrated its achievement, the deaths of these young men offered bloody reminders of just how far we haven't come in the battle against racism.\nEvery few months, another young black person makes their way into our lives as a news headline as a result of racist violence, and still, we manage to look the other way. We yet lack the collective will to call it what it is. Whether it's Davis, Martin, Grant, Rekia Boyd, Ramarley Graham, Wendell Allen, or any of the other black people who lost their lives as the result of extrajudicial killing – one for every 36 hours in the first half of 2012.\nWe keep looking at their deaths in a vacuum – as the result of one unhinged killer, a lone actor who, once locked away, will eliminate the problem. When do we stop lying to ourselves?\nWe have deluded ourselves into thinking that the post-civil rights/Obama era is one in which racism either doesn't exist or is waning to the point of irrelevance. Whether or not things are \"better\" starts to feel inconsequential when \"better\" still means young black people aren't safe in their own skin. We haven't come to grips with the fact that America is a fundamentally racist society. Racism built this country into what we know it to be today. It takes more than observing a Martin Luther King Jr holiday and electing a black president to unwind such deepseated bigotry. We can't eradicate it if we can't name it, and so long as we refuse to name it, more Jordans, more Trayvons and more Oscars will die. Their blood is on our hands, and we've become so self-satisfied, we don't even bother to wash it off. We keep moving as if they never existed.\nThat's the heart of the problem: for so many, they don't exist. Racism renders them invisible, their lives disposable. The best they can do is become a cause, a talking-point or a symbol. But what good are symbols if they don't portend action? What use is a symbol to a family in mourning?\nI understand why Davis' mother would like to avoid the media spotlight and not allow her son's death to become yet another talking-point. Still, we have no choice but to take the lesson of his death forward with us, because the reality is this will happen again. Our charge is to keep calling it what it is until everyone gets the hint.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tim Jones explains whyIF GERMANY and its long-term monetary allies decide to keep Italy out of the first wave of European single currency members, they will have plenty of ammunition to help them to do so.\nOf course, current media chat has it that this will not happen. The Italians will be welcomed into the euro-zone from January next year, they say , holding firmly to a view which looks remarkably like the exact opposite of last January’s fashion.\nBut the fact that the French government wants the Italians in to eliminate the threat posed by the lira to its car and textiles industries and to give Paris an anti-Anglo Saxon ally is neither here nor there.\nGerman Chancellor Helmut Kohl will decide who joins and his aides claim that they will only know his mind when he sits down at the summit table in May.\nThe truth is that powerful figures in Germany and the Netherlands are very, very worried about admitting a country which has still not seriously addressed the painful distortions to its economy and public finances created by 50 years of post-war mismanagement.\nThe claim that Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm was about to resign rather than let Italy into euro-land was a heady brew of electioneering by his Liberal VVD party and the now customary sensationalist tone of much current reporting on EMU, but it does show that the Italian story is still far from over.\nFirst, there is the good news. Prime Minister Romano Prodi and his Olive Tree centre-left coalition have done a remarkable job since they took office in May 1996, albeit building on work carried out under the Amato, Ciampi, Dini and even Berlusconi governments.\nOnly three years ago, the annual rate of consumer price inflation was 6%. Now the talk is of keeping it under 2%: the figure which according to US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan defines the monetary Holy Grail of price stability.\nThe budget deficit – the gap between the government’s revenues and its spending – has narrowed from 55 billion ecu ten years ago to 27 billion ecu today, and is now worth less than 3% of gross domestic product – the key to qualifying for EMU.\nAlthough reliable figures will not be made available to the European Commission until late February, the Italian treasury has already revealed that the value of the deficit probably narrowed to 2.7% of GDP last year, an amazing four percentage points below the 1996 figure.\nIf qualifying for EMU were only about meeting the deficit target in 1997, which many people still believe it is, then Italy would be home and dry.\nUnfortunately, it is not. Under the terms of the Maastricht Treaty, applicants for the euro-zone must also achieve sustainable convergence of their economic performance. This means that measures taken to get government finances under control should preferably be sustainable over a period of more than one year.\nIn this regard, Italy’s great burden is the size of its backlog of public debt. In absolute terms, at more than 1,000 billion ecu, it is enormous. It even dwarfs the country’s GDP, which measures the money value of all the goods and services produced in Italy in a year.\nEMU applicants are meant to shrink the debt-to-GDP ratio towards 60% at a satisfactory pace. In Italy, it was steady at 122% of GDP last year, and although the treasury came up with a plan last week to halve this by 2009, the Germans remain sceptical.\nThe costs of servicing the debt run up by incompetence, corruption and cowardice are huge. Interest payments make up 11% of all government spending – money which could be used for something a little more useful.\nIndeed, once the interest Italians are paying on old debt is taken into account, it transpires that the government is actually running a budget surplus worth 6% of GDP.\nIf it had not been for the mistakes of the past four decades, Italians would now be making an informed and casual choice about EMU entry.\nWhat they have done instead is rushed through a raft of budgetary measures – many of which were genuinely reformist but many of which were not – with the sole aim of getting that deficit under the magic 3% barrier.\nProdi managed to push through two budget-cutting packages in 1996 worth a massive 40 billion ecu, but which included the notorious Euro-tax: a low-cost loan from the people to the government, levied in 1997 but due for repayment once Italy is safely tucked into EMU.\nThe report from the EU’s monetary committee presented to finance ministers this week found numerous examples of short-term budgetary measures designed to shrink the deficit-to-GDP ratio, but storing up problems for the future.\nThe most serious short-term threat to financial stability has to be the residui passivi. These funds for hundreds of state agencies voted through by parliament but withheld by the treasury to keep the 1997-98 figures down are estimated by the independent think-tank Centro Europa Ricerche (CER) to be worth 150 billion ecu, or 15% of GDP. Needless to say, this frightens the Germans since this deferred spending could suddenly kick in under EMU.\nIn addition, Italy’s pensions crisis is still not solved. The budget deal reached in October between Prodi and the Rifondazione Comunista leader Faustino Bertinotti undermined the government’s declared aim of defusing the state pension time bomb. This is no exaggeration. Every country in Europe has a pensions problem, but Italy’s is uniquely scary.\nSpending on pensions, which people as young as 52 can claim, is worth twice the EU average at 14% of GDP. More frightening still, the number of pensioners is forecast to equal the size of the workforce within just 30 years.\nWhen they informed their EU partners about their pension reform plans in June last year, Prodi and his veteran Treasury Minister Carlo Azeglio Ciampi pledged to slice 5 billion ecu off the bill in 1998. But by the time the draft budget was published, this target had slipped to 2.5 billion ecu in total welfare savings, of which 2.3 billion ecu would come from pensions.\nIn the end, the Bertinotti-blessed budget deal was expected to save 2 billion ecu, at most, from the pensions bill.\nAs the price for his support, Bertinotti won a government commitment to introduce a law cutting the working week to 35 hours by 2001 and concessions designed to slow down the privatisation drive.\nGiorgio Fossa, the head of employers’ union Confindustria, got it just right when he said of the 1998 budget: “It may be enough to get us into EMU, but it won’t be enough to keep us there.”\nAll this is giving members of the Bundesbank council sleepless nights. In the same week that Ciampi began a newspaper interview and speech-making campaign designed to win over German financial opinion, Bundesbank council member Klaus-Dieter Kuehbacher decided to speak out.\nIdentifying a “series of good reasons to be critical” of Italy’s membership bid, he claimed that Italy’s budgetary convergence over the past year depended too much on the declining cost of servicing its debt through interest-rate reductions and not enough on real structural measures.\nThis could put the whole single currency project at risk, he claimed. “If long-term interest rates had to rise so as to control inflation in the EMU-zone, then Italy could have difficulty keeping its deficit and debt levels under control,” said Kuehbacher. “In that case, Italy would have to put pressure on other EU national central banks not to raise interest rates.”\nOn this, the Bundesbank is mistaken. Bank of Italy governor Antonio Fazio holds no torches for his government. He has become famous back home for forcing the government to beg on its knees for any interest rate relief.\nFazio summed up his philosophy during parliamentary hearings in October. “As the economy picks up, I am willing to ease monetary policy, but I will not push the economy; that would be a grave error,” he said. “I will not drug the economy but, if the economy picks up, I am willing to move with it.”\nWhether the Bundesbank and its supporters are mistaken or not, the fact is that they believe their fears to be justified. Kohl could still vote ‘no’.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Three video reports, the first two by Press TV and the third by Al Jazeera\nTubas mosque razed\nSource: Ma'an News Agency\nTUBAS (Ma’an) -- Israel's Civil Administration demolished a building in the Tubas area on Thursday which villagers use as the only mosque in the small town.\nResidents of Khirbet Yarza, a village of less than 200 residents, said Israeli bulldozers entered the Jordan Valley area early in the morning and tore down the mosque, saying document indicated that it was demolished because it lacked a proper permit.\nLocal spokesman delegated by the PA Ahmad As’ad said villagers had papers proving the mosque was legal, and that it was built before 1967, when Israeli forces occupied the West Bank.\nA Civil Administration official said the building was demolished along with eight sheds which were built without permits in an area that Israeli forces had declared a firing zone.\n\"The extension on the building which workers said could have been a mosque was unsafe,\" he said, refuting claims that the structure had been in place for as long as villagers claimed.\n\"They got the evacuation order three months ago and the demolition order after that, they had a chance to appeal it in the court,\" he added.\nThe spokesman from the village, whose residents depend on small-scale farms and livestock raising for their living, did not indicate that the issue had been taken to the Israeli courts.\nSince 1967, Israel has designated close to 18% of the West Bank a closed military zone for the purposes of military training, according to UN documents.\n\"Israel's planning regime in Area C directly contributes to poor living conditions confronting many Palestinians in the West Bank,\" a report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs said.\nAccording to Israeli officials, \"citizens have the time to arrive and appeal at the civil administration offices,\" but according to the UN, few appeals succeed, being unable to satisfy severely restrictive policies.\nMost recent demolitions echo similar incidents which prompted a December 2009 UN report, which notes that \"Palestinian construction is effectively prohibited in some 70 percent of Area C, while in the remaining 30 percent, a range of restrictions virtually eliminate the possibility of obtaining a permit.\"\nThe OCHA report noted that some 39% of the West Bank falls under the category of \"state land,\" noting that the area is \"four times more than the territory taken up by the built-up are of settlements.\" The issue was particularly acute for residents of the Jordan Valley, the report said, \"where almost all of the area falls under the jurisdiction of two Regional [Settlement] Councils.\"\nIn practical terms, the UN office has noted, \"in almost the entirety of the Jordan Valley, Palestinian construction is prohibited.\"\n[Wake up] Israelis demolish another Palestinian mosque [Nov 25, 2010]:\n\"multioym | November 25, 2010\nIsraelis demolish Palestinian mosque\nIsraeli forces have destroyed a Palestinian mosque in a small town in the occupied West Bank, violating the primary rights of Palestinian people.\nThe attack took place in Tubas early on Thursday, a Press TV correspondent reported.\nVillagers said that the mosque was built before the 1967 Israeli occupation.\nEarlier on Wednesday, Israeli troops demolished at least seven Palestinian structures in the eastern part of the occupied West Bank.\nThe soldiers also destroyed a number of shelters used to house cattle in Abu al-Ajaj, a small village in the Jordan Valley.\nWitnesses say Israeli forces attacked the residents who tried to defend their properties and arrested several Palestinians.\nIsrael occupied the West Bank during the Six-day War in 1967.\nIsrael demolishes Palestinian mosque in West Bank - PressTV 101125:\n\"newsupload2010 | November 25, 2010 | 1 likes, 0 dislikes\nIsrael demolishes mosque:\n\"AlJazeeraEnglish | November 25, 2010\nIsraeli forces have demolished a mosque and several other buildings in the northern Jordan valley.\nThey say the structure was built without a permit but residents say the mosque was built before 1967 and was recently renovated.\nThe Palestinian government has condemned the action as state destruction, while Israel continues to fight for Israeli settlers.\nAl Jazeera's Nour Odeh reports from the Jordan Valley.\n- Sent using Google Toolbar\"\nPalestine Video - A Palestine Vlog\n- ***Alnakba [The Catastrophe] - [P1] The Threads of the Conspiracy [P2] Crushing the Revolution\n- ***Alnakba [The Catastrophe] - [P3] Ethnic Cleansing [P4] Nakba Continued\n- **Al Nakba [La Catástrofe] - [P1] Los Hilos de la Conspiración [P2] Aplastar la Revoución\n- **AlNakba [La Catásrofe] - [P3] Limpieza Étnica\n- *A Palestinian Woman\n- *Azmi Bishara - Interview:\n- *Azmi Bishara on Israeli Apartheid\n- *Azmi Bishara: The Last Colonial Question\n- *Blood & Religion, Unmasking the Israeli State\n- *De Facto State of Lawlessness\n- *Drying up Palestine\n- *Edward Said - On Orientalism\n- *Edward Said: Lecture The Myth of 'The Clash of Civilzations'\n- *Edward Said: Memory, Inequality and Power: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights\n- *Edward Said: Palestine, Iraq and U.S. Policy\n- *Francis Boyle - Palestinians and International law\n- *From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State 1 - Diana Buttu\"\n- *From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State 2 - Amira Hass\"\n- *George Bisharat - Ending the Palestinian Nakba\n- *Ghada Karmi at Yale\n- *Ghada Karmi: Why Israel is a Failed State\n- *Ilan Pappe - Interview\n- *Ilan Pappe - Israel's 1967 Plan for the West Bank and Gaza Strip\n- *Ilan Pappe on the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine\n- *In the Spider's Web\n- *Interview: Ghassan Andoni\n- *Israel's Secret Weapon (Israel's WMD)\n- *Jeff Halper - Israeli Apartheid and the Paths to a Just Peace\n- *Jeff Halper- The United States, Israel and the American Jewish Community\n- *Jenin Jenin\n- *John Pilger - Palestine is still the issue\n- *John Pilger - The War on Democracy\n- *Landscapes of Occupation in Palestine\n- *Muhammad Jaradat & Eitan Bronstein: 1948 and the Right of Return\n- *Noam Chomsky - Middle East Crisis\n- *Noam Chomsky on Gaza - MIT\n- *Norman Fikelstein - The Israel-Palestine conflict: what we can learn from Gandhi\n- *Norman Finkelstein speech at Columbia University (3 parts video)\n- *Occupation 101\n- *Off The Charts - If Americans Knew\n- *Palestine Street -1- The Lost Bride\n- *Palestine Street -2- The Bride in exile\n- *Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict\n- *People and The Land: The Story of a People Under Occupation\n- *Phyllis Bennis - \"Dual Occupations: Iraq and Palestine in Bush's Empire\"\n- *Rachel: An American Conscience\n- *Rashid Khalidi - Palestine: 40 Years of Occupation, 60 Years of Dispossession\n- *Rep. Paul Findley Dares to Speak Out -- Again! AIPAC exposed\n- *Salman Abu Sitta: Atlas Palestine\n- *Salman Abu Sitta: The Geography of Occupation\n- *Secret WMD in Israel\n- *Technical Error at Beit Hanoun\n- *Tegenlicht ('Backlight') A Documentary on the Israel Lobby -\n- *The Bases Are Loaded: US Permanent Military Presence in Iraq\n- *The Easiest Targets: The Israeli Policy of Strip Searching Women and Children\n- *The influence of the Israel Lobby on American foreign policy\n- *The Iron Wall\n- *The Israeli Wall in Palestinian Lands\n- *The Killing Zone\n- *The Unrecognized\n- *This is Not Your War\n- *Wall of Shame\n- Watch \"If Americans Knew\" Videos\n- Watch Alternate Focus Videos\n- Watch B'Tselem Videos\n- watch ISM Videos\n- Watch pdxjustice Videos", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What? They’re still good! They don’t go bad after six days! Yeesh.\nLast week on ComicsAlliance was a fun one, mainly because I got to talk about the story behind one of my favorite covers, from that time when the Joker tried to kill Batman and Robin on the moon! It’s even crazier than it sounds.\nUnfortunately, not all stories can still be good when they stop making sense, which is why I wrote an article explaining that Geoff Johns and Jim Lee’s Justice League is one of the worst comics I’ve ever read. It’s the kind of book where I read it, and I’m not even sure I ever liked the Justice League.\nFortunately, there are things to remind me, like the highly enjoyable Justice League: Doom movie, which I also reviewed this week. It was an interesting twist on the source material (“Tower of Babel”) that made for a pretty good time.\nFurther cementing my hipster status, I’m really excited about The Phoenix, a British weekly children’s comic! It’s not available in America, but if you’re in the UK or you’re willing to pay for International shipping (or if, like me, you’re a cheapo with a good-natured pal in England), it’s worth it.\nFinally, in this week’s Ask Chris talks about the single best comic book character ever created: Spider-Man. Yes, Spider-Man. Not Batman. But don’t worry, even though it’s ostensibly about Spidey, I still work 600 words about how Batman works in there.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Things sounded dire when news of Anthony Mason’s condition broke on Wednesday. He had congestive heart failure that led to multiple surgeries — one lasting nine hours — in the last few days and was fighting for his life.\nBut there is a ray of hope, with the news coming courtesy the New York Times.\nDon Cronson, who was Mason’s agent when he played in the N.B.A., expressed slight optimism during the day on Thursday after a member of Mason’s immediate family gave him an update on Mason’s condition. “Right now, it’s day to day, but that’s an improvement from moment to moment,” Cronson said.\nHe said Mason, 48, who last played in the N.B.A. in the 2002-3 season, had gone to a hospital for a checkup for heart issues and had the heart attack there. Cronson said family members had been told that Mason might need a heart transplant if he survived.\nThere is no good news here, but if you’re going to have a heart attack the hospital is the best place to do it.\nMason played 13 NBA seasons for a number of NBA teams but is best remembered as a fan-favorite in New York. His toughness, ability to defend multiple positions, and physicality were a big part of the Pat Riley’s New York grinding teams in the Patrick Ewing era. Riley recruited Mason to Miami when Riley went south, and with the Heat Mason was named the Sixth Man of the Year in 1995. He averaged 10.8 points and 8.3 rebounds a game over the course of his career. He made the All-Star Game in 2001.\nOur thoughts remain with Mason’s family in this difficult time.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Feb 14, 2012, 11:35 AM EDT\nThere’s usually a 25-day deadline between a drug test appeal and a decision, but that time frame has come and gone with respect to Ryan Braun. Tom Haudricourt reports, however, that MLB’s decision on whether to suspend Braun for 50 games should come no later than February 24, which is Braun’s deadline to report to camp.\nI have no idea what they’re gonna do and have zero insight into the process itself. But part of me wonders if they’re working hard to find a way to clear Braun in such a way as to not throw any future high-profile positive test into a situation where the zero-tolerance, automatic nature of it all is compromised.\n- Report: Rangers will pay Josh Hamilton less than $7 million; deal includes opt-out after two years 54\n- Suspensions announced for Thursday’s brawl between the White Sox and Royals 66\n- Settling the Score: Friday’s results 80\n- Report: Angels, Rangers agree on Josh Hamilton trade 66\n- Must-Click Link: Alex Rodriguzez: the slugger with a thousand faces 22\n- And That Happened: Thursday’s scores and highlights 114\n- The Royals and White Sox had a benches-clearing fracas, five players ejected 155\n- Bartolo Colon picks off a baserunner. By running him down all by himself. 55\n- The early leaders in MLB’s “Franchise Four” thing have been announced (166)\n- The Royals and White Sox had a benches-clearing fracas, five players ejected (155)\n- Kelvin Herrera gets a five-game suspension; Yordano Ventura fined (133)\n- Jose Bautista and the Orioles exchanged some words last night (117)\n- Joe Buck has a truly awful suggestion about how to improve MLB broadcasts (116)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Previous President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, has been enrolled in a swanky private college in West Palm Beach, Florida.\nOxbridge Academy, exactly where Barron is now a university student, was started by William I. Koch, a member of the Koch household, and fees $34,800 to show up at for the 2021-2022 faculty year.\nDespite the value tag, the university is not immune to controversy: it was rocked by sexual harassment statements just a number of a long time ago.\nIn August 2015, bookstore manager Ulle Boshko filed a claim “alleging sexual harassment, a hostile performing ecosystem, and retaliation,” in accordance to the Palm Seashore Submit.\nShe alleged sexual harassment from the CEO at the time, Robert Parsons. Parsons did not react to prior requests from the Palm Beach front Article for comment with regards to the lawsuit\nOn the other hand, it was dismissed as “not supported” in October of that 12 months by a regulation business Koch assigned to an additional investigation in 2016 into “firings, large turnover,” and “accusations of sexual harassment,” the outlet pointed out.\nIn 2017, Boshko submitted a suit alleging she was terminated simply because of her claims of sexual harassment against Parsons, the Palm Beach Write-up documented. The position of that lawsuit is not distinct.\nIn the end, the New York Moments claimed, that Koch fired the head of school and didn’t renew the contracts of the athletic director and the soccer coach following the next investigation revealed “accusations of kickbacks, quality-changing, excessive spending and violations of the policies governing large university sports.”\nThe outlet noted that Koch claimed in an job interview that a “power elites group” in the university ran “the asylum.”\n“We are discovering alarming points of how income was misspent,” Koch mentioned at the time.\n“If men and women feel they’ve bought a honey pot, there’s heading to be a good deal of bears all around it, trying to get it.”\nThe US Sunlight has attained out to Oxbridge Academy for comment on the investigations but did not acquire a reaction by publication.\nToday, Oxbridge Academy seems to have a emphasis on lecturers, and Barron, 15, is now established to graduate with the class of 2024.\nThe college provides athletics these types of as basketball, swimming, keep track of, and golfing, according to The List.\nIt also has golf equipment and pursuits pupils can take part in like the Countrywide Honor Modern society and the Rock Paper Scissors League.\nAll little ones at the school must have an Apple laptop computer. There is also a flight simulator at the college.\nSome of the school’s signature systems include Honors Seminar Artificial Intelligence and Computational Modeling and its Cambridge Students plan, according to the Oxbridge Academy internet site.\n“We look ahead to welcoming him into our college and group,” the school’s Director of Advancement Scott Siegfried claimed of Barron, in accordance to Persons.\nThe faculty told mom and dad by way of an e mail of Barron’s attendance at the school and cautioned that the solution assistance will now have a presence on the 54-acre campus.\n“They want to have tiny impact on our day-to-working day functions,” the faculty reported of the magic formula assistance.\n“They’ve finished this for other former presidents’ youngsters. They are great.”\nBarron’s renowned father turned a resident of Palm Seaside at his Mar-a-Lago vacation resort in 2020 soon after he misplaced his presidential election.\nThe spouse and children has used most of the summertime in Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, but it now appears that Barron’s mother, Melania, will at least will spend the faculty yr in South Florida although her son is enrolled at the school.\nThe school shared that on its looking through list for Upper School learners this summer months was The Tattooist of Auschwitz.\nPreviously, Barron attended St. Andrew’s Episcopal University, a personal academy in Potomac, Maryland, according to The Listing.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jose Fernandez hit David Peralta with a 97 mph fastball in the sixth inning on Wednesday night. And the Arizona Diamondbacks felt it was necessary to retaliate.\nFernandez was hoping to simply throw a fastball on the inner part of the plate for a strike. The pitch got away and judging by Fernandez's response, he was not intentionally throwing at Peralta. Fernandez stood in front of the plate with his hands on his head until Peralta was standing up. Arizona's dugout was not pleased and hitting coach Mark Harkey was ejected.\nChristian Yelich stood in the box in the seventh inning and got hit. He was clearly not phased but wondered why it was necessary:\nChristian Yelich pic.twitter.com/mLzvyLwYa8— Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) July 23, 2015\nThe Marlins are very familiar with pitches that come too far inside. After all, Giancarlo Stanton was hit in the face, not the top of the helmet. They retaliated. But that was their franchise player and Mike Fiers also subsequently hit Reed Johnson. It should never be acceptable to hit another player intentionally. But the Diamondbacks took it to another level.\nPeralta was not badly injured and Fernandez seemingly was able to settle down. But as FOX Sports' Rich Waltz and Tommy Hutton asked: What were the Diamondbacks trying to accomplish? Considering the place Yelich was hit, there is not really any doubt it was intentional. The Diamondbacks do not play the Marlins more than seven or eight times each season. Last night was the final meeting of 2015.\nSome might believe pitchers who intentionally hit batters deserve harsher punishments than players who use performance enhancing drugs. Whether that is the case or not, Yelich was hit unnecessarily on Wednesday night.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "St. Cloud State, left out in the original formation of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, has now been added to the NCHC. The league begins play in 2013.\nThe announcement of invitations came this morning, along with word that Western Michigan is also in.\nSt. Cloud State and Western Michigan have both scheduled press conferences for tomorrow to announce they'll accept the invites.\nThe conference formed earlier this year with Colorado College, Denver, Nebraska-Omaha, Miami-Ohio, North Dakota and Minnesota Duluth.\nThere was the belief that Notre Dame and Western Michigan would eventually get on board, and St. Cloud State officials said they were committed to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, but things changed with Notre Dame not making any commitments and Western eager to move ahead.\nNorth Dakota athletic director Brian Faison said in a statement: \"Both universities fit perfectly with the established goals of our conference membership.\"\nNotre Dame's delay has been seen by many as an indication that school believes it might be in the Big Ten by 2013 and would then play in the inaugural season of Big Ten hockey.\nRoman Augustoviz spends Minnesota's winters covering college hockey, specifically the Gophers, and other University of Minnesota sports. During the summer, he writes about the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx, with a dose of U sports sprinkled in. Follow @RomanStrib on Twitter. E-mail Roman.\nPlunging deeper into campaign controversy, Donald Trump publicly shamed a former beauty queen on Friday for her \"disgusting\" sexual past and then — in one of presidential history's more bizarre moments — encouraged Americans to watch a \"sex tape\" he said would support his case.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Chelsea may swap Crespo for Kaladze\nCHELSEA’S first summer signing could be Kakha Kaladze, the versatile AC Milan defender. The Georgia player, speaking on Milan’s official television station, said: “It looks as if it is time for me to move on. And it appears that I will play for Chelsea next season.”\nKaladze, 27, is a talented player who is equally comfortable at left back, in central defence or defensive midfield. He has 43 caps for Georgia and has been at Milan for five seasons, helping the club to win the European Cup in 2003 and the Serie A championship in 2004.\nIt is understood that he would move to Chelsea in part exchange for Hernán Crespo. The Argentina forward spent last season on loan at Milan but has repeatedly ruled", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This Week in Science\nWatch These Bears Mimic Each Other’s Facial Expressions\nThis week in science: sharing a womb with a twin brother could affect women's behavior, humans might be able to detect the Earth's magnetic field, and these bears do something we didn’t know bears could do.\nBirth Control Could Make Women Worse at Reading Subtle Emotion\nThis week in science: the difference between men and women's brains as they get older, how your appearance influences your personality, and how birth control could affect the way women read facial expressions.\nWe're Getting Closer to Turning People’s Thoughts into Speech\nThis week in science: genetically modified, drug-producing chickens, the health benefits of being a morning person, and using artificial intelligence to read minds.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Search Results for 'America'\n271 results found.\nTHIS YEAR has seen the emergence of an array of very exciting new indie-rock artists, with female performers - as has been a very noticeable trend in recent years - arguably producing the best music of the last 12 months.\nMixed race Irish people will be celebrated, and questions and ideas of Irish identity examined, in #IAmIrish, an absorbing and thought-provoking photographic exhibition, which opens at the Galway Arts Centre next week.\nFor Insider, like many people, November 22 will always be associated with events at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, in 1963 on America’s day of infamy. Insider could not help but note that anniversary when considering the latest Brexit drama of the past week which, like the Kennedy assassination, is transfixing people here and has the potential to leave an indelible mark on our country.\nKEVIN MCGAHERN, the former host of Republic Of Telly, the man described by Hot Press as “one of Ireland’s quirkiest stand-ups\", is making a welcome return to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh's Comedy KARLnival.\nMy great grandmother, Elizabeth Ellam, was killed on the RMS Leinster when on October 10 1918, exploded and sank following a ruthless German submarine attack shortly after the ship had departed Dun Laoghaire, on her way to Holyhead in Wales. It was practically one month to the day before World War I was declared officially over.\nThe annual Michael Commins Galway Concerts are rolling around fast with just three weeks to go before the annual gathering which draws friends and country music followers from all over the island of Ireland as well as some from England and America.\nSYNTONIC STATE is the title of the 16th edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Art which opens tomorrow, Friday November 2, and continues to November 18, featuring work by more than 20 artists.\nINSPIRED BY interviews with current and former soldiers from the Irish Defence Forces, the British army, and survivors of the Bosnian war, Soldier Still, the critically acclaimed new production by Junk Ensemble, is coming to Galway next week.\nPAUL CURRIE'S comedy is like few others on the circuit right now. It is a compelling mixture of sketch comedy, theatre of the absurd, puppetry, slapstick, and mime, delivered with great physicality and energy, and usually, without the comic uttering a single word.\n‘Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud’ James Brown famously sang, and something of that spirit also fires Gina Yashere who will bring her high-energy brand of comic brilliance to Galway for the Vodafone Comedy Carnival.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "THESE giraffes may look like lovers necking — but they are locked in deadly combat.\nThe 17ft males are using their heads to batter each other for supremacy during mating season in Tanzania, East Africa.\nThe fight — with half-ton blows — can last for half an hour and even end in death.\nWith necks like these, let’s hope it’s a tie.\nWe pay for your stories!\nDo you have a story for The Sun news desk?\nSource link : https://www.the-sun.com/news/4098428/rival-giraffes-trade-blows-mating-season-tanzania/\nPublish date : 2021-11-18 23:16:00", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "CBS News 60 Minutes\nAbout the Podcast\nOffering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, 60 Minutes is the most successful broadcast in television history. It has won 146 Emmy Awards -- more than any other primetime broadcast, including a special Lifetime Achievement Emmy. It has also won every major broadcast journalism award over its tenure, including 24 Peabody and 18 duPont-Columbia University awards for excellence in television broadcasting. Other distinguished awards won multiple times include the George Polk, RTDNA Edward R. Murrow, Investigative Reporters and Editors, RFK Journalism, Sigma Delta Chi and Gerald Loeb awards. 60 Minutes is also the only show to obtain interviews with every American president from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.\nAbout the Host\nCBS News \"60 Minutes\" Correspondents\nVarious CBS News \"60 Minutes\" correspondents investigate and report for the show, including Sharyn Alfonsi, Anderson Cooper, Steve Kroft, Norah O'Donnell, Scott Pelley, Lesley Stahl, Jon Wertheim and Bill Whitaker. Bill Owens is the executive editor of the show.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "parents, Albert and Marlene, live in Amberley Village.\nShmalo is a graduate of Walnut Hills High School and a student at\nYeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardoz School of Law in New York\nCity. He trains in Rockland County, N.Y., a 45-minute drive from his\nBattery Park City apartment. He had left the rink Sept.11 with Navarro\nand was driving home when they heard radio reports of, first, a low-flying\njetliner, then a crash and a massive explosion, then another crash\nand massive explosion.\nBy that time, nobody knew what was coming next, Shmalo\nsaid. Like everybody else, we were scared. We were approaching\nthe George Washington Bridge and had to turn around because we heard\na radio report that said all the bridges and tunnels into New York\nwere closed. When we got back to the rink, we joined the people gathered\naround the TV. When the cameras panned around the perimeter of the\nWorld Trade Center, it was an eerie feeling to see my apartment building\nAdding to the misery was news that came a day later: the brother of\nJoanna Glick, a national-class figure skater who is a close friend\nof Shmalo, was one of the passengers who had rushed the hijackers\nof the jetliner that crashed in western Pennsylvania, killing everybody\nJoanna skated in a tribute to her brother last week at Madison\nShmalo said. She had the best attitude possible. She skated\nwonderfully. It made us realize we should shape up a little bit ourselves.\nA week after the terrorist attacks, Shmalo's apartment was opened\nfor a day so residents could gather their belongings. Shmalo hauled\nskates, equipment and 14 outfits he keeps his partner's costumes\nat his apartment, too in suitcases strapped to his back. It\ntook an hour, but he walked down 18 flights of stairs like a pack-laden\nIt was good to have something to focus on (training for the\ncompetition in Austria), because it allowed us to escape for a while\nwhen we were on the ice,\nShmalo said. We were so determined to make this trip. Vienna\nwas a big priority. We were so excited to be representing America.\nIt never crossed our minds that it was dangerous. But that's the way\nit goes. We understand the decision.\nOn Tuesday, Shmalo was walking back to his aunt's home in Midtown\nManhattan, where he has been staying since Sept.11, when he saw a\nlarge group of passersby watching a big-screen TV showing CNN.\nThe news flashed across the screen that the U.S. Figure Skating\nAssociation had canceled our trip to Austria, Shmalo said. I\ndidn't realize it was big news. The cancellation had an effect on\nme, but I didn't think anybody else would care about it.\nWhenever Shmalo's life returns to something approaching normal, he'll\nstill have adjustments to make. The subway stop for his lower Manhattan\napartment was beneath the World Trade Center. His tightly structured\nschedule skating practice, law school and getting around New\nYork will have to be re-juggled to accommodate everything.\nI'm like everybody else here with a full schedule, Shmalo\nsaid. I have to patch it back together. I had my routine: I\nknew where to park my car, how to get into the city, what time to\nskate. Now, all that's changed.\nNext up are the U.S. Nationals in Los Angeles in January. He and Navarro\nfinished sixth in that competition last year. On New Year's Eve, they\nskated at a big ice show in Hong Kong.\nThe opportunity to skate internationally doesn't come up that\noften, Shmalo said. We worked so hard in preparation for\nthe Lake Placid Ice Dance Championship, knowing that if we did well\nwe might be invited to Vienna. There was also a chance we might be\ninvited to the Golden Spin of Zagreb in early November. But I can't\nimagine (the U.S. Figure Skating Association) sending anybody to Croatia\nif they didn't send anybody to Vienna. It's a different world now.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A Sydney street artist has given Mike Baird a spray in a street mural that depicts the NSW premier as \"Casino Mike\".\nMr Baird has copped criticism over the State Government's controversial lockout laws, which prevent revellers from entering licensed venues after 1.30am.\nThe laws also require central Sydney venues to serve last drinks by 3am and ban the sale of takeaway alcohol after 10pm.\nThe laws do not apply to the city's Star Casino at Pyrmont.\nThe premier is depicted in the mural holding a glass of red wine and a cigarette, with a stack of casino chips and a bottle of Penfold's Grange Hermitage on a table in front of him.\nSubmissions to the government's review of the lockout laws were due to be available to the public on Monday, but there has been a delay due to the more than 1,800 received.\nThey will be published later this month, a spokesman said.\nMr Baird became premier after his predecessor Barry O'Farrell resigned over misleading the state's corruption watchdog about a gift of a $3,000 bottle of Grange from a lobbyist.\nThe mural, painted by Scott Marsh, also has Mr Baird holding a kebab - a dig at the City of Sydney's restrictions on some late-night food vendors in Sydney's inner-west.\nMarsh was responsible for the mural of US rapper Kanye West kissing himself.\nAfter the West mural went viral, Marsh said he was offered money by someone purporting to represent the US hip-hop artist to remove it.\nMarsh responded by asking for $100,000 and a lifetime supply of West's merchandise before removing the mural.\nIn a post on Instagram Marsh said he was heading to a Chippendale bar to \"drink from the top shelf\" with the money from the print's sale.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In her music video for new single “Used to Be Young,” Miley Cyrus wears a Mickey Mouse shirt under a sparkly red corset. The distressed Disney top subtly references her childhood fame on Hannah Montana.\nThe 30-year-old singer got her start on the Disney Channel series that ran from 2006-2011. There, she played teen Miley Stewart with a pop star alter ego. Her Mickey tank in the video pays homage to those Disney roots.\nAccording to V Magazine, Cyrus’ top was created by Maison Margiela for Disney’s 100th anniversary. It debuted on the runway before she wore it in soft waves for the emotional video about self-evolution.\nIn a tweet, Cyrus, now known as X, said the song honors the past while feeling joy for the future. She thanked loyal fans for making her dreams reality with their steadfast support.\nCyrus has said she’d potentially revisit her Hannah Montana character in the future. But the pop icon would want to update and revamp her 2008 look. While a return to Disney remains uncertain, her Mickey tee visually embraces that chapter.\nYou Might Also Like:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Southampton FC team and transfer news\nEXCLUSIVE: Sportsmail can reveal that CITIC Securities — China’s largest investment bank — have drafted the terms of a takeover bid and are set to make a formal approach at the end of this month.\nSouthampton manager Claude Puel impressed with Manolo Gabbiadini's instant impact ahead of EFL Cup Final\nIn 163 minutes of football for Southampton since arriving for £14million on deadline day, Manolo Gabbiadini has scored three times in two appearances - vs West Ham and Sunderland.\nTheo Walcott is the 18th man to net 100 goals for Arsenal - but how many centurions are there at each of the Premier League clubs?\nTheo Walcott sealed victory for Arsenal at Sutton when he netted the second in the 2-0 win over the non-league side. How many centurions does each Premier League side have?\nTottenham's current trophy drought has now exceeded Arsenal's between 2005 and 2014... but how long is it since your club won a major honour?\nTottenham's wait for a trophy has now exceeded the drought their rivals Arsenal suffered between 2005 and 2014. But how does that compare to the rest of the Premier League clubs?\nRangers want a director of football and new manager after the departures of Mark Warburton, David Weir and Frank McParland who are taking legal action against the Ibrox-based club.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Get the latest on research, programs, services, walks and special events.\nHave you seen these films and shows yet?\n\"'Atypical' is not a perfect show, but, is there any show that is perfect, besides Breaking Bad?\"\nSounding the Alarm producer opens new eyes to autism.\nThank you. Your subscription to Autism Speaks emails is confirmed.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Weather played spoilsport in Manchester with the first 2019 ICC World Cup semi-final between India and New Zealand ultimately deferred to a reserve day.\nThe Kiwis were batting at 211-5 in 46.1 overs after skipper Kane Williamson elected to bat first before rain halted proceedings at Old Trafford. They will now resume from the same score on Wednesday although the weather forecast for Wednesday isn’t too promising either.\nNew Zealand’s start with the bat was a poor and circumspect one with Martin Guptill’s woeful run of form continuing. The Kiwis were able to muster just the 27 runs in the first 10 overs with Jasprit Bumrah accounting for Guptill’s wicket.\nSkipper Kane Williamson (67) battled hard once again through partnerships with Henry Nicholls and then Ross Taylor as he brought up his fourth 50-plus score of the tournament.\nHowever, Williamson and the Kiwi batsmen were kept at bay for the most part by a disciplined and probing bowling display by India. Williamson’s gritty stay was ended by Yuzvendra Chahal just when the New Zealand skipper was threatening to up the ante.\nTaylor brought up his third half-century of the World Cup campaign as New Zealand tried to regain a foothold in the game but they were pegged back once again with Colin de Grandhomme’s dismissal before rain brought a frustrating end to the play.\nIndia show their bowling might again\nIt was yet another highly disciplined bowling effort from India with all five bowlers playing their part.\nRight from the get go, India’s new-ball duo of Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar were on the money with New Zealand’s openers stifled for room with some excellent lines and lengths.\nThat early intensity was kept up by Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and Yuzvendra Chahal when they came on to bowl with the Kiwi batsmen finding run-scoring hard to come by.\nNew Zealand’s struggles against India’s bowling was exemplified by the fact that they played as many as 153 dot deliveries which make up more than 25 overs of their innings.\nIt was relentless stuff from India’s bowlers and a performance that will please skipper Kohli no end.\nThe all-rounder was rewarded for his excellent showing in the Sri Lanka clash with a semi-final appearance and he vindicated that decision with a superb bowling display.\nHis left-arm orthodox spin worked a treat on a slowing pitch and the grip he extracted from the surface had the batsmen in two minds. His delivery to castle Henry Nicholls’ stumps was a peach and the Kiwi opener was completely deceived by the flight and dip on the ball.\nHe finished with overall figures of 1-34 from his 10 overs in the course of which he bowled a staggering 38 dot balls.\nIndia to go through if no more play\nWith the weather forecast for Wednesday in Manchester not looking too bright, there is a possibility that no result will be able to be determined even after a reserve day.\nIn that case, India will advance to the July 14 final at Lord’s due to the fact that they finished higher than New Zealand in the round-robin phase of the tournament. India had topped the table while the Black Caps had finished in fourth spot.\nBen Stokes is treating England’s World Cup semi-final against Australia as the most important game of his career.\nThe England all-rounder is no stranger to the big stage, turning out for his country on 166 occasions across all formats and memorably stepping up to bowl the final over of the World Twenty20 final in front of 66,000 fans in 2016.\nThat did not go to plan, with West Indies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite snatching an unlikely victory by clubbing Stokes for four sixes in a row, but Thursday’s game at Edgbaston represents something even bigger for the 28-year-old.\nThe opposition are England’s oldest and bitterest rivals, the prize on offer is once-in-a-generation game at Lord’s and the trophy waiting at the end is one the national side have spent 44 years chasing in vain.\nAsked if the game ahead was the biggest he has experienced, Stokes said: “Yes, to date. Definitely.\n“It’s a massive occasion for us as players and as a nation. Playing against Australia is a big occasion– in any sport. The rivalry goes way back and we have the Ashes this summer too. Beating them is that touch better than any other team.”\n“I’ve had a few days off and got out of the bubble but when you come back to the team you get those butterflies again.”\nEngland have dominated the last two one-day series against Australia, winning home and away as they established a win-loss record of 10-1 heading into the competition. The form book counted for nothing in the group stage, though, with the visitors landing a 64-run victory.\n“Losing to them at Lord’s was massively disappointing so I think there will be a bit of redemption for that, knowing we have the chance to beat them and get to that final,” predicted Stokes.\nHe is less inclined to see the game as a chance for personal redemption. Having missed the last Ashes defeat Down Under following his well-documented brawl in Bristol – an incident that concluded with his acquittal on a charge of affray – he was welcomed back with warm, unconditional support from his team-mates.\n“I don’t feel like I have to prove anything to anyone except myself,” he said.\n“It opened my eyes up to a lot of things, two years ago, but I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. It’s just showing I can deliver on the biggest stage.\n“Winning is the most important thing and if you can help the team out with an individual performance, that’s all that counts. People can say good things, bad things…it just won’t bother me.”\nAustralia have two players of their own who have had to deal with their share of public comment, David Warner and Steve Smith.\nThe pair are still just a matter of weeks into their comebacks after year-long bans for the sandpaper scandal and have been on the end of some icy welcomes from the British public. Warner in particular has thrived in the circumstances, scoring three centuries and three fifties in the tournament, while Smith has managed three half-centuries.\n“I have huge respect for them for performing like they have coming back, being able to block all that out,” said Stokes.\n“Respect to them for dealing with on-field pressures and the crowds, while still delivering.”\nStokes has also been standing tall in the tournament, averaging over 50 with the bat and under 30 with the ball.\nThose numbers underline his importance to the side but it is another – an economy rate of just 4.65 making him England’s stingiest bowler – that gives him most satisfaction.\n“It’s always nice to get runs but the most pleasing thing has been my bowling,” he said.\n“I had a chat with Morgs (captain Eoin Morgan) and a few others in the team to get my head around my role. Being fourth or fifth seamer, I sometimes put too much pressure on myself to influence the game.\n“So I spoke to them about not trying to take wickets every ball. That’s helped offer the team more. In the last couple of years it’s probably where I have let the team down.”\nProvided by Press Association Sports\nLiam Plunkett has warned Australia that England are a “different sort of animal” to their predecessors.\nThe Ashes rivals meet in a hotly-anticipated World Cup semi-final at Edgbaston on Thursday, with Australia looking to continue their bid for a sixth title while England hope to stay in the hunt for their first.\nIn terms of tournament experience, the away side hold all the cards, as well as victories in the last four World Cup matches between the teams, but Plunkett says times have changed.\n“They’ve been there and done it before but not against this bunch of players,” he said.\n“We’re a different sort of animal compared to our last teams. We’ve played well for the past four years, we’re ranked number one and we feel in a good place. We feel on our day we can beat anyone in the world.”\nPlunkett is the elder statesman of the current England squad, making his international bow as far back as 2005 and earning his previous taste of World Cup cricket 12 years ago in the West Indies.\nHe has had a front-row seat to the evolution of England’s one-day cricket and has never known a better mood.\n“We had amazing players (previously) but I never thought we’d win a World Cup,” he said.\n“We’ve made it exciting again. I’ve played in teams where we didn’t expect to win. With this squad the public expect us to win games and win series. It would be nice to finish this four-year cycle. This journey we’ve been on, with this group of boys, it comes down to this.”\nAt 34, Plunkett is unlikely to see service in four years’ time when the event heads to India, meaning the next few days represent the grandest stage of his career.\n“I think so,” he agreed. “I don’t think I’ll play another World Cup so for me personally, it’s the biggest,” he said.\nProvided by Press Association Sports", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The telecom industry is at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution. Whether it’s connected IoT devices or mobile entertainment, the modern economy runs on the Internet.\nHowever, the backbone of networking has been running on legacy technologies. Some telecom companies are centuries old, and they have a massive infrastructure that needs to be modernized.\nThe great news is that this industry is already at the forefront of emerging technologies. Companies such as AT&T, Verizon, China Mobile, DTK, and others have embraced open source technologies to move faster into the future. And LF Networking is at the heart of this transformation.\n“2018 has been a fantastic year,” said Arpit Joshipura, General Manager of Networking at Linux Foundation, speaking at Open Source Summit in Vancouver last fall. “We have seen a 140-year-old telecom industry move from proprietary and legacy technologies to open source technologies with LF Networking.”\nRead more and watch the complete interview at The Linux Foundation.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "During my high school graduation rehearsal, when the rest of my classmates were hung over from their celebratory partying the night before, I was sitting quietly crafting an e-mail to my favorite English teacher, Ms. Dara Bishop.\nIn the e-mail, I was trying to explain the importance of Forever, a state of being coined by Tavi Gevinson in one of her Editor’s Letters on Rookie Mag. I thanked Ms. Bishop for being a part of my Forever and for pushing me and helping me grow as a writer and as a person. In her response, she commented that my writing style, “mainly sentence construction,” is very similar to Tavi’s. To my 17-year-old self, that was like winning the lottery: being compared to my favorite writer by my favorite teacher.\nIt was then that I think I really started paying attention to writing styles and the words people use and how people frame their stories. The idea of a writer’s voice became very important to me and with practice, I began shaping my own voice, trying to stay as true to how I would normally speak as possible. When I started reading Michael Azerrad’s Rock Critic Law, I noticed a theme among a handful of the rules regarding the use of words that you would never say in real life.\nRock Critic Law began in 2014 when Azerrad — an acclaimed music journalist, editor, and author — started a Twitter account dedicated to the lazy and uninspired writing he was seeing from colleagues in attempts to fill space or hit a word count. The account was a way to make fun of and expose those music journalism shortcuts, and Rock Critic Law, a book published today in paperback, is a fully-illustrated compilation of 101 of these “laws.”\nAmong the gems: “Feel free to call something ‘an instant classic’ even though, by definition, only time can tell if something is classic.” Also: “If a band pioneered something, you must say they are ‘seminal.’ That is the Seminal Law of Rock Criticism.” My personal favorite, “Don’t describe the music, just say it’s ‘[band X] meets [band Y].’ If you want to get fancy, say they’re ‘at [Z]’s house.'”\nI have written for four different music-based publications, including my own music blog, Got Any Tunes. Obviously, my writing style and voice is going to vary from my personal blog where I’ve published more swear words than have been edited out of band interviews for other publications. Still, I generally try to write how I would speak, give or take some candidness, so that was something I laughed along with Azerrad about. It’s something I do notice in people’s writing now; I’ll wonder to myself if they’ve ever actually said that word or phrase out loud.\nWhen I first started writing about music, I hadn’t read a whole lot about music in the first place. I never sat down in front of the Pitchfork homepage or subscribed to Spin. I did enjoy reading interviews with some of my favorite musicians, but I didn’t branch far beyond that. So, as I read through Rock Critic Law, many of the conventions being ridiculed were ones I hadn’t ever read in a review. That’s not to say I don’t see how gimmicky they sound anyway. For example, records and analog recordings are “warm” and no other adjective is permitted; or, if a new group includes two or more members of a former band, then it is “formed from the ashes” of that defunct band.\nOne of the rules states that “you may ONLY compare a musician to other musicians of the same gender (except Prince and Joni Mitchell; that’s hip).” I think everyone who has been writing about music for more than two years has probably been guilty of this at least more than once, I know I have.\nI’ve become more conscious of how I describe and write about musicians over the past few years, as I’ve started taking music journalism more seriously. After interviewing and personally getting to know many different musicians, I’ve noticed that women most often complain about same-gender comparisons. I completely understand it. As a writer, comparisons are a good thing to throw in for an audience that may not be familiar with the artist you’re speaking about, but artists never like being constantly compared to other people, especially when you’re reducing them to just their gender. Tina Halladay of Sheer Mag gave me an awesome quote about this exact issue in conversation once.\nMy absolute favorite rule in Azerrad’s book is that “fans may be ‘rabid,’ ‘hardcore,’ or ‘diehard.’ There are no other kinds of fans.” While a lot of these rules apply specifically to rock music, as intended, this one is special because it made me think of my dad and laugh. My dad is a huge metalhead, the ’90s being his prime, and over the course of my lifetime, I have heard so many stories of concerts and mosh pits and lost shoes and bruises and blood and even one about a tent blowing into the Apple River at X Fest. Along with these stories are descriptions of the bands and the fans that make up the audience, and I can’t even count how many times he’s described them as “rabid,” “hardcore,” or “diehard.”\nBeing a music journalist or a music critic comes with its ups and downs like any job, and you sometimes find yourself falling back on what Azerrad calls “shortcuts, lazy metaphors, and uninspired prose” because writing about music is hard to begin with — but if you aren’t excited about it, it’s even harder. As with anything in life, being able to criticize your own work is very important, and Rock Critic Law is a book that helps us have a light-hearted laugh at ourselves while also thinking about ways to improve. Being young and being in the music industry is fun and exciting, and even if this book began as a lark, I have a feeling a handful of these rules are going to stick with me as my career continues.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "For the record this site has twice written to Mr Geiringer asking for comment and evidence, and both times he has failed to reply. Our offer Felix still stands that any reply will be published unedited. We just want the evidence Felix to back up your baseless allegations. The evidence you claim to have seen! Hearsay & bullshit springs to mind.\nWhy would a lawyer of Felix’s (supposed) calibre lie to the NZ Law Society? It is a very curious question. Then again Felix Geiringer did get run over by Bill Birch’s ministerial car when he was protesting. He is no stranger to controversy. We reckon those broken ribs must of hurt.\nSpring says “I was astounded by the lies of Geiringer, and I was equally astounded how stupid the NZ Law Society was in accepting his response – I want him to prove his allegations”. (We know he can’t)\nAs readers know from a previous story on this site that Matthew Blomfield’s version of events that made its way into the Whale Oil book, published by Potton and Burton, and authored by Margie Thomson, is 100% NOT true. We are currently investigating the possible fraud against the insurers.\nSo why would a senior barrister like Felix Geiringer of Lambton Chambers make up such defamatory allegations to the Law Society in a response to a complaint?\nSpring says “maybe that’s why Felix is no longer acting on the Blomfield V Slater matter which is, after a decade still ongoing”. This site has also been told that Blomfield has not paid his outstanding bill.\nNonetheless the damage that liars like Geiringer are doing, or have done, take their toll.\nWe all know the NZ Law Society have a lot to answer for, and the overhaul of that wet bus ticket operation has finally begun.\nSpring says “the connection between Nicky Hagar, Matthew Blomfield and another scumbag lawyer called Steven Price in my view shows the collusion” Spring has written to both Price and Hagar, and they have never replied. In our view it’s pretty telling as if they could verify their claims they would.\nSteven Price as we know, was the “legal clown” who signed off on the untruthfulness of the Whale Oil book – look how that turned out! And to think he teaches the kids of today about the law at Victoria University in Wellington.\nEmails seen by the site also show that Springs ex father in law, Ralph Norris, has also been in contact with Felix Geiringer. In those emails Norris states he considered suing Spring for defamation. That is something Spring would relish, as he was unequivocal on that matter “tell Norris to strap a set on and have a go, as once he stops telling lies about me I will stop telling the truth about him, you only have to look at the latest class action against Fletchers in Australia to see what he was up to” (Story to come at this site)\nNorris and his claim of defamation is frankly pathetic. It’s just words of a bitter loser who lost in the courts to a Lay Litigant (Spring) who tells the truth. Norris also gave Matthew Blomfield two affidavits against Spring. Who does that when kids are involved? The answer is simple. Norris has no care for his grandkids, he’s all about defending his now broken reputation. Spring says “Ralph Norris needs to resign as Chairman of Craig Investment Partners and disappear from view as his days are over”\nSpring says “it was quite a laugh when Norris said there is no point suing me as I have little money, but yet he fails to see that suing is not about money, but getting a declaration about the truth, its all just crap from a guy that cost Air NZ a billion with the Ansett purchase when he was on that Board, his tenure at CBA saw the Royal Commission into banking, and then Fletchers lost billions with him as Chairman, and now a class action has been launched… it says it all in my humble opinion”\nAny way back to Geiringer – he chooses strange bed fellows. This site wants Felix Geiringer to put up or shut up. If he holds information he says he does, then why do the NZ Police say no such evidence exists?.\nMaybe Spring needs to sue Felix Geiringer for defamation. After all Spring is 2 from 2.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As Westminster returns, we are gearing up for an election that will see the Conservatives seek to divide the nation on questions of culture and identity. In recent months, however, the Labour Party has shown that we need not tear ourselves apart, on even the most contentious issues. Labour’s balanced and evidence-based position on gender identity shows that there is room for grown-up government in Britain, even on the most hotly debated topics. We can, as Sunder Katwala put it in a recent Labour Together report, still bridge our divides.\nFollowing July’s meeting of the National Policy Forum, Anneliese Dodds, the Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, announced a clear new approach to the process of gender recognition. A longstanding commitment to reforming this process remains, but “self-identification” – which would allow a person to change their legally recognised sex in a similar way to changing their name by deed poll – has been ruled out.\nThe Gender Recognition Panel which decides on individual applications, made up of doctors and lawyers, will be abolished. Evidence will now be needed from only one doctor instead of two, but a diagnosis of gender dysphoria will still be a prerequisite for a Gender Recognition Certificate to be issued . Labour also restated its commitment to single-sex spaces in unequivocal terms: “there will always be places where it is reasonable for biological women only to have access”.\nResponsible politics isn’t about doing what’s easy. It’s about doing what’s right.\nThat’s why Labour will act where the Conservatives have failed by modernising, reforming and simplifying the outdated gender recognition law.\nHere’s how ⤵️ 🧵https://t.co/McXrSzuJtK\n— Anneliese Dodds (@AnnelieseDodds) July 24, 2023\n‘This debate has spiralled…into one of the most unpleasant and self-destructive rows’\nIn taking this considered position, Labour has shown that it has no intention of repeating Scotland’s chaotic recent example. The Scottish Government’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill, drafted and rushed through without any apparent interest in resolving the complexities of the issue, became the first Scottish legislation to trigger challenge from the UK government under the Scotland Act.\nWhile the case is yet to be heard, the real verdict came in the court of public opinion. The Scottish electorate was appalled to learn that a convicted double rapist, who identifies as a woman, had been remanded to a woman-only prison.\nThe row did not just significantly damage the SNP. Much more importantly, it failed to deliver either any workable reforms for trans people, or any reassurance for those concerned about vulnerable women.\nAnneliese Dodds clearly acknowledged the impact of this dismaying episode on Labour’s own thinking. “We will not make the same mistakes,” she wrote. She also noted- with some understatement- that the new position will not please everyone.\nThe debate on this issue has spiralled wildly beyond questions of law and policy into one of the most unpleasant and self-destructive rows that contemporary British politics has witnessed. And it is in Labour’s decision to confront this that the true political significance of its proposals lies.\nGood government and good law is not about pleasing everyone. Instead, it is about making the best possible decisions on the available evidence. In grasping this particularly vicious nettle, Labour is not only – or even primarily – seeking to end a distracting and painful internal dispute. It is also making an important statement about how it intends to govern.\nCompromise must never be allowed to become a dirty word. In the last few years, even acknowledging the need to mediate between competing rights in this area- between more dignified treatment of those who wish to change their legal sex and maintaining protections for those born female– has been treated as akin to hate speech.\nBut prospective governments must be clear that managing competing rights is part of what it means to run a country. These conflicts are not only the everyday business of our law courts. They also underpin Labour’s own Equality Act 2010.\n‘Policy fine-tuning should be done in government, not opposition’\nInstead of simply listing the characteristics that must not give rise to discrimination- such as race, disability, gender reassignment and sex- this flagship legislation dedicates considerable space to the relationships between them, and the exceptional circumstances where people can be treated differently in order to preserve the rights of others. This is why the Act was such an important achievement. Labour should be proud of having written this deep and thoughtful understanding of equality into our law.\nThere is still much detail to be worked through in Labour’s plans. This remains a highly complex area of law and policy. It is still not clear exactly how single-sex spaces will be protected, when providers report mounting confusion about when it is legal to exclude trans people from a service designed for the opposite sex.\nThere is likely to be continuing controversy over the “spousal consent” mechanism in the current gender recognition process, which Labour has suggested it will remove. Often misrepresented as the ability for a person’s spouse to block their transition itself, it is in fact an opportunity for the spouse to say they don’t consent to their marriage becoming a same-sex one in law (or an opposite-sex one, where it was originally between two men or two women) and want it to end first.\nLabour must be sure the public doesn’t value this ability to give consent, if its new gender recognition system is to be more durable than its predecessor.\nBut this fine-tuning should be done during a future Labour government, rather than in Opposition. It needs the benefit of proper public consultation, civil service support, and engagement with key stakeholders. For now, Labour has demonstrated a determination to balance rights, and to fill a policy vacuum which has allowed confusion and vituperation to flourish.\nIt has also shown exactly what differentiates our party from the Conservatives. Where a tired and desperate government is seeking to exploit divided views, Labour is now carefully and confidently bridging them.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Robert DeLaurentis (49), the ‘Zen Pilot’, made a touch\ndown in the city on Sunday as he moves towards the Pacific ocean\nduring his solo flight around the world that he aims to complete in 90 days. Covering 27,000 nautical miles and 23 countries in this epic journey\n, he aims to make a world record and also raise scholarship funds for the needy children back home in San Diego\nRobert has just finished 60 days and landed his 1997 Piper Malibu Mirage\n, with its name ‘Spirit of San Diego’ painted on the fuselage, in Nagpur. The pilot looked excited as he arrived. “Fortunately, I could arrive here in monsoon, the best time to be in India,” he said unmindful of the fact it has not exactly been raining in these parts for quite a few days. He stated Nagpur being the centre of the country had to be his stop and on Monday he would be departing for Malaysia\nfor his onward his journey.\nDescribing the challenges he faced on his way towards India, the first thing he said was, “Cost of Avgas (fuel) here has been 2-4 times more than in the USA.” He then added, “My navigation database also got corrupted so I had to have new data chips sent from USA which delayed me a couple days.” He thinks the weather can be an obstacle as he leaves India. On his day spent in Nagpur, he said, “I found the people around the city very warm and friendly and I am having a great time being here.”\nIt took about five years for Robert to train himself as a pilot and get over 1100 hours of flying experience while preparing for this trip. He also did his graduation in spiritual psychology and currently is the founder of an organization called Flying Thru Life that helps people apply principles of spirituality in life and business, something that earned him the epithet of ‘Zen Pilot’. He also runs a real estate business that allowed him the independence needed to decide on this adventurous ride.\nHe said he invested more than $100,000 and got 35 sponsors who helped put things into place. “At times it would become very difficult for me to arrange for sponsors over the phone. I had to meet them all personally and explain my plans to get them interested. Things worked somehow.”\nWhen he completes his flight, Robert will be the first ever to fly across the Mid-Atlantic and Pacific Ocean solo in three months. Robert talked about the difficulty and risk involved in the journey but he wants to encourage more people to live their dream by setting an example. He said, “I had to go through an open ocean survival course in case anything happened during my trip. With a life jacket, a marine radio, a spare axe and light to see through dark, I have been fearlessly exploring around.” He also stated the money was well spent because the aircraft is equipped with latest technology that made his ride safer.\n“People should see how a single engined aircraft could cover 27,000 miles circumnavigating the globe with right training and right equipment,” he said.\n(Reporting by Shakti Singh)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sep. 16, 2013\nWhat's your take on Salisbury police trainees doing foot patrols in city neighborhoods?\n- It's a feel-good initiative that will have little impact on crime.(Your vote)\n- 11% 11 votes ▼\n- It's always good to break down barriers, build trust between citizens and police.(Your vote)\n- 43% 42 votes ▼\n- Focus more on arrests, not outreach, in crime-ridden neighborhoods.(Your vote)\n- 13% 13 votes ▼\n- Good idea: Salisbury police traditionally don't know the city as well as they should.(Your vote)\n- 31% 30 votes ▼\nVoting is now closed | 96 votes\n- After reading last week about Salisbury's potential and challenges, what step do you advocate to move the city forward?\n- The biggest concern at The Daily Times Town Hall meeting Wednesday night was keeping teens on the right track. How does Salisbury accomplish that?\n- The Daily Times reported Sunday local governments vary widely in how much they charge for public records. What are your thoughts?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Editorial Dept. Voz de la Diaspora\nThe Government of El Salvador reiterated on Wednesday the measure to prohibit the entry of people from the countries most affected with coronavirus infections.\nPresidential Commissioner Salvadoran government operations, Carolina Recinos, reiterated the measure was announced by President Bukele, at the beginning of this week.\nMigrant positions at the International Airport and at the borders of the country, They are ordered to deny entry to people traveling from China, the region most affected, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and Italy Sur.\nRecinos told a local press conference, in San Salvador, that only representatives of the Diplomatic Corps and Salvadoran citizens are exempt from this provision.\nBut nevertheless, People in this group entering the country, shall be subject to quarantine 15 days to determine whether they represent a risk of contagion.\nWeekend, in Italy, the authorities ordered citizens to stay home and avoid public spaces, after which disease expand rapidly.\nOn Sunday, 50 thousand people were marooned in the Lombardy region following the order of the authorities, also confirmed several deaths attributed to the coronavirus.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It wasn't long ago that Spider-Man: Homecoming wrapped production. The highly anticipated film finished shooting after several months in Atlanta and New York City, and fans are already wondering when they may get some updates on the film. Well, it looks like that question has been answered, so fans better be paying attention to an upcoming Comic-Con in Brazil.\nComic Con Experience posted a tweet that teases Spider-Man: Homecoming's presence at their annual event. The translated message says that Song Pictures (Brazil) will be bringing updates about the film to its panel on December 2nd.\nObviously, fans are more than interested to hear what the studio has to say about their web-slinging hero. Moviegoers were thrilled to learn that Sony Pictures had teamed up with Marvel Studios to reboot their Spider-Man franchise, and fans have only grown more excited since the character debuted in Captain America: Civil War. Tom Holland inherited the superhero's suit and donned it for the film. Fans will see the actor wear the spandex costume next in Spider-Man: Homecoming and perhaps Avengers: Infinity War if they are lucky.\nIt is very possible the hero will appear in the third Avengers flick. After all, the relationship between Marvel and Sony continues to grow stronger by the day, and the former could probably convince the latter to borrow out the hero for another rendezvous.\nEarlier this year, The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Tom Rothman about the studio's partnership with Marvel - and he had nothing but praise to give.\n\"It's been fantastic, our relationship with Marvel,\" he said. \"Sony has the ultimate authority,\" Rothman clarified. \"But we have deferred the creative lead to Marvel, because they know what they're doing.\"\nClearly, the two studios are better off than how Marvel is with 20th Century Fox. Both companies have been at odds over their superhero franchises for years, but fans wondered earlier this year whether Fox would be willing to loan the X-Men to Marvel for a special Marvel Cinematic Universe appearance.\nHowever, fans shouldn't get their hopes up about that.\nThe president of Marvel Studios recently spoke with Collider and talked about the company's relationship with 20th Century Fox. When he was asked whether Marvel and Fox were playing nice these days, Feige said their relationship is, \"the same as it has always been.\"\n\"We all get along, and I see them occasionally,\" Feige continued. \"There's no change in any dynamic.\"\nA young Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland), who made his sensational debut in Marvel Studios' Captain America: Civil War, begins to navigate his newfound identity as the web-slinging superhero in Spider-Man: Homecoming.\nSpider-Man: Homecoming will be released on July 7, 2017.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Most sellers have found themselves being squeezed by the Greater Toronto Area’s housing-market slowdown as thousands of dollars weaken due to the value of houses they intend to sell. Others face the terrifying chance of handling two or mortgages at the rate of $6,000 a month.\nThe decline in the activity of prices and sales in Greater Toronto Areas is clear to many real-estate agents as a temporary return to a better and more balanced market. This has caused some sellers to reevaluate their housing plans while some are struggling in financial risks.\nMortgage broker, Brian Hogben, owner of Mission 35 Mortgages says, “A lot of the conversation we’re having now is, can I afford two houses? Can I afford to turn my one house into a rental property?” He added, “It’s a small percentage. Around 5 to 7 per cent of our clients would be in that spot. But I think it feels like more, because those are the ones we’re talking to almost daily. I’m telling them to be resilient, to hold tight, to stay steady. The market is still moving, just not quite at the pace that it was.” For a man of his position, bridge financing seems like a solution.\nHowever, according to Shubha Dasgupta, owner of Capital Lending Centre in North York, “Bridge financing was designed to bridge the time between the sale of a home and the purchase, but in the situation where the property is not sold, it’s no longer classified as bridge financing. It’s just financing.”\nMr. Dasgupta also stated that he has received at least 15 calls from different home buyers in two weeks about this situation. He was able to suggest various alternative solutions to them, including renting their first home out and keeping it as an investment property until a buyer comes along.\nDavid Batori, broker of record with the Re/Max Hallmark Batori Group Inc. had a lot to say. He stated; “It was a Thursday the government came out with this. That following Monday things really got quiet. A lot of these buyers had been losing and losing and losing, and eventually ended up securing a home, and then by the time they were able to get their [old] homes ready for market, things had changed.”\nThis swift change shows in recent data released by the Toronto Real Estate Board. Prices for homes in Greater Toronto Area dropped by 6.2 per cent compared to April. The number of listings in the area also shot up by 19.4 per cent over the same period, while total sales fell by 12 per cent.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Russian actions toward Belarus since 2015 show that Moscow is no longer pursuing the “union deal” it had established with Minsk earlier and instead has placed its bets on the forced integration of its western neighbor into a Russian-dominated state, according to Arseny Sivitsky.\nThe head of the Minsk Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies says that over the last three years, Russia has conducted itself “in a quite aggressive and unfriendly manner toward its chief ally … despite the fact that Belarus has not violated any of the obligations it has assumed with regard to Moscow.\n[quote]Russia’s new policy, Sivitsky says, is directed at subordinating Belarus “to the strategic interests of Russia in the new geopolitical context after the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and then the Russian-American confrontation” and that means “the undermining and then loss of [Belarusian] independence and sovereignty.”[/quote]\nIn pursuit of that goal, Moscow has been deploying “various instruments of pressure,” economic, political and military-security.\nMany in Belarus find the Russian actions inexplicable, and they are, within the context of the former “deal” between the two countries. But “if on the other hand, Moscow no longer considers Minsk its ally, then the motives behind the Kremlin’s actions toward Belarus are completely understandable.”\nAnd that is where the situation now is. [quote]“The Kremlin no longer views Belarus as an ally and prefers unilateral steps directed at undermining the sovereignty and independence of our country, increasing its influence in Belarus, limiting our interaction with the outside world, above all with the West and China and using both formal and informal means to do so.”[/quote]\nIn this way, Moscow has effectively scrapped the deal Belarus and Russia concluded in the mid-1990s, a deal in which Minsk agreed not to seek membership in the EU and NATO but rather to integrate into the Russian military-political and economic space and Moscow agreed to provide aid in the form of concessionary prices for energy.\nNone of that is true now, the security analyst says, and it really hasn’t been true since Moscow invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. He adds that in his view, Western sanctions have done nothing to lessen the aggressive nature of Russian foreign policy which is still being set by hardliners.\nSuch Russians, Sivitsky says, believe that the West will continue to put pressure on Moscow, that no agreement with it is possible, and that therefore “Russia has nothing to lose and must, to the extent its resources permit, push its control outward where possible.” Belarus is an obvious candidate for such an advance.\nThat is all the more so, Sivitsky says, because “now the policies of Minsk and Moscow in foreign policy are diverging in a significant way: Belarus does not want confrontation, while Russia is interested in it just as it is interested in the immediate inclusion of Belarus in a new confrontation process.”\nHe says that he expects Moscow to step up the pressure on Minsk further in the near future, indeed as early as next month, and adds that there is ample evidence that “the Kremlin plans to interfere actively in the domestic political life of Belarus in 2019-2020 when presidential and parliamentary electoral campaigns are slated to take place.”\n[quote]“I do not exclude that the Kremlin has already worked out a spectrum of scenarios, beginning with soft ones designed to put pressure on Minsk” to change its line. [/quote] “Unfortunately,” Savitsky says, “in the near term the relations of the two countries will be very complicated.”\n“Our chief weak point is our economic dependence on Russia,” the Minsk analyst says, and “the Kremlin uses this.” It is virtually certain that it will do even more in the coming weeks and months, leaving Belarus at a minimum in a very unpleasant situation.\n- Could Putin’s pseudo-Cossacks on Belarusian border become ‘the little green men’ in Belarus?\n- Are Russian oligarchs serving as Putin’s ‘little green men’ in Belarus?\n- Fearful of Moscow and his own people, Lukashenka fails to crush pro-Russian march in Minsk on Victory Day\n- Putin planning to interfere in Belarusian elections to replace Lukashenka, Sivitsky says\n- FSB may be well pleased with Zapad-2017 outcome, Belarusian analysts say\n- Struggle for Belarus: Minsk is promoting Belarusianization; Moscow, re-Sovietization\n- Is Lukashenka worried about the loyalty of the Belarusian siloviki?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Amazon Begins On-Site Covid Vaccinations\nThe Covid vaccination effort has taken off over the last few weeks with the United States averaging nearly 2.5 million vaccinations a day. President Biden set out for a goal to have 100 million Americans vaccinated within his first 100 days in office. We recently passed that mark after only his 53rd day in office. Despite vaccination rates being relatively high, Amazon is starting an in-house vaccination program for its employees.\nAmazon warehouse workers are classified as frontline workers but, “Most of [the] conversations go on at the state and local level, in terms of who’s eligible for the vaccine.” Amazon will be setting up vaccination clinics within various warehouses across the country to help workers get vaccinated and licensed healthcare providers will administer the vaccines.\nThe workforce within multiple amazon fulfillment centers have expressed concerns related to vaccine efficacy. Amazon has been actively addressing the issue expressing to employees that vaccinations will be “the quickest way for life to return to normal.”\nThere has been great interest in the on-site vaccination clinics so far as Amazon is only a few days in. Nearly 1000 employees have already signed up to get their place in line. Amazon still promotes off-site vaccinations though, offering bonuses of up to $80 for those who get vaccinated elsewhere. With the vaccination effort moving along quickly, everyone is hopeful of having the end in sight.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Who could adequately embody the Grinch’s “comedic wickedness” while capturing the Dr. Seuss villain’s charm and appeal? According to the makers of the upcoming animated “How the Grinch Stole Christmas...\nSUBSCRIBE AND FOLLOW\nGet top stories and blog posts emailed to me each day. Newsletters may offer personalized content or advertisements.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Just under three-quarters of doctors, dentists and community nurses said they were aware of some of the mechanisms of reporting child physical abuse, but 79 per cent felt they needed further information.\nOver a fifth (21 per cent) said they were worried about getting it wrong. Confronting families, inexperience and fear of litigation were also common barriers to reporting.\n“The ability to recognise physical abuse and willingness to report it varied between the groups” says lead researcher Dr Anne Lazenbatt, from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.\n“Our survey of 419 healthcare professionals showed that community nurses were most likely to recognise and report physical abuse.\n“It also revealed that fears, anxieties and lack of knowledge stop primary healthcare professionals from reporting abuse and that they need more education, training and support in this area.”\n74 per cent were aware of the mechanisms for reporting – with community nurses showing the highest levels of awareness, followed by doctors and dentists. 99 per cent said recognising and reporting child physical abuse should be part of undergraduate and postgraduate training and 79 per cent wanted further in-service training.\nResearch published by the United Nations in 2002 suggests that 3,500 children under the age of 15 die from child physical abuse every year in the industrialised world.\nAnd seven per cent of children in the UK have been reported as suffering from physical abuse from a parent or carer, according to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.\nLazenbatt’s research, carried out with Professor Ruth Freeman from the University’s School of Dentistry, drew questionnaire responses from 139 Community Nurses, 147 General Medical Practitioners and 133 General Dental Practitioners in Northern Ireland – a response rate of 43 per cent.\nThe majority were in the 30-49 age group (71 per cent) and 43 per cent were male. They had been in practice for an average of 15 to 16 years.\nFour key issues arose during the research:\n•Healthcare professional were worried about misidentifying physical abuse and unwilling to confront the family. They wanted to remain anonymous and feared hostility, damage to their relationships with families and repercussions for the child and the family. They were also concerned about possible legal action.\n“The barriers for me are an uncertainty about what I am looking for and not wanting to start a problem for the family” said one of the Dentists who took part.\n“I would be hesitant to get involved in child protection work for fear that this would trigger a formal complaint, a disciplinary hearing or even litigation” added one of the Doctors.\n•Respondents cited lack of clear guidelines and protocols as a barrier to reporting abuse. They were also concerned about their inexperience and poor interview techniques, especially when they were faced with parents who were keen to avoid detection.\n“Recognising child abuse is always going to be a difficult and emotive area” said one Community Nurse. “Often parents, as carers, can give a plausible explanation for any injuries, bruising etc. Frequently this is the explanation people want to believe, as it will be less difficult to deal with by everyone concerned. What makes management of suspected cases of child abuse easier is having clear protocols and guidelines.”\n“Identifying and reporting is always more difficult when a child is seen infrequently” pointed out one Dentist.\n•Other barriers to reporting included workload pressures, red tape and hierarchy, reporting procedures and lack of sensitivity and support from social services and colleagues. Some Dentists felt that child abuse was not relevant to their profession and another burden in an already stressful occupation.\n“I understand the child’s welfare is paramount, but living in small communities it is difficult for social services to be seen to be sensitive or impartial” said one Community Nurse.\nAnd a Doctor expressed frustration with colleagues. “In one case of suspected neglect/abuse it was reported several times and nothing was done. I eventually reported it to an on-duty social worker who dealt with it, but there was a time lapse of 12-18 months.”\n•The majority of participants wanted multidisciplinary workshops, in-service education and accessible training tools. They also highlighted perceived deficiencies in the education they had already received.\n“There is no more time for complacency” said one Doctor. “To do this we need knowledge and input from a wide range of professionals and agencies, all of whom should be communicating, working in partnership and educated at all levels with a multi-professional / agency framework. This should be mandatory and frequent.”\n“The findings suggest that recognising child physical abuse is both a complex and difficult task for primary healthcare professionals and illustrates a substantial gap between their ability to recognise maltreatment and knowledge of the pathways for reporting it” concludes Dr Lazenbatt.\n“Although the consequences of failing to identify child physical abuse can be catastrophic, it is also essential that professionals are educated to recognise conditions that might inadvertently be mistaken as abuse so that unnecessary distress can be avoided.\n“Child abuse is an important global problem and primary healthcare professionals can play an essential role in recognising and reporting abuse, but only if they receive the education and support they need to make informed decisions.\n“Developing clear policies and co-ordinated local responses that involve all those concerned with the welfare and protection of children is also essential.”\nAnnette Whibley | alfa\nNIST scientists discover how to switch liver cancer cell growth from 2-D to 3-D structures\n17.11.2017 | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)\nHigh speed video recording precisely measures blood cell velocity\n15.11.2017 | ITMO University\nThe formation of stars in distant galaxies is still largely unexplored. For the first time, astron-omers at the University of Geneva have now been able to closely observe a star system six billion light-years away. In doing so, they are confirming earlier simulations made by the University of Zurich. One special effect is made possible by the multiple reflections of images that run through the cosmos like a snake.\nToday, astronomers have a pretty accurate idea of how stars were formed in the recent cosmic past. But do these laws also apply to older galaxies? For around a...\nJust because someone is smart and well-motivated doesn't mean he or she can learn the visual skills needed to excel at tasks like matching fingerprints, interpreting medical X-rays, keeping track of aircraft on radar displays or forensic face matching.\nThat is the implication of a new study which shows for the first time that there is a broad range of differences in people's visual ability and that these...\nComputer Tomography (CT) is a standard procedure in hospitals, but so far, the technology has not been suitable for imaging extremely small objects. In PNAS, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) describes a Nano-CT device that creates three-dimensional x-ray images at resolutions up to 100 nanometers. The first test application: Together with colleagues from the University of Kassel and Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht the researchers analyzed the locomotory system of a velvet worm.\nDuring a CT analysis, the object under investigation is x-rayed and a detector measures the respective amount of radiation absorbed from various angles....\nThe quantum world is fragile; error correction codes are needed to protect the information stored in a quantum object from the deteriorating effects of noise. Quantum physicists in Innsbruck have developed a protocol to pass quantum information between differently encoded building blocks of a future quantum computer, such as processors and memories. Scientists may use this protocol in the future to build a data bus for quantum computers. The researchers have published their work in the journal Nature Communications.\nFuture quantum computers will be able to solve problems where conventional computers fail today. We are still far away from any large-scale implementation,...\nPillared graphene would transfer heat better if the theoretical material had a few asymmetric junctions that caused wrinkles, according to Rice University...\n15.11.2017 | Event News\n15.11.2017 | Event News\n30.10.2017 | Event News\n17.11.2017 | Physics and Astronomy\n17.11.2017 | Health and Medicine\n17.11.2017 | Studies and Analyses", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The potential of WWE getting into the gambling world even moreso has raised some concerns from talent that we've spoken to, but they said those concerns died down pretty quickly as they don’t think it’s a real possibility.\nFightful was told by WWE talent that they haven't really been briefed about the possibility of WWE getting into the gambling scope, and many were surprised by some of the details that had been outlined. Specifically, there were concerns around the results of matches not being disclosed until a few hours ahead.\n\"Usually, we don't know the results of matches until about then anyway. There have been world title matches where people didn't know until shortly before the match, so that won't necessarily be that different. The concern comes in to where and what we can pitch, how that affects things, and the ability to get things changed that talent doesn't agree with. There will be a lot of figuring out where and why changes are pushed for and from, and I think that this is probably more trouble than it's worth,\" one longtime talent said.\nThose that we spoke to say they haven’t heard much about the story since it first broke a couple of months ago.\nThis article first appeared on our premium service, Fightful Select and was republished here on Fightful. If you complain about it being \"old news,\" you have to pay for Skyline Chili for SRS. Subscribe to get exclusive news every day, and a half-dozen weekly podcasts.\nTo directly support us and our continuing breaking news, interviews, and the like, subscribe to FightfulSelect.com. You'll get exclusive news sent to you directly before anyone else, and dozens of podcasts monthly including Alex Pawlowski's Sour Graps, Sean Ross Sapp's Q&A, Retro Reviews and more", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Former Detroit City Councilman André Spivey resigned from the Detroit City Council on Wednesday just after pleading guilty to accepting bribes the day prior from a contractor, according to a Detroit News article.\nSpivey, 47, is the second councilman to be convicted of a felony in 2021 alone during an FBI probe, according to the story.\nFormer City Councilman Gabe Leland also faced his own legal issues. In June he pled guilty to misconduct while serving on the Detroit City Council, which he resigned from in May.\nHe resigned via a letter sent to City Council President Brenda Jones on Wednesday morning, which read, “It has been a pleasure to serve” the city for nearly 12 years,” according to the article, and that Spivey is also “praying for an even brighter future for Detroit.”\nThe Detroit News obtained the letter, that neglected to detail the bribery portion, focused on his role “working to move our city past bankruptcy into financial solvency.” The resignation begins immediately.\nU.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts will sentence Spivey on Jan. 19 and, according to the article, advisory sentencing guidelines result in 37-46 months in federal prison.\nSpivey and a staff worker (who is unnamed) reportedly took over $35,000 in bribery payments, federal prosecutors say in released court documents.\nAccording to a published article, the financial compensation was part of a reported bribery conspiracy from 2016-2020 to sway city business, prosecutors said.\nFederal prosecutors charged Spivey with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery.\nSpivey, who was elected in November 2009, represented the 4th District on the city’s far-east side. The Detroit native is a Cass Tech grad.\nRead the full story here.", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "Michy Batshuayi could be on his way out of Chelsea this summer.\nThe London Evening Standard report that Batshuayi is open to leaving Stamford Bridge on loan in search of regular first-team football.\nAccording to Squawka, Batshuayi was on the field for just 299 minutes in the Premier League in his debut season in England. He did, however, find the back of the net on five occasions, which works out as a goal every 59.8 minutes – which is certainly commendable.\nThe London Evening Standard believe that his good performances in the little opportunities he’s been given has captured the attention of Chelsea’s London rivals West Ham, who are said to be keen on taking him on loan this summer.\nThe London Evening Standard note that the Hammers failed in their attempts to sign Batshuayi last summer, with the Belgian instead opting for a move to Stamford Bridge. A year later, however, they may just get their man.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Major League Baseball season has just begun, but one major player is already thinking about the negotiation table and has made an interesting choice regarding his representation.\nYankees star second baseman Robinson Cano has fired Scott Boras, known for getting major deals for his client, and signed with Roc Nation, the company going into sports representation that is owned by Jay-Z. The rapper, who has a love for sports and has minority ownership of the Brooklyn Nets, plans to become a certified agent.\nThe move is seen by good news for the Yankees hopes of retaining Cano, who many consider their best player. Jay-Z is a known Yankees fan who helped push Alex Rodriguez to stay with the organization, and Scott Boras was a shrewd negotiator.\nCano is the first sports client for Jay-Z, and the rapper intends to begin representing athletes in multiple sports. If he were to become an agent for basketball players, he would be required to give up his stake in the Nets.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The lovers, later identified by their surnames Zhou and Liang, were spotted on a street lying on top of each other with their trousers down.\nCitizens in Chongqing, in China’s south-west, were too shocked to react as many passersby were also apparently too embarrassed to even acknowledge what was going on.\nAfter the tawdry snaps went viral online, local coppers launched an investigation and the randy pair were arrested.\nYet according to the Chongqing Public Security Bureau the pair were not to be held responsible for what happened.\nAn official said the men claimed they were mentally ill and the act \"was a result of them not being able to control their actions\".\nHomosexuality was decriminalised in China in 1997 and the government stopped classifying it as a \"mental illness\" in 2001.\nHowever it is still considered widely taboo in the country.\nA recent documentary showed a brave gay rights activist undergoing \"correctional therapy\" to \"cure\" him of his \"disease\".\nThere are reportedly thousands of clinics containing everything from quack doctors through to exorcists in China, claiming that they can cure homosexuality and help gay men and women return to \"normal lives\".\nThis year has seen a spate of amorous couples romping in the most public of places.\nIn September a woman was arrested for having sex with her unconscious boyfriend in a supermarket car park.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rock Island Public Libraries will be closed on Thursdays and Fridays for the Christmas and New Year's holidays. For more details, please see the full article.\nHoliday and end-of-year holiday closures for Rock Island Public Libraries are as follows:\nRock Island Downtown and Southwest Library locations will be closed Thursday, December 24 and Friday, December 25 for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Locations are open from 9:00 am to noon on Saturday, December 26.\nRock Island Library locations are closed Thursday, December 31, and Friday, January 1 for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Library locations are open from 9:00 am to noon on Saturday, January 2, 2021.\nMobile Library2Go routes run as scheduled Monday, December 21 through Wednesday, December 23, and again on Monday, December 28 through Wednesday, December 30. Routes resume as scheduled on Monday, December 28 and Tuesday, January 5, 2021. For updates, please check the posted schedules on the library website and calendar, or call the Mobile Library line at 309-732-7369.\nFor other Library hours and service updates, visit the library website, call 309-732-READ, and follow the Rock Island Library on social media.\nRock Island Public Library staff look forward to seeing you again in 2021.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "South Korea claims that three short-range guided missiles have been fired by North Korea. The country routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches come during a period of diplomacy aimed at easing tensions.\nNorth Korea fired short-range guided missiles twice in the morning and once in the afternoon off its east coast. In case of any provocation, the Ministry will keep monitoring the situation and remain on alert.\nMore top news\nA weather warning is also in place for Scotland, which could see \"treacherous\" and blizzard-like conditions on Thursday.\nThe lorry lost several butane gas canisters as the driver rammed into cars in a dangerous escape attempt that was ended by police gunfire.\nThe Gambling Commission said: \"Integrity in sport is not a joke and we have opened an investigation to establish exactly what happened.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Gamecock defensive lineman enters transfer portal\nThe transfer portal kept snagging more Gamecocks today.\nDefensive lineman Gilber Edmond entered the portal, according to a source Thursday. He’s the 10th Gamecock to enter the portal this offseason.\nEdmond started 10 games this season for Carolina, leading the team with nine tackles for loss. He was second on the team with 39 total tackles and two sacks. Edmond played in 21 games over three seasons with the Gamecocks.\nEdmond wrote on twitter Thursday that he decided to transfer “after careful conversations with my family and God.”\nCarolina faces Notre Dame in the Gator Bowl Dec. 30.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "November 8, 2011, 12pm PST\nIn Dubai, the Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world. But it shares one problem will all skyscrapers in Dubai - there is no central sewage infrastructure to accommodate the waste they produce.\nNovember 2, 2011, 11am PDT\nA long-standing Congressional ban on U.S. funding for any U.N. agency that recognizes Palestine will mean a $60 million hole in UNESCO's budget in the wake of its decision to admit the nascent state.\nOctober 28, 2011, 10am PDT\nJoel Epstein says it was \"nothing short of a miracle\" that Jerusalem's Red Line light rail opened this year.\nOctober 25, 2011, 6am PDT\nTripoli Airport and Misrata hospital are the first specific projects to be named, as western governments begin to release frozen assets to the National Transition Government (NTI) and international corporations spot an opportunity.\nOctober 4, 2011, 2pm PDT\nThe Dubai Executive Council has approved the Dubai Urban Development Master Plan 2020, and will establish a 'Supreme Urban Planning Council,' to streamline the process.\nSeptember 28, 2011, 12pm PDT\nIsrael has announced the approval of 1,100 housing units to be constructed in occupied East Jerusalem, which is claimed by the Palestinians as their future capital.\nSeptember 28, 2011, 8am PDT\nAmid the backdrop of Mahmoud Abbas' application for Palestinian statehood, Jesse Fox critiques the Israeli premier for his antiquated plan to fast track sprawling suburban developments into Israel's rapidly diminishing open spaces.\nSeptember 2, 2011, 9am PDT\nWith high scores in five broad categories, Melbourne, Australia received the highest spot in livability rankings from The Economist's research unit.\nAugust 14, 2011, 9am PDT\nThe Israeli announcement that 1,600 more housing units would be built in occupied East Jerusalem is causing a diplomatic crisis.\nJuly 26, 2011, 2pm PDT\nThe revitalization master plan for two older neighborhoods in Abu Dhabi includes creating \"new roads, clinics, schools, police stations and neighborhood centers\" and making them easily accessible to residents.\nJuly 20, 2011, 9am PDT\nA proposed 20-mile bridge would span the Red Sea to connect Egypt and Saudi Arabia -- connecting Arab states and reducing reliance on land passage through Israel.\nJuly 4, 2011, 11am PDT\nThe center of protest in Yemen's capital city of Sana'a has turned into a massive tent city, with more than 4,000 tents and a variety of services, public spaces and pop-up industries.\nJuly 1, 2011, 9am PDT\nAbu Dhabi has released a new 20-year plan. It planners argue that it will be flexible enough to withstand changes in the global economy, should they come.\nJune 26, 2011, 5am PDT\nA preliminary deal has been signed to construct a high-speed rail linking Baghdad to a southeastern city Basra.\nJune 20, 2011, 2pm PDT\nThe Israeli kibbutz, long a bastion of modest communal living, is being co-opted by suburban-style development that wants the benefits of socialist coexistence and single-family homes, writes reporter Shanee Shiloh in Ha'aretz.\nJune 8, 2011, 1pm PDT\nCalling California's attempts at environmental responsibility a \"green jihad,\" Joel Kotkin argues that the state's \"ideological extremism\" has led to illogical economic and political decisions - similar to those made in the Islamic Republic of Iran.\nMay 27, 2011, 9am PDT\nWith plans to greatly reduce seating capacities and export an entire stadium, Qatar is hoping to reduce the negative long-term impact of its hosting of the 2022 World Cup.\nMay 25, 2011, 12pm PDT\nHalf the oil in the Persian Gulf has been pumped out of the ground - so has 'peak oil' been reached? Notably, that term doesn't even appear in the article. Instead, it discusses the difference between light and heavy oil, and the role of technology\nThe Wall Street Journal - Business\nMay 20, 2011, 6am PDT\nAt the center of ongoing protests and uproar in the Middle East, iconic and historical public spaces hold political clout.\nMay 18, 2011, 9am PDT\nDoha wants to have a fully functioning metro rail system in place by the time Qatar hosts the 2022 World Cup, but the tight deadline of the event has some officials worried the system won't be complete in time.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NEW YORK (AP) — A Yale University graduate student is constantly watching his phone as he waits for news on his mother, who is detained and could be deported to Honduras, a country where he says she won’t get the medical treatment she needs as a survivor of stage-four cancer.\nCristian Padilla Romero, a 24-year-old doctoral student, created an online petition asking for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release his mother, and raised more than $39,000 through a crowdfunding campaign for her legal and medical needs.\nHis mother, Tania Romero, has been in a Georgia detention center since mid-August.\n“She is not doing well. We are asking for her release so she can see a doctor,” said Padilla Romero.\nAn ICE spokesperson said that due to privac", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "There are many various types of podcasts to fit your interests, whether you're into drama or real crime. If you want to start a podcast, here's a list of several podcast formats and genres to get you started.\nWhat Is a Podcast and Why Should You Listen to One?\nA podcast is a set of digital audio recordings that may be downloaded or listened to through the internet. A podcaster creates each audio recording, which is referred to as a podcast episode.\nA podcast usually features an individual (or group) who hosts a conversation, tells anecdotes, or gives news updates. After that, the podcast producer edits the show and publishes it on a streaming service such as Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. A podcaster's content may be released on a monthly or weekly basis.\nWith the introduction of the iPod, the history of podcasting began. \"Podcast\" is an amalgamation of the words \"iPod\" and \"broadcast.\"\nPodcast Genres: 12 Different Types\nThere are numerous subgenres and genres of podcasts. Some podcasts fall into numerous genres at the same time, resulting in a hybrid style and content that appeals to a wider audience. A quick rundown of podcast genres is as follows:\nThe primary purpose of comedy is to make the audience laugh. This material could be anything from stand-up performance to a witty panel discussion. Hybrids of comedy podcasts and other genres are common (like drama, game shows, or pop-culture podcasts). Many other podcasts include humour in their content, and comedy is a prominent podcast genre.\nA dramatic story, either fictional or based on a true occurrence, is told in this drama genre. In the narrative podcast genre, podcasters frequently unveil the story over several episodes.\n3. Game Show:\nThis podcast hosts a tournament, usually with a regular host and a rotating cast of episodic contestants. Nonfiction podcasts may concentrate on trivia, word games, or unique challenges.\n4. Health and fitness:\nHosts talk about exercise, diet, mental health practices, and lifestyle in this educational podcast, which occasionally features special guests.\n5. Investigative journalism:\nThis is a type of journalism in which a journalist investigates a factual story over the course of multiple episodes. Politics, conspiracy theories, social media, historical events, and current news are all topics that are frequently discussed.\nThis kind of podcast keeps listeners up to date on local, national, and international news, often focusing on a single issue.\nHosts usually focus on a certain place, event, or political party in this informative podcast about politics.\n8. Pop culture:\nThis type of podcast is among the most popular podcast categories, focusing on a certain aspect of society or culture, such as film, television shows, music, comic books, or video games.\n9. Religion podcasts:\nThis genre of the podcast covers topics including faith, spirituality, and religion. Hosts may lead listeners in prayer, deconstruct scripture, or respond to inquiries.\nThis genre tries to assist listeners in making better living choices. Mental wellbeing, overcoming adversity, physical health, and work-life balance are just a few of the subjects covered in self-help podcasts.\nThis educational podcast delves into a specific sport, such as basketball, hockey, baseball, or football, and may focus on a single team or bracket.\n12. True crime:\nThis is a very popular podcast genre in which hosts investigate true crime stories.\nWhat Is a Podcast Format?\nThe method podcasters organize and deliver content is referred to as the format of a podcast. Choosing and sticking to the correct structure will make your podcast feel well-thought-out, consistent, and memorable to listeners, making it easier for you to produce regular content.\n6 Different Types Podcast Formats\nToday's podcasters use a variety of podcast formats; here are a few of the most popular:\n1. Interview Format:\nIn an interview podcast, the host invites various guests (single guests or a panel) onto the episodes and asks them guided questions to keep the conversation interesting and thematic. Because the content is provided by the guests, rather than the host, this conversational podcast style is one of the most popular.\n2. Co-host conversation format:\nEach episode of a co-hosted podcast has a conversation between two (or more) hosts, usually on a pre-determined topic. Each podcast host frequently takes on a specific function.\n3. Monologue Format:\nEach new edition of a monologue or solo podcast features a different host presenting on a different topic. Because all you need is a microphone and skill in a specific topic, the monologue is one of the easiest forms, to begin with.\n4. Storytelling format:\nA story is told across multiple episodes in this manner. The story can be nonfiction—for example, a true-crime podcast that delves into a difficult case—or fiction, in which characters embark on a long journey. It could be in the form of a narrative, similar to that of an audiobook, or it could be in the shape of a dialogue.\n5. Repurposed format:\nWhen a podcaster repurposes pre-existing content into a podcast, such as a standup routine, orchestra performance, or radio broadcast, it is known as a repurposed podcast. Because new content does not have to be recorded, this format is simple for new podcast hosts.\n6. Bite-sized Format:\nTraditional podcasts aim for each episode to be roughly forty minutes long, whereas bite-sized podcasts produce short chunks of content that may only last ten minutes. This format can be a fun way to try out podcasting without having to devote a lot of time to audio editing software.\nWe hope you're learning something from this. To stay up to date on interesting news like this, follow Filmdistrict Dubai, a prominent Production House in Dubai that specializes in Film Equipment Rental Dubai, Audio Visual Rental Dubai, Photo Booth Rental Dubai, and Camera Rental Dubai.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "(Paul Sakuma/AP photo)\nBiz Break: Biotech IPOs surge in Silicon Valley, nationwide\n12/24/2014 01:52 PM PST\nToday: Biotechnology companies enjoy their best year on the IPO market since the dot-com boom.\n( Victoria Will )\n50 things we learned in 2014\nHere's our annual look back at the 50 things that surprised us, or reassured us, or that we simply didn't see coming.\nHas One Direction lost its luster?\n'NCIS' repeat and holiday cartoons top British boy band's behind-the-scenes special Tuesday night.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Booker Prize / „Something’s going on in the state of Mississippi“: „The Trees“ by Percival Everett\nPercival Everett’s new novel is a hilarious pastiche on Neo-noir and horror that efficiently combines the irony of „Fargo“, the deadpan dialogues of „Pulp Fiction” and the unsettling metaphorical force of Jordan Peele’s „Get Out”. It also is a shockingly violent and cathartically angry novel about US-American racism – and therefore a must-read.\n„Money, Mississippi, looks exactly like it sounds. Named in that persistent Southern tradition of irony and with the attendant tradition of nescience, the name becomes slightly sad, a marker of self-conscious ignorance that might as well be embraced because let’s face it, it isn’t going away.”\nAs Percival Everett further zones in on this run-down deserted American town inhabited by a bunch of racist hillbillies and uneducated, Trump-cap-wearing rednecks, we meet a charming family tribe ruled by matriarch Granny C and the likes of Wheat Bryant, a man „constantly, ever, always between jobs” – to worsen the case, his wife Charlene is always „quick to point out that the word between usually suggested something at either end, two somethings, or destinations, and that Wheat had held only one job in his whole life, so he wasn’t between anything”.\nWhile this may sound like a Southern take on the likes of „Fargo”, with Everett deriving obvious pleasure from deconstructing the American myth by paving his storyline with characters whose dumbness is utterly hilarious, things quickly take a much darker turn as the dead bodies of said rednecks start to pile up, the series of incongruous murders starting off with Sheriff Delroy Digby discovering the disfigured, blood-smeared body of Junior Junior, a member of the tribe.\nNext to Junior Junior – a perfect example of how onomastics can say almost everything there needs to be said about a fictional character – lies the body of a dead Black man whose face is „horribly beaten“, whose neck is scarred and „seemingly stitched together”, and who seems to be holding the testicles of the emasculated Junior Junior. While this is a particularly unsettling crime scene, things get worse: First, the corpse of the Black man disappears, then it reappears on the site of a second crime, where the police also find the deformed body of Wheat.\nWith superstition being a loyal companion to stupidity, local rednecks start disseminating the rumour of a Black ghost on a murderous mission, while past traumata slowly unfold under the sharp gaze of suspicious yet incredibly laid-back Jim and Ed, two Black detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation who are investigating while being confronted with the hateful stares of a small community who’s still very much accustomed to use the n-word and whose members are either discreet xenophobes or very proud racists: „It was a long-running joke in Money, Mississippi, that the way to discover who belonged to the Klan was to wait at Russell’s Dry Cleaning and Laundry.“ Jim’s verdict on local townspeople is as harsh as it is correct: „It’s a chock-full of know-nothing peckerwoods stuck in the prewar nineteenth century and living proof that inbreeding doesn’t lead to extinction.”\nBoth detectives quickly find out that the tribe was involved in the killing of Emmett Till, who got lynched after a young woman – who turns out to be none other than the then-young Granny C – accused him of having made lewd remarks. It also turns out that Money, Mississippi, despite its name sounding like something only a writer could come up with, is as real as the murder of said Emmett Till. As the assassinations multiply all over the State of Mississippi and beyond, Black FBI Special Agent Herberta Hind joins the duo and the investigation takes a different turn when local root doctor Mama Z appears, who has been documenting every lynching ever committed in the USA in a meticulously assembled library of horrors.\n„If you want to know a place, you talk to its history”\nEfficiently weaving the lasting effects of historical traumata on contemporary America in a compelling narrative made up by different paragenres, with the angry mob roaming about like a horde of zombies on a killing spree, disappearing bodies and gruesome murders, „The Trees“ combines an insanely funny Neo-noir pastiche with a Jordan-Peele-like take on horror movies – the horror being, as in Peele’s movies, a very clever way of using genre to portray the dark subconscious of American history – and in the end, the return of the repressed expresses itself in a bloodshed that is as frightening as it is cathartic.\nThroughout his narrative, Everett lays bare the mundane racism that has partly replaced the more visible forms of hate in a retrograde America, overtly suggesting that things and mentalities haven’t evolved that much. Thus Mama Z says she considers „police shootings as lynchings“, reminding us of the brutal murder of George Floyd. Elsewhere, Special Agent Hind talks about the importance of having Black people in places like FBI, CIA or Congress so as to not let the Whites have all the power – an argument that Mama Z laconically rejects with: „I don’t keep bad company.”\nJim and Ed try to dismantle racist reactions with either indifference or humour – when a White deputy gives them „as hard a look as he could manage“, both consider this to be „such a cliché“ that they „looked at each other and laughed“. And when the local branch of KKK realizes they „used to have cross burnings a lot more and family picnics and softball games” and want to set an example with a very amateurish cross burning, Jim actually confuses their activities with a burning car, specifying in the deadpan way the reader quickly grows accustomed to, that he „forgot to be scared“.\nAt some point, even Donald Trump turns into a fictional character, gives a speech and, thinking his live stream got interrupted, shares his „thoughts” unfiltered: „I almost had those assholes out there believing I didn’t say nigger. Ha ha ha. I am the best. I could sell ice to Eskimos. Hell, I could sell rope to a nigger. What? We’re back. I didn’t say what you think you just heard me say.”\n„The Trees“ by Percival Everett, 2022 Influx Press, 344 pages, 9,99 £\nDespite all this outrageously comical scenes – humour being indeed a strong weapon against ignorance –, the second half of „The Trees” becomes a gloomy affair, first because, the more racism and stupidity accumulates, the less fun one derives from laughing at the idiocy of these characters; secondly, because this all stops being a big load of fun from the moment the reader gets confronted with Mama Z’s archives, the longest chapter of the novel being made of a list of all the names (and the unnamed bodies) of Black people that were lynched without there ever being a trial. „Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spreads over a hundred years, no one notices. Where there are no mass graves, no one notices. American outrage is always for show.“\nTo give you a hint at how dark „The Trees“ pens out towards its ending: If you remember Jordan Prentice’s midget on ketamine in „In Bruges“, Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s laughably brilliant movie debut, you most certainly recall the moment he announces, during the evening he spends doing quite an impressive amount of cocaine with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson’s characters as well as a nameless hooker, that there will be a war opposing all the Blacks and all the Whites. Well, subtract the hooker, the Hollywood actors (although „The Trees“ can almost be read as a – brilliant – scenario and should definitely be adapted for the screen), the drugs and, well, the midget, and you’re left with an idea that, while Colin Farrell’s character considers it racist as well as dumb, writer Percy Everett starts taking it very seriously towards the last part of his novel.\n„The Trees” starts off as funny as „Fargo” (the reference to the Coen Brother’s dumb characters are all over the place – one chapter even takes the reader for yet another murder to Duluth) – and ends as suffocating and dark as a post-apocalyptical movie, with the only light at its core being the deadpan humour and the friendship between the main characters Jim and Ed, who’ll remind you of John Travolta’s Vincent Vega and Samuel L. Jackson’s Jules Winnfield – except, well, Everett saw no need in putting an interesting White character in his book (and sure enough, you can find plenty of those in almost every other novel).\n„The Trees“ is a hell of a book in every sense of the word. It is an incredibly funny ride through a very American hell, paved with dead bodies, hatred and revenge. It basically does everything Spike Lee wished he’d done in his „BlacKkKlansman“ if he had had the balls (pun not intended) to go a little less for entertainment and a little more for vendetta.\n- Grenzen überschreiten statt Raketen abfeuern: Die Abschlussfeier am 22. Dezember zwischen Esch und Villerupt - 1. Dezember 2022.\n- Espaces transitoires: Les neuf films de la semaine - 30. November 2022.\n- Damaged Goods: Gintare Parulyte’s „Lovefool“ at TNL - 29. November 2022.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Basant celebrated in Rawalpindi\nDespite ban on kite flying imposed by Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, Basant has celebrated in the nook and corner of Rawalpindi on Friday.\nThe Punjab government imposed complete ban on kite-flying throughout the province with immediate effect on Thursday. On the directive of Punjab Police to ban on kite flying, Rawalpindi Police raided Kohati Bazaar and kite selling centers and arrested atleast 30 people.\nOn Basant day, sky was full of different colors of kites with music, dancing and firing and youngsters were seen to run after the kites recklessly.\nA police men told that as many 55 persons locked up in the vicinity of City, Bannni, Gunj Mandi, and Sadiq Abad Thana on the Basant day.\nThe wounded were rushed to hospitals for treatment.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Titanoboa: Prehistoric Monster Snake (6 pictures)\nMillions of years after the fall of the Dinosaurs lived a species of snake that is unimaginable, unbelievable, and truly mind-blowing.\n60-58 millions years ago in the swampy jungles of Colombia, lived Titanoboa (meaning Titanic Boa): a massive 48 foot long, 2,500 pound snake. Disturbing isn’t it?\nTitanoboa’s size could be attributed to the climate it lived in. Warmer climates usually meant more vegetation, which resulted in prey that often grew bigger than most that lived in cooler conditions.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Let’s talk football for a second, here. In point of fact, let’s talk NY Giants football. Let’s talk about the worst loss in franchise history, as the Giants went down 24-21, blowing a 21-0 lead with 9:32 left in the fourth quarter. Let’s talk about a team that continues to be one of the most un-disciplined and poorly coached teams in the entire league. Even during their five-game winning streak, the Giants continued to be plagued by turnovers, stupid, stupid penalties, and in game management decisions that, quite frankly, boggle the mind. Now that they’ve faced some real teams, we see them stumbling right back into the team that was down 42-3 to the Seahawks.\nEli Manning may be the real deal one day, but right now, he’s one of the worst quarterbacks in the league. For the third game in a row, the Giants called a swing pass to Tiki Barber on the first play of the game, and for the third game in the row, Manning threw it into the ground in front of Barber’s feet. Do I have to mention that we’re talking about one of the easiest plays for a QB to make, or that the Giants script their first twenty plays or so, so it was also a play that Manning has practiced probably fifty times this week, (not to mention the previous two weeks).\nThe two fourth quarter picks he threw today were horrible, terrible plays, each repulsive in it’s own way. The first, an overthrown go route, –speaking of overthrows, I couldn’t believe the announcers talking about the receivers dropping passes on him last week, when he was barely able to keep his throws within a five to ten yard circle around where the receivers were– was disgusting for the way Burress first gave up on trying to catch the ball, and then gave up on attempting to defend the pass, and then gave up on trying to tackle Jones. Really, truly unprofessional behavior by a supposed team leader, a guy who is one of the highest paid players on the team.\nThe second pick was just one more terrible decision in a season of terrible decisions by Manning, a throw into coverage, (Pacman Jones, just their best DB) at a time in the game when a turnover simply cannot be made; 30 seconds left, at midfield, in a tie game where they have all the momentum. Simply indefensible mental mistake.\nSpeaking of indefensible mental mistakes, how about the late hit on Young, fourth and 9, (8 minutes left, Giants up 21 points), as Young was running out of bounds short of the first down. The Giants have been called for that kind of game-turning penalty about ten times this season, something that also reflects terribly on Mr.Task-master. Key holding penalties, false starts, personal fouls, unsportsmanlike conduct…. On and on, one after another, game after game.\nSpeaking of decision-making, how do you like that Kiawanuka sack/no-sack play? Wow.\nHow can a team overcome the enormous stream of mental mistakes this team is guilty of? They cannot. The Giants win in spite of Coughlin, not because of him. We never hear or read or talk about how Coughlins game plan was the difference. The only thing you ever hear positive about his coaching is how he helped Tiki stop funmbling. Great.\nMeanwhile, the players keep making the same mistakes over and over, game after game. They keep making critical, game-changing mental errors. How can Manning’s mechanics fall apart as the season goes on, two years in a row? Coaching, that’s how? It is coaching, it is Coughlin. What he coaches theses players to do, what he and his coaches talk about and prepare for and consider important, the bullet points and fines and 5-minute early clocks and nit-picking, bullshit things that Coughlin focuses on; that is why these players play so fucking stupid, game after game after game. Stupid play comes from stupid coaching. When your team makes the same stupid plays, again and again, like this team has for going on three seasons now, you have to look at the top. Kill the brain. Fire Coughlin. Now. Not at the end of the season. You cannot allow him to run this team for another minute. You simply cannot.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Texas Sen. John Cornyn is threatening \"World War III\" if Democrats try to seat Al Franken in the Senate before Norm Coleman can pursue his case through the federal courts.\nCornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, acknowledges that a federal challenge to November's elections could take \"years\" to resolve. But he's adamant that Coleman deserves that chance -- even if it means Minnesota is short a senator for the duration.\nSUBSCRIBE AND FOLLOW\nGet top stories and blog posts emailed to me each day. Newsletters may offer personalized content or advertisements.Learn more", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After Sunday's 36-26 loss to Jacksonville, Buffalo Bills head coach Chan Gailey spoke post-game about his team's decision to use an adjusted 3-4 look to try to shore up the run defense. In said look, the team would take their Jack linebacker off the field and replace him with a defensive lineman, usually Spencer Johnson or Alex Carrington, effectively creating a heavy 4-3 defense.\nGailey also spoke post-game about his team being physically manhandled by Jacksonville. George Edwards' latest run game tweak didn't come close to working, as Jacksonville rushed for 216 yards in their victory, becoming the third consecutive team to meet or exceed 200 rushing yards against the Bills.\nI'd love to be able to tell you that the 689 rushing yards the Bills have allowed in their last three losses broke some age-old team record for a three-game stretch; alas, I can't. You only have to go back to Weeks 4-6 of the 2009 season for a worse three-game stretch, as the Bills surrendered 739 yards in those three games. A fact not worth overlooking: the New York Jets have been involved in each of those three-game runs.\nConsidering just how awful Buffalo's run defense is, it's not surprising that Bills opponents have held the ball for 34 more minutes than the Bills have in the last three games. On the season, nine opposing rushers have single-game rushing totals of 40 or more yards, and six rushers have scored touchdowns. It won't get any easier for the Bills after the bye; they'll take on one of the league's most physical teams in Baltimore in Week 7, then must take on the NFL's third-best rushing offense the following week in Kansas City.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Real slip to 2nd in the ranking of most valuable sports teams\nReal Madrid have slipped to be the 2nd most richest sports team in the world according to a new Forbes study- with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys jumping into 1st spot.\nThe Cowboys move up one place with an estimated value of $4bn (£3.02bn), up from $3.2bn (£2.4bn) last year, with Real – top of the list for the last three years – in second position, despite their value rising by almost 12.5 per cent to $3.65bn (£2.75bn).\nBarcelona are up one spot to third at $3.55bn (£2.68bn), Manchester United – ranked first in 2011 and 2012 – stay fifth at $3.32bn (£2.5bn), and NFL team the San Francisco 49ers at $2.7bn (£2.04bn) rise 22 places to take 10th spot.\nThe average current value of the top 50 most valuable teams is $2.2 billion (£1.66bn), which is the highest to date and a 25 per cent increase from last year. Cost of admission to the 2016 list is also the highest ever at $1.48bn (£1.12bn), up from $1.15bn a year ago.\nMajor League Baseball team the New York Yankees at $3.4bn (£2.56bn) and basketball franchise the New York Knicks at $3bn (£2.26bn) are the only non-soccer and non-NFL teams in the top 10.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Papua New Guinea authorities must carry out an independent investigation into alleged brutality by a police dog squad, after a graphic video depicted a seemingly defenceless man being repeatedly attacked, said Amnesty International.\nIn the film, which has been shared on social media, the man is seen sitting on the ground, surrounded by officers holding three leashed dogs as they lunge and attack him.\nWhile the footage has not yet been verified, it raises serious concerns about torture and other ill-treatment by police.\n“This appalling incident raises serious questions about police brutality,” said Roseann Rife, spokesperson for Amnesty International.\n“The Papua New Guinea authorities must act on this shocking footage and immediately initiate an independent investigation. Torture is unacceptable under any circumstances and those responsible must be brought to justice.\n“The seriousness of this incident is highlighted by this man’s humiliation and his screams of pain. It is difficult to watch.”\nA marked police vehicle and officers in uniforms are clearly visible in the video. At the end of the film, the man manages to escape and runs off into the distance.\n“It is unknown what injuries the man sustained, if he received any medical treatment after the ordeal, or if he was subsequently taken into custody,” Rife added.\nThe organization is calling for clear public assurances and actions to back it up by the Papua New Guinea government that torture and other ill-treatment by military, police or prison officers will not be tolerated under any circumstances.\nNotes to editors\nThe video footage can be viewed [Warning disturbing images] here", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "DETROIT - Detroit police are looking for two men involved in a fatal shooting reported Oct. 24 at a Citgo gas station around 5:18 a.m.\nAccording to police, the shooting happened in the 6500 block of Gratiot before both suspects left in a black Jeep Cherokee. Both suspects appear to be 18-22 years-old\nOne was spotted wearing a red Nike sweatshirt and black pants. The second was wearing an orange sweatshirt, black pants, and green shoes.\nYou can report anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Michigan for a reward or to a homicide detective at 313-596-2260 or 313-806-3395. You will remain anonymous.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It’s a busy week in Canada, where CPI inflation data will hit the markets on Wednesday, ahead of retail sales on Friday. The loonie soared lately, as the de-escalation in trade tensions and the gains in oil prices painted a sunnier picture for the export-heavy Canadian economy, prompting investors to price out expectations of Bank of Canada (BoC) rate cuts. The subdued pricing implies that any disappointments in economic data going forward could come as a major ‘reality check’ for markets.\nCatching a cold?\nThe Canadian economy remains solid overall, though some disappointing employment data last week brought this cheerful narrative into doubt. The unemployment rate unexpectedly jumped to 5.9%, from 5.5% previously, raising the question of whether this was just a ‘blip’ in an otherwise healthy jobs trend or whether the labour market is starting to show real signs of weakness.\nYet, investors are confident this won’t push the BoC to cut rates anytime soon. Most other economic indicators remain healthy, with inflation being in line with its target, real wages growing at a healthy clip, and the housing market picking up again.\nPerhaps more importantly, the US and China reached a phase one deal last week, and while it was thin on substance, it was still enough to materially reduce the risk of any further escalation. The good news also pushed energy prices higher, providing another pillar of support for the loonie, as crude oil is Canada’s biggest export.\nBoC on hold – asymmetric risks\nAll this has traders thinking that the BoC won’t cut rates moving forward. Market pricing currently assigns only a one-in-three chance for a rate cut over the entire next year, which is fairly low considering how many things can ‘go wrong’ in a period of twelve months.\nThe subdued pricing implies that the risks surrounding the loonie from economic data are asymmetric. If the data remain solid, that would merely reaffirm that the BoC will stay on hold for the foreseeable future, and therefore push the loonie higher – but only modestly. There’s not much left to price out in terms of rate cuts. On the flipside, any data weakness or a reescalation in the trade war could see pricing for BoC rate cuts soar rapidly, and by extension trigger much bigger losses in the loonie.\nSteady as she goes?\nThe upcoming figures are expected to confirm that the economy remains in a good place. On an annual basis, inflation is forecast to have accelerated to 2.2% in November, from 1.9% earlier. Core inflation measures – the trimmed mean CPI and the median CPI – will also be in focus. Meanwhile, retail sales are projected to have risen by 0.5% in October on a monthly basis, a rebound following a 0.1% decline in September.\nAs per above, if the actual figures meet or exceed the forecasts, the loonie might gain but any upside would likely be smaller in magnitude compared to the losses in case these data disappoint.\nLooking at dollar/loonie technically, initial resistance to advances may come at the 1.3200 handle, where the 200-day simple moving average (SMA) is located as well.\nOn the downside, the first obstacle for the bears may be the 1.3110 zone, with a downside break opening the way for a test of the 1.3040 region.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Posted: Sep. 4, 2014 12:06 am Updated: Sep. 7, 2014 1:00 am\nBy GREG WATRY\nSUSSEX BOROUGH — After some harsh words among council members, the governing body set two special meetings — 7 p.m. Sept. 24 and Oct. 28 — to discuss with the public the potential sale of the water/sewer utility.\nThe borough is considering selling the utility to Aqua New Jersey for $11.38 million.\nCouncilwoman Linda Masson, who has expressed adamant opposition to the sale, introduced a few motions at Tuesday's meeting that would increase the transparency of the council's actions regarding the sale, change some language in the sale's ordinance and remove Councilwoman Marina Krynicky as council president. All of Masson's motions failed.\n“This is supposed to be a time of due diligence for the council,” she said, “so they (the public) can make an educated decision.”\nIn November, borough residents will vote on whether to sell the utility in a nonbinding referendum.\nOne motion Masson introduced called for all findings and correspondences between Aqua New Jersey and council members be made available to the public, including emails and phone conversations.Borough Attorney Frank McGovern advised that any communication between Sussex Borough's special counsel and the governing body is confidential under attorney-client privilege. However, communications from Aqua's attorney, Sparta-based Debra Nicholson, can be made public.\n“I just think this would be a very healthy thing for the community,” Masson said. “It's basically sharing information.”\n“So far there has been one council member who has asked for information, which was you,” Krynicky responded. “There's no conspiracy going on here.”\nKrynicky suggested that council members could share any information they receive through committee reports at each meeting.\nThe motion failed in a 3-3 vote, with Krynicky, Councilman Salvatore Lagattuta and Councilman Bruce LaBar voting against, and Masson, Councilwoman Annette Stendor and Councilwoman Georgeanna Stoll voting in favor.\nMasson's second motion was to introduce an ordinance that would amend the language of the previously established ordinance instituting the sale referendum. Specifically, she wanted the ordinance's third paragraph struck, which was read by Masson as follows: “Whereas the borough has determined that it is advisable in the interest of public health and safety to sell its utility systems to a private water utility regulated by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities ...”\n“This statement is totally incorrect and misleading to the public,” Masson said. “Where are the reports that indicate this?”\n“I think you're just picking on things,” Lagattuta responded.\n“You're using this as a reason to sell it,” Masson said, noting that members of the public not familiar with the issue may vote in favor of the sale based on the language of the ordinance alone.\n“I don't think it's important,” Lagattuta said.\nThe motion failed again, with the makeup of votes mirroring the previous one.\nThroughout the meeting, Mayor Jonathan Rose recused himself sporadically when the conversation steered toward the water/sewer utility due to a conflict of interest. Rose's computer consulting firm, Farious Net Solutions, maintains the computers and network at Nicholson's law firm.\nMasson's final failed motion called for Krynicky to be removed as council president.\nAfter taking a recess to determine whether Krynicky could be active in the discussion, the council reconvened with McGovern determining that Krynicky could sit in on the conversation.\nMasson charged that Krynicky has personally attacked her in the past, and noted that she believes Krynicky is not capable of leading the council. She also does not adhere to the borough-adopted Robert's Rules of Order, Masson said.\nMcGovern said that Robert's Rules deal with all kinds of bodies, including corporate bodies.\n“The municipality is a statutory creature,” he said. “The president is specifically given the authority under the statute when the mayor recuses himself to conduct the meeting.”\n“But the public doesn't vote the council president in,” Masson said.\n“You can't simply vote away her authority,” McGovern responded.\nKrynicky asked Masson how she violated any rules.\nMasson responded that Krynicky attempted to shut her down when she was simply trying to distribute facts to the residents at a previous meeting. It was only when met with backlash from the public present that Krynicky allowed Masson to continue, Masson said.\nKrynicky responded that she allowed Masson to finish her comment at the previous meeting.\nMasson added that Krynicky pulled a resolution from the Aug. 19 agenda when she did not have the authority to do so.\n“I submitted a motion to set up public meetings,” Masson said.\n“That was never on the agenda to be pulled,” Municipal Clerk Mark Zschack said.\n“We're going to be discussing dates tonight,” Krynicky added.\nEmails provided to the New Jersey Herald from Masson show that Masson contacted Zschack on July 31, asking that a resolution be put on the agenda for the Aug. 19 meeting to discuss possible dates. Zschack responded that he forwarded the email to Krynicky.\nThe motion to remove Krynicky as council president failed in a 2-4 vote, with Masson and Stendor voting in favor, and LaBar, Lagattuta, Krynicky and Stoll voting against.\nKrynicky, in a statement\n, responded to previous quotes from Masson that were published in the New Jersey Herald. The quotes stated that Krynicky, Lagattuta, LaBar and Stoll were not representing the best interests of the borough.In the statement\n, she said that she initially got on the council to combat the high water bills.\n“I thought to myself that if my family is suffering so much, how can residents with fixed incomes handle these bills. In October, when the next water/sewer bills go out, many users will finally be saving money with our newly structured and fairer method of computing water/sewer bills,” she read.\n“Not one of us deserves the comment that Mrs. Masson made to the Herald. It's negative and close minded. In my job as a council member, the best thing that I can do is to listen to potential ideas without prejudice,” she continued.\nIn attendance at the meeting was Bill Weightman, the Democratic candidate for county freeholder.\n“These people deserve to be informed,” Weightman said to the New Jersey Herald. “The people that live in this town tend to be low income.”\n“This kind of politics ... is outlandish,” he added. “People are tired of government the way it is.”\nMembers from the public addressed the council regarding the water/sewer utility during the open public session.\n“What an embarrassment,” said Robert Holowach, a candidate for the Sussex Borough Council in the upcoming election, noting that he only heard bickering between the council members. “You need to present to me, to the body and to the greater community (that) this is what it (the sale) looks like. This is what Aqua says ... and this is what we think.”\n“You need to figure (out) a way to get along,” he added. “It seems like nobody knows what the hell is going on.”\nJim Bevere, a Sussex Borough resident, said he's not in favor of the water/sewer sale, citing a report from Food & Water Watch, a nonprofit that works with grassroots organizations around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future, titled “Has Water Privatization Gone Too Far in New Jersey?”\nAccording to the report, on average, private operation of water systems adds 64 percent, or $153 annually, to a New Jersey household's water bill. Bevere quoted the figure during his public comment.\nIn the 16-page report, Aqua is not mentioned.\nOut of the about 15 people at the meeting, seven spoke about the water/sewer utility. To view more comments from the public, go to the New Jersey Herald's website for a video.\nWhen Rose returned to the dais, he joked, “We're having a big group hug after this.”\nAccording to the council, Aqua has agreed to appear at the next council meeting, which is scheduled for Sept. 16.Editor's Note: Communications from Sussex Borough's special counsel to the Sussex Borough Mayor and Council are confidential under what is known as attorney-client privilege. Communications between Debra Nicholson, Aqua's attorney in the proposed water/sewer utility sale, are not privileged and can be made public. An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that communications between Nicholson and the Borough Council are privileged.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Betty, Joan and Peggy in all their finery\nSet in a fictional New York ad agency during the early '60s, this is one period drama the makers are intent on keeping as authentic as possible. The men drink and chain smoke like there's no tomorrow, whilst their female counterparts are discouraged from working out (you'd never have seen a lady with Madonna-esque biceps back then!). But it is the costumes that have caught my attention. Enormous attention to detail has been lavished on the wardrobe, so much so that the women even have to wear the conical bras and girdles of the time underneath their immaculate tea dresses.\nMany A/W '10 collections are full of '50s and '60s influences. The ladylike silhouette of cinched- in waist and full mid-length skirt was perfectly illustrated on the Louis Vuitton catwalk. These are dresses for women with curves! Mad Men star Christina Hendricks, who plays Joan, no doubt owes her title of Esquire's Sexiest Woman to her figure enhancing outfits on the show.\nLouis Vuitton A/W '10\nHere's how to get the look:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The merger of the eminent Soviet Mil and Kamov in the framework of JSC “Helicopters of Russia”, which “destroy”, make unattended market of helicopters “Mi”.\nThus, it is impossible to say with confidence that the world aviation community in the imposters of the “Helicopters of Russia” admit the authors of the Soviet aircraft. Thus, the engine plant “Motor Sich” Ukraine has all chances to take European orders from the Russian “developer”, according to the newspaper “Our Version”.\nJSC “Helicopters of Russia” owning 83,84% of shares of “Moscow helicopter plant named after M. L. Mil”, bills itself as “the only developer and manufacturer of helicopters of the Russian Federation“.\nOther holders of securities, the Bureau currently does not allow this, although, following the logic of “Helicopters of Russia” would.\nThe General Director of holding Andrey Boginsky still did not answer the question about the freedom of interpretation. However, if you look at the situation from this angle, then why would, for example, Ukrainian company “Motor Sich”, which has a development certificate of helicopters, not to do the same? After all, Mil and the plant of Zaporozhye were part of the Soviet Ministry of aviation industry and, therefore, equal in their rights. “Helicopters of Russia” with their statements and destruction eminent office only complicate the situation in the industry, but the management of the holding this is not too concerned. He has another task – to prove their necessity.\nIf you delve into the issue of allocation of production facilities to create helicopters, it becomes clear that their makers remained in Russia, but such an important part of the equipment as an engine is created by Ukraine. First “Motor Sich” is entirely dependent on the success of the Russian factories producing the final product, but then the main holdingstrong Denis Manturov has helped the collaboration to fall apart. In 2005, Russia made an attempt to create a helicopter engine.\nIt was unsuccessful, as much of what is generated, the future head of the Ministry of industry and trade.\nWith this in mind, Ukrainian engine manufacturers began seeking ways of selling their products, having been engaged in the development of not only engines. Now the company is working hard to put on the conveyor production of the main gearbox VR-17МС, designed for helicopters Mi-8/17. It was created from new materials. In addition, the “Motor Sich” soon will acquire independently produced by the rotor blades. All this testifies to the creation of conditions conducive to the erosion of the monopoly of the holding of the RF on the foreign market, without which “Helicopters of Russia” will become a very empty place.\nOn the Austrian portal “Austrian Wings” appeared information about the fact that Europe has approved the helicopter Mi-8MSB, saying it was the most powerful version of the helicopter from the Mi-8. The presence of European certificate allows the Ukrainian plant to occupy a larger market share, periosystem avicennia new engines.\nActive work is underway for obtaining certification of the helicopter Mi-8MSB in China and “Motor Sich”, in turn, wants the Civil aviation administration of China has approved the Ukrainian engines.\nIf the Ukrainian engine builders are not slowed down, the sales of Russian helicopters face stagnation, which is a holding company, apparently, can not resist. Russian administrative resources outside the RF is not working, and others the enterprise to solve problems just can not. Trying to connect the Sony to the issue of obtaining the certificate the Mi-171A2 in China failed. China simply refused to accept the application for approval of documents due to the fact that there was no information about the customer. In South Korea, the same thing happened.\nRecall that a month ago at the exhibition in China who headed the delegation of Rostec Viktor Kladov said that the contract for the supply of 48 helicopters Mi-17V-5 to India fell through, because there the army “priorities“. Refusal of purchases of the most modern Russian helicopter Ka-52 was followed by Egypt, decided to buy American aircraft.\n“Motor Sich” in the meantime, the helicopter SME-8, which will be released in the class of Mi-8/17 and will likely become a competitor to the model of helicopter, where you are basing the whole of its foreign trade strategy of “Helicopters of Russia”.\n© 2018, z-news.link. All rights reserved.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "You could say we at TED live in a permanent tomorrowland, so at our recent TED2015 conference, Disney commissioned TED with filmmaker Jesse Dylan to shoot some attendees and speakers speaking about the future for a promo for the movie Tomorrowland. (Full disclosure, Disney is also an advertiser on ted.com.)\nBut once the ad for the movie was cut together, we had some amazing leftovers — short interviews with people saying even more weird and interesting stuff about what they think the future will bring to their world (and ours). It was too good not to show. So here they are, insights from the likes of astronomer and planetary scientist Sara Seager, designer Tom Wujec and, first, science fiction writer Neil Gaiman:\nNeil Gaiman: What kind of world do we want to live in? “All utopian futures are broken, because all utopian futures are built on and contain human beings — and we are broken,” says author Neil Gaiman. That, he adds, might not be as bleak as it sounds.\nJuan Enriquez: We need to learn to rebuild our bodies Juan Enriquez, director of Synthetic Genomics, doesn’t pull punches. “If you believe in human rights and you believe in humanity being something truly special, we all have a moral, ethical responsibility to get humans off this planet,” he says. And that’s when things will get really interesting.\nSara Seager: Here’s how we’ll get to other planets — by printing humans “For now we have no way of getting to a planet far away,” says Sara Seager, a professor of planetary science and physics at MIT. Her solution? Forget hibernation or multigenerational spacecraft. Think DNA printing.\nJason Silva: How technology and human will finally become one “We wouldn’t be who we are without our technologies,” says media artist and futurist Jason Silva. And as our tools get better, faster, cheaper, we humans will change alongside them.\nTom Wujec: How we’ll plant a seed … and grow a table “Technology allows us to augment human capabilities,” says Autodesk Fellow Tom Wujec. It also allows us to rethink everything, even things we think we’ve pretty much nailed by now, like the design of a chair.\nNalo Hopkinson: Who gets left out of the future? “We need a better world,” says science fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson bluntly, and those who live on the fringes of society need that more than anyone. She uses her work to examine the present — and by extension, the future.\nStatue photo by Flickr user Mary Harrsch (CC BY-NC-SA); photo collage by Josh Roos/TED.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "One thing that I love about Ontario, is their Highway of Heroes, and the support they show by filling 50 bridges every time a soldier comes home, no matter what the weather. I am sure you make the pain of loss just a little bit easier for the families who have lost love ones. Good on you Ontario, I hope you never have to come out onto the bridges again.\nI particularly like this one because you get a real feel of what it must be like up on those bridges. I also love it because as the cars go by, you see the family waving back to the people on the bridges. Canadians helping fellow Canadians through tough times. We cry for the loss, but somehow those people on the bridges, lift our spirits as well.\nOn the 11th month of the 11th day.....remember! I always do because I was in labour with my youngest son who was born on the 12th. The pain I was feeling, doesn't even come close to the pain of the families who have lost a son, daughter, mother or father because of their willingness to give all for their country. My heartfelt thanks to all our troops and their families. You make me proud to be Canadian!\nI wonder where the fire in PM Harper's gut in support of our troops has gone. Have the opposition worn him down? Remember Red Fridays? Here is PM Harper giving an unscripted speech right from the heart. I want this PM back!\nHonour a veteran, wear a RED poppy.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Poynter Report is our daily media newsletter. To have it delivered to your inbox Monday-Friday, click here.\n“Who is this person?!”\nIf you watched Thursday’s White House coronavirus news conference, you might have wondered who the heck that reporter was who asked President Donald Trump if criticizing his COVID-19 response is equivalent to siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals and Latin gangs and cartels?\nThat was Chanel Rion, a reporter for the far-right One America News Network, better known as OAN. To call Rion a “reporter” might be a stretch, since she floats conspiracy theories like how the coronavirus was created in a lab in North Carolina. She and OAN also have been at the center of several other controversies that make you wonder how either has a spot in a White House briefing room.\nIt should be noted that as Rion began her questions — which were the last questions of the news conference — Trump interrupted her to say, “OAN. Very good. Thank you very much. You treat me very nicely.”\nActually, Rion’s first question, which she used to set up her question about criticism of Trump, was so incredibly off the rails that it seems hard to believe that it was asked in an official White House news conference about a pandemic that is killing people.\nRion asked, “Do you consider the term ‘Chinese food’ racist because it is food that originates in China or has Chinese origins?”\nObviously, it was Rion’s way of setting up Trump to defend his constant referral to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus.”\nBut, ultimately, Rion’s questions weren’t so much questions as they were a set up for Trump to go off on a spiteful anti-media rant. At one point, Rion said, “On that note, major left-wing media, even in this room, have teamed up with Chinese communist party narratives, and they are claiming you are racist for making these claims about ‘Chinese virus.’”\nShe tossed the softball and Trump took a big swing.\n“It amazes me when I read the things that I read,” Trump said. “It amazes me when I read The Wall Street Journal, which is always so negative. It amazes me when I read — The New York Times is not even — I barely read it. You know, we don’t distribute it in the White House anymore, and the same thing with The Washington Post.”\nForget that China has kicked reporters from The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post out of that country, Trump was just getting warmed up.\n“Because you see, I know the truth,” he continued. “And people out there in the world, they really don’t know the truth. They don’t know what it is. They use different slogans and different concepts for me almost every week trying to catch something. Last week, it was, oh, chaos. You see me, there’s no chaos. No chaos. I’m the one telling everybody to be calm. There’s no chaos at the White House. We have unbelievable professionals. It’s really — I mean, I think I came up with the term, I hope I came up with the term, but it is fake news. It’s more than fake news, it’s corrupt news.”\nThat was just Trump’s parting shot. Earlier in the news conference, when asked by NBC News’ Kristen Welker why the U.S. wasn’t prepared for the pandemic with more testing, Trump said, “We were very prepared. The only thing we weren’t prepared for was — the media. The media has not treated it fairly.”\nAt another point, Trump scolded the media about social distancing, saying journalists in the briefing room were sitting too close together.\n“We should probably get rid of another 75-80% of you,” Trump said. “I’ll just have two or three that I like in this room. I think that’s a great way of doing it. We just figured a new way of doing it.”\nSo, what do we make of these daily White House news conferences?\nYes, the president of the United States should be speaking to the nation regularly. This crisis is changing by the minute and we need the president and his team to give regular updates. We should all welcome and applaud a daily White House press briefing.\nBut, far too often, it feels as if Trump is turning these daily press conferences into Trump rallies — something he is unable to do right now because of the coronavirus. He spins grim news into bragging about how well he is handling this, even as each day brings more deaths, more problems and more dire projections. And one of his key messages, just like his rallies, is how awful and corrupt the media is.\n“That was candidate Donald Trump at times,” said “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd during NBC News’ coverage of the press conference. “It feels like the grievances are back. Whatever focus was on being the wartime president over the last couple of days seemed to go out the window. He seems to be just looking for reasons to be upset about things and he certainly seems to not want to take any accountability on the testing debacle.”\nWhat Trump fails to see is that the media’s job is to ask those who are supposed to know, starting with him, what is happening.\nWhere are the tests? Where are the supplies? How can we fix the economy? What is being done to find a vaccine?\nThese questions are not meant to undermine the president. But they aren’t meant to be easy questions either. They are meant to get answers to questions that are critical to our health and our economy. This virus is not a hoax or some sort of conspiracy invented to make the president look bad. The coronavirus is a real problem that needs a solution. The media is merely doing its job by asking those in charge about a solution.\nThat’s not corrupt. That’s not fake. That’s not evil.\nPhoto of the day\nWashington Post photographer Jabin Botsford captured the photo of the day Thursday. During the White House press conference on the coronavirus, Botsford captured President Trump’s prepared notes as Trump stood at the podium. The image clearly showed that the “corona” in the word “coronavirus” had been crossed out by a black marker. Above it, the word “Chinese” was written by hand.\nTrump has been criticized by those who believe “Chinese virus” is a racist term amid concerns Chinese people are being blamed for the pandemic.\nA new ballgame\nFor coverage of the coronavirus, it’s all hands on deck. For example, many of the sportswriters at The Washington Post will now move over to covering coronavirus stories. Washingtonian’s Andrew Beaujon reports that the Post’s sports editors, in a memo to staff, wrote, “The reality, however, is that without basketball, hockey, baseball, golf, soccer, tennis and a host of other sports — along with the pages of results, standings and roundups that go with them — it is going to be impossible to fill even a 6-page daily Sports section for a while.”\nInstead, starting Saturday, the Post’s sports section will be cut down to 2-3 pages and moved into the Style section. Other papers also are combining sports into other sections while no games are being played.\nA palpable hue of anticipation\nLooking for some positive news in the midst of all this coronavirus coverage? Here you go: ESPN is bringing back “ESPN8: The Ocho.”\n“The Ocho” will actually be shown on ESPN2 starting midnight Sunday morning and will air a day’s worth of offbeat sports such as the Stupid Robot Fighting League, cherry pit spitting, sign spinning, putt-putt and stone skipping. The name comes from the fictional channel in the 2004 movie “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.” This is the fourth year that ESPN is running “The Ocho” programming.\nMeanwhile, over on ESPN, New England football fans can cry in their chowder as the network runs a seven-hour marathon from noon to 7 p.m. Sunday of Tom Brady’s greatest moments. The legendary quarterback announced this week that he is leaving the Patriots after 20 years, reportedly to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.\n- A university professor was accused of sexual harassment. The accusations were false, but how to prove it? Sarah Viren for The New York Times Magazine on a story that reads like a thriller that you can’t read fast enough.\n- Big scoop from NPR — a secret recording has Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, warning well-connected constituents three weeks ago that the coronavirus was going to be a “dire” issue. Then, after that, Burr dumped up to $1.6 million in stock, ProPublica’s Robert Faturechi and Derek Willis reported.\n- Will coronavirus be the end of movie theaters? The Washington Post’s Alyssa Rosenberg writes how our movie culture might permanently change.\nHave feedback or a tip? Email Poynter senior media writer Tom Jones at email@example.com.\nMore Poynter resources\n- The Poynter College Media Project (program for the 2020/21 academic year). Deadline: April 12.\n- Will Work For Impact: Fundamentals of Investigative Journalism (online group seminar). Deadline: April 13.\nWant to get this briefing in your inbox? Sign up here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A Florida-based mortgage banker has been issued two favorable judgements this month, according to wire reports.\nAmerica's Senior Financial Services Inc. won a $316,500 default judgment against AIM Securities, AIM Financial Advisors Inc. and Texan Ronald Ardt, company officials said. The award concerned \"civil theft and conversion\" in failing to perform investment banking services, according to a company statement.\nThe regional mortgage banker was issued another favorable judgment Friday for almost $1 million from Finantra Capital Inc. The company's wire report stated that the judgment was for recovery of a mortgage funding arrangement that Finantra failed to uphold. The statement also quoted America's senior officials as \"committed to protecting shareholder value.\" It further quoted general counsel Gary Barcus, \"There can be no assurances given that AMSE will be able to collect judgment from Finantra.\"\nIn the reverse mortgage lender's SEC filing dated May 20, America's Senior forecasted revenues of $2.4 to $2.5 million for the current quarter. For the quarter ended March 31, the company reported revenues of $2.5 million to the SEC.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hey guys! Do you know our pal Louis Tomlinson? Once considered the foil to Harry Styles' greatness, now the standout of One Direction? Even after the success of \"No Control,\" Louis' newfound confidence continues on Made in the A.M. Not only does the guy have writing credits on half of the LP, he also just effin' shreds with his voice (like, guitar-solo voice). His verse in the fun.-channeling \"End of the Day\" is especially remarkable.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell congratulated Pete Buttigieg for being an openly gay man who has been confirmed as President Joe Biden’s Transportation secretary while at the same time acknowledging the former South Bend mayor wasn’t the first.\nThat honor belongs to Grenell, who was the first openly gay man to become a Cabinet-level official during the Trump administration.\n“Congratulations to @PeteButtigieg on becoming the second openly gay member of a President’s Cabinet. Welcome to the club!” Grenell wrote.\nCongratulations to @PeteButtigieg on becoming the second openly gay member of a President’s Cabinet.\nWelcome to the club! pic.twitter.com/BbKK6iTBW1\n— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 2, 2021\nGrenell’s tweet matters because it served as a reminder to many left-leaning political figures and media members who were hailing Buttigieg as being the first.\nIn December, when Biden first nominated Buttigieg, who ran against him in the Democratic primaries last year, many in the media were quick to claim that he would become the first member of the LGBTQ community to serve in a presidential Cabinet.\n“Former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg will be the first out gay person to be a member of the presidential Cabinet,” LGBTQ Nation reported.\nMeanwhile, LGBTQ outlet “Queerty” reported him as being the “first openly gay Cabinet secretary in history,” as did other related outlets.\n“It is the most senior intelligence position in the Trump administration and entails overseeing 17 different military and civilian intelligence agencies, including the CIA. In doing so, Grenell, 53, becomes the first openly gay man to hold a cabinet position,” Queerty noted.\nIn a subsequent article, the outlet would explain that technically, its claim is accurate because Buttigieg would become the first openly gay person to be confirmed by the Senate; Grenell never got to a Senate confirmation process.\n“Within minutes of the announcement, Trump supporters were calling Buttigieg’s historic nomination #fakenews. They argued that Richard Grennell was actually the first openly gay person to serve as a member of the presidential Cabinet when he was appointed Acting Director of National Intelligence by Donald Trump earlier this year,” Queerty noted.\n“While Trump & Co. love making this claim, there’s always been a caveat that they’ve ignored. Because while Grenell was, indeed, appointed to Trump’s cabinet, he only served in an interim capacity for three months, and he never had a formal Senate hearing because Trump had him jettisoned out the minute it became clear he’d never get confirmed.”\nCritics argue that is a distinction without a difference since the position of DNI is a Cabinet-level post.\nMedia and Democratic political figures nevertheless made the distinction after Buttigieg was confirmed.\n“Senate votes to confirm Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary on Tuesday, making him the first Senate-confirmed LGBTQ Cabinet secretary in American history,” CNN’s Jake Tapper wrote.\n“Breaking: The Senate has just confirmed Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation. Buttigieg is the first openly gay cabinet secretary to be confirmed by the Senate,” MSNBC’s Kyle Griffin posted.\nBreaking: The Senate has just confirmed Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation.\nButtigieg is the first openly gay cabinet secretary to be confirmed by the Senate.\n— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 2, 2021\n“Today Mayor Pete became Secretary Pete, as the senate just confirmed @PeteButtigieg to lead the @USDOT-the first openly gay person to serve in a Cabinet. It follows his remarkable race for @POTUS. Just 4 years ago, he lost a bid to be @DNC chair. What a lucky break THAT was!” Axelrod wrote.\nToday Mayor Pete became Secretary Pete, as the senate just confirmed @PeteButtigieg to lead the @USDOT-the first openly gay person to serve in a Cabinet.\nIt follows his remarkable race for @POTUS.\nJust 4 years ago, he lost a bid to be @DNC chair. What a lucky break THAT was!\n— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) February 2, 2021\nFormer Fox News and NBC host Megyn Kelly took others to task for moving the goalposts and making the same false claim about Buttigieg’s posting.\nYou see @RichardGrenell doesn’t count for some b/c he worked for Trump. Oh wait, er, I mean…it’s bc he was only an “acting” cab. memb. Got it?\nExcept someone should tell the NYT: “Mr. Grenell, is also thought to be the first openly gay cabinet member.”https://t.co/Q4CKyNJwKU https://t.co/edHPGZgenV\n— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) February 2, 2021\n“You see @RichardGrenell doesn’t count for some b/c he worked for Trump. Oh wait, er, I mean…it’s bc he was only an ‘acting’ cab. memb. Got it? Except someone should tell the NYT: ‘Mr. Grenell, is also thought to be the first openly gay cabinet member,’” she wrote in response to Lawfare executive editor Susan Hennessey, who tried to argue that Grenell was never confirmed.\nKelly also called out NBC for posting a similarly incorrect statement about Buttigieg, though she then credited her old network for issuing a correction.\n— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) February 3, 2021\nStill other online users credited Grenell’s deftness.\n“Well played!” one user wrote.\n— Shaking my Head on a Daily Basis (@ShakingDaily) February 2, 2021\nDONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW\nPlease help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. 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{"text": "A friend reminded me Thursday of a backyard ball game in 1967 among some high school chums.\nIt came up in conversation because it was the last time there was a triple crown winner in Major League Baseball — Carl Yastrzemzki. One time every game, at least one of us would try to emulate the batting stroke of “Yaz.”\nBut the triple crown achievement of Miguel Cabrera, who coincidentally hit the same number of home runs (44) as Yaz, may not have been the greatest event in baseball this week.\nWe refer you to Adam Greenberg.\nA footnote in baseball history.\nCue the Fantasyland music. Yeh. “When You Wish Upon a Star.”\nGreenberg was a promising minor league player in the Chicago Cubs organization in 2005. He got his chance in the big leagues as a pinch-hitter. On the first pitch in his first at-bat, he was hit on the back of the head, collapsing with a concussion.\nHe became a painful asterisk in baseball history — one of two players who was hit by a pitch in his first plate appearance before taking the field.\nHe tried to revive his career but he had extended effects from what was described as a mild concussion. For months, he would have prolonged headaches when he bent over to tie his shoes.\nHis dream vanished.\nFor seven years.\nThen, filmmaker Matt Austin, a Cubs fan, started a “One-At-Bat” petition drive to give Greenberg the Major League League chance he never had.\nInspired, the Miami Marlins signed Greenberg to a one-day contract. Tuesday, he was an official member of the Marlins, and went through the regular routine as a pro baseball player and was sent by manager Ozzie Guillen to pinch-hit against R.A. Dickey, a knuckleballer. With “Dream On” playing as he walked to the plate, Greenberg received a standing ovation.\nThen, struck out.\nOn the stat line only.\n“I never thought it was about getting me an at-bat,” he said later. “It was about doing it for everyone who had a dream that was taken away from them and has ever worked hard to accomplish a goal and gotten knocked down and the ability to keep pushing and keep working and try to make the impossible possible.”\nGreenberg signed for $2,623 for his one-game appearance. The money will be donated to research for brain trauma injuries to athletes.\nThe contest was an otherwise meaningless game against two disappointing teams who were playing out the string.\n“I think I’ve never seen this ballclub more excited than today,” Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said. “We’ve been losing so many games we hate each other.”\nThe game went extra innings.\nMaybe one more magical touch to extend a dream.\nSports columnist David McCollum can be reached at 505-1235 or firstname.lastname@example.org", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Very few people appreciate that the Student Loans Company has well over nine million customers and offers a universal service across a vast range of highly individual circumstances. We also operate in an environment where security is paramount.\n@SF_England - New online repayment service will improve the customer experience for millions of graduates in managing their student loan, understanding their balance and helping to avoid over-repayment\nNew Chair of the Student Loans Company appointed\nThe Department for Education has today confirmed that Peter Lauener has been appointed as Chair of the Student Loans Company (SLC), taking over the role from Professor Andrew Wathey, who has held the position on an interim basis since 1 February 2020. Professor Wathey replaced Christian Brodie, who served as Chair for six years from January 2014.\nHow to resolve AdBlock issue?\nYou are using adblocker please support us by whitelisting www.fenews.co.uk", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Belgrade (AFP) – “Give birth, don’t delay!” “Love and babies are what we need first!”\nSerbia has announced the winning slogans in a competition to help boost the birth rate in the Balkan country, where the population is decreasing by tens of thousands each year.\nA campaign to tackle the declining numbers is due to start “soon”, a spokeswoman at the ministry dealing with demographics told AFP on Wednesday.\nBut government officials have already chosen their favourite slogans from more than 1,000 entries in a nationwide cash-prize competition.\n“Mum, I don’t want to be alone. Dad, I want a brother,” came in joint second place, along with the more direct command: “Enough of words! Let babies’ cries be heard!”\nSerbia’s ageing population of seven million people is dropping off by around 36,000 people a year, according to the national statistics office.\nIn 2016, 100,834 people died while just 64,734 were born. On top of that, a “brain drain” has seen Serbian youngsters flocking abroad to study and work in richer countries.\nBut the planned campaign to boost births has angered Serbia’s influential deputy prime minister Zorana Mihajlovic, who warned that it could “only be counter-productive”.\n“Most of the slogans chosen in this initiative require women to give birth as an imperative,” she was quoted as saying by the local Beta news agency.\nMihajlovic recently came up against the powerful Serbian Orthodox Church on the matters of childbirth and abortion, which is strongly opposed by religious officials.\nThe leader of the Church, Patriarch Irinej, met President Aleksandar Vucic in October to discuss their concerns over the country’s “very low birth rate”.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It looks like the Occupy Wall Street group is finally living up to its reputation of being free riders.\nIn a stunt targeting the New York City transit system, Occupiers chained open service gates in numerous subway stations on Wednesday, using padlocks and posting fake signs announcing free rides. And now, there's even allegations that local unions were involved.\nThe New York Daily News has pictures of the chains and signs:\nAccording to the Daily News, eight stations were hit in the stunt.\nBut other details are emerging from a pro-Occupy blog that suggests this wasn't just an Occupy incident. According to a communique forwarded to the site Strike Is a Verb, \"workers from the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Amalgamated Transit Union\" also participated. That communique also claims the number of subway stations hit numbered over 20:\nThis morning before rush hour, teams of activists, many from Occupy Wall Street, in conjunction with rank and file workers from the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Amalgamated Transit Union, opened up more than 20 stations across the city for free entry. As of 10:30 AM, the majority remain open. No property was damaged. Teams have chained open service gates and taped up turnstiles in a coordinated response to escalating service cuts, fare hikes, racist policing, assaults on transit workers’ working conditions and livelihoods — and the profiteering of the super-rich by way of a system they’ve rigged in their favor.\nFor the last several years, riders of public transit have been under attack. The cost of our Metrocards has been increasing, while train and bus service has been steadily reduced. Budget cuts have precipitated station closings and staff/safety reductions. Police routinely single out young black and Latino men for searches at the turnstile. Layoffs and attrition means cutting staff levels to the bare minimum, reducing services for seniors and disabled riders. At the same time, MTA workers have been laid off and have had their benefits drastically reduced. Contract negotiations are completely stalled.\nWorking people of all occupations, colors and backgrounds are expected to sacrifice to cover the budget cut by paying more for less service. But here’s the real cause of the problem: the rich are massively profiting from our transit system. [Emphasis added]\nBut despite that claim, TWU Local 100 -- which supports Occupy -- has denied any involvement.\n\"We knew nothing about it,\" local President John Samuelsen told the Daily News.\nPolice are still investigation and no arrests have been made. The chains and locks, which popped up around 5 am, were removed by about 8:30 am yesterday morning.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The General Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the pardoning of convicts by President Salome Zourabichvili, ONA reports citing Georgian media.\nThe investigation was launched into alleged abuse of power in the pardoning procedure.\n“The Prosecutor General’s Office of Georgia has launched an investigation into the alleged abuse of power in the process of pardoning of convicts”, it is said.\nPresident of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili pardoned 34 prisoners in connection with Virgin Mary Day on August 28 including three convicts charged for the murder and one person wanted by law enforcers.\nThe above caused outrage in society and among the opposition parties.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Most Active Stories\n- Montgomery may ban smoking, Sirius-XM settlement\n- Governor Bentley Challenges Legislators to Lead on Budget Crisis\n- Alabama GOP Chief: \"No Third term,\" Airbus is hiring\n- Tough State Budget Choices, and an Eating detector for the holidays?\n- High School Graduation rate improves, Montgomery \"no smoking\" ban\nPolitics & Government\nThu February 13, 2014\nBill Would Allow School Prayers\nAn Alabama lawmaker is seeking to let public school teachers begin each day by reading opening prayers that were given in Congress.\nThe House Education Policy held a public hearing Wednesday on the legislation.\nThe bill would set aside 15 minutes at the start of each school day to study the procedures of Congress, and give a verbatim reading of a congressional opening prayer.\nBill sponsor, Rep. Steve Hurst, says teachers could choose a prayer that related to the day's lesson. He says teachers might choose a prayer that was said on a particular day in history.\nOpponents say the proposal is unconstitutional.\nSusan Watson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, says the proposal is teacher-led prayer being dressed up as a civics lesson.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The investigation concluded that the Deputy Secretary created an atmosphere of favoritism, and perceived special access with his interventions.\nThe 97-page report from the OIG says that certain \"career employees\" of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) came forward with the allegations that Mayorkas was intervening in a particular visa program \"which gives residency preference to aliens who agree to invest in the US economy to create jobs for US citizens.\"\nThe investigation said that in three different cases Mayorkas intervened directly with interested parties and USCIS staff to achieve a favorable outcome that would not have occurred without his influence.\nSenate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) are also implicated in the report. One of the three cases outlined was for a group of Asian investors in a Las Vegas hotel and casino that Reid had lobbied heavily for. And another concerned investors in an electric car company for which McAuliffe was chairman.\nThe report also states that the OIG couldn't determine any particular motive for the favoritism Mayorkas demonstrated.\nHomeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson called Mayorkas “an exceptionally conscientious, honest and patriotic public official,” in a public statement.\n\"He is often impatient with our sluggish government bureaucracy, can at times be very hands-on in resolving issues and problems that are brought to his personal attention, and is always mindful that we are public servants,\" Johnson continued. \"Ali works hard to do the right thing, and never acts, in my observation, for reasons of personal advancement or aggrandizement.\"\nMayorkas was the head of the visa agency from 2009 to 2013 when he was made deputy secretary over strenuous Republican objection that the promotion was inappropriate until the investigation begun in 2012 was finished. He disagreed with the report in a public statement but conceded he would “certainly learn from it.”\nInspector General John Roth called the agency employees who came forward \"courageous\" and the report indicates that their anonymity will be maintained under the Whistleblower Protection Act.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Towards a Cashless Society\nTan Nyat Chuan, Director of Payment Systems Policy, Bank Negara Malaysia\nYou can share this podcast by copying this HTML to your clipboard and pasting into your blog or web page.\nBank Negara is in the middle of a 10-year financial blueprint to ‘modernise the payment landscape’ by 2020. They want see greater use of debit cards, displacement of cheques and more ubiquitous use of e-payments. The end result of this is disinflation: lower costs of credit/debit cards, a more fluid transaction process and generally lower costs of doing business.\nThis and more than 60,000 other podcasts in your hand. Download the all new BFM mobile app.\nTags: breakfast grille, bank negara, cashless society, cashless", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mark Simon’s head is shaped like a\nfishbowl. But then, I’m looking at the Portland pianist, between bites\nof my creamy Pacific Coast Seafood Pasta ($16.50), through the\ndistorting lens of an oversized and underfunded tip jar...\nSadly, there wil be no live blog for tonight’s epic Blazers/Magic game. But seeing as how this may be the biggest challenge the Blazers have faced all season, we didn’t want to leave you hanging. So we’ve built this 10-point Blazer/Magic drinking game for your enjoyment. Face it, with Dwight Howard taking charge of the competition, this could be the kind of game you want to be drunk for.-...More\nThe camera flashes to the hall just outside the locker room, as it always does before games, and most of the players glance sideways at the camera for a minute or ignore it all together. Nolan Smith, though, flashes a smile and a big peace sign, like he's a giddy fan who has falsely assumed he's on national television. I like that. Looseness. I know Nolan probably won't see the court much—if at ...\nThere are some unavoidable differences between Luck-One's latest video—for \"Farewell,\" his kinda-sorta retirement anthem—and Macklemore's breakthrough Northwest vid, \"The Town.\" The lingering shots of piles of photos, the rooftop rapping segment, the warm shots of friends and family—all of these were in Zia Mohajerjasbi's 2009 Mack shoot, and no doubt influenced the visuals for the very pret...\nAndrew Bynum is good. He's real good. He's big, he's quick (considering the bigness) and he plays aggressive basketball. He's especially good at flattening out Puerto Rican point guards who play with a little too much gusto. So that's my word of the day: Bynum. I'm not sure how the Blazers intend to defend the young man, but neither of the team's aging centers are going to be able to keep u...\nPortland has its fair share of anthems. I'm thinking of \"Portland Water\" by Michael Hurley, \"Rose Parade\" by Elliott Smith, \"Rose City\" by Viva Voce, the Decemberists' \"On the Bus Mall,\" that little Loretta Lynn and Jack White number. See, plenty of them. Enough to make a navel-gazing compilation, even (hmmm, file that one away for later, Casey). But I can always use another one.\nIn his first full season with the Blazers, Gerald Wallace has emerged as the team’s heart.\nGerald Wallace is a quiet guy. So it was something to note\nwhen, in the closing seconds of the first half of the Trail Blazers’\ngame against Sacramento on Dec. 27, he dumped his exhausted, sweat\nLiv Warfield has sung in front of 80,000 fans. She’s glad to be home.\nIn 2006, there was no brighter shining light in Portland’s\nmusic scene than Liv Warfield. The R&B singer could bait audiences\nby laying smoky nu-soul vocal melodies over her band’s underst", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "But it will not be easy given the packed leaderboard at PGA National on a day where his great friend and fellow Irishman Rory McIlroy briefly threatened the lead but collapsed in the “Bear Trap” closing stretch of holes.\nLowry made a blistering start to his round on Saturday with birdies at his first, third and fourth holes. The Offaly man kept his momentum going with a superb par at the eighth after a wayward drive led to a penalty shot, but a 140-yard approach over a bunker to four feet set up a par.\nLowry birdied the 10th to take the lead on his own and had a chance to extend his lead on the 11th but his birdie putt agonisingly stayed on the edge of the hole. He fell out of the lead after a short par miss from inside three feet at 13th hole, as Austin Eckroat birdied, before two more good birdies chances on 14 and 15 just missed.\nLowry made no mistake on the 16th, however, after a brilliant approach again to six feet and a birdie to get to 12 under. On the final hole, the 36-year-old hit it into the bunker in two on the par 5, but hit a superb bunker shot to close to finish in 66 strokes. His score of 13-under-par was matched by 42-year-old English journeyman David Skinns, and American Eckroat. Five players are on 10 under.\nMcIlroy suffered an up-and-down day on the greens after a frustrating 18 putts on the front nine led to him hitting the turn in one-over 36 after a three-putt from 24 feet on the ninth. On the back nine, however, he made birdie putts from 10 feet and 23 feet, before a great wedge to three feet on the 13th made it three birdies in four holes to get within two of the lead.\nMcIlroy then had a nightmare finish at the “Bear Trap”. He bogeyed at the 15th after he failed to get up and down from the bunker at the back. On the 16th, a bad push with an iron ended up with his ball submerged in the water. The Northern Irishman took off his shoe and tried to play it, but failed to advance it out. After he failed to get up and down after a penalty drop, it meant a nightmare triple bogey. Another birdie miss from nine feet at the 17th followed, before a birdie at the 18th for a one-over-par round of 72 and seven under for the tournament, six shots behind Lowry.\nMeanwhile on the DP World Tour, Tom McKibbin recovered well from two bogeys in his first two holes to stay within five shots of the lead at the SDC Championship in South Africa. A one-under-par round of 71 left him at six under, the leaders Daniel Brown and Connor Syme on 11 under.\nOn the LPGA Tour, Leona Maguire is tied 56th after another over-par round left her six over for the tournament at the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore. Japanese player Ayaka Furue leads by two shots on 10 under.\nOn the LIV Golf Tour, Graeme McDowell is tied 47th in Jeddah as in-form Joaquin Niemann leads by two shots from Charl Schwartzel.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This is the first post in a four-part series about a day I spent photographing the activities at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights. The church’s director of communication needed updated photos for the website and various print materials. Luckily for me as a photographer, children grow up, members come and go, and the church continually adds new and innovative programs. There is an ongoing need for fresh photos. The director of communication worked beside me all day, and determined that we needed photos of DiscoveryLand Sunday school, the annual barbecue, the new thrift store, and a few others.\nBefore Sunday school started, we tried to photograph two scenes. The two photos directly above and below are the best our failed attempts. The annual barbecue followed the regular Sunday service, so we expected a large congregation. My client wanted a wide-angle shot of crowds of people entering the church to show the wonderful sense of community at Plymouth. So I staked out on a tall ladder across the street and waited. And waited. And waited. Normally, everyone enters the church through the main doors to the sanctuary. As luck would have it, that day they entered from the other side. Before we realized this, I passed the time photographing two teenage ushers and their mother in the doorway (above).\nNext we went to the arcade between the sanctuary and the church house to shoot the barrage of children and adults exiting after the service. If I had more time to prepare, I may have done better, but as I was almost done setting up, the children rushed passed me, and it was over in an instant (below).\nI did much better in DiscoveryLand Sunday school, where in one room older children read and discussed Bible stories, and in another room younger children made necklaces from Cheerios and listened to stories read by adults.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Weather Condition Advisory for January 26, 2015\nWilmington – State officials are continuing to monitor weather conditions as a Winter Weather Advisory remains in effect through 3 p.m. tomorrow. While all of Delaware is expected to get some snow this evening and into tomorrow, the National Weather Service is advising there is a sharp cutoff in total expected snowfall between areas getting only a few inches or those getting around a foot. Currently, state offices plan to open tomorrow, but that may change based on conditions in the early morning. Notice of the status of state offices will be posted by 5:30 a.m. Citizens and employees should check to see which offices are open in the morning. DelDOT continues to plow and salt roads as necessary, but drivers should exercise caution on the icy roads and allow plenty of room between vehicles. Visibility may be diminished by falling and blowing snow.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The period around the new year has become one of the busiest times for chess players.\nHoliday chess tournaments have a long tradition. One of the oldest, the Hastings International Chess Congress in England, has been held every year since 1920-21, with a break during World War II.\nThis year’s tournament began on Dec. 28 and ends Jan. 5. After six rounds, Andrei Istratescu of Romania, Yuri Drozdovskij of Ukraine and Zbynek Hracek of Czech Republic were leading the top section with 5 points, and being chased by a group of eight players, including three grandmasters, three international masters and two masters who each had 4.5 points.\nHastings is no longer as prestigious as it once was, and the reason may be that it has a lot more competition than when it was first held. Another long-running tournament is Reggio Emilio, which is named for the Italian town in which it is held. Like Hastings, it is not quite as prestigious as it once was, but it is a small invitational, so its fields tend to be of a higher quality. This year’s event ends Jan. 6, and includes Zoltan Almasi of Hungary, No. 26 in the world, Baadur Jobava of Georgia, No. 32, and Gata Kamsky of the United States, No. 40. After five rounds, Kamsky and Almasi are tied for the lead with 3.5 points.\nIn Sweden, the 39th edition of the Rilton Cup is underway. Like Hastings, it also ends Jan. 5. After six rounds, Eduardas Rozentalis of Lithuania and Aleksandr Shimanov of Russia are leading with five points each, trailed by six grandmasters and two international masters who each have 4.5 points.\nLast week, two other elite events wrapped up in Europe. Wednesday, Alexander Grischuk, No. 15, won the Russian championship with 6.5 points, a half point ahead of Peter Svidler, No. 10. As usual, the championship — a 10-player round-robin (every player faces each of the other competitors once) — was incredibly strong, with five of the world’s top 35 players. Though Artyom Timofeev, No. 85, had a bad performance, ending up in ninth place, his Round 5 victory over Denis Khismatullin was one of the best games of the year.\nThe Russian women’s championship, which was held concurrently, was won by Alisa Galliamova, who scored 7.5 points out of 9. Trailing her by half a point was Nadezhda Kosintseva, one half of the remarkable sister act that includes Tatiana, who finished in fourth with 5 points. Galliamova’s victory was remarkable in that she seems to have not played a tournament in some time.\nThe Groningen Chess Festival in the Netherlands also finished on Wednesday. The winner of the top section was Illya Nyzhnyk, a 13-year-old! international master from Ukraine. Nyzhnyk ran away from the field, which included 13 grandmasters (among them, Dutch champion, Anish Giri, who is 15!). Nyzhnyk finished with 7.5 points out of 9, a point ahead of Jan Werle and Dimitri Reinderman, two Dutch grandmasters; Giri was in an eight-way tie for fourth.\nHoliday chess has also taken hold in the United States.\nFresh off his victory in the 93rd Marshall Chess Club championship in New York City, Alex Lenderman traveled to Washington, D.C., and won the 36th Eastern Open, finishing a point ahead of grandmaster Alexander Ivanov and three international masters, Bryan G. Smith, Dean Ippolito and Raymond Kaufman.\nIn Las Vegas, five grandmasters tied for first in the 19th North American Open, which ended Dec. 29. Varuzhan Akobian took first on tie-breaker over Josh Friedel, Alexander Shabalov, Alexander Yermolinsky and Victor Mikhalevski, an Israeli grandmaster.\nThe University of Maryland Baltimore County swept to victory at the Pan-American Championships, which were held at the University of Texas at Brownsville from Dec. 27 to 30. The U.M.B.C. squad, consisting of grandmasters Leonid Kritz and Sergey Erenburg, international masters Giorgi Magevelashvili and Sasha Kaplan and woman’s grandmaster Sabina-Francesca Foisor, went 6 and 0, finishing 1.5 points ahead of the University of Texas at Dallas A and B teams and Texas Tech University’s A team, all of which tied for second.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Well, perhaps I am slightly biased, but I’d argue an emphatic ‘YES’!\nHowever, I don’t think I am alone in this view… Recently, I ran a competition, across social media, asking my ‘reddies’ why redheads rock.\nI was amazed by the responses and I thought I’d share some of the things that came over – some thought provoking, some inspirational and some downright hilarious.\nFrom @redheadplanet – “We think Redheads Rock because we are rare colourful gems in a sea of regular stones!”\nWow! A deep, insightful and really beautiful viewpoint.\nFrom @Gsnaps – “Redheads Rock because we are so rare, yet so many others pay good money to match our beautiful hair!”\nGreat answer – and, when you think about it, downright spot on!\nFrom @I_LL_BE_GLAMMED “Redheads Rock because we are original and stand out from the crowd!”\nCan’t argue with that!\nFrom @littlehomebirdy “It gives us great sense of humour & ready made style because our hair will always make a statement!”\nI love this one – “we have ready made style and always make a statement”! We rock!\nFrom @GingerGathering “Redheads Rock because we’ve survived the bullies and shown the world we’re awesome!”\nGood call – it’s a shame that the narrow minded out there find hair colour a source of amusement, but hey,we rock… end of!\nI could keep going forever with the great responses, but I wanted to pick just a few of them, to show the diversity, truthfulness and genuine nature of the people that entered the competition – thanks to all and well done to the winner!\nI know it’s easy for me to sit here and write about the virtues of redheads but, when I reach out to my ‘social army’, I’m always touched as to the connection we all share… as I said at the beginning of the blog – way more than just a hair colour – we’re redheads and we rock!\nBye for now!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Greg Olsen announced his retirement after 14 seasons in the NFL.\nOlsen announced his decision on FOX's NFC Championship Game pre-game show. He'll begin working for the network this year. A first-round pick of the Bears back in 2007, Olsen was a meaningful fantasy contributor following his move to the Carolina Panthers. His best season came in 2015 when Cam Newton led the team to a Super Bowl appearance. Olsen totaled over 1,100 receiving yards and seven TDs that regular season.\nGreg Olsen (foot) will not play in Week 17's game against the 49ers.\nGreg Olsen’s injury was considered season-ending when he suffered a plantar fascia tear in November. He has been trying to get back on the field since Week 15, but it appears as if he just can’t shake the injury. He’ll hope to make it back for the playoffs but there are no guarantees, especially with the lingering nature of this foot injury.\nAccording to ESPN, Seahawks TE Greg Olsen (foot) is considered a long shot to play against the Washington Football Team in Week 15.\nOlsen is off IR, but it doesn't look like he is ready to return to the field. In his absence, Will Dissly and Jacob Hollister will get a majority of the snaps at TE. Dissly scored in Week 14, but he has a tough matchup against a strong Washington defense this week.\nGreg Olsen was placed on IR with a foot injury, and although he was initially expected to miss the remainder of the season, he has returned to practice and will hope to play again before the season ends.\nAt 35-years-old it's incredible to see the tight end push to return from a ruptured fascia that he suffered in Week 11. Plantar fascia injuries typically require a lot of pain tolerance during recovery so his status in practices should give us a clearer idea of his ability to play. Either way, he would make for a risky TE2 and shouldn't be on your fantasy radar.\nSeahawks coach Pete Carroll says TE Greg Olsen (foot) has a chance to return before the end of the season.\nCarroll notes that Olsen is \"moving around terrifically.\" The 34-year-old landed on IR back on November 23rd, which seemingly gives him a chance to return in Week 16. Of course, he won't be a fantasy option after such a long layoff, especially since he has cleared 35 receiving yards just once in 2020.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "WASHINGTON — The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), a coalition of mostly Mainline Protestant denominations, will be hosting the infamous Pastor Jeremiah Wright at a Washington, D.C. conference in July.\nObama’s former pastor will address RCRC’s annual National Religious Summit on Black Sexuality. RCRC was founded in 1973 to foster religious support for the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. Members of the RCRC coalition include agencies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ (UCC), the denomination in which Wright is ordained, and in which Obama was a member until recently. This year’s RCRC summit is called “The Dawn of a New Day.”\nOf course, most members of the denominations that belong to RCRC are unaware that their church supports a coalition that opposes all restrictions on abortion, including bans on partial-birth abortion, parental consent laws, or prohibitions against transporting minors across state lines for abortions. Surely, most church goers would also be surprised about their denominations facilitating an event for the incendiary Rev. Wright. But in many ways, the recently retired pastor of Trinity Church in Chicago is an appropriate icon for the truly unique RCRC.\nRCRC was the natural product of liberal Mainline Protestantism, whose elites eagerly subscribed to the overpopulation scares of the 1960s and 1970s. Having long since abandoned much of Christian theological orthodoxy, church elites easily abandoned aside traditional Christian taboos against abortion. Of course, most of the overpopulation scaremongering focused on the supposed threat of primarily poor and non-white populations around the world breeding beyond their capacity to support themselves. American Mainline Protestant elites, themselves overwhelmingly white and upper middle class, no doubt were distressed.\nNo predominantly black denomination or church group has ever belonged to RCRC, which besides Mainline Protestants also includes some Jewish groups, along with Unitarians and Catholics for a Free Choice. Unlike the overwhelmingly white Mainline Protestant denominations, which obsessively debate sexual issues, the historic black churches have remained resolutely conservative on such matters.\nUnderstandably, RCRC has made the social conservatism of black churches its special target. For 12 years, its annual black sexuality summit has attempted to recruit and energize activists who want to “break the silence” about sex in the black church. By “silence,” RCRC presumably means the lack of debate over abortion and homosexuality, which has also become an important emphasis for RCRC.\nHERE IS WHY Rev. Wright is an appropriate voice for RCRC. Primarily trained in Mainline white seminaries, and ordained in the overwhelmingly white United Church of Christ, his brand of radical Social Gospel has always been more shaped by the white Religious Left than the more culturally conservative black church. Rev. Wright is an icon for what the white Religious Left fervently wishes the black church in America would become.\nThis year’s RCRC black sexuality summit, like its past gatherings, will assail the “harsh toll” that government-funded abstinence programs take on vulnerable young people, who need more “comprehensive” and “accurate” sex education that offers a wide range of “reproductive” options. It also will spotlight the ostensible persecution of homosexuals within Christianity. “Society at large, and particularly the Black church, historically has discriminated against homosexuals and continues to perpetuate pain and isolation,” the sex summit brochure complains. An RCRC workshop will provocatively explore whether “lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons” should have “leadership roles” in the church. Another workshop will advise clergy on how to inform pregnant women with “all available information,” including “pregnancy termination.”\n“At long last the church is being challenged to speak to the world with clarity on issues relating to sexuality,” enthused the Rev. Carlton Veazey, RCRC’s president. “The church has been answering many questions that no one has been asking. We must address people’s real problems and concerns or our religion runs the risk of becoming irrelevant.” A big emphasis for this RCRC summit, as with past summits, has been “Keeping it Real!” This eagerness to be “real” seems to entail setting aside ostensibly archaic religious teachings about sexual chastity in place of more plausible alternatives centered on contraceptives and abortion. There will be special workshops for teenagers, which will include training for “advocacy” on justice issues. Veazey promises that the sex summit will “make the church more meaningful and relevant in people’s lives.”\nRev. Wright, himself an abortions right supporter and advocate for gay causes, no doubt will affirm RCRC’s themes about getting “real” in the black church. Thanks to its controversial themes, RCRC gets very little funding from its Mainline Protestant denominational membership. Instead, it relies on secular, left-wing philanthropies like the Ford Foundation. Like the Mainline Protestant elites, the liberal foundations probably also see the historic black churches as reactionary obstacles to getting “real” about abortion and homosexuality. They all must see Rev. Wright as a potentially helpful instrument in attempting to persuade black Christians to abandon their own beliefs in favor of what white liberals prefer.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sandra Bullock expressed grief over the death of legendry actor Betty White who passed away on 31st December at the age of 99.\nDuring her conversation with People, the Ocean’s 8 actor expressed that she is going to step in the New Year with loevely memories of the late actor.\nShe said, “I don’t drink vodka… but I will tonight, on ice, with a slice of lemon and a hot dog on the other side, and just be okay being sad. I’ll have to buy some rose-colored glasses because Betty was that for all of us.”\nRecalling her 2009 The Proposal co-star, the Bird Box actor gushed over White’s remarkable talent.\nShe opened up, “Timing isn’t easy in comedy, because you have to navigate other people’s timing. Betty pivots like I have never seen, making it look seamless,”\n“The rest of us just remain silent and pray we’re not cut out of the scene,” she added.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "THE British Government has finally\ndistanced itself from the activities of the pro-Biafra secessionist\ngroup, the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), The Nation reports.\nThis was contained in a statement\nreleased by the British High Commission denying links with the\nIndigenous People of Biafra, a pro-Biafra separatist group fighting to\ncarve out a separate state of Biafra from Nigeria.\nA diplomatic source who corroborated the\nHigh Commission’s statement said: “There is no way the UK Government\nwill harbour any terrorist organisation.\n''The UK is not immune from terrorism and it is in our interest to join hands with the Nigerian government to fight the scourge.\n“We can only crack down on any group if\nproven intelligence is made available. And even in doing that, we will\nact only within the ambit of the law and fundamental human rights.\n“If you will recall, the British Prime\nMinister in June called for a global action against the use of internet\nspace by terrorists.\n”She demanded international agreements to ‘regulate cyberspace’ against terrorists.”\nThe source quoted the British Prime\nMinister as saying: “We need to do everything we can at home to reduce\nthe risks of extremism online. We need to deprive the extremists of safe", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Check out this video of Atle Dahl base jumping off Kjerag for the filming of a commercial.\nThe Second of our Expedition reports came direct from my pen. The drive was long, so very very long, and after 4 days we were all eager to know what we had come so far for... our first taste. After finishing our rather long drive, and getting our first glimpse of rock, we pulled into an amazingly shady spot on the back side of a giant brown rocky castle. Piero obviously knew of this spot from previous journeys as he came directly here, no detours or backtracks, simply straight to the point.\nUpdate #2 from Ethan on our trip to Yangshuo, China. Hello fivetenies! Today marks the two-week countdown to the end of our trip to Yangshuo, China. The trip so far has had some ups and downs, some peaks and troughs, some highs and lows, as all trips do. The one thing that has stuck in the forefront of our collective consciousness is that the climbing here is really, really good.\nDecember in Britain can be dreary! With flights at a mere £100 and a forecast of a sunny 20 degrees Gran Canaria looked appealing. A family holiday with a beach priority but enough rock to keep insanity at bay. However, we were met by some of the worst weather on Gran Canaria in years, torrential rain and gale force winds. Schools were closed and buildings were blown down. In true British style I opted to climb on this day!\nWithin the indoor competitive climbing world, last Saturday night was one to remember. After a long week as Chief Setter, the rewarding crowd and electrifying atmosphere were very much welcomed. Check out this video from Dark Horse Series: Round 2.\nI was awarded the North Face Young Gun Award this year at the 2010 SCS National Championships. I would just like to thank everyone who had a part in this, and a very big special thanks to my mom as well.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Posted on March 19th, 2011\nArchived in Environmental Issues\nLeave a comment\nPanoramic Patio Doors\nMany Marble Machines\nThe 8.9M earthquake and tsunami has had devastating effects on Japan, these videos are just a few of those that recorded the disaster.\nMail (will not be published) (required)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It’s been awhile since we have mentioned the wedding here, and though we have decided to put off our original August date, we have been reminiscing about our time at home and how glorious long summer days truly can be. One of the best days of last summer was our first set of engagement pictures on my childhood farm. That place is my heart and soul, and I knew I wanted to capture our love where I felt most at home.\nThanks to social media and Instagram, Scott and I won an engagement shoot with the lovely and talented Michal-Kathryn, of Michal-Kathryn Photography. You might scoff, but Scott and I are not comfortable being candid in front of a camera, and so the idea of having someone trail us to catch all the weirdo smiles and unflattering moments was terrifying. M-K is a PRO, and what started off as the awkward-fake-smile-how-much-longer-can-we-pretend-to-be-alone turned into a fabulous experience and some of my favorite photos ever.\nSo without further ado, here is a small sample of our engagement photo shoot in Medina New York- all photos credited to Michal-Kathryn Photography:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Featuring the final leg of the journey as we headed from Tierra Del Fuego up Ruta 3, all the way to Buenos Aires. This adventure motorcyling video features clips from the stunning Peninsula Valdes with all its wildlife all the way up to packaging the bike with the freight forwarding company at the Buenos Aires airport.\nA big thank you to everyone we have met along the way – it has been the most incredible journey and one we will keep with us forever.\nFor those of you in the UK and in Croatia, we look forward to seeing you all very soon!\nNick, Ivanka, Kevin, Andre & Mark are in Bolivia and they set off from La Paz to Cuzco encountering road blocks, snow and great mountain scenery.\nTo be honest we have done harder roads than the road of death but we are glad that the road was open only one way when we did it. If there would have been traffic coming the other way then it would have been a different story.\nColombia has been relaxing, an adventure, we only probably road 10 days in the month we stayed there and we are now ready for the big ride down to Ushuaia in Tierra Del Fuego/ Argentina. We are currently in the Ecuadorian part of the Amazon jungle, having crossed the Equator.\nLeaving Bogota we headed south over a magnificent pass between Ibague and Armenia. Climbing to an altitude of 4000m through sweeping bends, lush mountains and small villages along the way. Then after this mountain crossing we straight-lined it south towards Popayan and then the border town of Ipiales where we crossed into Ecuador.\nThe last few days have been exciting, breathtaking, anxious and now we are safely tucked away in Boutique Hostel Violeta in the Candelaria part of Bogota.\nHere is a short video which shows Ivanka describing our recent challenges and what happens if you push your tyre changes to the limit! Lesson learnt from our point of view and we won’t do it again.\nThe whole experience with BMW was exemplary, so if you need assistance while on the road in Colombia then do pop by and say hello to Edgar Gomez.\nWe are now ready for the rest of the adventure and the strength and durability of the Metzeler Tourances has to be noted here; amazing that they lasted so long (10,500 miles) and incredible that they did not decide to blow on us.\nA major part of the trip so far as we cross from Central America to South America\nLeaving from a small fishing village called Carti in the Panama jungle and then heading on a four day crossing to the big city lights of Cartagena in Colombia via the San Blas Islands.\nIn short one of the most exciting things we have done for a very long time. From the buzz of hoisting the motorbike in the air and placing it on a 100 year old fishing boat, to snorkelling along the reefs of the San Blas Islands.\nIt feels superb to be now settled in Colombia, with the second half of the Americas to look forward to.\nWe’ve been in Guatemala for a couple of weeks now and its been a complete experience. Plently of lush green landscapes, a diversity of villages, towns and settlements and we have been really exposed to the vulnerability of the landscape to the tropical climate.\nWe are currently beside the beautiful Lago de Atitlan in a town called San Pedro La Laguna.\nThe rains have trapped us a little but we are having a great time and have met lots of interesting people. It is the tail end of the rainy season but in addition to this there are three tropical storms that we are on the cusp of and it is causing chaos throughout Guatemala. Dozens of roads are closed due to landslides, over a dozen people have lost their lives and the rain doesn’t want to stop.\nWhere we are the streets have been like small rivers, the lake is well above its usual water lines and families have lost their homes to the wet weather beacuse they are now semi-submerged. Yesterday, an Australian couple arrived in town somehow, they arrived by using a local ‘chicken bus’, then they walked across a landslide and through a coffee plantation and then eventually arrived after using a boat across the lake.\nOn Monday we have arranged to try and get out of San Pedro. This town is basically a lake formed in a crater, situated within a high mountain range which goes up to 3000m. On the way into the lake, it was quite challenging, we encountered some of the steepest roads we have been down so far. The roads and switch-back were narrow and windy, plus there are massive sections of the road with holes and loose gravel. Thinking about getting back up it has been on our minds constantly because we know that the road was closed for a couple of days due to earth slips. On the way in the rear brakes failed on our BMW GS Adventure because they became too hot. We basically had to sit it out and wait for them to cool down, then they returned back to normal.\nHowever, on the way out however we won’t be using the same road because we have been recommended to use another one. The road we will be using is the road to Santiago and it sounds as though it has less tarmac and more off road therefore we have arranged for a truck to transport out luggage with panniers and Ivanka along the road and to follow me as I ride the route on a lighter bike without all the extra weight.\nOn this route it will be necessary to take a police escort. The reason being because this route is less travelled and it has been the scene of robberies (of foreigners) in the past and so the police will be accompanying us for our own safety. We will let you know how it goes!\nSan Pedro has been a place to relax. We have been introduced to villages, customs and markets through an American called Robert. Robert has made our stay more interesting because he has introduced us to places and people that we never would have seen as a regular tourist. Robert has decided to bring a better way of life to the local people. In time he hopes to set up a fully functional and affordable clinic so villages have access to medicine and dental care. Robert took us to a local market, we visited a village where Robert had provided a wheelchair, we then took a mountain walk between local villages and the experience was a lot more than we expected. In return for Roberts kindness we helped create promotional and informative videos for his charitable cause. We wish him, and his colleagues, all the success in the future.\nNext week we hope to be in El Salvador, however we will see how the weather treats us.\nHere is a video from a trip into the mountains early in the week.\nHere is footage from earlier on in the trip as we got up at 4am in the morning and travelled across the Moave desert in Eastern California so we could get in and out of Death Valley. It was the hottest time of the year and the US were experiencing a heat wave so we were apprehensive to say the least. The hottest temperature we encountered in this area was 47 degrees Celcius at a place called Needles. After this point we put white tape on the handle grips so I could touch the handlebars.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Here's to a fantastic 26 year run CGW/GFW.\nFormer Computer Gaming World, now Games For Windows, announced that the printed magazine will no longer be available. This news hit home today when my CGW/GFW mag arrived as a PC Gamer mag. Those with ongoing subscriptions for CGW/GFW will now receive PC Gamer till their subscription runs out. CGW/GFW will still be available online at 1UP but without an actual magazine it won't be the same.\nAnother gaming icon bites the dust.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Unleash the power and energy with the right mics\nIn the fast-paced world of sports broadcasting, every moment counts. Advanced condenser microphones are engineered to focus on specific, often distant sound sources while minimizing unwanted background noise. With precision and accuracy, these microphones capture the action of the game and the raw emotions of the players, ensuring the audience doesn't miss a single detail.\nWhile many types of microphones are used for any given sports event, to give the audience an immersive sound experience, shotgun microphones are widely used. Many sporting events will have multiple shotgun mics placed around the playing area. Nonetheless, there are many other types of mics used for a successful broadcast.\nHighly directional shotgun microphones are and can be aimed precisely at the source of the sound. These are often used by broadcasters to capture specific sounds, such as commentary from the commentators' booth, sounds hitting a ball or the set off for a jump\nA sports interview with players, coaches, and officials is often done using lavalier (lapel) microphones. A lavalier microphone can also be used to capture ambient crowd noise from specific locations\nCommentators and analysts often use headset microphones as they provide live commentary during the broadcast. These microphones are hands-free and supply consistent audio quality\nBoundary microphones are placed on the ground or on a surface near the playing area. They are ideal for capturing the sounds of the playing surface and the immediate surroundings. They can be placed along the sidelines or on the field/court itself\nParabolic microphones use a dish-like reflector to capture sound from a specific direction, even at a distance. These mics are often used for capturing sounds from specific players or areas of the field while minimizing background noise\nIt is crucial to select the right combination of microphones and audio equipment to simplify the tasks of sound engineers. Sports audio equipment must work together effortlessly and be able to adapt to unexpected circumstances.\nTackling the roar: Conquering noisy sports venues\nMiking a noisy sports venue is a challenge that requires expert solutions. The thunderous cheers of the crowd, the echoing of footsteps, and the echoes from hard surfaces can all threaten the clarity of your broadcast.\nEquipped with advanced interference tube technology, DPA’s shotgun microphones isolate the sounds that matter most, while damping the sound behind the microphone. Say goodbye to audio distortion and hello to broadcast-quality sound!\nLive sports production presents an immense dynamic range of sounds – from the hushed conversations of coaches to the deafening roars of the crowd. Our shotgun microphones excel at capturing this wide spectrum of audio, ensuring that the gentlest whispers and the most thunderous roars are faithfully reproduced, providing an immersive experience for your audience.\nThe ultimate challenge: Adapting to different OB vans\nAs the heart of sports broadcasting, production trucks and OB vans demand the best audio equipment. Our shotgun microphones seamlessly integrate into these setups, enhancing the audio quality of your broadcasts. With innovative designs and rugged construction, our microphones are built to withstand the challenges of on-the-go production, ensuring your audience receives top-tier sound no matter where the action takes you.\nA1 audio engineers are no strangers to the need for adaptability. Working across various OB vans/OB trucks can be a daunting task, since no two are quite alike. Some shotgun microphones can simplify the process though. Choose microphones that are versatile and flexible – ones that can be used in various positions, and that are quick and easy to place and that won’t take extra time to adjust every time they are placed in a new position.\nMicrophone set up and placement: A challenge and an art\nMicrophone set up and microphone placement are critical elements in sports broadcasting. From lavs strategically positioned near basketball nets to shotguns capturing action sounds, and ambient mics painting the auditory landscape – choosing the right microphones can make this part of the job much easier.\nA shotgun microphone, like all mics, should be placed as close to the sound source as possible. Usually, though this depends on the specific application, this can be complicated because most broadcasters want to keep the microphone out of the camera frame. In addition, extremely directional mics like these are susceptible to vibrations and handling noise, so shock mounts or suspension systems to reduce these types of noise are necessary. Angle the microphone to capture the desired audio while minimizing unwanted noise.\nIn addition, wind noise can be a significant issue in outdoor sports broadcasting. Foam windshields (blimps) or fur covers (also known as \"dead cats\") must often be used on microphones to minimize wind interference and maintain high audio quality and intelligibility.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"Free Willy\" star falls ill, needs exercise\nAuthor: Inger Sethov\nVeterinarians, worried about the fading spirit of Keiko, 24, were considering luring the people-loving orca back into deep waters to readjust him to a life in the wild - the life from which he was removed when he was only two years old.\nKeiko's monitoring team, which has tracked him since he was released from his pen in Iceland in July, has started to feed him herring to shape him up, authorities said.\nLocals in western Norway have seen Keiko change from a joyful player when he made a surprise visit to the Skaalvik fjord a week ago to a loner shying away from the curious crowds who have rushed to watch the world-famous whale.\nJust one week ago, Keiko even allowed children to ride on his back.\n\"There has been a lot of fuss,\" said Lars Olav Lilleboe, the local Halsa municipality's Keiko coordinator, who liaises between Keiko's monitors and Norwegian authorities. He said a ban to keep people away had helped calm Keiko.\nMillions of dollars have been spent on preparing the 10-metre (30-foot) animal for life in the wild after the 1993 movie \"Free Willy\" prompted a campaign for his release, but Keiko still seems to prefer human company.\nLilleboe said Keiko's monitors had started feeding Keiko by boat early this week with his favourite dish - herring - to make sure he moved around in the narrow fjord.\n\"They are feeding him to make him exercise,\" Lilleboe told Reuters. \"This morning, he seemed happy and satisfied.\"\nLilleboe said a blood test of Keiko had showed a high level of white blood cells, indicating that the killer whale was either stressed or had caught a respiratory infection.\nKeiko showed up in western Norway after swimming some 1,400 km (870 miles) from Iceland. He was spotted in the fjord on Sunday by two 12-year-olds fishing in a small rowing boat.\nAmong world support for Keiko, French celebrity animal right activist Brigitte Bardot wrote an open letter to Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit last week, begging her to help save Keiko.\nNorway, with long whaling traditions, is the only nation in the world that hunts whales commercially, ignoring a global moratorium. However, it only hunts the minke whale.\nAnd a Norwegian pro-whaling Norwegian parliamentarian, Steinar Bastesen of the Coastal Party, told daily Aftenposten this week that there was no hope for Keiko in the wild, urging the United States to bring him back to captivity.\nNorwegian authorities in cooperation with Keiko's monitoring team are expected to decide this week whether to lure him back to deep waters or retire him in a peaceful fjord in western Norway.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "January auto sales released on Monday showed a precipitous decline in auto sales in January compared to January 2013. Of course the first words out of every analysts’ mouth was “bad weather.”\nThe distortion and perversion of the truth has reached new levels. What’s going on right now is right out of Animal Farm.\nBy PM Fund Manager Dave Kranzler, Truth in Gold:\nThe distortion and perversion of the truth has reached new levels. What’s going on right now is right out of Animal Farm. – The Golden Truth\nWinston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston’s job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. “1984,” George Orwell\nBlame it on the weather! January auto sales released on Monday showed a precipitous decline in auto sales in January compared to January 2013. Of course the first words out of every analysts’ mouth was “bad weather.”\nAs it turns out; in order to seek the facts, I did some research on weather patterns across the country in January. Looking at just the facts, the average daily temperature in January for the top 10 cities by population was about same as the historical average. In fact, on the west coast (i.e. San Diego and L.A.) the weather was warmer than average.\nFurthermore, just because there’s a couple days of snow and cold weather in the northeast, that would not prevent someone who wants to buy a new car from waiting until a warmer day to shop (“aw gee, it’s cold today and the roads are snowy so I’ll wait til next month to buy a new car…”).\nIf you look at the year over drop in car sales for December 2013/2012 and compare it to the year over drop for January 2014/2013, the decline was roughly 7x more for January than December. December had bad its fair share of bad weather days as well. Even if the weather affected sales a little, the huge relative decline for January reinforces my theme that the economy hit a wall in November and 2014 will see economic contraction.\nYou can read my brief article on car sales here: January Auto Sales: Another Big Drop Please note that January is one of the lowest seasonal months for car sales, but that’s why the January 2014/2013 comparison is so significant – it washes away seasonality.\nJust for the record, expect an insanely absurd jobs report on Friday. It seems that the Government’s attempt to cover up the truth varies inversely with the degree to which the U.S. economy is collapsing.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Will Pearson, europeantour.com\nat Le Golf National\nThere has been no shortage of praise from players and officials alike as European Tour Destination and 2018 Ryder Cup venue Le Golf National prepares to host the Alstom Open de France for a 22nd time.\nSituated on the outskirts of Versailles near Paris, the well-established home of the Open de France will become only the second Continental venue – following Club de Golf Valderrama, in Spain, in 1997 – to stage The Ryder Cup when the 42nd edition is contested between Europe and the United States in four years’ time.\nLe Golf National bested four other bids from rival nations Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain in an exhaustive bid process and will follow Gleneagles this year and Hazeltine in 2016 in hosting the revered, biennial showpiece.\nWith its stadium views, risk and reward holes and location close to one of the world’s foremost cities, the 2018 event promises to be quite the spectacle.\n“I think Le Golf National is going to be a fantastic Ryder Cup venue for many reasons,” said three-time European Ryder Cup player and defending Open de France champion Graeme McDowell.\n“Firstly, I can think of worse places in the world to stay in than Versailles, the Trianon Palace and the great hospitality and great food that we enjoy here.\n“But on the golf course, the last four or five holes, in the natural amphitheatre that this golf course creates, I can only imagine how good the buzz will be coming down 15 and 16. They are about as good and dramatic a risk-reward par three and four you'll get.\n“Then the 17th is a great par four and for matches that do come down the last, there's not going to be a better par four on The European Tour than the last at Le Golf National.\n“I can really picture 40, 50, 60,000 people up on those slopes around that little cauldron of the last four holes, and I think the atmosphere will be amazing.”\nHaving captained his European team to an astonishing comeback at Medinah in The 2012 Ryder Cup, Spaniard José María Olazábal is also well-placed to comment on what makes a great venue for the transatlantic clash.\n“It’s going to be very dramatic and therefore a great course for The Ryder Cup,” reflected Olazábal. “Especially the last few holes where everything will be decided. The 13th, with the water, then a par five which you can reach in two, then the last few holes are really breathtaking.\n“On 15 and 16 you have water, 17 being a long par four and 18 water again so a lot of things can happen on the closing holes. It’s going to be quite thrilling.”\nThe undulating, water-strewn layout, designed by Hubert Chesneau and Robert Von Hagge, was built between 1987 and 1990 and first staged the National Open Championship of France in 1991 when Eduardo Romero triumphed.\nBut for Le Golf National, the portents of a great future were evident from the outset, as David MacLaren, Director of Property and Venue Development for The European Tour, attests.\nHe said: “We all know Le Golf National has a great history and heritage, having staged multiple Open de France, but I first saw it during the early stages of the bidding process for The 2018 Ryder Cup when it became immediately apparent the quality of the venue and what a remarkably-designed layout the Albatros is.\n“This was not a God-given piece of land for a golf course. It was flat, needing huge amounts of work doing to it, so for someone to create a course which has 18 outstanding holes is something certainly worthy of note.”\nOf course, there are a number of factors needing careful consideration when planning the staging of one of golf’s most prized assets but L’Albatros was seen to perform across the board.\nMacLaren continued: “When deciding on a venue to host The Ryder Cup, you have to look at the logistics and the mechanics of the golf course at a slightly different angle and from that respective Le Golf National ticks every single box. For someone to design, 20 years ago, a course which is almost future-proofed to a certain extent is a remarkable achievement.\n“But on being chosen, Le Golf National of course took its rightful place amongst our network of world-class golf venues – European Tour Properties. All of our 13, hugely-respected properties are delighted to have a venue not just of the quality but of the stature of Le Golf National within the group.”\nWith less than three months to go until Gleneagles and this year’s Ryder Cup, French eyes are already turning towards 2018 and their moment in the sun.\nAnd for Le Golf National, the future is bright.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Eurogroup President Offers Telling Words\nIn Berlin, Eurogroup's President Jeroen Dijsselbloem declared at a Hertie School of Governance's conference today, that trying to tell everyday citizens about state budget financial strides is problematic.\nAs reported by ANA-MPA, the President commented, \"Try to tell a Greek who is struggling to survive that Greece now has a primary surplus, something that for us at the Eurogroup constitutes a significant indicator. What does this say, however, to a citizen in Greece?\".\nDijsselbloem described that after the last Euro elections, \"Europe is no longer something that is beyond doubt\". The Eurogroup leader further described, \"Try to tell a Spaniard who has lost his job that there is a small drop in unemployment in his country, or to an Irish whose house lost a quarter of its value that real estate prices have registered a slight increase\".\nDijsselbloem began his Presidential post in January of last year and also serves as the Netherlands Finance Minister. The Eurogroup President confirmed that while microeconomic evidence is gaining strides, many more advancements need to occur: \"...in order for us to create job openings and strong growth, this time on a sustainable basis\".\n- Greek inflation rate fell to 6.5% in February\n- Anthony Blinken: The background to his visits to Greece and Turkey\n- Economist: Greece rises 9 places in the \"democracy index\"\n- IT: Record recruitment in the Greek market in 2023\n- Weather: How the warm holidays in Greece relate to the \"storm of the century\" in the US", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "18 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> - <strong>June</strong> <strong>2023</strong> feature — 2 Please mention <strong>The</strong> <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> when responding to advertisements Homecare you can rely on Our local team of care professionals can help with: • Meal Preparation • Medication • Personal Care • Companionship • Help around the home • And much more… To find out more call or visit: 01182 371 573 goodoakshomecare.co.uk/ reading Planning Your Traditional Wedding? <strong>The</strong>n you might like to discuss the possibility of marriage in our ancient and beautiful parish church. If so, call the vicar, Jamie 0118 969 3298 He will be pleased to help! ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Our talented team of Architects and Designers offer the following services to make your vision a reality: Free Initial Consultation Concept Design 3D Modelling Loft Conversions - Extensions - New Builds Planning Applications Permitted Development Applications Building Regulation Applications In addition to the stunning and historic location in Sonning, we will work hard to provide you with a memorable and moving occasion. We can provide a choir, organ, peal of eight bells, beautiful flowers, over 100 lit candles set in ornate Victorian chandeliers and the use of our beautiful churchyard as a backdrop for your photographs. the church of st andrew SERVING CHARVIL, SONNING & sonning eye since the 7 th century Tender / Construction Production Information Project Management E: firstname.lastname@example.org T: 07980394261 www.cblsconsultants.co.uk Church of St Andrew Serving Sonning, Charvil & Sonning Eye\nfeature — 1 An independent report — published on 26 April and described as 'a landmark review into faith engagement' — has found the UK Government 'needs to recognise faith groups as a force for good'. It states that a better understanding of faith will help the Government tackle systemic issues such as forced marriages, child safeguarding and extremism. Colin Bloom, an independent faith engagement advisor, considered how government can best celebrate the contribution of faith groups, while tackling harmful practices. More than 21,000 people responded to the public consultation and 22 recommendations for government have been set. Colin Bloom has held a number of roles in politics which have focussed on working towards greater representation of faith in politics. Previously he was executive director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship and director of Christians in Politics. As the government's faith engagement adviser, his role is to make recommendations to the communities secretary about how the government can best celebrate and support the contribution of faith groups, break down barriers and promote acceptance between faiths, and promote shared values while tackling cultures and practices that are harmful. In his review, Colin Bloom examined engagement with faith in a wide range of public institutions from the Civil Service and Armed Forces, to schools and prisons, and called on government to bring in a new programme of faith literacy training for all public sector staff, ensuring public servants understand those they are helping, and to increase partnership opportunities with faith groups who are already playing a valuable role in the social fabric of our society. Bloom noted that a better understanding of faith would also equip government to tackle issues such as forced marriage, of which there are estimated to be thousands a year in the UK; radicalisation in prison; and faith-based extremism, including the ongoing challenge of Islamist extremism, and the small but growing <strong>The</strong> <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> - <strong>June</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 19 Government needs to better understand faith, independent review claims BREAK BARRIERS trends of Sikh extremism and Hindu nationalism. <strong>The</strong> report also calls for appropriate regulation of out-of-school settings, including the faith-based sector, to safeguard the physical safety and wellbeing of children. CHALLENGES Colin Bloom, said: 'For millions of people, faith and belief informs who they are, what they do and how they interact with their community, creating strong ties that bind our country together. 'As we as a nation continue to become more diverse, so too does the landscape of faith and belief. Our government’s understanding of the role of faith in society must remain both current and alive to its evolutionary changes. 'It must also not shy away from some of the challenges that exist in small pockets within faith communities, from forced and coercive marriages to faith-based extremism, financial exploitation, and child safeguarding. <strong>The</strong>se must not be consigned to the ‘too difficult’ box. 'Greater understanding of faith in all its diversity will ensure that we remain a country that respects, celebrates and understands people of all faiths, beliefs and none.' SHINE A LIGHT Faith minister, Baroness Scott of Bybrook said: 'As faith minister I will continue to shine a light on the important work of faith groups across the country, who play such an important role in public life. I welcome this review and thank Colin for his work – we will carefully consider the recommendations and I’ll make it my mission to continue to work closely with those of all faiths.' Bloom notes that there are many areas where government is already doing good work with faith groups, Wenling01, dreamstime.com including the Faith New Deal grant programme, the co-design of Covid-19 guidance with places of worship, and tackling freedom of religion or belief internationally. He argues that this good practice should be built on and applied consistently across services to enable stronger and more integrated communities. RESPONSE <strong>The</strong> Government has stated that it will consider the findings and will respond in due course, but in the meantime, <strong>The</strong> Rev Dr Malcolm Brown, the Church of England’s director of faith and public life, has issued this response: 'Faith is at the centre of people’s lives and churches and other faith groups are at the very centre of communities, providing both inspiration and practical support. <strong>The</strong> Church of England is involved in more than 35,000 initiatives in communities and works to tackle deprivation and promote social cohesion through church schools, chaplaincies in prisons and higher education and in thousands of practical programmes in its parishes. We welcome the recognition in the report of the need for religious literacy and a greater public understanding of the major world faiths. It is a fact that the majority of people in England and Wales identify with a religion, so faith is not a minority pursuit. We look forward to hearing how any training and education in the field of religious literacy can be done in partnership with religious communities and from a perspective that sees faiths in the round.'", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As we begin the Year of the Goat in the 2015 Chinese year (starting February 19th), we're told that this particular Zodiac sign represents compassion, gentleness and kindheartedness. As it turns out, headlines are already being made this year by San Francisco's leading philanthropists, who are amply representing these traits.\nThe Chinese Lunar New Year is February 19\nWith celebrations of the Lunar New Year throughout San Francisco this month, culminating with the visually spectacular Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown (an event which originated in the 1860's), we're reminded of our City's deep historical ties to China and the strengthening of that connection in recent years through our business relationships.\nFoster + Partners Proposed Tower\nThere are three recent high-profile examples. Most excitingly, the $1.6-billion investment by China Oceanwide Holding's in two fabulous Sir Norman Foster-designed towers next to the Transbay Center, encompassing 2,000,000 square feet of offices, retail, hotel and condos. In Oakland's Jack London Square area, Beijing's Zarison Holdings is partnering on the new $1.5B Brooklyn Basin project, with 3,100 homes, 27 acres of public open space and 200,0000 square feet of office space at the top of the list.\nRendering of the SOMA Innovation Campus\nA less monumental but still important new project is the \"SOMA Innovation Campus,\" which will offer a campus-like setting for artists, \"makers\" and small manufacturers in Potrero Hill's design and manufacturing hub. Also small-scale but intriguing -- the fancy food market opening in the Twitter building.\nJohn James Audubon swan prints are displayed in this Thomas Britt-designed residence\nVisit 1242sacramento4.com for more photos\nInnovation, artistry, craftsmanship, these are the things we look for in design, which is why I'm so pleased to represent the sale of a true jewel box of a residence on Nob Hill designed by the great Thomas Britt, whose work is celebrated for just those characteristics. No wonder it was featured last year in Architectural Digest for its lively, high-spirited look.\nA Gracie metal-leaf wallpaper lines the kitchen ceiling. Range by Amana.\nVisit 1242sacramento4.com for more photos\nOther architecturally fascinating properties currently on the market include three I have my eye on in New York: international designer Juan Pablo Molyneux' mansion, the iconic Pierre penthouse on 5th Avenue, and a fabulous pied-a-terre on Madison Avenue with incredible views.\nOne Central Park, Sydney, Australia\nOther examples of exciting architecture are in international high-rise construction. A design council recently announced \"The World's Best Tall Buildings of the Year.\" A skyscraper in Sydney was at the top of the list. Featuring 11,000 square feet of vertical gardens that cover the surface of the building (35,200 plants and 383 different species) it is unusual for its cantilever structure that is covered in a series of reflector panels. The panels automatically redirect natural sunlight to various parts of a nearby park during shady periods of the day.\nSheraton Huhzou Hot Spring Resort, Huzhou, China\nIn China, a horsehoe-shaped Sheraton hotel high-rise is also on the list. Incredible! As the proliferation or ultra-tall, ultra-thin skyscrapers continues throughout the world, 2015's new buildings are more daring than ever!\nGlass Sidewalk Above Canadian Glaciers\nAnother stunning architectural feat is the extraordinary glacier skywalk 2,800 feet above Canada's Sunwapta canyon. The interplay of the modern structure with such an ancient natural wonder is breathtaking.\nFrank Gehry's Biomuseo is dedicated to Panama's biodiversity\nFinally, the most recent example of groundbreaking new architecture is Frank Gehry's Biomuseo in Panama City, which Architectural Digest named \"one of the eight daring new buildings around the world.\"\nBelvedere Villa Designed by Andrew Skurman\nBut for those who prefer to be a bit more down to earth, there are some really fabulous waterfront homes on the market right now. In Belvedere there's a gorgeous bayside villa designed by the incomparable Andy Skurman available for $15.9 million. In Costa Rica, Mel Gibson is selling a home overlooking the beach for $29.74 million, Donna Karan's Parrot Cay sanctuary is on the market for $36 million, and an ultra-modernistic beach house near La Jolla has a fascinating retractable roof!\nA $130 Million Penthouse will span the top three floors of 520 Park Ave\nNationally, the ultra-luxury market remains very strong with 9 of the 10 most expensive homes in America now listed at $100,000,000 or more (including 3 in California), and the $50-million+ penthouse market in Miami booming. More than half of the highest sales ever in Manhattan occurred within the last year, from Gilded Age Park Avenue co-ops to penthouses in the ultra-modern new supertall towers. Last month, a mystery buyer spent a staggering $100.47 million on the penthouse apartment of One57, which is still under construction. Rumor has it, though, that the penthouse at 520 Park Avenue will hit the market with a price tag of $130 million later this year!\nThe Morgan Estate in Los Altos Hills sold for $25 Million\nIn the Bay Area, the top 10 sales of the past year (of which I had the pleasure of representing #4, the historic Tobin Clark estate) show a tight race between San Francisco and Atherton for most sales in this elite segment of the market. We are starting to see the first of 2015's big sales with the closing of the historic Morgan Estate in the Los Altos Hills for $25 million.\nThis Joseph Esherick home in Atherton just went on the market for $21.8 million\nEight properties are currently on the market in Atherton for over $10 million, the most recent of which is a contemporary home designed by Joseph Esherick sitting on one of the largest combined parcels (5.37 acres) in the area.\nReal estate prices in the Bay Area are showing much more strength in the upper end of the market than the lower end, driven by all-time record employment numbers and mortgage rates near all-time lows, encouraging even all-cash buyers to finance purchase. San Francisco rents continue to surpass those of Manhattan for the 5th straight month. With San Francisco topping the list of best-performing cities in 2014, what's ahead for the rest of 2015? It looks like another heady year in San Francisco real estate. If past boom cycles are any indication, we haven't reached the end of this one yet!\nDolce Gabbana to open a Union Square boutique\nThe retail frenzy continues in San Francisco with Dolce Gabbana, Maison Martin Margiela and other luxury brands continuing to flock into the red-hot Union Square area.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rows of headstones give way to fields of corn at the small, windswept cemetery where Bobbie Jo Stinnett is laid to rest. It’s possible to feel a sense of peace here that contradicts what happened nearly 16 years ago just a mile or so north, in Skidmore, Missouri.\nOn Dec. 16, 2004, Stinnett was eight months pregnant when she met with a woman, who went by the name of Darlene Fischer, about a litter of rat terrier puppies. The two women played with the puppies outside of Stinnett’s house in Skidmore, but the visitor carried a kitchen knife and a white cord inside her jacket. A few hours later, the woman was gone, the baby was gone and Stinnett’s mother walked into a scene of sheer horror.\n“This is one of the cases that you’ll never forget,” said Nodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong, who worked the case as a Maryville Public Safety investigator. “I’m constantly reminded of it.”\nAnother reminder came Oct. 16 when Lisa Montgomery — the woman who called herself Darlene Fischer on that day — was given a Dec. 8 execution date for the death of Stinnett and the kidnapping of the baby she cut from the 23-year-old mother’s abdomen. It will mark the first federal execution of a woman since Bonnie Heady in 1953, another case that featured a Northwest Missouri connection. Heady and Carl Hall were executed for the kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease, a 6-year-old boy whose body was buried in St. Joseph.\nStrong, who was part of a massive law enforcement response after Stinnett’s body was discovered, helped locate Montgomery and the baby in Melvern, Kansas. Years after he helped extract a confession, he plans to witness the execution at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.\n“It’s a finality for me,” he said, “Something I want to see through to the end.”\nThe case brings not just finality. It also stirs up painful memories for those involved, as well as the wider community of Skidmore. The small Nodaway County town became the subject of news stories and documentaries about the 2004 murder/kidnapping as well as two unsolved cases: the shooting death of town bully Ken Rex McElroy in 1981 and the disappearance of 20-year-old Branson Perry in 2001.\n“Of course it weighs on the people in Skidmore,” said Sandy Wright, the town’s mayor. “I think Skidmore has gotten a bad rap for some of the things that have happened here. Sometimes bad things happen in good places.”\nLast week, even U.K. newspapers contained stories on the scheduled execution and recounted details of the crime. When Montgomery’s death sentence was appealed, federal court documents described the case this way: “Defendant incapacitated a pregnant woman so that she could extract the fetus and kidnap the baby.”\nThat doesn’t reflect all that happened. Those same court documents reveal that Montgomery strangled Stinnett until she passed out, but the young mother may have regained consciousness as Montgomery began to cut her. A struggle ensued, forcing Montgomery to use the cord a second time to kill Stinnett and then remove the fetus.\n“We all dealt with terrible cases before,” said Don Fritz, a retired Cameron police officer who worked with Strong on the investigation. “But this one was just kind of extreme.”\nThe day after the murder, Strong remembers driving up to the house in Melvern and noticing rat terriers running around his feet as he prepared to enter. During her initial interrogation, Montgomery denied everything to Fritz and Strong. Fritz recalls pulling his chair up, patting Montgomery’s hand and telling her, “We’ve got to have the truth.” Then he looked down.\n“I saw what I believed to be blood under her fingernails,” he said. “She dropped her head and said, ‘You’ve got the correct one. You’ve got the right baby.’”\nDuring the penalty phase of the trial, a prosecutor asked Montgomery’s oldest daughter whether she had ever apologized. Montgomery replied that she did not remember committing the crime, according to court documents.\nStrong has never wavered in his belief that the murder and kidnapping were meticulously planned. Montgomery brought a hospital-grade clamp for the umbilical cord. Gas station records indicate she conducted a dry run before the day of the attack. Court documents show that she was unable to get pregnant because of a medical procedure but may have wanted to fake it because of a custody dispute.\n“It was one of the most well-planned murders I’ve ever seen,” Strong said.\nThe only source of joy is that Victoria Jo, the baby, was saved and reunited with her father. In those frenzied hours after the grisly discovery, investigators weren’t just trying to solve a murder. Strong remembers thinking how he had to get that baby out of Montgomery’s arms as soon as possible when he first saw them.\n“You’ve got to get to the bottom of it,” Fritz told Strong on the drive to the house in Melvern. “You’ve got to recover the child.”\nToday, that girl is old enough for high school and still lives in Nodaway County, surrounded by a family that values its privacy. Strong said he doesn’t know if it’s possible to have closure, for the family, for law enforcement and for the community at large.\n“I think people want to see it over and move on,” he said. “I think that’s a stigma that floats over Skidmore. The people there still don’t like to talk about it.”\nWright said Skidmore is trying to move forward. “I don’t like dwelling on things that have happened in the past,” she said. “We’ve got a good town here.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Even with quite a few alternative revenue designs for internet information internet sites, electronic headlines platforms remain struggling with monetisation. Some have used and failed to formulate a powerful technique while some have dedicated to finding methods for doing your best with their absolutely free-of-fee submission websites. In this article I’ll discuss the reasons virtual headlines online websites forget to receive a living from releasing their information.\nComputerized news flash web publishers are usually not thinking about earning profits from offering marketing and advertising living space or paying for a syndication arrangement having a media store. You’d should get your content upon other internet sites just before the companies could pay for it, from the regular model. This became an inconvenience and in addition it meant that you would have to be competitive in opposition to other web publishers with similar niche market for living space. That you were restrained to a particular market plus your publicity was lowered considerably.\nIt’s also tough to construct backlinks to your site and create targeted traffic from people to a digital news web site. The average traffic generation strategy for a tiny reports web site requires creating a blog or article listing without having backlinks to your web page at all.\nTo become successful in creating free content material, you must produce articles that individuals will probably pay to read thoroughly. The traditional design simply isn’t good enough.\nMost small electronic news flash internet sites count highly on commercials to generate website traffic and they are limited into their capacity to develop genuine information without the support of sponsors. When your creator is relying upon AdSense adverts to drive traffic to their website, there’s not very much opportunity for optimisation from your internet site with no losing cash, AdSense produce a significant impact on how much cash you’re able to make from releasing your posts.\n. What this means is that you have to center on growing your own personal site written content management strategy – this is much more vital than it might turn up.\nThere are plenty of new methods of creating free written content and some of these techniques have turned out effective. It’s essential for acknowledge that when the online world is a wonderful place to promote your internet site, it can’t exchange classic media channels promotion, which should nevertheless develop portion of any on-line reports strategic business plan. Rather than simply just counting on Google AdSense, you’ll ought to learn how to use social media for instance Facebook and twitter to build a following of serious people who should take time to understand what you must say.\nEmploying social bookmarking will allow you to connect with your target audience inside of a exclusive way. It is possible to connect with prospective customers and build a romantic relationship that will encourage them to promote their feelings with other individuals. You can also believe it is well worth thinking about new methods of monetizing your web site with AdSense as you’re unlikely to generate money except if you build human relationships and believe in along with your followers.\nTo have success with working with social bookmarking to your on the internet headlines company, you will need to pay attention to generating written content that others wish to browse. Or they look at you as a possible pro as part of your subject, they are going to lose interest and transfer right onto other people.\nThis is probably the most common mistakes produced by newbies who use articles or blog posts to advertise their webpage, if your audience don’t like what you’ve prepared. Loads of time and effort goes into producing persuasive information that enthralls the reader and then composing articles that don’t present beneficial facts.\nProvided you can produce premium quality written content and produce helpful posts, you can create a track record that people are prepared to comply with. They’ll be wishing to view your website to see what otherwise you will need to say.\nThe greater amount of articles and reviews you create, the greater amount of men and women you will appeal to to your on the web news flash web-site as well as the increased traffic you might make, should they study your articles and locate them interesting. You need to before long start to view your internet headlines web-site make money.\nFor those who have any issues about where by in addition to the way to employ Latest News, you can e-mail us on our own web site.\nAssociated content suggested by audience of the web site:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Supreme Court heard the People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) application seeking directions to ensure that authorities do not prosecute individuals under S.66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act, 2000), which the SC had struck down S.66A in Shreya Singhal vs Union of India & Ors., (2015) 5 SCC 1. Today, the Court has asked all the States, Union Territories and Registrar-General of High Court’s to reply to PUCL’s application. Previously on 5th July 2021, the SC had directed the Union of India to reply to PUCL’s application by 19th July 2021. Union of India filed their reply on 26th July 2021, and PUCL has filed a rejoinder in response to the reply. IFF has provided legal assistance to PUCL.\nSupreme Court hears PUCL’s Application.\nPUCL’s application, which seeks directions against continued enforcement of S.66A of the IT Act, came up for hearing before a two-judge Supreme Court bench consisting of Justice Nariman and Justice Gavai. The bench ordered States, Union Territories and Registrar-General of High Courts to reply to PUCL’s application, and listed the case four weeks from 2nd August 2021. On the last date of the hearing i.e. 5th July 2021, the Court had directed the Union of India to reply to PUCL’s application.\nSenior Advocate Sanjay Parikh, Sanjana Srikumar, Abhinav Sekhri, Vrinda Bhandari, Tanmay Singh and Krishnesh Bapat represented PUCL before the Court. The Solicitor General of India, Mr Tushar Mehta, represented the Union of India.\nPUCL is one of the foremost civil liberties organisations in the country. It has filed several cases apart from the petition challenging the constitutionality of S.66A, which have led to landmark judgments that have expanded human rights in India. Some of these judgments include Telephone tapping case (1997) 1 SCC 301, Fake police encounter in Manipur (1997) 3 SCC 463; Disclosure of criminal background and assets by political candidates, (2003) 9 SCC 490; Challenge to POTA (2004) 9 SCC 980; and Encounter killings in Maharashtra, (2014) 10 SCC 635.\nPUCL was one of the petitioners in Shreya Singhal vs Union of India & Ors., (2015) 5 SCC 1 (Shreya Singhal) where the Hon’ble Supreme Court held that S. 66A of the IT Act, 2000 violated the right to freedom of speech and expression (summary). Despite the decision, individuals across the country continued to be prosecuted under the provision.\nIn 2019, PUCL, with legal assistance from IFF, approached the Supreme Court seeking directions to ensure the implementation of the decision in Shreya Singhal. In February 2019, the Supreme Court directed the Union of India to ensure compliance with its decision by making available copies of the judgment to Chief Secretaries across the country. The Chief Secretaries, in turn, were directed to sensitise police departments across the country.\nPUCL again approaches the Supreme Court\nDespite the Supreme Court’s direction in February 2019, findings on Zombie Tracker - a platform built by IFF in collaboration with Civic Data Labs (CDL) - indicated that as many as 810 cases under S.66A are pending before the district courts in 11 States. These findings prompted PUCL to approach the Supreme Court again to prevent continued enforcement of the provision. In the Application, PUCL has discussed the findings on the Zombie Tracker and informed the Supreme Court of the ongoing cases under S.66A. On 5th July 2021, PUCL’s application came up for hearing, and the Court directed the Union of India to reply to PUCL’s application by 19th July 2021.\nSubsequently, on 14th July 2021, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued a notification marked “Most Immediate: Supreme Court Matter” directing all law enforcement authorities to stop registering new cases under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and to withdraw all pending cases immediately. The Notification also referred to PUCL’s application before the Supreme Court, which brought this issue to the MHA's notice, and states that the “Hon’ble Supreme Court has taken a very serious view on the matter.”\nGovernment’s stance and PUCL’s response\nOn 26th July 2021 Union of India filed their reply to PUCL’s application, and PUCL responded to the reply on 30th July 2021.\nIn reply to PUCL’s application, the Union of India has stated that they have addressed several letters to State Governments and Union Territories directing them to withdraw cases registered under Section 66A and that they have also published the judgment in Shreya Singhal on the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s website. Apart from this, the Union of India has also mentioned that the primary responsibility of ensuring implementation of the decision in Shreya Singhal rests with the State Government’s as ‘Police’ and ‘Public Order’ are state subjects. Notably, the Union of India has not disputed the fact that prosecutions under S. 66A continue unabated.\nIn response to the reply, PUCL has stated that the Union of India’s efforts to ensure compliance with Shreya Singhal are inadequate. PUCL has pointed out that Article 144 of the Constitution of India requires all authorities in the country, civil and judicial, to aid the Supreme Court, and has provided a range of suggestions to ensure compliance with the decision in Shreya Singhal. The suggestions include:\n- The Union of India should collect details of cases registered under S.66A since the pronouncement of the judgment in Shreya Singhal.\n- Director-General of Police in States and Administrators/Lieutenant Governors in Union Territories should forthwith drop investigations under S.66A.\n- In cases where a charge sheet has been filed against an accused under S.66A, the Chief Justice of High Courts should issue advisories to subordinate courts to drop all charges and discharge the accused.\n- High Courts should put in place a complaint mechanism by which any person against whom a case is registered under S.66A could directly approach a court for speedy redressal.\n- The Director-General of Police of all States and Union Territories should ensure police stations within their jurisdictions display a notice that S.66A of the IT Act has been struck down in Shreya Singhal.\n- Union of India should ensure Doordarshan and All India Radio make quarterly announcements informing the public that S.66A is no longer in force.\n- Union of India should ensure that all official and commercial versions of the IT Act should not include the complete text of S.66A and should inform the reader that the provision has been repealed in Shreya Singhal.\nApart from these suggestions, PUCL, in the rejoinder, has also stated that the issue of non-implementation of decisions of the Supreme Court is not limited to non-compliance of Shreya Singhal, and there are several instances where binding judgments continue to not be implemented. Since non-implementation of judgments has severe repercussions on the administration of justice and the rule of law, PUCL has provided several suggestions to ensure authorities comply with important decisions of the Supreme Court. These suggestions include:\n- In cases where the Supreme Court considers that its directions must be implemented strictly, the Court may consider directing the Registry to send copies of the decision to concerned authorities and ask them to file compliance affidavits within a reasonable time.\n- The Supreme Court can direct that certain judgments be a part of the National Judicial Academy/State Judicial Academy training and also be a part of training courses of administrative/police services.\n- Union of India should summarise the directions of the Supreme Court and publish them in prominent places in police stations/public areas.\n- In cases where a statute or a provision of law has been struck down, the Union of India should ensure -\n- All official and commercial versions of the statute after the pronouncement of the judgment, do not include the complete text of the repealed provision and inform the reader that the said statute/provision stands repealed.\n- The department of publication should publish in the Gazette of India summaries of all the judgments where a provision has been struck down or read down as unconstitutional.\nWe look forward to the replies from the State’s, Union Territories and Registrar-General of High Court. We hope that the matter is resolved soon, since the continued enforcement of S.66A is not only in blatant disregard of the decision in Shreya Singhal, but also violates the fundamental rights of those being prosecuted under this provision.\nWe thank PUCL for granting us an opportunity to provide legal assistance to them. We are also deeply grateful to the lawyers who worked on this case, especially senior Advocate Sanjay Parikh, who has led the legal team.\n- Application filed by PUCL seeking directions against continued enforcement of S.66A. (link)\n- Previous post summarising PUCL’s application seeking directions against continued enforcement of S.66A. (link)\n- Rejoinder filed by PUCL in response to the reply filed by the Union of India (link)\n- Previous post detailing MHA’s notification dated 14th July, 2021 directing all law enforcement authorities to stop registering new cases under S.66A and to immediately withdraw all pending cases (link)\n- Zombie Tracker (link)\n- Research paper titled ‘Section 66A and other legal zombies’ by Abhinav Sekhri and Apar Gupta (link)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HyperChain Capital, one of the oldest and most prestigious digital assets management companies in the world, has launched HyperBlocks Pro, a professional proof of stake service - the first in the world backed by a major blockchain firm. HyperBlocks Pro’s automated staking facility service is initially launching for holders of tezzies (XTZ) tokens used on the Tezos networks. By delegating this responsibility to HyperBlocks Pro, token-holders can free themselves of the time, security and technical costs associated with performing the task manually. Additionally, users do not need to actually transfer their tokens to HyperBlocks Pro, tokens remain in their personal wallets while securing the network.\nAs an increasing number of existing cryptocurrencies transition to Proof of Stake, and new ones are launched with staking mechanisms built in, there is predicted to be a rise in demand for professional third party services that allow consumers to easily use these often complicated services.\nHyperBlocks Pro is at the vanguard of companies offering staking-as-a-service and comes with the reputation and expertise of HyperChain Capital team, one of the first digital asset management companies in the world focused on blockchain based projects and decentralized protocols.\nStelian Balta, Founder of HyperChain Capital, the creator of HyperBlocks Pro, said: “HyperChain Capital started when we realized that digital assets will be a major asset class and a new digital economy will emerge. We are working hard to create and grow token ecosystems and because we hold our tokens for years, we thought it will be a good idea to offer the community ways to secure networks and get benefits from those networks.\n“Staking – or ‘baking’ as it’s known in the case of Tezos – is a smart way for digital asset holders to contribute to the security and distribution of the network without any headaches. It’s a win-win for them and for the digital asset that they hold a stake in. We’re delighted to launch our first service - professional staking for Tezos - one of the most innovative blockchains in the ecosystem.”\nHyperBlocks Pro is a subsidiary of HyperChain Capital, one of the first digital asset management companies in the world, and its Tezos and soon to be released Cosmos validator offering mark the former’s first foray into staking. HyperBlocks Pro has ambitious plans to roll out a wide range of staking services as it seeks to establish itself as the preeminent staking specialist within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.\nThe company will initially be offering a professional staking service for Tezos Network, but has plans to offer staking services for Cosmos Network and other blockchain platforms in the near future. In addition to offering Tezos baking and Atom staking once the Cosmos mainnet goes live, HyperBlocks Pro will be launching TomoChain masternodes in Q4 of 2018.\nLearn more at http://hyperblocks.pro/", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor, Ennio Morricone, is born in Rome. Morricone has composed music for several hundred movies and TV series, including for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.\nNov 11, 2004\nYasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and president of the Palestinian National Authority, dies in France.\nNov 12, 1966\nBuzz Aldrin takes the first space selfie, while on a mission that proved astronauts can undertake extravehicular activity in space, paving the way for the Apollo programme and the eventual landing on the Moon.\nNov 14, 1889\nAmerican journalist Elizabeth Cochran Seaman aka Nellie Bly leaves on a trip to emulate Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's fictional work Around the World in 80 Days. She does the journey in 72 days.\nNov 15, 1867\nEdward A Calahan unveils a device that uses a telegraphic printer to print the stock price ticker system in New York City. Prior to this, information from the New York Stock Exchange travelled by mail or messenger. (Representative Image)\nNov 16, 1945\nUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization set up to promote well-being through education and scientific collaboration.(Source: history.com, onthisday.com)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Xi Jinping arrived in Rome last night.\nXi wants the visit to usher in a “new era” for Sino-Italian relations (China Daily):\n“I hope to work with Italian leaders to map out the future of our relationship and move it into a new era.”The big news: China and Italy are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).\nWhy that’s a big deal: Italy will become the first G7 country to sign up to Xi’s signature foreign policy project. And it comes over the objections of other EU countries and the US.\nThe MOU is expected to preview Chinese investment in the four ports of Genoa, Palermo, Trieste, and Ravenna.\nSome context: Increased Chinese investment in Italy is starting from a low base (FT):“Italy…only ranks 76th globally for Chinese capital invested in greenfield projects in the last 10 years.”“Even when including mergers and acquisitions and other forms of investment, Italy…lags behind peers in terms of Chinese investment.”\nThe bigger picture: The EU is trying to form a common position on Chinese investment. But it’s hard to find a consensus in such a diverse set of countries.\nCPC People: 习近平抵达罗马开始对意大利共和国进行国事访问\nFT: Charts that show why Italy wants China’s Belt and Road Initiative\nChina Daily: Full text of Xi's signed article on Italian newspaper\nSCMP: Italy may be ready to open up four ports to Chinese investment under ‘Belt and Road Initiative’", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Find a Question:\nFull touch interface with dual LED fill light, a new generation of millet phone exposure\nAndroid , millet , news , smart phones , mobile communications and devices\nAllegedly is the new generation of millet phone picture exposure, but the truth is still to be confirmed.\nMillet phone 3S yet to be introduced, it is known as millet phone exposure in 4 product images Sina microblogging; However, the source did not disclose the relevant standard configuration, while the real feasibility also be confirmed.\n小米手機 4 665×374 全觸控介面與雙 LED 補光燈，新一代小米手機曝光\nPictures show, this smartphone will use the full touch button design, the power button is located on the left side of the fuselage, the volume keys are on the right side of the fuselage, below the lens seems configured with dual LED fill light, the overall shape is quite simple.\nAccording to information obtained by VR-Zone recently revealed that the new generation of its flagship tentatively millet millet phone X4, while the specification part has not been determined; if relevant information, VR-Zone will continue to concern.Viewing:-203\nAnswer this Question\nYou must be Logged In to post an Answer.\nNot a member yet? Sign Up Now »\nStar Points Scale\nEarn points for Asking and Answering Questions!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Warsaw Tiger Boys Basketball team put the finishing touch on a Northern Lakes Conference championship season with a 70-44 win at The Rock in Plymouth. The win put the Tigers at 6-1 in the conference, and made them co-champs with league newcomer Mishawaka. It marked the sixth time in seven years that the Tigers claimed at least a share of the NLC crown, and the first under new head coach Matt Moore.\nIt was also the first time since the 1990-1991 school year that Warsaw staked a claim to the conference championship in football and boys basketball in the same school year.\nThe Tigers backed the win at Plymouth up with a 76-32 win over Wabash the next night in their final game in the Tiger Den this season. This made the team winners of seven straight games and owners of a 14-7 record, Warsaw will finish up the regular season with a matinee at South Bend Washington on Saturday, February 20, 2021. Junior Varsity tip time is 3 pm.\nCongratulations to the teams, coaches, families, and Tiger fans on making history for Warsaw Community Schools!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Donegal is once again proving to be a lucky place for lotto entries, as tonight’s winning ticket has been revealed to be from Lifford.\nOne lucky local will be starting the New Year with a financial boost to the tune of €4.4million!\nThe winning numbers were 1, 2, 7, 33, 34, 40 and the bonus number was 6.\nLotto officials have said the winning ticket was a quick pick, and they are appealing to everyone in the north west to check their numbers.\nPlayers can check their tickets in-app or online.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Since the US government has no real ability to effectively protect the language of the American people, they have properly decided to subcontract the job to large corporations. One of these large corporations is the Recording Industry Association of America, or better known as the RIAA. This is evident by the passing of the long awaited, and needed, Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) by the US legislature. What the DCMA entails is the fist step of many to properly preserve the rights of all written, recorded, broadcasted, digitized or any communication of any nature which could have copy write protection. Now, at first this may seem insufficient. After all, it’s only fair to compensate ones creative efforts. Artists need to survive, and if a company promotes an artist then it should have equal rights for compensation as well.\nThe rights of large multinational conglomerates to properly collect their just due revenue streams should be protected, highly enforced and highly regulated. This protection may come in many forms. One of the current RIAA efforts is to collaborate with makers of hard drives to incorporate special proactive copy write protection features. These features would eventually impact the consumers benefit by reduced usefulness. However this measure is only needed due to lack of consumer participation in protecting the large multinational conglomerates property on the consumer’s hard drive. Another is by watermarking all music; weather digital or other. This would reduce the chance that consumers will make and distribute large quantities of copy write protected materials in America’s vast, and numerous, black markets.\nThis type of communication control has been around for decades now and is prevalent in every day life. There are common every day words in the American language that are regularly controlled: Coke, AM/PM, Trans-am, Michael Jackson, and even numbers like 7/11. It’s only fair that they are strictly used only after receiving explicit written approval from the rightful owner. The only way to properly ensure this is to require all consumers to have any, but not limited to published, recorded, written, digitized, spoken and opinionated material checked and approved by these large multinational conglomerates prior to the act of any dissemination. This may seem a bit extravagant to the average person on the street. However, if you look at recent enforcement you will see that this is a much needed step.\nSuch is the case for the recent situation involving the program called DeCSS. This was a small program that enabled the user to actually play and listen to their purchased DVD's under the Linux operating system. Such blatant infringements where not only limited to the playing and enjoyment of personal recording's. But, in fact, to a wide variety of printed articles, web postings and even a T-shirt with the code and comments proudly displayed. This obviously is a very excessive infringement against the rights of the RIAA. And swift harsh punishment was needed. The T-shirt Company was sued as well as a magazine company who printed the source code for the DeCSS. Web sites where ordered to remove all postings, opinions and links of the code as well. Even after those great measures taken by the RIAA. There are some citizens who escaped their just , and much needed, punishment. These citizens still believe that they can play and enjoy their purchased DVD's at their own leisure.\nHopefully, in the near future, the RIAA and large multinational conglomerates will have their much needed equal rights. The RIAA has a dream, that one day all consumers will respect the rights of multinational conglomerates. However this dream will never happen unless we as consumers decide to protect these multinational conglomerates by strict adherence to the DCMA . Or any, and all, other laws that RIAA feels needed. Because it seems apparent that consumers have demonstrated a great lack of concern and empathy for these struggling multinational conglomerates for far too long.\nThis is taken from an article: here\n(I can only hope that this link will not infringe on any copyrights that are due.)\nBy: Someone who does not want to be sued cs301, Spring 2001", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on Aug. 29 approved an order that opens a proceeding to create a zero-emission credit (ZEC) program for eligible nuclear power plants.\nThe BPU said the action is in line with legislation that Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law in May that made sweeping changes to the state’s energy policy.\nThe bill signed by Murphy (S-2313) creates a ZEC program to support nuclear generation in the state -- the 2,468-MW Salem plant and the 1,240-MW Hope Creek facility.\nNew Jersey needs to keep the plants open to reach the state’s clean energy goals, Murphy said in May, noting they provide 40 percent of the state’s electricity and 90 percent of its emissions-free energy.\nPublic Service Electric and Gas Nuclear owns the Hope Creek plant and has a majority share of the Salem plant, which it co-owns with Exelon Generation. PSEG officials have said the nuclear plants will close if they don't receive extra financial support.\nUnder the ZEC program, eligible nuclear power units that demonstrate a need would be designated to receive credits to maintain the state’s nuclear energy supply.\nThe BPU was designated as the agency to create and administer a ZEC program and distribution mechanism.\nBy November 2018, the board will create the ZEC program including an application process for ZEC eligibility review and a mechanism for each of the state’s electric companies to buy ZECs from the selected nuclear power plants. The process to create the program will include extensive public hearings, the BPU said.\nAs part of the program, the board will also conduct a second proceeding to certify which applicant nuclear power units are eligible to receive ZECs and to establish a rank-ordered list of those plants that are eligible based upon the process the board creates. Under the law this proceeding must be completed by April 2019 and it will include public input.\nEligible nuclear energy generators with the ability to feed into the PJM Interconnection power grid footprint could be approved to provide ZECs for the state’s energy supply, which would then be purchased by the state’s four electric companies, the BPU said.\nZECs in other states\nOther states have also moved to set up ZEC programs aimed at supporting nuclear generation.\nIn December 2016, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a broad energy bill into law that was intended to ensure that Exelon's financially troubled nuclear power plants in Clinton and Quad Cities, Illinois, remain open for another 10 years, the governor's office noted in a news release at the time of the signing. The measure also will give a boost to energy efficiency and renewable energy efforts in Illinois.\nThe law will provide about $235 million a year through a 10-year contract to the two nuclear power plants. The 1,065-MW Clinton and 1,871-MW Quad Cities plants in Illinois faced looming shutdowns prior to the law.\nThe Future Energy Jobs Act amended the Illinois Power Agency Act and created a new commodity, the ZEC, which is a tradeable credit that represents the environmental attributes of one megawatt-hour of energy produced from a zero carbon-emission facility, such as a nuclear power plant. The statute grants ZECs to certain qualifying energy generating facilities.\nIn New York, a clean energy standard adopted by state utility regulators allows for ZECs as a way in which to nuclear generation online in the state.\nGenerators challenged the Illinois and New York ZEC programs in the courts.\nThe case in New York involved legal action brought by the Coalition for Competitive Electricity, Dynegy Inc., Eastern Generation LLC, the Electric Power Supply Association, NRG Energy, Roseton Generating LLC and Selkirk Cogen Partners L.P. against commissioners with the New York Public Service Commission.\nThe plaintiffs in the case challenged one aspect of the CES order adopted by the PSC that awards ZECs to certain nuclear generators for their zero carbon-emissions electricity production. Plaintiffs claimed that this program was preempted under the Federal Power Act and that it violates the dormant Commerce Clause.\nBut a federal judge in July 2017 turned aside the challenges. That same month, a judge with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued an order that rejected challenges to the Illinois ZEC element of the Illinois law.\nMeanwhile, earlier this year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Department of Justice said in a brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that the FPA does not preempt the ZEC program in Illinois.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "China: 13 assailants shot dead in police station attack in Yecheng County\nPolice officers have killed 13 assailants in an attack on a police station in China’s restive western province of Xinjiang, officials say.\nThe attackers drove a car into the station and set off explosives on Saturday morning, the local government said on its website.\nThree police suffered minor injuries but no civilians were hurt, it added.\nThe Chinese authorities blame Muslim Uighurs from Xinjiang for an increasing number of attacks in the province.\n“On the morning of June 21, a group of thugs drove a car into a police building in Yecheng County, Kashgar province and detonated explosives,” the local government website said.\n“Police shot dead the 13 attackers,” it reported. It provided no further details.\nVerifying reports from the Xinjiang region is difficult because access for journalists is restricted and the flow of information is tightly controlled.\nThe authorities have tightened security in Xinjiang in recent months.\nOn Monday, China executed 13 people in Xinjiang for what it called “terrorist attacks”.\n[youtube IS8XDRLzg_4 650]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo off Coronado\nSAN DIEGO — In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a technological marvel in its day.\nBut don’t look for the primary discoverers to get a promotion or an invitation to meet the admirals at the Pentagon — although they might get an extra fish for dinner or maybe a pat on the snout.\nThe so-called Howell torpedo was discovered by bottlenose dolphins being trained by the Navy to find undersea objects, including mines, that not even billion-dollar technology can detect.\n“Dolphins naturally possess the most sophisticated sonar known to man,” Braden Duryee, an official at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific said after the surprising discovery.\nWhile not as well known as the Gatling gun and the Sherman tank, the Howell torpedo was hailed as a breakthrough when the U.S. was in heavy competition for dominance on the high seas. It was the first torpedo that could truly follow a track without leaving a wake and then smash a target, according to Navy officials.\nOnly 50 were made between 1870 and 1889 by a Rhode Island company before a rival copied and surpassed the Howell’s capability.\nUntil recently only one Howell torpedo was known to exist, on display at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Wash. Now a second has been discovered, not far from the Hotel del Coronado.\nMeant to be launched from above the water or submerged torpedo tubes, the Howell torpedo was made of brass, 11 feet long, driven by a 132-pound flywheel spun to 10,000 rpm before launch. It had a range of 400 yards and a speed of 25 knots.\nIts specifications seem primitive today, but in the late 1800s, it was a leap forward in military armament.\n“Considering it was made before electricity was provided to U.S. households, it was pretty sophisticated for its time,” said Christian Harris, operations supervisor for the biosciences division at the Systems Center Pacific.\nMarine mammals have been trained at the Navy’s Point Loma facility since the 1960s.\nSeveral species were tested before the Navy settled on the bottlenose dolphin and the California sea lion. Dolphins, in particular, have deep and shallow diving capability, great eyesight and a biosonar system that scientists admire but don’t fully understand.\nAt the Point Loma facility, 80 dolphins and 40 sea lions are being trained for mine detection, mine clearing and swimmer protection. When the U.S. led an invasion of Iraq in 2003, dolphins were rushed to the Persian Gulf to patrol for enemy divers and mines. Dolphins guard U.S. submarine bases in Georgia and Washington state. This fall, dolphins will deploy for a mine-hunting mission off Croatia.\nTo train the dolphins, Navy specialists sink objects of various shapes in rocky and sandy undersea areas where visibility is poor. The shapes mimic those of the mines used by U.S. adversaries.\nA dolphin is then ordered to dive and search. If it finds something, it is trained to surface and touch the front of the boat with its snout. If it has found nothing, it touches the back of the boat.\nWhen a dolphin named Ten surfaced from a shallow-water dive last month and touched the front of the boat, Navy specialists were nonplused. “It went positive in a place we didn’t expect,” said Mike Rothe, who heads the marine mammal program.\nA week later, a dolphin named Spetz did the same thing in the same area. This time, the dolphin was ordered to take a marker to the object.\nNavy divers and then explosive-ordnance technicians examined the object, which was in two pieces, and determined that the years had rendered it inert. On one piece was the stamp “USN No. 24.”\nThe torpedo pieces were lifted to the surface and taken to a Navy base for cleaning and to await shipment to the Naval History and Heritage Command, located at the Washington Navy Yard.\nThe dolphins have found unexpected things in the past, including a mine-shaped lobster trap during a mission off Canada with the Canadian navy. But a torpedo that was more than a century old and that the divers and trainers needed to consult explosives experts — and Google — to identify?\n“We’ve never found anything like this,” said Rothe, his voice full of admiration for the marine mammals. “Never.”\nThe stories shaping California\nGet up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week.\nYou may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Here is our new weekly manga columnist, Danielle Leigh – BC.\nLike a lot of women who are in their twenties and read manga today, I can trace my love of shojo manga (simply put: Japanese comics targeted to girls) to an animated show called Sailor Moon. Whether or not I knew it was Japanese then, watching it in high school, I remember feeling embarrassed and enthralled by its unapologetically girly nature. The show’s plot was fairly simple — a group of fairly normal junior high school girls were actually superheroes who transformed to fight evil antagonists and save the universe. They may have been a reincarnation theme, as well, who can remember…. The main character, Serena (her name was Americanized for U.S. television) was annoying, a whiny cry-baby klutz who happened to transform into a superhero — “Sailor Moon” — who could somehow save the universe.\nEven now I have a hard time understanding what attracted me to this series considering its simplistic plot-lines and dialogue (it first began airing in the U.S. when I was 15, already older than the characters it represented). I do know I probably wouldn’t have loved it so much if I hadn’t first learned to love superheroes and animation in the early and mid 1990’s through exposure to animated shows like Batman: TAS, Superman: TAS, and Spider-man: TAS, X-Men. But unlike those shows, Sailor Moon’s plots stunk.\nWhy, then, did I fall in love with this series? While the show was absurdly popular in Japan, I did not know that it also fell into an entire genre of Japanese anime and manga entertainment known as “the magical girl.” The magical girl genre follows a girl’s transformation into a superhero in order to battle the forces of evil to save the world. Although on U.S. television I had my choice of superheroes (even a teenage Peter Parker in case I tired of adult superheroes like Batman and Superman) I didn’t have an animated series that revolved entirely around female life – even a fantastical female life. And while I had female superheroes through X-Men and Superman’s Lois Lane was a strong female character without equal, what I didn’t have was a show about personal relationships first, and saving the world second.\nI can see now that the show’s fairly conventional “magical girl” dynamic is not what attracted me to the show. What I glommed onto as a teenager was a show which emphasized human relationships and emotional bonds over exciting – even, at times, coherent – plot-lines.\nWhat I would later learn was that there was a whole body of sequential art novels and animated texts which focused exclusively on personal relationships. And female experience. And they were Japanese in origin. But it wasn’t animation that caught my heart and set it on fire for shojo. It was comics, manga, whatever you want to call those charming graphic novels you can now find in every chain bookstore in America for less than 10 dollars a pop.\nIn spring of 2005 I happened to pick up a volume of Hot Gimmick (published by Viz in the U.S.) from my local library. At the time I was reading American comics on the edges of superhero life (Y: the Last Man, Runaways, Sleeper, Gotham Central) but hadn’t yet made the connection between the sci-fi anime I’d watched in college and the small, but growing, manga section located in my comic book shop. Hot Gimmick wasn’t like my American comics – it was about a dippy, but sweet, teenage girl named Hatsumi who was continually getting pushed around by the not-so-sweet-boys-next-door and who couldn’t find a sense of self-determination if it ran her over in the street. The boys in her life tricked her, messed up her life, ordered her around and did many other bad things I won’t describe. The series was trashy and anti-feminist in the extreme and yet, god, it was interesting.\nI, who wouldn’t read romances published in English, was simply a goner. I would end up buying and later selling the entire series, as many people would end up doing who like me followed this neighborhood soap opera over the course of 12 tortuous volumes. Finding Hot Gimmick wasn’t necessarily about finding a great comic so much as it was about finding comics that felt as if they were created just for me.\nAnd, boy howdy, were these comics girly. There were big eyes, flowery backgrounds, pixie pink covers, pretty looking boys and impossibly pretty looking girls – every cliche mainstream American has about Japanese manga was right there ensnaring me. But people can mistake this art style as insipid or ridiculous – for me, what shojo does better than any other comic genre I’ve ever seen is represent the dynamism of human emotion. The story-lines run the gamut from ridiculous (how many people do you know have childhood friends who become a) models, b) famous actors, c) famous musicians…I think you get the picture) to the sublime (watching the title character of Emma do something as simple as explore the world around her for the first time with corrective glasses is a moment of beauty and power in which not a single word is spoken.) Whether or not I can identify with a particular character’s plight isn’t as important as the rush of feeling I get when the emotions leap off the page and accomplish feats I didn’t know pop art was capable of.\nMy interested in and affection for shojo continues, even if I’ve become more discriminating as I’ve learned to target what I love about the genre and what I find less appealing the more time I spend with these texts. While I also read manga and U.S. comics intended for boys and adult men, I never feel so much at home as when I crack open one of the “girly” books originally intended for Japanese audiences. In March I’ll have been reading manga for three years and while I still yearn for the time U.S. publishers will bring over Japanese comics actually targeted to women my age, I know that even if they did a part of my heart would still belong to the beautiful and melodramatic worlds I find in shojo.\n- Ad Free Browsing\n- Over 10,000 Videos!\n- All in 1 Access\n- Join For Free!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|Articles||Go Fund Me||All-Species List||Hot Spots||Go Fund Me|\n|Web Epoch NJ Web Design | (c) Copyright 2016 StocksandNews.com, LLC.|\nFDR and Open Commerce\nI’ve been surprised that there has been no mention of a famous speech FDR gave in 1941 when it comes to the crisis we face today in the waters off of Somalia. While I in no way want to equate Hitler with Somali pirates, some of the broader principles hold true, including protecting merchant ships and keeping the waters open for commerce, which is how I tie the subject to finance and Wall Street History.\nPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1941…Freedom of the Seas Speech\nThe Navy Department of the United States has reported to me that on the morning of Sept. 4 the United States destroyer Greer, proceeding in full daylight toward Iceland, had reached a point southeast of Greenland. She was carrying American mail to Iceland. She was flying the American flag. Her identity as an American ship was unmistakable.\nShe was then and there attacked by a submarine. Germany admits that it was a German submarine. The submarine deliberately fired a torpedo at the Greer, followed later by another torpedo attack. In spite of what Hitler’s propaganda bureau has invented, and in spite of what any American obstructionist organization may prefer to believe, I tell you the blunt fact that the German submarine fired first upon this American destroyer without warning, and with deliberate design to sink her.\nOur destroyer, at the time, was in waters which the Government of the United States had declared to be waters of self-defense, surrounding outposts of American protection in the Atlantic.\nIn the north of the Atlantic, outposts have been established by us in Iceland, in Greenland, in Labrador and in Newfoundland. Through these waters there pass many ships of many flags. They bear food and other supplies to civilians; and they bear materiel of war, for which the people of the United States are spending billions of dollars, and which, by Congressional action, they have declared to be essential for the defense of our own land.\nThe United States destroyer, when attacked, was proceeding on a legitimate mission.\nIf the destroyer was visible to the submarine when the torpedo was fired, then the attack was a deliberate attempt by the Nazis to sink a clearly identified American warship.\nOn the other hand, if the submarine was beneath the surface of the sea and, with the aid of its listening devices, fired in the direction of the sound of the American destroyer without even taking the trouble to learn its identity, as the official German communiqué would indicate, then the attack was even more outrageous. For it indicates a policy of indiscriminate violence against any vessel sailing the seas, belligerent or non-belligerent.\nThis was piracy, piracy legally and morally. It was not the first nor the last act of piracy which the Nazi government has committed against the American flag in this war, for attack has followed attack.\nA few months ago an American flag merchant ship, the Robin Moor, was sunk by a Nazi submarine in the middle of the South Atlantic, under circumstances violating long-established international law and violating every principle of humanity. The passengers and the crew were forced into open boats hundreds of miles from land, in direct violation of international agreements signed by nearly all nations, including the government of Germany. No apology, no allegation of mistake, no offer of reparations has come from the Nazi government….\nIt would be unworthy of a great nation to exaggerate an isolated incident, or to become inflamed by some one act of violence. But it would be inexcusable folly to minimize such incidents in the face of evidence which makes it clear that the incident is not isolated, but part of a general plan.\nThe important truth is that these acts of international lawlessness are a manifestation of a design, a design that has been made clear to the American people for a long time. It is the Nazi design to abolish the freedom of the seas and to acquire absolute control and domination of these seas for themselves….\nThis Nazi attempt to seize control of the oceans is but a counterpart of the Nazi plots now being carried on throughout the Western Hemisphere, all designed toward the same end. For Hitler’s advance guards, not only his avowed agents but also his dupes among us, have sought to make ready for him footholds and bridgeheads in the New World, are all known to the Government of the United States. Conspiracy has followed conspiracy….\nTo be ultimately successful in world mastery, Hitler knows that he must get control of the seas. He must first destroy the bridge of ships which we are building across the Atlantic and over which we shall continue to roll the implements of war to help destroy him, to destroy all his works in the end. He must wipe out our patrol on sea and in the air if he is to do it. He must silence the British Navy….\nIt is time for all Americans of all the Americas to stop being deluded by the romantic notion that the Americas can go on living happily and peacefully in a Nazi-dominated world.\nGeneration after generation, America has battled for the general policy of the freedom of the seas. And that policy is a very simple one – but a basic, a fundamental one. It means that no nation has the right to make the broad oceans of the world at great distances from the actual theater of land war unsafe for the commerce of others….\nOur policy has applied from the earliest days of the republic and still applies, not merely to the Atlantic but to the Pacific and to all other oceans as well.\nUnrestricted submarine warfare in 1941 constitutes a defiance – an act of aggression – against that historic American policy….\nNo tender whisperings of appeaser that Hitler is not interested in the Western Hemisphere, no soporific lullabies that a wide ocean protects us from him can long have any effect on the hard-headed, far-sighted and realistic American people….\nThis attack on the Greer was no localized military operation in the North Atlantic. This was no mere episode in a struggle between two nations. This was one determined step toward creating a permanent world system based on force, on terror and on murder.\nAnd I am sure that even now the Nazis are waiting, waiting to see whether the United States will by silence give them the green light to go ahead on this path to destruction….\nThere has now come a time when you and I must see the cold inexorable necessity of saying to these inhuman, unrestrained seekers of world conquest and permanent world domination by the sword – “You seek to throw our children and our children’s children into your form of terrorism and slavery. You have now attacked our own safety. You shall go no further.”\nNormal practices of diplomacy – note writing – are of no possible use in dealing with international outlaws who sink our ships and kill our citizens.\nOne peaceful nation after another has met disaster because each refused to look the Nazi danger squarely in the eye, until it actually had them by the throat….\nNo matter what it takes, no matter what it costs, we will keep open the line of legitimate commerce in these defensive waters of ours.\nWe have sought no shooting war with Hitler. We do not seek it now. But neither do we want peace so much that we are willing to pay for it by permitting him to attack our naval and merchant ships while they are on legitimate business.\nI assume that the German leaders are not deeply concerned tonight, or any other time, by what the real Americans or the American Government says or publishes about them. We cannot bring about the downfall of Nazism by the use of long-range invective.\nBut when you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.\nThese Nazi submarines and raiders are the rattlesnakes of the Atlantic. They are a menace to the free pathways of the high seas. They are a challenge to our own sovereignty. They hammer at tour most precious rights when they attack ships of the American flag – symbols of our independence, our freedom, our very life….\nDo not let us be hair-splitters. Let us not ask ourselves whether the Americas should begin to defend themselves after the first attack, or the fifth attack, or the tenth attack, or the twentieth attack.\nThe time for active defense is now….\nThis is the time for prevention of attack….\nUpon our naval and air patrol – now operating in large number over a vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean – falls the duty of maintaining the American policy of freedom of the seas – now. That means, very simply, very clearly, that our patrolling vessels and planes will protect all merchant ships – not only American ships but ships of any flag-engaged in commerce in our defensive waters. They will protect them from submarines; they will protect them from surface raiders.\nThis situation is not new. The second President of the United States, John Adams, ordered the United States Navy to clean out European privateers and European ships of war which were infesting the Caribbean and South American waters, destroying American commerce.\nThe third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, ordered the United States Navy to end the attacks being made upon American and other ships by the corsairs of the nations of North Africa.\nMy obligation as President is historic; it is clear; yes, it is inescapable.\nIt is no act of war on our part when we decide to protect the seas that are vital to American defense. The aggression is not ours. Ours is solely defense….\nThe sole responsibility rests upon Germany. There will be no shooting unless Germany continues to seek it….\nThe American people have faced other grave crises in their history – with American courage, with American resolution. They will do no less today.\nThey know the actualities of the attacks upon us. They know the necessities of a bold defense against these attacks. They know that the times call for clear heads and fearless hearts.\nAnd with that inner strength that comes to a free people conscious of their duty, conscious of the righteousness of what they do, they will – with divine help and guidance – stand their ground against this latest assault upon their democracy, their sovereignty and their freedom.\nSource: “The World’s Greatest Speeches,” edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm and Stephen J. McKenna", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Small town newspapers in Maine where local is everything.\nThe local newspaper used to be the only way to learn what’s happening. What’s important in a small Maine town makes the approach to the newsprint layout different than the urban method. In small town Maine, there are no gangs, no drive by shootings. Not eighteen car accident pile ups and local weather is a big news item. So are local town elections and school or zoning board rulings. The local hospital in Maine does not have or need a trauma center for gunshot wound treatment.\nThe level of advertising income to salt and pepper the local community news. That’s another factor in how thick the latest newspaper installment becomes for area readers. What you pay per column inch is low because so is the population readership. Here is a list of Maine newspapers.\nSome Maine newspapers are daily, some weekly.\nOver the last forty years I have prepared local real estate ads for the weekly paper in my small home town of Houlton. The Aroostook Times published from 1857 to 1916 had a rival newspaper publication called The Aroostook Pioneer. the two newspapers merged to make one viable local voice to keep local readers informed on their community. This blog posted an article on early local radio and television stations in Maine.\nBefore the Internet, the interstate, small Maine towns were pretty self contained.\nYou worked locally, spent most of your money in the confines of the local town boundaries. Railroads helped open up commerce by supply the small Maine towns with goods and service work was done by local residents from the community. Passenger trains helped move the locals back and forth from out of town destinations. Telegrams came in to make sure twitter size announcements. Stop. Western Union wired money back and forth when a loved one was stranded, thrown in the hokey crow bar hotel. Where local dances were for the week. Public suppers were huge news you did not want to miss.\nThe only social media was what you picked up down at the local Grange hall. Or at the grocery store pushing the squeaky wheel wire cart with one wheel that had a mind of its own. Stopping to exchange news with other familiar shoppers. More news gathered by your partner with the window rolled down talking with the shopper you met inside’s other half. Sitting out in the Main Street parked car location waiting for the weeks groceries and the scuttlebutt of news to leave the store. Or local current news gathered while in the swivel pump up chair, getting your hair clipped or styled. You could get quite an earful of local news just like down at the local grain mill or hardware store picking up supplies.\nTelephone operators and party lines were another news leak that might be reliable but dependent on the short term memory and number of how many people used in the round robin news gathering.\nSome passing on the local community news were hard of hearing and missed vital facts or recalled the news snippet with an agenda filtering. Even the local small town Maine newspaper editors were known for printing the news as they saw fit. Slightly colored, spiced with editorial spirit to increase readership subscriptions. The newsprint produced made it obvious where their political leanings supported on various local, state and even national issues. For the most part, it was all about the local news events.\nBirth announcements, who died this week to take their turn in the obituary section of the small Maine newspaper. Who had a tea and who was there. What they wore described as if it was a royal wedding. Painting the picture for the locals who love a story that is close to home. Out of town guests, who they were, what the folks did while they had company all important stuff to readers in a small Maine town. What was served for food and even the dining on the open front porch location all part of the local news. The string of non-paid but eager to write community reporters from out in the far reaching areas of the circulation. The announcements on job promotions from out of town children of local residents filled the small town Maine newspaper columns too.\nWho won the small town in Maine local spelling bee is front page and who’s son or daughter do you suppose that is Martha pondered.\nOpening up the fresh folded hot off the local press newspaper edition in a small Maine town. Where is there a dance this week and who is calling the rounds or which band is playing live. Before television, folks were travel to the entertainment that was live and local. There was always a series of dances for all ages… out at the lake, at the VFW hall, in a hotel. There were no franchise motels and boarding homes were plentiful. Folks working on the railroad, in the woods or on the farms traveled into town from sparse unpopulated areas of their Maine county location. Working your room and board as a student attending school because where your family lived there was only so far you could go in the one room set up. Where the older ones helped the younger students.\nHonor rolls, local police report on barking dog disturbances. There some newsprint set aside to report about the a grass fire that got a little out of hand when the wind came up last Monday. Which local Maine fire departments responded to the local blaze last week. If it is new reported after the last weekly newspaper came out it is still worthy news for this next edition. Maybe there is more known from local sources to add to the earlier reports doubling back to report the story developments.\nAdvertisements for jobs, the fine print of bankruptcy or foreclosure notices, the odds and ends for sale in a small Maine town.\nWho has a vacancy in an apartment coming up and needing to be filled with a quality renter. That’s in there too. Local service providers with a business card size ad or a sale flyer insertion for buy one, get one free. What’s the price per pound for chicken legs or various cuts of beef down at the local Superette or Foodliner this week. In small Maine towns, there is not much for other competing media outlets to spread the news. Like a Paul Revere clopping through the back streets handing out handbills, the local newspaper delivery boy took over the task. Milk men made home deliveries too and picked up the glass empties. He had eggs, other dairy products to peddle in the door to door in a small Maine town.\nThe fifteen, twenty five or more years ago today rehash of what was going on in earlier newspaper stories.\nThose have a corner spot just like the funnies too. Who’s away in the service and wouldn’t Ernie or Cliff appreciate a letter from home the editor reminds. Would you try to send them a little something for home made goodies and a heart felt note from the small Maine town to cheer them up? To know you appreciate their service in the armed forces and being away during the approaching holiday. Small town Maine newspapers shared the joy and pain and the awareness is greater. Now small local newspapers are combining with others in the same economic restraints of rising print production costs, the declining readership to be one strong viable County voice in Maine.\nAnything local to print that would only be of interest to someone living in the small Maine town or with a connection to it.\nPart of the small Maine town newspaper readership has always been from outside the geographic boundaries of it. On the mailing list to be kept in the local news circle with the newspaper arriving a few days late but still pertinent. To keep up with the small home town in Maine happenings… like a serial television show sequel. Small town local newspapers also produced letterhead, printed materials like wedding or birth announcements to keep their presses rolling.\nToday with social media, the you are there instantly happens with anyone that has thumbs to type. Or a cell phone camera to whip out to capture the still image or local happening video loop. You and I are suddenly eye witness news gathers and reporters. The local population is the cub reporter in small town Maine. The small Maine newspaper that only publishes daily or weekly without a website can only feed the readership at set times. With technological advances, the small radio station can now stream video to deliver the local sporting events. Digital sub-channels on the carrier frequency broadcast other offerings in HD streams.\nI remember in the 1970’s and the FM stations worked at using a sub channel for Muzak.\nHad to change the large reel to reels used to motivate the workers on the other end of the wireless signal. Depending on the time of day, what was played changed to be like a jolt of slow drip audio coffee. Used to tickle the ears to stimulate and make the mundane chore not drag quite so much. No no, that would hurt production efficiency. The Muzak subscription before XM and other music services feeding all the local banks, dentist offices and local grocery stores. The filler to avoid dead air did not have to be elevator music or clarinets of the big band era either. Dial in the background mood needed to the restaurant surround systems. Then watch the toes tap, smiles while the menu is studied or waitress is a tad delayed but it matters less.\nThe media outlet institution of today is branching out to do more than the one medium always utilized to deliver the message or information. If they want to stay viable and make the leap from analog to digital. My job as a Maine real estate broker is more than listing properties. It is being the local insider with community knowledge that can share that advantage of being here in Maine to someone that never was. Like when on vacation you ask for directions, where’s the best fish dinner in town or how do you get to the water slides, local matters.\nLocal small Maine town newspapers list the school lunch menu.\nNo more worrying about are we having bubble and squeak or stewed tomatoes, liver and onions. Or maybe it’s pigs in a blanket on the school lunch menu highlighted at area schools like it is a competition. It’s the default pizza or chicken nuggets everyday, maybe a salad bar.\nOr time to bring a homemade bag lunch from home if time allows and you have the ingredients for something custom made. To have it your way with homemade bread, extra layers of smoked turkey or veggie sticks with the ranch dip. Topped off with a devil’s eye date filled or molasses cookie or two. Carefully wrapped up with loving hands to make sure it stay fresh not dried out by lunch time consumption.\nThe small town newspapers in Maine have gotten thinner. Advertising dollars get poured into other methods to make impressions.\nTo captivate customers that have a call to action built in to make the advertising dollars well spent. Media information is pinging all around us. The small newspapers are merging and being absorbed to avoid duplication of services to increase efficiency critical to survival. Our low population makes a media buy of a small radio, television or newspaper still the old Maine broadcasting expression … “a dollar a holler” for a advertising spot. Print is not dead, just used in conjunction with other media options in advertising campaigns today.\nYou need someone that has lived in these parts for some time to add perspective, know the history and being able to relay it quick and efficiently. The small local Maine newspaper was the town crier. But as the editorial decisions on what’s front page, which stories to cover and in what depth are moved further from the community a disconnect occurs. The live and local aspect gets diminished.\nWhatever delivered hopefully with friendly humor or a tad of entertainment using local expressions is what the small town in Maine local newspaper did deliver so well.\nBut as the ad revenue drops off, the increases in layoffs of writers and other support staff follows to belt tighten. The local newspaper turned county regional publication has watered down and not so just local. The deputized local column reporter for a local town aged out and was not replaced. Today, everything has to be entertaining, fed with the teaspoon of sugar to keep the attention and to go down easy. People’s life are too jam packed for anything else right? Less are chewing up full books and the term reading the newspaper means scanning the headlines. Like they are a bullet list of what you need to know today or this week. You need an analysis to tell you what the news coverage talking heads just said in case you missed it.\nThe yesteryear images of a small but bustling, vibrant small Maine town shot in black and white are nostalgic.\nThere are a number of Maine publications that just regurgitate the old images from the newspaper back room files. The old cars, wardrobe from earlier times and shots of buildings in the background of the small Maine town now long gone due to fire or progress have an audience. Aerial shots from farm properties in Maine back when every small town had lots of independent family agriculture enterprises are a popular item for stories. And for whoever now owns the property that may be missing some of the farm buildings, the big barn or open wrap around porch. But shot from the air during a good farming year road after road before the invention of drones with cameras are neat images to add to the blog post, the magazine article or newspaper article revisit to yesterday for their readership.\nThank you for reading our Me In Maine blog post about small town newspapers in Maine. The what is happening to them as they dwindle or get bought and pulled under larger media umbrella ownership. What is delivered means small independent bloggers are a source to turn to for the local community lifestyle and news events in the Maine area surroundings.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sir John Bell, the chairman of the government’s advisory Human Genomics Strategy Group (HGSG) has said that the UK is missing out on the opportunities for both patient and commercial benefits offered by modern genomics.\nIn an interview with Mark Henderson of the Times newspaper, Sir John says that the National Health Service (NHS) is ‘completely unprepared’ to deliver personalised, genome-based medical care.\nPrime Minister David Cameron is reportedly enthusiastic about the potential of genomic medicine to improve medical care, but Sir John has warned that the NHS in not ready to adopt the emerging innovations, despite mounting evidence that the improvements in diagnosis and treatment they offer could ultimately save money.\nThe latest news of genomics as a diagnostic tool to reveal the cause of serious disease in a young girl from the UK (see previous news) was also highlighted as an example of the potential benefits as yet unavailable via the health service.\nSir John identifies policy barriers to the uptake of genomic technologies including failures to plan for the future, a lack of incentives for commercial development, unsuitable evaluation procedures for genetic tests, and a widespread lack of understanding of the uses of genetic testing among health professionals.\nComment: The PHG Foundation’s independent report and policy recommendations on the measures needed to drive prompt adoption of whole genome sequencing technologies into the NHS are to be presented to the HGSG this autumn. The report, which draws on evidence and discussion with top UK experts in genetics and health, will provide a coherent roadmap for the health service to integrate genomics into standard clinical practice across a wide range of medical specialities.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Multiple entities are sponsoring an evening of art and stories from resettled refugee youth in the Humanities Hall auditorium on Thursday, April 11.\nEvery Campus a Refuge at Clemson University is hosting Narratio: Art and Stories beginning at 5 p.m. Narratio’s flagship program, the Narratio Fellowship, is an annual storytelling and leadership program aimed at providing refugee youth with the tools and resources to share their narratives and creative works on the world stage. Guests will experience photography, film and poetry created by Narratio Fellows and will learn more about the program from fellowship co-founders, Ahmed Badr and Brice Nordquist.\n“We are delighted to welcome Narratio to Clemson,” said Angela Naimou, an associate professor in the Department of English. “Narratio is part of a larger movement to amplify the power of artmaking and storytelling by young people. Creative expression is essential to everyday life, and that is no less true for youth who undergo the deep shocks of war, forced migration, family separation, disrupted education and livelihoods, or the experience of growing up a in new place and another language.\n“Too often refugee experiences become fodder for news cycles or election debates. How can we help young people create stories and art on their own terms? We invite our campus and area community to join us in learning more about these young artists and the role of the arts and humanities to the world’s youth today.”\nA pre-event reception for the Thursday event begins at 4:30 p.m. outside the auditorium.\nA lunch event and storytelling workshop will happen on Friday, April 12. At 11:30 a.m., a lunch conversation on publicly engaged arts and humanities will take place in the Brown Room in the Robert M. Cooper Library. Badr and Nordquist will meet with educators to share experiences on strengthening publicly engaged arts and humanities at their institutions.\nAn interactive storytelling workshop will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Room 208 of the Watt Family Innovation Center. The workshop will focus on the power of storytelling to build and transform communities through the Narratio method of object-based storytelling, which was developed in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This method enables resettled refugee and immigrant youth to shape and influence the global conversation around displacement, immigration and cultural production.\nSpace is limited and the workshop is open to all ages. Families, University students and employees and area residents. Register online here.\nThe events are co-sponsored by the Humanities Hub, Department of English, Department of Languages, Global Learning Institute, the Graduate School, Pathways in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative, PPGA, the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business Inclusive Excellence Council, Engineers Without Borders (Clemson Chapter), Council on Diversity Affairs, Tau Beta Pi, Muslim Students Association, Aurantiaco and The Pendulum.\nGet in touch and we will connect you with the author or another expert.\nOr email us at email@example.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "BT to pay £20m for naming rights for Murrayfield\nMay 15, 2014\n© Getty Images\nThe BBC is reporting that talks to sell the naming rights for Murrayfield Stadium in a £20 million deal with BT are at an advanced stage.\nThe Scottish board has made no secret of its willingness to sell what is describes as its \"single biggest piece of our inventory\".\nWith debts of around £11 million, the board is in need of a large injection of cash, and the proposed seven-year BT deal would put it on much sounder financial footing.\nScottish Rugby and BT have both declined to comment on the proposed sponsorship agreement.\nWhile sponsoring new grounds works well - for example, the Emirates Stadium, which Arsenal sold for £100 million over 15 years - rebranding an existing venue is much harder as media and the public tend to continue to refer to it by its more familiar name.\n© ESPN Sports Media Ltd\nCommunication error please reload the page.\nTyson Fury took a vow of silence during his latest press conference alongside upcoming opponent Dereck Chisora, who in turn promised to knock out the Manchester fighter when the pair clash on November 29\nBrendan Rodgers says Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli is \"not complicated\" and just wants to do well on Merseyside\nReigning World Grand Prix champion Phil Taylor will begin his quest for a 12th Dublin title against former world champion Steve Beaton after the first round draw was announced on Monday\nRafael Nadal has withdrawn from the inaugural International Premier Tennis League competition as the Spaniard wants to concentrate on planning for the 2015 season following his injury-plagued year\nDaniel Agger claims he was not appreciated at Liverpool by Brendan Rodgers, with the defender saying he and the manager were \"not on the same page\" for most of last season", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Joe Wicks hailed as a national treasure after documentary about his childhood\nEmotional viewers heaped praise on Joe Wicks after a touching documentary about his childhood aired on the BBC.\nFacing My Childhood reflected on the fitness expert's life as a boy growing up with a heroin-addicted father and a mother living with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).\nThe 60-minute programme explored how the 36-year-old's life was shaped by his childhood experiences through a series of candid discussions with his family and friends.\nAt the age of 12 Joe was left in the care of his dad Gary, who was addicted to heroin, when his mum sought help for her debilitating OCD.\nHe praised his \"brave\" mum Raquela for getting the help she needed while his older brother Nikki, 38, tried to shield him from the reality of living with their addict father.\nJoe, who also goes by The Body Coach, is probably best known for his intense workout videos which got the country moving during the Covid lockdown.\nBut fans had the opportunity to see a different, more sensitive side to the father-of-two who broke into tears several times during the documentary.\nAnd some were moved to share their admiration for the personal trainer and praise his bravery on social media.\nOne viewer wrote: \"Joe Wicks is such a gentleman & truly an inspiration (a national treasure). His documentary #FacingMyChildhood is an amazing insightful into #mentalhealth & thank you for your open, honest & emotional reflections\".\nFor more of the latest showbiz and TV news from the Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.\nAnother commented: \"Joe Wicks is such a lovely man. He’s truly an inspiration.\n\"This programme is so insightful and needed more than ever. Mental Health is all around us and education is so important.\"\nA third added: \"Goodness me, serious warmth, insight and honesty. Joe Wicks absolutely blew me away tonight.\n\"A real advocate about listening to children, the effects of growing up around mental illness and how it’s affect for him now.\"\nJoe also took to social media to encourage others to talk about mental health and thank fans for their support.\nIn a four-part Twitter thread on Monday night, he wrote: \"I'd just like to say a huge thank you to all of you for tuning into my documentary on BBC1 this evening.\n\"The intention of this documentary is to open up conversations around mental health and highlight the support which is out there if you are struggling…\n\"It’s so important we talk about our issues and remove the shame, guilt and stigma from mental illness and addiction. I really hope the documentary has helped you in some way but if you need more help and support please visit http://bbc.co.uk/actionline.\n\"There you will find links to all the relevant charities and services you may need. Just a heads up regarding my own personal mental health. Since filming the documentary last year I have found a much better balance with my phone and social media…\n\"I am in a much more positive place with it all. It was a very emotional process but I’ve come away from it feeling stronger and more positive. Thanks again for all your support. Much love Joe x\"\nSource: Read Full Article", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, UBA Africa, Abiola Bawuah, the President, Transnational Corporation (Transcorp) Plc, Owen Omogiafo, and Guinness Record breaker, Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, have been listed among the dignitaries to speak at the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc 2023 Africa Day celebration.\nAlso expected to speak on growth and business innovation in Africa at the event are renowned fashion designer, Banke Lawson-Kuku, and Business and Technology Executive, Folusho Gbadamosi.\nUBA, in a statement made available to The Star on Monday, said the event will be held at the Tony Elumelu Amphitheater, UBA House, on Wednesday, May 24, 2023.\nThe bank stated: “Coming at a time where Africans are achieving great feat on the global front, UBA Conversation 2023 provides the opportunity for the African and global audience to hear and connect with diverse panelists on their African journeys, and how they have waded through various challenges to attain global successes in their own rights.\n“This year’s theme is: ‘Innovating for Growth in Africa’ and interestingly, this edition involves an all-female panel who are certified professionals in their own right from various fields.\n“They include the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, UBA Africa, Abiola Bawuah; President, Transnational Corporation (Transcorp) Plc, Owen Omogiafo; award-winning and trendsetting Foodpreneur/Chef, Hilda Baci; Renowned Fashion Designer, Banke Lawson-Kuku and Business & Technology Executive; Folusho Gbadamosi.\n“These intelligent women will speak on how they have succeeded at their craft overtime, and the place of innovation in business. They will also speak on their personal journeys, and how women have aptly taken their pride of place against all odds to emerge as business leaders while supporting change on this continent.”\nOthers expected at the event are the Chairman, UBA Group, Tony Elumelu; the Group Managing Director, Oliver Alawuba; other management staff, and business leaders, among others.\nSince 1963, Africa Day has been celebrated every year on May 25 across the African continent and worldwide.\nThe day was inaugurated by the Organisation of African Unity, in celebration of the unity, diversity, and beauty of Africa and its people.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Naked sword-wielding man arrested after standoff in San Jose\nSAN JOSE, Calif. (KFSN) -- San Jose police took a naked, sword-wielding man into custody after a short chase and standoff Tuesday morning.\nPolice received a 911 call from a witness saying an adult man was in front of a home with an assault rifle. As officers made their way to the scene, he took off in a car.\nWhen Police caught up with the suspect he got out of the car, holding a large samurai sword saying quote, \"you're going to have to kill me\" several times.\nThe assault rifle and the suspect's vehicle were safely secured, but it took police more than two hours for the Crisis Intervention Team to talk him into giving up.\nbay area, bizarre\n- Authorities investigate a shooting in Madera County\n- Los Angeles police arrest man in severed head case\n- USGS: 6.9 earthquake hits 50 miles west of Eureka\n- Calif. emissions law could make gas prices jump\n- Police: Man killed in Fresno gang-related shooting\n- Man accused of killing Parlier coach identified\n- Cornell president named new head of Smithsonian\n- Investigators chase 'every angle' in missing jet\n- Bees attack drivers after SoCal car crash\n- Man holds out atop roof of San Diego FBI building\n- Toddler uses FaceTime to help mom after dog bite\n- 1 arrested, 1 sought after Visalia Save Mart robbery\n- Woman fatally shot by Fresno police identified\n- Mexico government 100 pct sure drug capo killed", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rare accolade in a profession where women represent only 1.7% of the workforce\nA former Savile Row manager has become the first female builder to be ranked among Britain's 10 best tradespeople.\nSarah Wain, who turned to construction 13 years ago, was recently ranked one of the UK's top builders by TrustMark, a government-supported scheme to recommend good tradespeople in the building industry.\nLondon-based Wain joined the tailor Gieves & Hawkes after leaving university but left when she was 23. She did a building apprenticeship before launching her company House To Home. She is now converting a former church hall in Notting Hill.\nWomen represent just 1.7% of the manual workforce in construction, according to training watchdog CITB. Of the 324,500 employed, the vast majority have non-manual roles.\nWain told the Evening Standard: \"It is more hard work for a woman to do all this lifting and the job is fantastically demanding, but I'm deceptively strong, I'm delighted to have been rated one of the top builders.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "We all come to one side when it comes to the popularity of YouTube. Google managed to bring it as the second most popular search engine. Facebook is going to challenge the monopoly with their new application.\nOrkut from Google was a trend many years ago. Then came Facebook, breaking all the track records of a social network. After many failed attempts to get people to shift to their apps, Google seems to have settled down. That’s when Facebook comes with IGTV, their reply to YouTube.\nIGTV from Facebook; Everything You Need to Know\nYou know the Facebook way of making people stick to their applications, don’t you? When Snapchat had risen to the fame, they mimicked the most used feature, stories. Mark has shamelessly copied the same to all the applications (Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram).\nNow that Instagram hit 1 billion users, he wants to take on the popularity of YouTube. The video sharing platform has been at the top for several years now. The company is targeting teens as they watch less television and spend most of their time online.\nOn the contrary to Instagram, the subsidiary app IGTV allows anyone to be a video maker. Google does the same on YouTube. Due to the same reason, we have seen many ordinary people turning into celebrities. In case you are not into video making, you can follow your favorite celebrities, who will eventually upload long videos to the platform.\nInstagram Chief Executive Kevin Systrom told in the launch event that IGTV is aiming smartphone users. Before the new app went live, they had a limit of one minute for videos. They still stick to the same limit, but not on IGTV. Another significant change is the application promotes vertical videos as well.\nGoing by the data from a research firm eMarketer, 181.7 million Americans watch videos on their smartphones once a month. Obviously, all the other countries see a proportional increase in video consumers too.\nThey have released the application for both Android and iOS. You can upload a video of up to 10 minutes. For the bigger publishers, the limit goes all the way up to 60 minutes.\nFacebook acquired Instagram in 2012 for about $1 billion. Since then, the company is improving the experience and the number of users. The research done by eMarketer revealed it will generate $5.48 billion ad revenue this year.\nSo, what do you think? Will IGTV become the next YouTube? Or will it become a failed attempt? Do you prefer another app for watching videos? Let us know in the comment section down below.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lukoil, Russia's top oil producer, said that first quarter profits probably dropped by three quarters from a year ago, after a slowing world economy slashed oil prices abroad and export limits created a domestic fuel glut, which pushed down prices.\nThe company expects to report net income of $170 million for the quarter, compared with $690 million, in earnings that will be prepared under US generally accepted accounting principles. Revenue is expected to decline by sixteen percent to three billion dollars.\nRussia, which extracts more crude than any country except Saudi Arabia, agreed to curb exports in the first half of 2002 to help OPEC prop up world oil prices. That created a glut in Russia that slashed local prices by more than a half. While world prices rose in the first quarter, they still averaged about a sixth less than the year earlier period.\n“Their earnings were hit by both international crude oil prices and by domestic prices for oil products,” said Paul Collison, an analyst at Brunswick UBS Warburg. “They were bound to be weak”\nEurope has recognised the need for negotiations with Russia to discuss the security system on the continent. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is going to Macedonia for meetings with colleagues within the OSCE", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III flew out to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the coast of California to thank the crew for a record-setting deployment.\nThe Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is returning after operations in U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and U.S. Central Command areas of responsibility. It was the first carrier strike group to deploy under COVID-19 protocols. By the time the carrier strike group reaches home, the sailors and Marines aboard will have been gone for 321 days.\nThe Nimitz, the cruiser USS Princeton, and the destroyers USS Sterett and USS Ralph Johnson made up the group.\n\"You've just demonstrated incredible professionalism, resilience and focus,\" Austin told the crew over the ship-wide public address system. \"It's been very impressive.\"\nThe group provided carrier support in the Persian Gulf in support of Centcom during a particularly tense time with Iran. The group also participated in maritime exercise Malabar 2020 alongside Indian, Australian and Japanese ships. The carrier strike group also participated in dual-carrier operations with the USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike groups. The group also operated in the South China Sea, as well.\nAustin praised the group for these efforts. \"You've sent a clear message about America's resolve,\" he told the crew. \"Any potential adversary out there — in this ocean or any other ocean — has to know when they look at what you accomplished, that the United States takes very seriously our security commitments around the world.\"\nHe thanked the sailors for working with key allies and partners across the U.S. combatant commands.\nThe Nimitz Carrier Strike Group had the longest deployment since the Vietnam War. It was lengthened by COVID-19 protocols that called for a quarantine before departing and the elimination of port calls during the deployment. The Navy aims for deployments to be roughly six months. The Nimitz group will be away from family and friends almost twice that.\n\"I don't want deployments this long to be the norm,\" the secretary said. \"And so, we need to take a hard look at that, but you handled it very, very well. You led. You took care of each other in the midst of a pandemic, and you were a team.\"\nIn a news conference with Pentagon reporters on the hangar deck, Austin thanked families in particular. \"Their families have been very, very supportive as well,\" he said. \"And I want to make sure I give them a shout out again, and provide our thanks for their sacrifices.\"\nThe Nimitz was on its way home from the Centcom area of responsibility when events in the region necessitated its return. Events such as these happen. He noted the year-long deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan that stretched to 18 months, as an example.\n\"I understand the stress that, that can place on families,\" he said. \"So as secretary, what I want to do is make sure that … going forward, we do everything we can to minimize that kind of stress.\"\nThat means taking care of equipment, sure, but really ensuring that service members and their families are taken care of. \"We're going to continue to learn,\" he said. \"We're going to continue to make sure we have the resources. [We're going to ensure] that we're doing the right things to pace ourselves going forward. Because I really think this is important.\"\nOverall, the carrier strike group steamed more than 87,300 nautical miles during its deployment. The carrier launched 10,185 sorties totaling 23,410 flight hours logged.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- FrontPage Magazine - http://www.frontpagemag.com -\nThe Left: Talk Radio and the Internet Are Destroying the Children!\nPosted By M. Catharine Evans On July 21, 2010 @ 1:00 pm In NewsReal Blog | No Comments\nYou know the Left is desperate when they start using the kids.\nIt’s time to revisit the follow-up petition filed by the National Hispanic Media Coalition in May, 2010 to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). After reading the 25-page document with over 30 Soros-funded groups signing on, this little sentence caught my attention:\nNHMC et al is extremely concerned with the negative impact of hate speech in media on society and particularly on children.\nThe various organizations listed as part of this blueprint to destroy free speech in America couldn’t care less about the little ones. The Marxist Free Press run by Robert W. McChesney of “tearing down capitalism brick-by-brick” fame is one; and then there’s the Center for Media Justice and the Media Justice League to name a few.\nAfter they feign worry and concern about what the tikes will hear on Rush Limbaugh and see on NRB they predictably reveal their desire to dismantle the fourth estate, airwave-by-airwave, chip- by- chip. The petition, at any other time, during any other recent administration, might be a farcical document. But these groups are backed up by billions of dollars, radicals like Soros and Obama and a FCC Diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd, who thinks Venezuela’s crackdown on private media is utopia.\nThe authors tell the FCC that after investigating the “correlation between hate speech and hate crimes” in the “current media landscape” they will use the information to:\n…specifically confront and educate hate distributors about the consequences of hate speech and encourage them to self-regulate….since NHMC filed the Petition in early 2009 hate, extremism and misinformation have been on the rise.\nThey then proceed to list actual incidents of hate crimes involving white supremacists and anti-Latino bigots. They conveniently exclude racist attacks against white people. But that’s because:\ntraditional media has become less diverse and less competitive…in this same atmosphere hate speech thrives as hate has developed as a profit-model for syndicated radio and cable television programs…on the Internet..speakers can hide in the cloak of anonymity.\nAs usual, by the end of the whole revealing mess the children are all but forgotten. But it’s definitely worth a serious read or re-read. Our right to speak freely is on the line and these people aren’t going away.\nArticle printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://www.frontpagemag.com\nURL to article: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/m-catharine-evans/the-left-talk-radio-and-the-internet-are-destroying-the-children/\nCopyright © 2009 FrontPage Magazine. All rights reserved.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is getting set to hold a full capacity event this weekend, marking the first time since COVID-19 placed restraints on the promotion’s schedule last year.\nWhile the UFC has weathered the global pandemic, setting a precedent by not cutting back on its events and thinking outside the box to find creative ways to broadcast fights without putting its athletes or fans in danger, the promotion eyes a return to form after the virus put a hold on live audiences in 2020.\nHere’s a breakdown of the upcoming event, and what to expect leading up to UFC 261.\nNever to be outdone, the UFC came out swinging in announcing its return to full capacity crowds.\nIn a video posted on Twitter on March 15, UFC President Dana White dropped the huge bombshell, saying the upcoming card would take place on April 24 at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville Florida. The event, unlike other sporting venues, will feature a packed house — with over 15,000 fans scheduled to attend.\n“What’s up everybody, UFC president Dana White here. And I have been waiting a year for this day, to tell you – we are back,” White said in a video. “UFC 261 on April 24th will be in Jacksonville, Florida with a full house of fans. Full capacity at the Five Star Veterans Memorial Arena. And you know I’m bringing an incredible card.\n“This is a stacked card in front of 15,000 UFC fans,” White exclaimed. “Ladies a gentleman, we are back!”\n— danawhite (@danawhite) March 16, 2021\nFollowing White’s announcement, MMA aficionados voiced that support for the promotion setting a standard that other sports may soon adopt. UFC fanatics wanting to see the fans repopulate the stands reinforced initial opinions on the move to allow in-person viewing, opening their wallets when tickets for the event went on sale on March 16. Tickets for UFC 261 sold out in minutes, becoming one of the fastest sell-outs in UFC history.\nWhile several sports continue to limit fans, the UFC will be the first major sports organization to see fans return without placing a limit on attendees. The news is not surprising given the promotion’s perseverance through the pandemic. The UFC was the first major sport to hold an event during the outbreak in May of last year. Many of its prior fights were held in isolated locations with reduced fans, such as the UFC Apex in Las Vegas or Fight Island in Abu Dhabi.\nA lot of heavy lifting took place to merge an unrestricted live audience with a massive UFC card.\nFirst and foremost, Governor Ron DeSantis‘ leadership during the mass pandemic opened the doors for both the UFC and fight fans across the country. While DeSantis has his share of detractors, his methodical approach to the coronavirus served as a direct catalyst and promoted good business that continues to pay dividends for the Sunshine State.\nFor those unaware, during this time last year, UFC 249 was scheduled to take place on April 18 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York but was postponed shortly after due to the pandemic. The event was eventually rescheduled, with Florida hosting the event on May 9 and DeSantis giving the UFC the greenlight to conduct the fights safely behind closed doors.\nDeSantis’ willingness to roll out the red carpet for the UFC caught the eye of White, who saw Florida as a potential playground to allow UFC fighters and fight fans to return to the eight-sided arena.\nThe UFC will once again call on the Governor to set a precedent and host the first packed sporting event since the virus swept through the United States. DeSantis is aided by Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry in bringing this event to fruition.\nFight fans couldn’t have asked for a better card, with three title fights taking place at UFC 261.\nWhile the undercard has a plethora of up-and-coming talent, the main card is chock-full of notable names to make any MMA fan lick their chops. UFC veteran Anthony Smith (34-16) kicks off the PPV in a fight against Jimmy Crute (12-1), the #13 ranked light heavyweight. That fight is followed by dangerous striker Uriah Hall (17-9) who will look to continue his three-fight win streak against former UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman (15-5).\nThe real meat of the card, however, lies in the final three bouts of the night. The trio of fights will feature a UFC title on the line, as three champions will step inside the octagon to defend their belts.\nValentina Shevchenko (20-3), the current Women’s Flyweight Champion, will face off against former strawweight champ Jessica Andrade (21-8). Following that five-round fight, Women’s Strawweight Champion Weili Zhang (21-1) will defend her title against former champ Rose Namajunas (10-4). And in a surprising main event, fans will see a rematch from last July when Kamaru Usman (18-1) puts his middleweight belt on the line against BMF champion and Florida’s own Jorge Masvidal (35-14).\nFinally leaving their “bubble” at the UFC Apex center, White has voiced his excitement to bring his product back to a live audience. With the state not placing restrictions on Floridians, White has been presented with a golden opportunity to revitalize the UFC as much of the country eyes the light at the end of the COVID tunnel.\nBut despite Florida ranking 23rd in cases per 100,000 and 28th in deaths per 100,000, many news outlets across the state remain up in arms, calling the lack of COVID-19 guidelines “reckless.” White, however, downplayed media attention surrounding the event on Tuesday, noting that all employees will still be tested and that fans will have the final say in whether or not to wear masks.\n“In Jacksonville, everything is opening up again. Even in Vegas, it’s going to be open June 1st, but 100% open in July,” White said. “There’s still going to be some things that are set in place. We’re still going to have a bubble for the athletes, and things like that. But as far as the fans, you can wear a mask, or you can not wear a mask. It’s up to you. It’s your decision.”\nJacksonville’s mask mandate, which had been in place since June of last year, was lifted the same day tickets went on sale for UFC 261. Mayor Curry opted to end the city’s mandate.\nUFC has, however, decided to implement protocols ahead of the PPV, announcing a partnership to help combat the virus and provide a safe atmosphere for everyone involved. Specifically, the promotion will now be working with CLEAR and their Health Pass technology. The tool can be utilized by fans, and after registering, they will be securely linked to a database, providing a confidential COVID-related health questionnaire.\nAll ticket holders will be required to enter their information into the database in advance\nOn Thursday, DeSantis, along with Curry, will attend a press conference for UFC 261 in Jacksonville at 4 p.m. Both officials will be present alongside White and the six fighters competing in title fights at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. The presser will stream live on Twitch, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and UFC.com.\n“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry will be a part of Thursday’s UFC 261 press conference in Jacksonville, the promotion announced. 4 pm et. They’ll join the 6 fighters competing in the title fights and Dana White, said ESPN and MMA journalist Ariel Helwani on Twitter.\nFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis and and Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry will be a part of Thursday’s UFC 261 press conference in Jacksonville, the promotion announced. 4 pm et.\nThey’ll join the 6 fighters competing in the title fights and Dana White.\n— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) April 21, 2021\nOn Friday, the UFC will hold their official weigh-ins at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena at 4 p.m. All weigh-ins will stream live on the platforms listed above.\nOn Saturday, UFC 261 will kickoff, with the early preliminary card set to begin at 5:45 p.m. The prelims will follow at 8 p.m., and the main card will kickoff at 10 p.m.\nSpeaking with The Capitolist, Curry confirmed that he will be attending UFC 261. We reached out to the Governor’s office to see if DeSantis would also be on hand but did not receive an answer.\nIf you want to know how to watch UFC 261, you can watch fight night on PPV through ESPN Plus.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "'Hey, be ready': Area high school wrestling teams attacking the uncertainty ahead\nMarch seems so long ago. For Louisville wrestling coach Rocky Laughlin, though, the memories from the spring feel like it was just yesterday.\nThe Leopards had a team which already had won the state dual championship, anchored by a pair of wrestlers in Garett Lautzenheiser and Davin Rhoads who had won individual titles as sophomores in 2019.\nAs they arrived in Columbus on March 12 for the state individual tournament, the Leopards did so fully expecting to not just contend for, but also win, the Division II state championship over the next three days.\nLouisville never got the chance to achieve that dream. None of Ohio's wrestlers got the chance. Because of concerns over the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, all of Ohio's winter sports tournaments got postponed that day, only to be canceled a little more than a month later.\nThose memories have remained with those wrestlers eight months since that day. Only now, those thoughts serve as a bit of motivation as they look to start their next season.\n\"The end of last year was hard,\" Laughlin said. \"I think, for us, it's helped a little bit as a team because a lot of them still feel like we have something to prove. . . . We'll see how it goes and we'll do what we can do to make sure that we get to wrestle.\"\nGetting to wrestle is all that matters right now.\nIt's a mindset which covers the entire sport as the first day of regular-season competition, slated for Dec. 3, approaches. In fact, it's even more pronounced with each passing day, as the same thing that ended their season in March remains a threat to impact the upcoming season as well.\nIn a memo to schools last week, the OHSAA reaffirmed its commitment to the winter sports season, including wrestling, starting as scheduled. However, as COVID cases continue to rise across the state, it's already had an impact in the schools themselves.\n\"For right now, we've got kids on quarantine, so your numbers are lower in the (wrestling) room,\" Perry coach Brent McBurney said. \"Obviously, the lower the numbers, the tougher it is to get those good, intense workouts. So, you've got guys here some days and then they're gone for two weeks. It does make it tough.\"\nTough, however, doesn't mean impossible.\nFor a sport which prides itself on discipline and toughness — both physically and mentally — the things required in order to be able to compete in this unique season are just something else to be overcome.\nIn some ways, actually, they're just more of the same. Sanitizing the mats in the practice room has been standard for years, although the coaches acknowledge it's being done at even more regular intervals than before.\nChecking temperatures and answering symptom-related questions may be new, as are the masks being worn by individuals when they're not wrestling. Still, wrestling coaches believe that the sport's focus on preventing the spread of infections before is no different than its focus on preventing the spread of COVID now.\n\"That's kind of how we operate,\" Wadsworth coach Clay Wenger said. \"That's part of our sport. For me as a coach, that's what I'm telling my athletes, too. This is part of the process. I don't think other sports realize you have to pass a skin check to compete, you have to be healthy and you also have to make weight before you even step on the mat.\"\nWhile many of the familiar fundamental health and hygiene protocols are ramped up even more this season, there will be noticeable changes.\nMany of the biggest annual events on the high school wrestling calendar already have been wiped out for the season. That includes such tournaments as the Ironman at Walsh Jesuit, the Bill Dies Tournament at Firestone and the Top Gun at Alliance.\nBeyond that, many schools eliminated traditional trips to out-of-state events — such as Perry to the Beast of the East Tournament in Delaware. Even many of the tournaments still being conducted have been cut down to one-day affairs with significantly smaller fields than normal.\nThe Brecksville Holiday Tournament, for instance, is usually a massive, two-day, 40-plus-team extravaganza of highly-competitive wrestling right after Christmas. This year, it's been reduced to a much more exclusive field, including Perry and Louisville, which will compete in just one day.\nIt's not just the format and size of the tournament that have changed, but also the procedures at the tournament.\n\"You'll have a place where your team will goes,\" Laughlin said. \"Where they warm up, where they hang out, where they eat. Then, what I believe is they plan to bring each weight class to a mat and that weight class doesn't leave the mat. They wrestle the whole weight class on one mat. They'll wrestle the weight class, they'll clean it and then they'll bring the next weight class in.\"\nWith bigger tournaments eliminated or greatly reduced, coaches are forced to change some things up with their schedules and get more creative.\nIn lieu of big tournaments, coaches have taken to scheduling more duals and tri-matches. They've also scheduled more on back-to-back days in order to mimic what would normally occur at multi-day tournaments.\nCoaches also want to make sure their top wrestlers are being challenged by other top competition. Tournaments such as the Ironman, Dies and Top Gun guarantee that in a normal season and prepare elite wrestlers for the state tournament.\nMany of the area's perennial powers are finding their way onto each other's schedules for duals and tri-matches.\n\"It's a fine line,\" McBurney said. \"You have some kids that need that scheduling and you have some kids that don't need that schedule. But at the same time, we've always felt we've gained so much from those experiences. Wrestling the best competition really shows your weaknesses and really gets you to become better.\"\nAll of that, of course, presumes everyone is at as close to full strength as possible. That goes back to an issue — wrestler availability — that coaches have dealt with since practice officially started on Nov. 13.\nArea coaches are routinely dealing with wrestlers, like the rest of their school classmates, being quarantined because of a positive COVID-19 test or due to contract tracing. And as community spread of the virus increases, so does the likelihood of that happening more often in the weeks to come.\n\"That's part of the process we have to face,\" Wenger said. \"What I told my team today was, this year has to be about the team. This year has to be, when you step on that mat, you're wrestling for Wadsworth, you're wrestling for that Wadsworth wrestling team.\n\"That can mean that you're bumping up a weight class or going down a weight class, or you're weighing in at a weight class above, but you're going up two weight classes. It's going to be a challenge, but I told them, hey, be ready.\"\nReach Chris at email@example.com.\nOn Twitter: @ceasterlingINDE", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.\nSandy • Kyle Beckerman cleaned up a blocked free kick. Robbie Findley made his second chance count. And Real Salt Lake beat the Seattle Sounders 2-0 Saturday night at Rio Tinto Stadium.\nBeckerman, the Real Salt Lake captain blasted a shot past Seattle goalkeeper Michael Gspurning in the 41st minute for the ultimate game-winner.\nFindley provided the dagger just seconds into the second half. The forward took a Javier Morales pass and blasted it at Gspurning. The rebound made its way back to Findley and he buried his next attempt to double the lead.\nThe Seattle trio of Obafemi Martins, Eddie Johnson and Lamar Neagle were kept quiet most of the night.\nJohnson nearly stole a Khari Stephenson back pass in the fifth minute that could have spelled danger for RSL, but since then Salt Lake has tightened things up and has managed to keep the Sounders without a a shot until the 74th minute.\nRSL forward Alvaro Saborio started for his club for the first time in more than two months because of injury and international duty.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Here are a few pop culture tidbits that happened to catch our eye.\n■ Nevada at least temporarily winds up with two Miss Nevada’s Outstanding Teen winners because of a reported scoring irregularity. It’s a beauty pageant. Nobody said there’d be math.\n■ Police say a man charged with robbing the Bellagio spent more than $10,000 on hookers and shopping spree. It’s Las Vegas, so you were expecting a visit to Mom’s and a Wal-Mart run?\n■ Members of boy band 5 Seconds of Summer prank fans by dressing in Target employee uniforms and hawking their albums. Hang on to those red shirts and khakis, guys.\n■ President Obama confesses to having had a crush on Linda Ronstadt ▶ back in the day. Him and everybody else …\nContact reporter John Przybys at email@example.com or 702-383-0280.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As fun as video gaming is, there is room for improvement, especially when it comes to developing titles for children. Since studios weren’t changing on their own, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) took action in September 2020 with the Age Appropriate Design Code.\nNow, Congress is urging US companies to follow suit, but what does this Code actually involve? Here's everything we know about these new child-friendly standards in video game development.\nWhat Is the Age Appropriate Design Code?\nChildren are more vulnerable than adults as they play PC or mobile games without realizing the risks involved. The ICO is a data protection agency, so it’s mostly focused on safeguarding people’s data and related rights, but the Code covers children’s best interests in general.\nThe Age Appropriate Design Code asks developers in the UK to meet certain conditions when designing titles for children or titles that children might use. These standards are there to protect young gamers from the pitfalls of their favorite hobby.\nAfter the 12-month transition period, ending September 2, 2021, companies violating the Code can expect penalties. These range from warnings to severe fines, amounting to around $ 23.5 million or 4 percent of the developer’s annual revenue—whichever is higher.\nWhy Does the US Care About the Age Appropriate Design Code?\nSince the Code came into effect, Congress has been contacting big companies and urging them to meet the same standards in the US. Trahan House shared the letters to Blizzard, Disney, Microsoft, Epic Games, and others. The likes of Facebook, Google, and TikTok got them too.\nThe hope is to build on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), strengthening the rights of all young gamers. It would stop game designers from manipulating children, abusing their data, and profiting from their unsafe activity.\nCongress members state specific examples in the letters:\nThe prevalence of micro-transactions—often encouraged through nudging—have led to high credit card bills for parents. Loot boxes go one step further, encouraging purchase before a child knows what the “bundle” contains— akin to gambling.\nWhile there are several ways to make online gaming safer for kids, parents and any adults responsible for children’s wellbeing could breathe easier knowing governments and developers have their backs in minimizing threats.\nWhat Gaming Companies Must Do According to the Age Appropriate Design Code\nSo what must game companies do to adhere to these rules? The Age Appropriate Design Code can be split into 12 main ideas.\n1. Undertake a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)\nCompanies must submit their project for a DPIA, ideally before designing the game or service. The process checks whether the system is safe for children to use and identifies any problems so developers can counter them. Spotting these early can save time and money.\n2. Deliver Age Appropriate Content\nSomething developers will need to become very familiar with are age ranges, their abilities, and how to accommodate them safely.\nBasically, a video game’s designers must be as specific as possible about the age range of their target audience and tailor its system to accommodate children. This means, for example, being able to confirm players’ age and deliver a service with minimal risk to their data privacy.\n3. Provide Clear Information\nSomeone’s age affects what they’ll understand and what the best way is to help them absorb information, especially important or complicated details about safe gaming.\nThe Age Appropriate Design Code encourages companies to be crystal clear with young gamers. They must include features like child-friendly language, bite-sized explanations, notices before every in-game moment that collects data, and prompts for adult consent.\n4. Protect Children’s Data\nIf data processing is essential to the game, companies should collect the absolute minimum from children. And they mustn’t use that data in a way that harms their young users, physically or emotionally. This includes sharing it with third parties.\nThe ICO also expects titles to have safeguards in place that protect children from content that can manipulate, exploit, or traumatize them.\nAs a result, following official rules regarding children is a must. The Code highlights organizations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP), and Office for Fair Trading (OFT) among others.\n5. Avoid Nudge Techniques\nSince the Code specifically mentions nudging as a feature to avoid, designers should use it at their own peril. It basically involves stylistic choices that encourage people to go for one option over another when buying products, for example.\nIn online gaming, the designer might make an upgrade more prominent or less rewarding than others. When asking for permission to access your data, they might phrase the “no” option in a very negative way.\nChildren are more susceptible to manipulation, so the ICO warns developers against having any nudging techniques in games for young users. This can prevent unnecessary expenses and sharing of personal data.\n6. Make High Privacy Settings the Default\nWhen a child uses a game, its privacy settings should be at their tightest by default. This means minimal data collection and no sharing with third parties.\nThe player should also be able to clearly see how the settings affect their gaming experience. If they try to change anything, notices and explanations must be simple enough to understand.\nThe ICO suggests two additional features, starting with the option to make changes permanent or temporary, meaning they’ll switch back to high privacy after a session.\nThen, there’s the ability to have individual settings for different users. On console, for example, a child shouldn’t have to share or keep changing an adult player’s privacy settings, which might be much lower.\n7. Improve Geolocation Control\nFirstly, there should be a clear explanation as to what geolocation is or a prompt to ask an adult about it. Secondly, the child should be able to see when they're being tracked.\nEven more importantly, geolocation must be off by default. If it is turned on, the game must be able to automatically switch it off again after a session in case the child forgets or didn’t mean to activate it in the first place.\n8. Disable Profiling\nThe Code discourages profiling in general when it comes to children, unless a game’s design can protect them from its potential harm. Like geolocation and data sharing, it should be turned off by default.\nWhile profiling can tailor the gaming experience to people’s tastes and make it more fun, it can lead to overspending, distraction, and abuse of personal details. At the end of the day, if adults can lose control or fall for scams, children are far more vulnerable.\n9. Enable Parental Controls That Respect Children’s Rights\nAs one of the main ways to protect children, video game companies must have good parental controls on their products. However, it’s not just protecting children from dangerous sites or stopping them from gaming all day that interests the ICO.\nThe Age Appropriate Design Code states that young gamers have a right to privacy and that they must know about the parental controls in place. To be exact, the game should tell them what their parents are able to monitor and when they’re actually doing so.\n10. Provide Online Tools for Children to Exercise Their Rights\nAll this transparency makes children feel comfortable and safe when gaming, as does knowing exactly what to do when there’s a problem or they have technical questions.\nWhether it’s about a violation to their privacy, deleting their data, or just needing help in changing settings, game designers must make relevant tools prominent and easy to use for different age ranges.\n11. Apply the Code to All Toys and Devices With Data Processing\nConsidering the high-tech toys available today, from handheld gaming devices to smart teddy bears, a child’s privacy can be at risk on several fronts. So, companies that deal with all kinds of children’s digital entertainment are on the ICO’s watchlist.\nWhether they design video games or toys, they have to tick the boxes above, ensuring their young customers’ wellbeing is their main priority.\n12. Uphold Published Policies and Community Standards\nFinally, once a game passes its DPIA and the company establishes its core principles that will keep users safe, it’s essential to not violate these policies and standards.\nIt’s a bad move to begin with, but if you fail the ICO and risk children’s security without a very good reason, extra pressure and penalties will follow.\nChildren’s Online Activity Can Be Fun and Safe\nHopefully the Age Appropriate Design Code will inspire the US enough to establish its own super secure system for young gamers. It forces companies to change a lot in terms of strategy and design, but everyone can benefit in the long run, especially children.\nThey should be free to enjoy the digital world without being tricked or leaving their parents with huge bills. With safeguards and supervision, there’s lots to do online, from video games and Netflix to eLearning opportunities for all ages.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A decline in pupil numbers and an uncertain economic climate has led to a West Sussex independent school to announce its closure, the Worthing Herald has reported.\nThe Towers Convent School released a statement that said “unsustainable pressures” had been placed on the school, with all efforts to save the school being unsuccessful, including negotiations for mergers.\nThe Roman Catholic school is situated in a French chateau in the village of Upper Beeding and has 174 pupils – mostly girls.\nThe statement read: “The Towers was founded in 1903 by The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and has provided pastoral care and educational excellence ever since.\n“Over recent years, The Towers has seen a gradual decline in pupil numbers, which together with an uncertain economic climate, has placed unsustainable pressures on the school’s ability to survive. Despite an exhaustive number of initiatives to help save the school, including negotiations for mergers, all efforts have been unsuccessful.\nOver recent years, The Towers has seen a gradual decline in pupil numbers, which together with an uncertain economic climate, has placed unsustainable pressures on the school’s ability to survive\n“Following the announcement of a consultation period with staff over the proposal that the school may close, parents and staff have rallied in support of The Towers to try to find a solution to save the school.\n“Having carefully considered the proposals put forward and having reviewed the financial risks involved to the charitable trust, the Trustees of The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament advised staff that, with regret, they consider that the possibility of reaching agreement which would avoid closure of The Towers has been exhausted and, as a result the consultation period has now come to an end.”\nThe Towers will close at the end of the summer term (July 2020).\nThe school was involved in community partnerships such as sharing its swimming pool with a local primary school weekly, and hosting workshops for local primary schools.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Today, we are interviewing Giovannie Espiritu, an Actress, Filmmaker, Writer, and Acting Coach.\nGiovannie Espiritu was nominated alongside Academy Award Nominees Alfre Woodard and Amy Irving for Best Supporting Actress at MethodFest for the Mynah Films feature film Fiona’s Script.\nHer primetime credits include a recurring role on ER (NBC), Bones (FOX), Gilmore Girls (ABC), and Trauma (NBC). She can currently be seen as the lead in the Amazon series, “Dyke Central,” which was featured in After Ellen, BuzzFeed, Bust Magazine, and Curve Magazine as a top LGBTQ series to watch.\nAs a filmmaker, she was featured in Elizabeth Banks’ WhoHaHa Media for her parody song, “An Introvert’s World,” and her storytelling has been featured in Ms. Magazine. A three-time Outfest Fusion Filmmaker, her short film, “Ultra-Feminist,” was awarded Honorable Mention. Her film, “Ally3000,” just won Best Screenplay at the Culture and Diversity Film Festival and picked up three more awards in the Best Shorts Film Competition.\nShe coaches kids/teens online nationwide through HollywoodActorsWorkshop.com and was just named as one of the top 40 Audition Coaches in Los Angeles by the Hollywood Winners Circle, founded by Wendy Alane Wright, a top talent manager. Her students are represented by the top agencies in the Bay Area, and Los Angeles and notable student alumni include William Lipton (Daytime Emmy Nominee, Cameron on General Hospital) and the Espina Sisters (Hosts of Dreamworks’ “Life Hacks for Kids on the Road”).\nIn her spare time, she rock climbs and advocates for Domestic Violence Awareness/Prevention and LGBTQ equality. She has served on the Board of Directors for C.O.R.A. (a Bay Area domestic violence hotline and agency) and been awarded a Certificate of Recognition from the Senate for her community service.\nLet’s hear about her amazing journey…\nHow did you get into what you do right now? Please tell us more about your journey.\nI got into acting as a fluke. I was in a fundamentalist Christian cult as a teenager. I used to love talking to telemarketers as my link to the outside world. One of them suggested I get into voice-overs. I sent a dinky recording to the most prominent agency I could find – Stars Agency in SF. They called me in, signed me, sent me on my first audition, and I ended up booking it and recording the same day. That was my foray into the business. Filmmaking came later.\nWho are your role models?\nI love Amy Pohler, Mira Nair, Kate McKinnon, Alice Braga, and so many amazing actress/writers… but I’m reading about Lucille Ball and Shirley McClaine.\nWhat inspires you?\nMy kiddo is my inspiration to build a more empathetic world through storytelling.\nPlease tell us about your film, ‘Ally 3000’.\nMy film, Ally 3000, just won three awards in the Best Shorts Competition. It’s an international film competition and has some prestigious winners. Rick Prickett, who chairs The Best Shorts Competition, had this to said, “Best Shorts is not an easy award to win. Entries are received from around the world from powerhouse companies to remarkable new talent.”\nAlly 3000 seems like it is a very timely short… it’s about a CEO at a tech firm who has to make a decision about a product that alleviates white guilt and highlights micro-aggressions that women of color go through in a corporate setting.\nWhat’s your most memorable experience?\nWhen I booked my first role on ER, I went back to the Philippines as part of my uncle’s wedding, and the major of the Manila gave me a key to the city and threw a parade. My family comes from the poorest part of the Philippines – a shantytown called Tondo… and it was a big deal for one of their own to “make it” in the business. I thought it was funny because my first role wasn’t “making it” at all – it was just the very beginning of my journey.\nWhich social media channels work best for promoting your work? What exactly do you do on the social media channel that makes it work for you?\nBecause this business is relationship dependent, I find that Facebook has been the best way to keep in touch with friends in the industry, and Instagram has been a better way to keep in contact with fans. I’m still a wee bit wary of social media and data-collecting, but I’m getting better at it. I hate networking in person (I’m an introvert), so social media helps me with my social anxiety since I can plan out what to say before it tumbles out of my mouth.\nWhat’s your greatest fear?\nI feel like I’ve been through so much turmoil in the early part of my life that I don’t like o think about fears anymore. The fundamentalist cult I was in kept me scared all the time… so I don’t like returning to that mindset.\nLooking back, what’s one thing you wish you understood better before you ever got started?\nSometimes I wish I knew how hard this industry was, especially for women, and particularly women of color… but I think that the naivety served me well. I just kept going and never stopped… honestly because this is all I know how to do, and I have a kid that I have to provide for.\nWhat are the strategies that helped you become successful in your journey?\nI believe in always learning and constant and never-ending improvement. I am always striving for excellence in whatever I do… but also, I allow myself to fail and learn from my mistakes and give myself grace throughout the learning process.\nWhat keeps you going when things get tough?\nI have a saying that has gotten me through really tough times, “But the great thing is…” and then I fill in the blank. It helps me think about the positive aspects of any situation.\nAny message for our readers.\nFollow your bliss. There is a unique thing that you were meant to do on this earth. We are meant to be more than just a cog in the machine… unless, of course, being a cog makes you happy.\nHow can people connect with you?\nFor kids teens and adults that want to learn to act, people can reach me through my teaching website hollywoodactorsworkshop.com.\nTo learn about me as a filmmaker, writer, and actress, go to giovannieespiritu.com.\nYou can also check out my Instagram.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Claims to Greek islands, the persecution of the domestic opposition and attacks on Syria’s Kurds – Turkey remains a difficult ally for Germany. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) did not want to hide that during her visit there. After a dispute with his counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, Baerbock met leading opposition politicians over the weekend, including representatives of the pro-Kurdish HDP.\nDespite the Turkish invasion plans, Berlin wants to continue to support the Syrian Kurds with medical supplies. This emerges from the response of Niels Annen (SPD), State Secretary for Economic Cooperation and Development, to the request of MP Daniela De Ridder, which is available to the Tagesspiegel in advance. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Germany has spent 33.7 million euros on health care in the regions of Syria not controlled by the Damascus regime.\nAt 30.4 million euros, most of the money went to aid projects in Idlib in the northwest, which is ruled by Islamists. However, around 3.3 million euros were used for the autonomous region in the north-east, which is dominated by Kurds. In addition, there are four million euros of German funds that are used there by the Malteser. Annen writes: “According to the current status and subject to Parliament’s budget law, continued support for basic health structures can be expected in 2023.”\nForeign Minister Baerbock warned Ankara of a new Syrian invasion; Turkish troops have occupied areas there with Arab Islamists since 2018. Human rights activists speak of torture, kidnappings and expulsions of Kurds there. The Kurdish self-government felt compelled to ask the Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad for help.\nIn May, Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced his intention to completely smash Syria’s Kurdish autonomous region. Development Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) shows backbone when she finances health projects there despite Erdogan’s threats against self-government in north-east Syria, said De Ridder. “The Turkish government is trying to mediate in the Kremlin’s hunger war against Ukraine – but this should not make us forget that Erdogan is aggravating the plight of civilians in Syria.” The Lower Saxony SPD MP is the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s special representative for Eastern Europe.\nOn Thursday, Ankara’s army killed four police officers from the Kurdish Autonomous Government using a drone. Out of consideration for Ankara, the federal government is only holding unofficial talks with the self-government of the region, also known as Rojava. It has been governed by an alliance under the secular Kurdish party PYD since 2012. Erdogan regards the PYD as a sister organization to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK, which is also banned in Germany.\nThe US has officially supported Syria’s Kurds with arms in recent years. Above all, the Kurdish YPG liberated northern Syria from the “Islamic State” (IS). Washington warned the NATO partners in Ankara that a Turkish invasion would lead to a resurgence of IS – which Foreign Minister Baerbock also addressed during her visit to Turkey.\nOnly a few US troops remain in Syria, and Russia has the majority of air sovereignty. So far, Assad’s protective powers, alongside Russia and Iran, have refused the Turkish invasion. There are Russian-Turkish patrols on Syria’s northern border, and in a few days Russian President Vladimir Putin and Erdogan will meet for the second time in a month. The Sunni Islamists, who are allied with Turkey, are particularly dangerous for the Shiite mullahs’ regime in Tehran.\nThe Turkish opposition welcomed Baerbock’s comparatively clear stance. “Direct statements and confrontation are sometimes unavoidable,” said pro-Kurdish HDP co-head Mithat Sancar after speaking with Baerbock in Ankara. AKP Minister Cavusoglu always speaks directly, and now his German counterpart has behaved so clearly for the first time. The opposition in Turkey has been under massive pressure for years. The HDP is threatened with a ban, the ex-party leader Selahattin Demirtas has been in prison since 2016, although the European Court of Human Rights ordered his release.\nAccording to a survey by the Metropoll Institute, the AKP would have failed to achieve an absolute majority in the current alliance with the far-right MHP in June. Inflation in Turkey is officially 80 percent. Again and again Erdogan tries to present foreign policy successes.\nBecause of the “Kurdish question”, Erdogan had prevented Sweden and Finland from being accepted into NATO for weeks after Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Stockholm and Helsinki had to pledge that they would take tougher action against PKK sympathizers and not support northern Syria’s Kurdish self-government.\nAs reported, Ankara’s army has been bombing suspected PKK positions in Iraq for years. Nine Arab tourists were killed in a rocket attack a few days ago. Iraq’s central government in Baghdad requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.\nThe Kurdish region in northern Iraq, administered by a pro-Western government, is widely recognized internationally, and the Bundeswehr helped the Peshmerga, who act as an army there, in the fight against IS. The mandate expires in the fall. Tobias Lindner (Greens), Minister of State in the Foreign Office, recently told the Rudaw broadcaster that there were “good reasons” for a longer Bundeswehr mission.\nDespite all the criticism, Baerbock then said that Germany and Turkey are dependent on each other – Ankara is an “indispensable partner”.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hiring Rhett Lashlee and Ellis Johnson as the offensive and defensive coordinators was Malzahn's first priority.\nAnd Malzahn will fill out the rest of his staff with heavy input from Lashlee and Johnson.\n\"I want to give these guys ownership in our assistant coaches,\" Malzahn said. \"Now at the end of the day, I’ll make the decision. But being a former coordinator, I know how important it is to get guys you can work with and fit in with your philosophy, and are hard workers.”\nJohnson indicated that he has a plan for pursuing assistants, but he wouldn't say what the positional breakdown would be. Those decisions hinge on who Auburn finds to fill out the rest of Malzahn's staff.\n\"I just know there will be four guys on the defensive side of the ball,\" Johnson said. \"We've got some flexibility in that. I'm not stuck on any one way to do it.\"\nMalzahn worked with all but three members of Chizik's staff during his three year stint, including a group -- Taylor, running backs coach Curtis Luper, offensive line coach Jeff Grimes, special teams coordinator Jay Boulware and safeties/linebackers coach Tommy Thigpen -- that helped Auburn win the 2010 national championship.\nAsked about the difficulty of releasing those former colleagues, Malzahn admitted the task wasn't easy.\n\"There's no doubt,\" Malzahn said. \"You get extremely close to people when you work with them. It was extremely tough.\"\nAfter Lashlee's hire, Malzahn was also asked about the possibility of more Arkansas State assistants following him to Auburn, a question he deflected.\n\"Our plan was to hire coordinators and give them some ownership,\" Malzahn said. \"We're open to everyone; we just want to get the right fit. That's what we're working on right now.\"\n-- Al.com reporter Charles Goldberg contributed to this report.\nFor more news and notes on Auburn football, check out al.com's Auburn football page, and make sure to follow the Tigers on Twitter:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Russia and Moldova intend to conclude a number of agreements to boost cooperation in solving humanitarian problems as part of a session of the intergovernmental commission underway on Tuesday. Russian Vice-Premier Alexei Gordeyev said as much when opening the session.\nAccording to him, it is necessary to make all efforts to maintain free communication between citizens of the two countries, \"to remove all barriers on this way.\" He made it clear that bilateral agreements in healthcare, education and tourism were at issue.\nAccording to Gordeyev, the Russo-Moldovan intergovernmental commission has been rather efficient over the past two years. He said that agreements have been reached on delivery of Russian natural gas to Moldova and its transit via Moldovan territory and the problem has been settled of supplying Russian electricity to Moldova at privileged prices. Apart from that, the Vice-Premier added, the creation of a joint energy enterprise, Inter RAO UES Balkans, has been completed.\nFirst deputy Prime Minister of Moldova Vasile Iovv, co-chairman of the commission, remarked that Russia and Moldova had reported a growth in trade over the past year. He added that the current potential of bilateral cooperation was not being used in full.\nTurkish President Erdogan called for a revision of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty, which consolidated the results of the First World War for Turkey in 1923\nOn December 10, 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, its thirty articles enshrining basic and fundamental rights guaranteeing dignity of the human person and equality for all, regardless of race, color, creed or gender. A pipe dream?\nVladimir Putin's aircraft landed on Hmeymim airbase of the Russian Air Force in Syria in the morning of December 11", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "So says director Kyle Richards.\nAnd it’s downloading from The Pirate Bay. as I write this\nPS: for anyone who can’t wait, here’s the YouTube version »»»\nWill it be an improvement on Movie 43?\nStay tuned 😉\nAnd on TPB »»»\nAhoy, pirates! Here be “The Amateur Monster Movie”, the first feature film by Kyle Richards and King’s Tower Productions. We are willfully providing it to you for the taking because we are uninterested in distribution-as-usual. Here’s why: Let’s look at what a movie is once its digital: it’s data. Data that can be endlessly replicated and distributed throughout the world for a cost that could be considered “insignificant”. It certainly doesn’t cost us anything for you to download it. And it didn’t cost us anything to upload it. It seems logical that in this scenario, there would be no money involved, as the only costs are the operations of computers that would be running regardless. With this in mind, we believe the future of film, television, music, and all media distribution is changing. As we move towards fully digital entertainment and away from DVDs, Blu Ray, and the like, the costs of distribution dissipate. And the price of acquiring said media should dissipate for the viewer as well. This is our little contribution in striving towards a world where all movies, television, music, and media are accessible at no charge to anyone who can access the internet. An internet which we also hope will be available at no charge to everyone who should seek it out, worldwide. This is the best way for everyone to share and learn about one another’s thoughts, ideas, cultures, creativity, inspirations, and more. If the technology exists and the will to make it so exists, then it is only a matter of time. We choose to take that path now, in hopes that we may provide a cost-free, ad-free alternative to increasingly expensive and ad-filled media from the big corporations, despite their lowered costs of operation. It may seem like a far-fetched idea now, but every big idea had to start small. This movie was made in that mindset. No money was spent on cast, crew, locations, or equipment. Only food and small items for props and makeup were purchased all the way through the entire shoot. Come editing, it became inevitable to accumulate some larger costs, the greatest being time cost, three and a half years were put into this movie, but we also do have financial debts to repay. The good news is they are not insurmountable and the future bodes brighter. Increases in technology continue to cut down on lengthy turnaround periods, and in time we hope to produce higher and higher quality films at a lower and lower cost, eventually arriving in a situation where there is no cost to either see the film or make the film; eliminating money, intrusive advertisements, and internet “tollbooths” from the equation entirely. The creative possibilities such a scenario would allow for in all media are practically limitless. Though we have no illusions or desires of striking it rich off this movie, we are working to help pay off our expenses and if you enjoy the movie, purchasing a DVD at http://www.spadeheartclub.com is a great way to help us out. The DVDs contain two full commentary tracks, a behind the scenes featurette, an outtakes reel, and six deleted and extended scenes. There are no unskippable trailers or ads; there are no trailers or ads, period. It is just a pure, jam-packed, content-loaded DVD. We made it so people who loved the movie could have a copy of their own and know more about how it was made. And we’re selling it at the best price we can, and will continue to do so until there’s a way to make it free as well! Another, maybe even better way to help us, is to review the movie somewhere online once you’ve seen it. Go to our imdb page, do a write-up in your blog, post a link on your facebook, or anything else/all of the above! The farther we can spread the word, the better! We ain’t in the business of makin’ dollars; we’re in the business of building an audience, the business of beginning a revolution of free digital media worldwide. It’s time for us to stop artificially creating a supposed monetary value on that which costs its makers nothing to distribute. It’s time to end prosecution against file sharing. Help us keep things rolling in that direction by telling everyone you know about “The Amateur Monster Movie” and where they can watch it for FREE! 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{"text": "On the 12th of October 2012, Francois Hollande made a speech to the crowds assembled in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. He told them ‘The time of Françafrique is over. There is France and there is Africa. There is a partnership between France and Africa’\nThe day before, the French president had confirmed that the French military would give logistical support to Malian troops. Three months later logistical support became military support as French troops landed in the country. French soldiers were crucial in helping government forces retake the West African nation. Their active presence is now winding down.\nThe very arrival of the French army was enough to prompt shouts of ‘Françafrique!’ from critics. Many fear that the Malian government’s invitation to the French will lead to a protracted stay, and a return to the neo-colonial interference of the 20th century.\nAlex Burd went to the School of African and Oriental Studies [SOAS] in Russell Square, London, to talk to Dr Marie Rodet, an expert in Francophone Africa to discuss the scale and impact of Françafrique on the former colonies and their masters.\nThis podcast explores the past and the present of Franco-African relations. From the history and the structure of the relationship and Malian independence to the motives for French intervention in Mali and the future of Françafrique.\nAlex started by asking Dr Rodet what’ Françafrique’ means.\nMARIE RODET: Well Françafrique is the combination of two words, France and Afrique – Africa – and it was coined probably around the 50s, 60s. Not especially from a negative point of view at the time. It was Houphouet-Boigny, the first President of the Ivory Coast who came up with this word.\nBut later it was taken over by people criticising the complex relationship between France and its former colonies. The idea was that these relationships were obscure and they were sponsored by obscure financial means like the Africa-Élysées http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7afrique cell . That’s why it has been highly criticised. Money will have been dedicated to support a specific coup and specific corrupt financial relationships between France and former French colonies in Africa. So regularly in the history of the relationship between France and its former colonies you get the term being used. But it is not only with former colonies, it is in connection with all African countries where France has important investments and economical interests. So for example we can include in Françafrique, Equatorial Guinea. And at some point we could have included Rwanda which is no longer very good friends with France following the genocide.\nSo regularly in the history you have this term coming up, especially in the media, not only in France but more generally in Europe and in the Western world and in Africa. People suggesting that it would be the continuing model of the relationship between France and the African ‘backlot’.\nALEX BURD: You mentioned that it was linked to aid. Is it generally used in relation to economics – where the French would send aid to their former colonies?\nMR: Most of the time it’s not about aid but rather about French interests in Africa. It is also about the sponsoring of specific elections, not only in Africa but back in France. There are rumours, for example, that Omar Bongo, the former President of Gabon had supported presidential elections financially in France for twenty years.\nSo it’s a network of influence and of people involved as intermediaries between the interests of a certain elite in Africa and the political power in France.\nAB: Mali was one of the former colonies and it is the one that France is currently involved with. What was their path to independence like? Democratic or more violent?\nMR: I wouldn’t say it was a violent one, but it was not a completely peaceful one either. It was a complex one. At first, in 1959, Mali and Senegal tried to build together a federation – the Malian federation – composed of what was known at the time as the Sudanese Republic (nowadays Mali, and Senegal). It got full independence from France in 1960 as a federation but soon after, a couple of months later, the federation broke up, probably because of political influence and disagreements about the leadership of the federation – there were just too many leaders. From Mali there was Modibo Keita and from Senegal, Sédar Senghor .\nSenghor was closer to France, he was not for breaking up the relationship with France. Modibo Keita, on the other hand, was clearly a socialist and was willing to move away from this network of influence with France. Probably what happened is that Senghor, with the support of France was able to break up the Federation (Charles de Gaulle – General de Gaulle at the time – was not on good terms at all with Modibo Keita, nor with the federation of which Modibo Keita was about to gain the leadership). Senghor accused Modibo Keita of being willing to engineer a coup or something like that. So from the start, the first President of Mali was not especially in this so-called Françafrique relationship, not on good terms with France (especially with General de Gaulle) because he was a socialist and willing to implement a clear socialist policy in Mali.\nAB: You say that Senegal is much closer to France following independence than Mali was. Did other former colonies like Niger and Ivory Coast follow the Senegalese path or the Malian?\nMR: No, you can’t really compare the relationship between Mali and France to the relationship between Gabon and France or the Ivory Coast and France. There are not the same economic interests in Mali, it has a low key economic interest for France (though that might change). That is why it would be too simplistic to read the French intervention in Mali as a pure product of Françafrique. In Mali there are no big economic or political interests for France. It is very different in neighbouring countries like Niger, Ivory Coast, Gabon, even Senegal, partly because the French community in countries like the Ivory Coast and Senegal is much more sizeable than in Mali.\nAB: Many former French colonies in West Africa have, since independence, experienced conflict. France has intervened, or not intervened, with differing success, or levels of involvement. Why does France continue to get itself involved in the business of what happens in its former colonies?\nMR: That’s a very complex question, but it is important to keep in mind that since independence there have been a number of governments in France and in Africa. You have had political change. Since independence you have not had exactly the same kind of policy towards Africa. I wouldn’t even say that France has an official African policy. Take, for example, the Ivory Coast. Most of the intervientions – even the latest one in Saint-Affrique – were accompanied by official French claims that they were there to protect their own citizens and it was not about supporting or contesting the political power. Of course, on the one hand there are the official claims and on the other there is the practice. The situation on the ground may change and the initial intentions may have to be adapted to the situation on the ground.\nSo to come back to the military intervention in Mali. I think the French were prepared to intervene – but they didn’t know when or how. In this case what the French were very much concerned about was not their own economic interests in Mali – because they do not have so many – no, they were much more concerned about the consequences of such a conflict on neighbouring countries like Niger where they have really big interests with Areva [the nuclear power company] and Uranium. It was probably concern about the idea of expanding terrorism and Islamism in the whole region. When you think of Afghanistan, for example, you think, ‘well it is really far away so even if there are increasing problems there, the effect won’t be that immediate on Europe’. But when you think of Mali and the Sahel there are so many immigrants into Europe, relationships, historical networks etc. that Europe cannot afford to have such a conflict geographically so close to Europe. I guess that was one of the main concerns for the French. They tried to convince the US and other countries – but it didn’t work very well last year, until the French apparently with intelligence, were able to find out that Sanogo [leader of 2012 coup against President Amadou Toumani Toure] and his troops in Bamako, in central Mali, were in contact with the Islamists in the north to find common interests in having a continued destabilised situation and were trying to remove the interim President Dioncounda Traoré. That is why the French intervened. Because they understood that if Sanogo was able to completely destabilise the whole political situation then the conflict would expand and terrorism would expand.\nThey were also very wary of the potential attraction of such a conflict for young people in France. You can see the impact of the conflict in Palestine and Israel on the situation in France. France has been the victim of terrorism in the past, and anti-Semitic action, and Palestine and Israel do not even have a close historical relationship with France. But with Mali there is an important Malian community in France and so because of the history, and the historical links, the French government definitely felt linked to what was happening in Mali at the time.\nAB: So the security concerns are genuine?\nMR: Yes, definitely.\nAB: : Jacques Godfrain, foreign minister to Jacques Chirac, said that ‘a little country, like France, with a small amount of strength can move a planet because of our relations with 15 or 20 African countries.’ Is the relationship with West Africa a way of maintaining French prestige?\nMR: It is difficult to say. On the one side, both President Sarkozy and now President Hollande took a clear stance to say ‘we will end Françafrique’, or we will revisit or rethink the relationships. And I believe that they tried to do it. But it is a slow process and you still have these complex relationships going on – on both sides lots of people who have an interest in not changing the relationship.\nBut to come back to the issue of the Mali conflict, I believe this was not about protecting French influence in West Africa. It was a security issue. It was clear that if Mali, which is a landlocked country in the middle of West Africa in connection directly with the Sahara and in the south bordering the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso, were to become completely destabilised it would be really dangerous for neighbouring countries and the whole region.\nThe Ivory Coast had been partly destabilised politically for the last decade. But other countries had experienced a kind of working democratic change in the past decade and Mali was seen as a model for that. Unfortunately it was not exactly the case. However, it was in the interests of the French (and not only the French – the Americans and international donors, too) to believe that Mali was a model for democracy. They invested a lot of aid money into the country at this time.\nI think they probably invested for ‘stabilisation’ reasons as well. The Sahelian zone is prone to be destabilised because of poverty, refugee movements and all these factors increase the risk of people getting involved in illegal businesses and trafficking. There is a lot of trafficking – not only of cigarettes, goods and drugs but also human trafficking of immigrants trying to get to Europe through Mali and Libya etc. These networks were in the hands of people who at some point claimed they wanted an independent country because they wanted to maintain a hold of these networks. That’s why it’s not always clear whether for the terrorists it is an issue of Islamism or an issue of making good business in this part of the world, which is less under control from the central states because it is such a huge area, geographically.\nAB: You mentioned the Ivory Coast briefly at the start. The closer relationship between Ivory Coast and France has been credited for being behind the ‘Ivorian miracle’ which led to a boost to their industrial and economic output as they started out being independent. Is Françafrique mutually beneficial? Or does one side tend to come off better?\nMR: Well I guess that there is a specific elite in West Africa, and the rest of the continent, which may have profited from the relationship – political leaders of the past 50 years who have just been empowered by the relationship, but at the expenses of the local population. Of course you always have an elite interested in maintaining these relationships in France, because then France, can say, ‘we don’t interfere too much in what you are doing , but at the same time you must make sure that our interests in your country are protected.’ So it is mutually beneficial in the sense that it’s beneficial to a certain elite in Africa and to a certain economic and political elite in France. But in the long term I’m not sure it’s beneficial to anybody.\nAB: It’s a similar relationship to what existed before independence where the people put in place by the French leadership continue to benefit whereas the general public see no benefit from the relationship.\nMR: Yes, that’s a good comparison. It is why we talk about neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism in post-colonial Africa. Not only by France but by other political Western powers. The fact that they do everything to maintain their own interest there at the expenses, again, of the interests of the local population and in favour of the political elite.\nAB: The individuals put in power by the French continue to benefit but why do you think that there isn’t a great push from within the African nations to break away from France?\nMR: That is probably why you regularly have coups! In Africa part of the population doesn’t agree with this kind of political configuration. They see that members of the elite are getting richer and richer while they experience impoverishment.\nThe problem in Mali, to come back again to the Mali issue, is that for the past 20 years, they have experienced bad governance, corruption. And at the same time, internationally, Mali was advertised as a good model for democracy, but that was not – at all – the experience of the population. Within this context you understand why, when the coup happened,it was not contested by the population. The coup was not prepared at all; it was just an uprising in the military. It happened just because the President left and there was a void of power, so in the end the military said ‘well, we are in charge.’\nThere was so much discontent in the population with the current political situation that they naively welcomed this coup, thinking that maybe it would bring some change, a new political power, a new political elite in this country. So it was quite well received because people were just frustrated, there were so many people disenfranchised and impoverished by the situation in Mali for the past 10 years that of course people were hoping that it would bring something new and for the best.\nAnd at the same time in the north you had the uprising, the rebellion for independence, by the Tuareg – which was also a response to some extent to the bad governance which was coming from Bamako. So while in the north you had rebellion, in the south you had a coup.\nAB: Do you foresee an end to Françafrique or are France and its former colonies stuck in a cycle?\nMR: In Mali, no one was ready to intervene – the UN was really slow at supporting this military intervention. It was only when the French intervened that all the international organisations started backing up the intervention. If the French had not intervened we’d still be waiting for an international intervention now, with the risk we all know about – expanding terrorism, expanding political destabilisation in the whole region.\nI guess that very simply the best way to break with this cycle of mutual corruption between France and Africa and these kinds of complex networks of influence is to encourage good governance on both sides and to make strong political institutions. The problem is, that in the 80s, the IMF [International Monetary Fund] and the World Bank implemented structural adjustment agreements in these countries. The former colonies didn’t have much power compared to states in Europe. They were pressured to get rid of the few prerogatives they had because they were accused of being corrupted. So all the public services had to be privatised – and to whom? Big western companies, France Telecom for example, and EDF (Électricité de France). They are very strong now in Africa.\nIt is little wonder that many disenfranchised people in Africa get frustrated with the politicians and have the impression that a few of them capture the aid and are involved in corruption. But those same politicians are under pressure from the international institutions to sell the state one piece after another.\nFor more from Pod Academy visit our website at www.podacademy.org or search for us on itunes. We currently have content on the Iraq war – ten years on since the invasion, background on the Leveson report as well as piece on bell ringing. Music has been provided by Bafilabèn, to hear more visit his website at www.bafilaben.com. Thanks for listening.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Ukraine is at risk of losing the war without American aid in a press conference attended by a Kyiv Independent reporter in Lviv on Feb. 23.\nSchumer's visit, along with several other Democratic senators, comes at a precarious time for Ukraine. Hold-ups in U.S. assistance continue to put a strain on Ukraine's defense capabilities, contributing to the loss of the key front-line city of Avdiivka, which Schumer acknowledged.\nAfter months of bipartisan negotiations, the Senate approved a $95 billion foreign aid bill that allocates $60 billion for Ukraine. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has thus far refused to put the bill to a vote in the House, instead calling a recess until the end of the month.\nMany of the senators' comments were personally directed to Johnson. Schumer invited the speaker to Ukraine and implored him not \"to let politics get in the way.\"\nSchumer added that the failure to support Ukraine would hurt the standing of the U.S. in the world and increase the likelihood of further conflict in the future, which could potentially require American boots on the ground.\n\"If we let autocrats of the world succeed here, they will not stop. We will see greater trouble and conflict in Europe, with China, Iran, in the Middle East,\" Schumer said.\n\"If we turn our back on Ukraine, it has implications that will go on for a long time...(and) America will lose out,\" the senator added.\nSchumer's sentiments were echoed by fellow senator Richard Blumenthal, who directed his comments to Johnson and said that the U.S. must \"pay now, or pay later,\" which he said meant that \"our own men and women will be fighting and dying on the battlefields of Europe.\"\nSenator Jack Reed added that aid is in Johnson's hands, and urged him to help give Ukrainians the tools needed to fight the Russian invasion.\n\"If we do not (send the necessary weapons), we will soon be asked to send young Americans because (Russia) will not stop with Ukraine,\" Reed said.\nDespite the heroic effort that Ukraine has put up so far, the senators said that the West must provide more military assistance, such as air defense, demining equipment, and long-range weapons, including equipment with the capability of striking the Kerch Bridge connecting occupied Crimea with Russia.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Going into the health care field is a challenge for anyone, but it’s discouraged from the get-go for young women like me.\nThe questioning starts when you begin to express a desire to work in the health care field out loud. Instead of being asked confidently and curiously why you are interested in medicine, the question becomes: “Are you sure?” Because I am a Black, Muslim women, they may think I won’t make it because I lack the resources.\nAt the end of the day, this questioning is what keeps me and other students of color fighting to be successful in what we do, and remember who we’re doing it for: the people in our own communities. Recent opportunities I’ve had also reassured me that I really do want to pursue medicine.\nLast month, I participated in the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP) at the University of Washington (UW)— an initiative that’s been operating across 11 college campuses for 27 years to recruit diverse talent in the health care industry. SMDEP introduces students from underrepresented minority groups to medical and dental fields with job shadowing, classes and professional mentorship opportunities. They also walk through the application processes and pre-requisites to enter medical and dental school.\nThe six-week program also gave us a close, inside look at the industry, with presentations from diverse health care providers who look more like us students. I even got to watch a (Black female) surgeon resident, Dr. Estell Williams, work at the operating table. Diversity makes health care better and more culturally responsive explains Dr. Patricia Precook, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Vermont.\n“Interacting with a health care professional is such a personal relationship that it’s important that the provider you have understands the values and beliefs of the individual with whom they are working,” she said. “… If we don’t have the cultural context of the people we’re serving, we’re not going to be effective as health care professionals. It’s not just in medicine; it’s in nursing, speech pathology, physical therapy, radiation therapy – all the health professions.”\nAs our nation gets more diverse, it becomes increasingly important to racially and culturally reflect that diversity in all health care professions, something that has been long overlooked:\n“…enrollment of racial and ethnic minorities in nursing, medicine, and dentistry has stagnated despite America’s growing diversity,” according to the Sullivan Commission. “While African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and American Indians, as a group, constitute nearly 25 percent of the U.S. population, these three groups account for less than 9 percent of nurses, 6 percent of physicians, and only 5 percent of dentists.”\nBefore starting the program, I had a lot doubts about the medical field. I thought that I was not smart enough, but in SMDEP, I realized that I wasn’t the only student struggling with some of the classes we need to take to enter these fields. Together, we were inspired by unlikely heroes in the health care field like Mohammad Deen, 27, a registered nurse who is pursuing nurse certification as an anesthetist at Samuel Merritt University.\nDeen shared that he initially started as a medical interpreter in the Arabic language at just 18 years of age. At the time, he was eyeing an acting career and had no interest in the medical field, but served as an interpreter because it paid well.\nOne day, he translated for an Egyptian woman who had three children with congenital heart disease. A doctor had heard her story and flown the family to Chicago to help the woman’s one surviving daughter who couldn’t get care in Egypt. Mohammad did his job as the translator, helping to save the girl, but still was not persuaded to practice medicine.\nAs chance would have it, he ran into the Egyptian woman whose daughter he had helped to save. She thanked him and made Deen promise to help people in her situation. He couldn’t say no to this woman, and has since worked as a travel nurse for California Pacific Medical Center’s intensive care and cardiac care units, as well as a nurse for Northwest Rescue in critical care transport.\nI have learned that a lot of people color have made it, each with a different path and story — from humanitarian nurse Mohammad Deen, to Dr. Ben Danielson, medical director of Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic and Dr. Estell Williams, a surgeon and resident at UW.\nAs a student who wants to be a doctor, I understand the importance of having a mentor and someone you look up to — someone who inspires and motivates you.\nTo support more professional pathways to heathcare, SMDEP is also in the process of expanding to include curriculum and career opportunities in nursing, pharmacy and public health, and has recently grown to specifically reach students who come from communities with steep health disparities. The Sullivan Commission reports that the paucity of minorities working as health professionals “is compounding the nation’s persistent racial and ethnic health disparities. From cancer, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS to diabetes and mental health, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and American Indians tend to receive less and lower quality health care than whites, resulting in higher mortality rates.”\nSMDEP also recruits earlier and wider in higher education, focusing “on students in the first two years of their college education because the experience of previous programs indicates that this is when students derive the most benefit,” as stated on its website.\nFor me, it was great timing. I had a lot of serious doubts about going into the medical field, but SMDEP reinforced this professional path as one that I really want to pursue.\nStudying to become a doctor is certainly something I know I can’t do by myself. Everything that I have and will have will be from the blessings of Allah (God), as well as the support of my parents and mentors. This is what keeps me going.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Good morning and ROOOAAARRR!!!!!\nIt had been a stressful couple of days for Detroit Lions linebacker Rocky McIntosh after he was cut from the Lions on Sunday.\nBut even as he was being released, he had a feeling it wouldn't be his last time in Detroit. The Lions kept just five linebackers and would be moving running back Montell Owens to short-term injured reserve a couple of days later.\nSo McIntosh had a good feeling he would be back. Still, until it actually happens, there can be some moments of doubt.\n\"You're sitting there, waiting for that phone call,\" McIntosh, now back with the Lions, told ESPN.com on Thursday. \"It almost brought me back to draft day. Just sitting and waiting to get a call.\n\"It could be kind of nerve-racking.\"\nHis NFL draft wait was a bit shorter, as he selected in the second round in 2006 by Washington. Now, McIntosh wanted to return to Detroit if possible because he already started to pick up the playbook. He just needed to re-learn some of the terminology over the past couple of days.\nHis first test, if he is active Sunday, comes against the best running back in the league -- Adrian Peterson.\nWith McIntosh back with the team, here's a look at the Lions from the rest of the Interwebs:\nA roundup of our coverage yesterday: Ziggy Ansah practiced for the first time since he suffered a concussion on Aug. 24, but Jim Schwartz won't discuss why he was re-inserted into that practice. Also, Reggie Bush is the key to Detroit's offense.\nDave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press looks at three offensive keys for this season.\nKyle Meinke of MLive writes that Calvin Johnson feels 100 percent again. Meinke also writes that Minnesota receiver Cordarrelle Patterson and Detroit cornerback Darius Slay are a bit familiar with each other.\nFormer Lions linebacker Ronnell Lewis, who was released last week, was arrested on suspicion of DUI in Oklahoma, Ron Terrell from FOX23 in Oklahoma reports.\nPaula Pasche from the Oakland (Mich.) Press writes about Johnson's new commercial, which depicts him with two personalities.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "British woodworking show “The Chop: Britain’s Top Woodworker” has been canceled by AETN U.K.’s and Comcast’s Sky History channel following controversy over a contestant’s “far-right” tattoos.\nSky History first pulled the series last week pending an investigation into complaints about participant Darren Lumsden’s alleged Nazi body art, including the number 88 tattooed on his cheek, which is considered by some to be a numerical code for the phrase “Heil Hitler.”\n“Following an independent investigation, AETN UK has made the decision not to broadcast any further episodes of ‘The Chop’ on Sky HISTORY,” A&E Networks UK said in a statement to TheWrap Friday. “A contestant’s tattoos included symbols that could be connected to far-right ideologies and could cause offence; we sincerely apologise for that and we are sorry that our processes did not prompt further investigation at an earlier stage.”\nAlso Read: Fall TV 2020: All the Premiere Dates for New and Returning Shows - So Far (Photos)\nThe statement continued: “The contestant continues to strenuously deny that he has, or ever had, far-right leanings. We are thoroughly reviewing our internal processes following the investigation. AETN UK and Sky HISTORY stand against racism and hate speech of all kinds.”\nIn its own statement, “The Chop” producer Big Wheel Film & Television added: “Big Wheel Film & Television acted professionally, appropriately and in good faith throughout the making of ‘The Chop,’ following robust due diligence and duty of care processes from casting through to delivery. All issues, problems and concerns identified in relation to Darren Lumsden’s tattoos during production were fully reported up to AETN UK, and the broadcaster’s directives and instructions in response were closely followed. Big Wheel Film & Television co-operated fully with the independent investigation put in place by AETN UK, and shared details of relevant processes, discussions and exchanges, along with supporting evidence and documentation.”\n“Big Wheel Film & Television stands against all forms of hatred and intolerance, is committed to the highest professional standards, and strives at all times to treat people fairly. Now that the independent investigation into Darren Lumsden’s tattoos has concluded, no further comment will be made from Big Wheel Film & Television in relation to this matter.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Unity for the benefit of all\nAccording to the World Economic Forum, by 2023, the G7 group of industrialized nations is estimated to represent only one-quarter of global GDP, with global growth and trade emerging from developing countries.\nHow should the multilateral system adapt to emergent actors, interests and ideas?\nMultilateralism has continuously evolved to adapt to changes on the international scene. Over the past 100 years, the founding principles of collective endeavour between countries have inspired action at an international level, including the establishment of the United Nations 75 years ago.\nToday’s problems transcend borders like never before. One only has to look at climate change, migration and indeed, pandemics. Artificial intelligence, the digital revolution and going green to compete will throw up new opportunities – but the increasing economic inequalities will give rise to new challenges.\nResponses to these concerns are not within the power of governments to deliver alone. Others must rise to the occasion: the private sector, multinationals, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and think tanks need to become an integral part of multilateral processes.\nThe Sustainable Development Goals, for instance, are the result of a ‘new’ form of multilateralism, an UN-led process that involves its 193 member states and global civil society.\nThe United Nations is needed today more than ever before. But it knows that it has to evolve. As part of its 75th anniversary, the UN ran a global public survey, asking over 1 million people how they see the UN and the future. The majority welcomed the institution and would like to see it become more innovative and inclusive.\nThe contributions in this issue open a discussion on how a revitalized multilateralism could benefit micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the long run, as they are the backbone – and the future − of the world’s economy. MSMEs can take advantage of opportunities to enter global value chains and increase value addition within an effective multilateral trading system. However, they face particular hardships in the light of COVID-19, climate change and the rise of digitalization.\nWe have brought into the conversation the Director-General of the UN office in Geneva, the Vice President of Switzerland and the Deputy Director of the World Trade Organization. We collected the views of representative from the African Development Bank, the Brookings Institution and academia. And we gave the word to entrepreneurs from Guatemala, Kenya and Nepal.\nThere is hope, and there is a way, they say.\nJoin our discussion. We count on your cooperation.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "YOUNGSTOWN Man sues over blood transfusion\nExperimental testing found the blood was infectious.\nBy WILLIAM K. ALCORN\nVINDICATOR HEALTH WRITER\nYOUNGSTOWN -- A 47-year-old Boardman man has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the American Red Cross and Forum Health, alleging he contracted hepatitis C from an infectious blood transfusion.\nMatthew Estes, in his suit filed in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, said he received a tainted transfusion of fresh frozen plasma on April 24, 2001, during a partial leg amputation at Northside Medical Center.\nEstes was notified that he \"may have been exposed\" to the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in a letter from the Forum Health Department of Pathology & amp; Laboratory Medicine to his doctor, dated March 11, 2002. The letter said that another donation from the donor of the blood plasma Estes received during surgery had tested positive for HCV.\nPatient tests positive\nEstes subsequently tested positive for HCV, said his attorney, Patrick Fire of Boardman.\nThe infectious plasma was supplied to Forum Health Northside Medical Center by the Red Cross' Northern Ohio Region, Fire said.\nIn his suit, Estes said he contracted HCV because the defendants were negligent in the testing, preparation, care and treatment of the blood products he received during his medical treatment. Other defendants are as yet unknown \"John Doe\" physicians and corporations.\nEstes has demanded a jury trial. He is seeking judgments in excess of $25,000 for each of two counts: The first against the Red Cross and Forum Health; and the second against as yet unknown defendants.\nForum Health had no knowledge of the suit and would not comment, said Joanne McCliment, Forum's marketing and communications manager. Likewise, Karen Kelley, Red Cross communications and marketing director, said: \"I have no knowledge of this lawsuit. But, even if I did, I would not be able to comment on any pending litigation.\"\nForum Health, in its letter to Estes' physician, Dr. Mark Hirko, said the blood Estes received was \"tested and found to be nonreactive\" for antibodies to HCV before shipment by the American Red Cross.\nA subsequent sample -- collected 299 days after this donation -- from the same donor was included in an HIV-1/HCV Nucleic Acid Test research project to detect viral Rubonucleic acid (RNA) and underwent additional experimental testing that would otherwise not be performed.\n\"These tests were reactive for HCV. Your patient may have been exposed to HCV,\" the Forum Health letter said.\nFacts about virus\nHepatitis C is a disease of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus. Hepatitis damages liver cells and can cause the liver to become swollen and tender.\nAccording to the national Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a chroniic HCV infection results in 75 to 85 percent of infected people; chronic liver disease afflicts 70 percent of chronically infected people; and deaths from chronic liver disease occur in 3 percent of those infected. CDC also sad hepatitis is the leading reason for liver transplants.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I was 11 years old when I got Latrell Sprewell’s autograph at the Madison Square Garden. Full disclosure: though I grew up in New York, I’m actually a Celtics fan because my dad loved Larry Bird. My dad used to have to go to Boston for business once a year and it was usually during the Celtics season. He would bring me, my brother, and my mom to a Celtics game every year. However, it was 2002 when we made the short trip to New York City.\nCeltics at Knicks – November 2, 2002\nThe Knicks were hosting the Celtics, and while I was rooting for Boston, I was very excited to watch this Knicks team who had Allan Houston,Marcus Camby, and Latrell Sprewell. My brother Pat is a Knicks fan, but at the time he was especially a HUGE Marcus Camby fan. He wore his Camby jersey and I wore my Paul Pierce jersey.\nWe both had miniature Knicks basketballs. Our mission (as you would imagine) was to get autographs. Though we sat a ways away from the court, we were behind the Knicks bench. So, we got to the game early and we were able to move close behind the Knicks bench during warm-ups. Pat tried to get Camby’s autograph, but my eyes were on Latrell Sprewell. Not only was he pretty close to where I was, but he was injured and wasn’t warming up. He was within autograph-signing distance.\nI made my move.\nSprewell was dressed in a brownish suit, and he was standing talking to one of the MSG trainers. I don’t even think kids nowadays can do what I was about to do, you probably couldn’t get anywhere close. But this was 2002, and so I reached over the gate and tugged on Latrell Sprewell’s pant leg. He looked down and saw me.\nHe looked pissed.\nBut I showed him my miniature New York Knicks basketball and asked like the polite 11-year old boy I was if he could sign it.\nHe did…and I was super stoked. I’ll never forget it.\nI learned later on why Latrell Sprewell was injured that game. He had hosted a party on his yacht and, allegedly, a woman vomited on the yacht floor. Sprewell told the woman to leave the party, but the woman’s boyfriend objected. Infuriated, Sprewell took a swing at the boyfriend. He missed and ended up punching a wall…breaking his hand.\nAnd this was a guy whose suit pant leg I tugged on. Yikes.\nOff the court issues overshadow a potential hall of fame career.\nIf you remember how Latrell Sprewell’s career had progressed (and ended) it was a bit of a tragedy. But Sprewell was a good player. He posted 18.3 ppg, 4.1 rpg, and 4 assists per game throughout his 13-year career. Sprewell was a 4x All-Star who was a solid two-way player and was surprisingly a reliable free-throw shooter at 80.4% (229th all-time).\nIn the 2003-04 season, Sprewell was on the Timberwolves and he, along with Kevin Garnett and Sam Cassell were a “Big 3” before Big 3s became a thing in the league. Minnesota finished 58-24 and if it wasn’t for Kobe Bryant, the Timberwolves would have gone to the NBA finals that year.\nIt was on Halloween in 2004 when Minnesota offered Sprewell a three-year, $21 million contract extension. However, Sprewell was not happy with the deal and was quoted saying, “I have a family to feed.” Sprewell and his agent declined the extension in hopes that a team would sign him as a free agent for a lot more money.\nAbout a month into the 2005-06 season, Sprewell still did not have a contract and Bob Gist, who was Sprewell’s agent at the time, stated that Latrell would “rather retire” than play at a minimal salary, and that his client would wait until “teams get desperate.”\nLe’Veon Bell will try and do what Latrell Sprewell did over a decade ago. He, along with his agent, Adisa Bakari, will try and get a desperate team to pay him more than what the Steelers had offered him (which was five years, $70 million.) Le’Veon left $14.5 million on the table when he recently decided not to play a single game this season under the franchise tag. Bell cannot recuperate that $14.5 million; it’s gone.\nSure, by sitting out, Bell avoids injury because he simply is not playing. But who says he can’t injure himself in the very first game of next season in whatever uniform he’ll be wearing? What if he doesn’t even make it into a single game – did you all see what happened to Dez Bryant? Steelers offensive tackle, Jerald Hawkins, didn’t even play a single game because he tore his quad muscle during OTAs. Arguably, Bell’s healthiest season was when he posted 406 touches from scrimmage last year. That was his healthiest! Suspension-free! And he made $12.1 million.\nFreak accidents happen\nIf you read my Thursday Night pick and my take on the Panthers vs. Steelers game last week, I talked about how I tore my ACL playing FLAG football. It was a freak accident…it was random…that’s why they’re freakish.\nWhen Le’Veon Bell’s agent, Adisa Bakari tells us that it’s the “wear-and-tear” and the constant pounding that concerns him and is the reason why his client is sitting out, I have to call bullshit. You see, the freakish-type of injuries that would have a significant impact on Bell’s ability to receive a mega deal or the deal he wants in free agency is normally not a byproduct of the excessive repetition or the wear-and-tear that a running back endures. When was the last time a player went on the IR because of wear-and-tear? Really? Did you pay any attention to your client last season?! Again, 406 touches, and Bell seemed like he made out just fine health-wise.\nBell has made it clear that he wants to be the best offensive weapon in the league. So what are you going to do? Are you going to take the ball out of his hands? You think the New York Jets, who have a struggling 20-year old quarterback, are not going to give the ball to Bell at least every other play? You think the Raiders (THE RAIDERS!) who have a running back with one foot out the retirement door is going to just let Derek Carr throw the ball 50 times a game? Is Jon Gruden is really going to limit Bell’s touches?! Or how about the Indianapolis Colts, who finally have a formidable offensive line and a quarterback who has had past shoulder problems? You think they’re going to take the ball out of Bell’s hands? And don’t even get me started with the Browns. Are any of these teams really going to limit Bell’s touches?\nHow ignorant of an agent can Bakari really be? Does he realize that the workload for Bell is not going to change no matter where he ends up playing? Bell is arguably the best running back in the league! And the more reps he gets, the more prolific of a playmaker Le’Veon really is. Just look at his numbers and history as a running back in this league. What, is he going to be part of an RB committee? Please. He needs the reps to be the best. PERIOD. You want to be the best offensive weapon – running back and wide receiver? You got to put in the work. In this league, you get out what you put in; especially as a running back, and he already has a void season on his resume. Plain and simple.\nSpeaking of history in the league, let’s not forget Le’Veon missed the first three weeks of the 2013 season due to a foot injury and was suspended for the first four games of the 2015 season due to marijuana possession charges. Later that year, Bell suffered a torn MCL and missed the rest of the regular season. Then in 2016, Bell was suspended again, this time for three games – another substance abuse violation.\nThe clock is ticking\nLe’Veon Bell will be 27 years old starting next season. He’s probably past his prime as opposed to someone like Todd Gurley, Christian McCaffrey, and Alvin Kamara who are all IN or BEFORE their prime. The average age of an NFL running back at his peak performance is 25.6 years old, according to APEX football statistics.\nThe graph shows that, since 2001, running backs who are 27 years old start their decline in production. So, history has shown us that once a running back turns 27, they are passing their prime.\nBetween the controversy, the antics, the suspensions, and the injuries, do you think a team will really be willing to dish out at least $45 million guaranteed to Bell? I am not so sure. The arrows point towards ‘no’ for me. Would you be willing to provide that much money to a player who provided false promises to his fans, coaches, and players? Le’Veon Bell tweeted to fans earlier this season that 2018 would be “my best season to date.” Yet…he has not,and will not, play a single game this season. He told everyone and the organization that he wanted to “retire a Steeler.” But there is a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT chance that Bell will be in a different uniform next year…or no uniform at all.\nAnd that’s what I’m afraid of. I am afraid that Le’Veon Bell is going down a very similar path Latrell Sprewell once traveled.\nWhat ended up happening to Sprewell?\nSprewell remained a free agent until his career unexpectedly fizzled. The Lakers showed interest in him. He could have played with Kobe Bryant and won two NBA championships. But it wasn’t enough for Sprewell. The Cavaliers, Rockets, and Nuggets were a few of several teams who also showed interest in Sprewell, but then decided not to pursue him; most likely because of his off-court behavior and his demands. The Spurs and Mavericks even offered Sprewell a deal! Nope. Sprewell and his agent decided it wasn’t enough money.\nLatrell Sprewell’s career came to an end…because he couldn’t get the mega deal he wanted.\nSprewell would end up running into financial trouble after his career in the NBA. His homes were foreclosed, he had to auction off his yacht – that very same yacht where the woman vomited – and he became the most prominent delinquent taxpayer in the state of Wisconsin.\nBack to Bell\nNow what if a team doesn’t give Bell what he wants? Because let’s face it, Bell is all about the money.I know some may think that this is simply not true because Bell left or “sacrificed” $14.5 million this year. But you’re missing the point. Le’Veon left $14.5 million on the table in hopes of receiving even more money from a mega deal. This is what you call a gamble. That’s exactly what it is. Why do I go to a blackjack table and give up or “sacrifice” my chips? To get more chips – to get more money! We can go all in to get even more, and that is what Bell is doing.\nSo, if you think this isn’t about money, you’re wrong. I don’t buy the ground and pound and wear-and-tear bullshit. If Bell is given the deal he wants, that stuff means nothing to him. He’ll gladly get 450+ touches a season if it means raking in $50 million guaranteed.\nHe clearly isn’t about winning a Super Bowl; otherwise he’d stay put. The fact of the matter is, this is all about money because this is a gamble. And when we gamble, we want the money – we want the reward. Le’Veon wants the reward that he feels he deserves, and that’s FINE. I am just not sure if that will be practical.\nSo what happens now?\nI really hope that Bell gets what he wants, but I also don’t want him to make the same mistake Latrell made over a decade ago. If Bell is given a lucrative deal in the offseason, he should look to be more receptive, even if it’s not quite the amount of money he wants, because Bell is against the clock; and again, he’s already sat out a full season. He’s getting older, and his production will go down, if it hasn’t already. Be smart, count your blessings, and go out there and be the best offensive weapon you can be for whoever you decide to play with. Take what you can get now, because you just never know what the future in the league holds for you; especially as a running back.\nBut if Bell’s already sat out one full season, who’s to say he can’t do it again? I hope Le’Veon Bell makes the right choice and I hope his holdout pays off for him, but I’m also not going to hold my breath.\n- / 1 year ago\nTo me, Rachel Nichols is the personification of posting a black square on Instagram.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On the opening day of the 2014 World Cup, the Croatian national team goes into Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo as heavy underdogs. As the host country, Brazil is favored in the opening match at 11-1 odds and will be playing in front of an expected home crowd of 65,000.\nBut the pressure may very well be on Brazil. Although only drawing from a country of 4 million people, Croatia will field a talented, veteran-laden squad with nearly 1,000 caps among its players — and a lot to play for.\nThe Balkans have been hard hit by flooding from cyclone Tamara in recent weeks, and the Croatian players are expected to take the field on Thursday buoyed by a ground swell of emotion about all that their countrymen (and the region in general) are going through. On top of that, the Croatian side benefits from a rich legacy in football and a strong commitment to player development from its professional teams. For example, Croatia is one of several successor countries to Yugoslavia, which had a rich history of international success in football. In fact, it is because of their longstanding success in football that Yugoslavia’s national team (or the Plavi) ironically became known as the “Brazilians of Europe.” Now, the great soccer traditions of that country are being carried into this year’s World Cup by Croatia and Bosnia–Herzegovina.\nCroatia, in particular, has a recognized history in player development. Its leading professional club, GNK Dinamo Zagreb, is widely regarded as one of the top youth development programs in Europe. A series of big name stars have come through Dinamo’s youth system, including Luka Modric who plays in La Liga for Real Madrid. Modric will be the triggerman for Croatia in the opening match. Paired with Sevilla’s Ivan Rakitic in Croatia’s midfield, Modric will be key if Croatia is to be successful in denying the Brazilians possession of the ball.\nAnother product of Dinamo Zagreb’s youth system is Eduardo da Silva (Shakhtar Donetsk). In an interesting backdrop to the game, Eduardo is Brazilian born and made the move to Croatia to join Dinamo’s youth program. Eduardo took up citizenship in Croatia in 2002 and is expected to see substantial action against Brazil due to the one-game suspension of Bayern Munich’s Mario Mandzukic, who received a red card in Croatia’s last qualifying match against Iceland.\nBeyond Dinamo’s representation on Croatia’s side, their current U17 team is heralded as the best in Europe. Other top professional clubs have taken notice. Most recently, FC Barcelona agreed to a deal to sign 17-year-old Croatia international Alen Halilovic from Dinamo Zagreb for an initial £1.8m.\nDinamo’s reputation in player development extends beyond Europe as well. It has been reported that 17-year-old, U.S.-based Román Martin has been linked to a move to Dinamo Zagreb this summer. Martin is a product of San Diego’s Nomads Soccer Club and will be enjoying his fourth stint overseas this summer having formerly toured Europe with two different Brazilian clubs. Other American players have garnered interest at Dinamo as well. The draw of playing overseas continues to be the opportunity to be exposed to player development programs where there is an established track record of producing results like GNK Dinamo Zagreb.\nWhen the opening match of the 2014 World Cup kicks off on June 12, no one should be surprised by the quality of play on both sides of the ball. Croatia will field a team with not only depth and veteran experience, but also one of the best midfields in the World Cup. If Croatia can protect against the pace of Brazil on the wings, the opening game of the World Cup presents an intriguing early match up.\nFlash News: Set to take the field for Croatia in the opening match of the 2014 World Cup, Ivan Rakitic is reportedly set to sign with FC Barcelona. Rakitic, who was rumored to have fallen out of talks with his current club Sevilla, is now supposed to sign a long term deal with the Catalan club. Other clubs such as Athletico Madrid and Real Madrid have also expressed interest in the Croatian midfielder. But FC Barcelona seems to now be front runner for Rakitic’s services as a potential replacement of Cesc Fabregas.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Orange County Choppers is regarded by many to be the world's premier builder of custom choppers. But few people know the company they see today began in blue collar worker's basement in upstate New York.\nA metalworker by trade, Paul Teutul Sr. , with creative help from his oldest son Paul Jr., began building bikes in the 1990s. Their first bike to really hit the big time was True Blue, unveiled at Biketoberfest in Daytona in 1999. From that point on, according to his website, Paul Sr. knew he was on to something.\nHe established Orange County Choppers after his breakout at Daytona and quickly became recognized by chopper enthusiasts everywhere. While making a name for themselves in the bike world, Paul Sr. and Paul Jr. ventured into the TV world, signing with the Discovery Channel in 2002. Their show is now a hit series on cable TV across the nation.\nTheir popularity keeps on growing, and has led them to the doorsteps of some of the biggest names in the world. OCC, Inc. has built custom bikes for Microsoft, Lincoln, Coca-Cola, as well as celebrities Billy Joel and Bill Murray.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Israeli elections throw up possibility of coalition deal\nFinal results in Israel’s election last night give the Kadima Party one more seat in the new parliament than Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud.\nKadima won 28 and Likud 27 places in the 120-seat parliament.\nBut the parliament has a majority among hard-line parties, making it easier for Mr Netanyahu to form the next government and take over as prime minister.\nKadima Party leader Tzipi Livni, the current foreign minister, is also trying to attract coalition partners. One possibility is a joint government. Mr Netanyahu would be prime minister, while Ms Livni and her party would receive key government ministries.\nThe premier-designate has six weeks to form a coalition government and win approval from the new parliament.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "CAN YOU SPOT the difference? This is how much Daniel Day Lewis looks like Abraham Lincoln (the one on the left is the 16th US President, in case you couldn’t tell).\nThe Wicklow resident and Hollywood favourite seems to have been born to play the role.\nAnd the 55-year-old has done just that in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln which is due for release in the US in November and in Ireland in January next year. The movie chronicles the final months of Lincoln’s presidency.\nAs for other lookey-likey actors and US presidents…here’s a game of Who’s Who?\nLast year, Greg Kinnear took on the role of JFK in the TV series The Kennedys:\n(Image via PA Images) (Image via YouTube/ReelzChannel)\nJohn Voight gave a convincing rendition of President Roosevelt, the 32nd US President who was confined to a wheelchair but refused to be limited by his disability.\nFranklin D Roosevelt giving a radio address in 1941. (AP Photo)\nFormer President Richard Nixon was played by Frank Langella in the movie that tells the story of the Frost/Nixon interview.\nAlthough Bill Clinton - still one of the world’s most powerful men - said in June that he would like George Clooney to play him in a movie, that role has gone to Dennis Quaid:\n(AP Photo/Steven Senne)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "College Football Equipment\nEvery fall weekend, thousands of football players run onto the fields of college stadiums all across the country. With pride, these players wear uniforms showcasing their school colors and logos.\nHowever, did you know that college football equipment—the jerseys, the pads, the helmets—represents a multimillion-dollar business? Some of the biggest universities in the country dish our more than $100,000 to dress their players, while others have some of the highest sponsorship deals with apparel companies like Nike and New Balance.\nIn this infographic, SpareFoot takes a deeper look at what it takes to outfit some of the most popular college football teams.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Shares of onshore U.S. exploration and production (E&P) company QEP Resources (QEP) fell as much as 17% on June 24. Peers Matador Resources (MTDR 0.74%) and Denbury Resources (DNR) both declined around 14%. By 3 p.m. Wall Street time, QEP and Denbury had recouped some of their losses, and were down 14% and 10%, respectively. Matador's shares, however, were still hovering near their lowest levels, off by nearly 14% for the day.\nThe cause of the steep price declines at these oil and natural gas companies isn't hard to figure out -- energy prices fell sharply. West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark for U.S. oil, was off by around 6% late in the day. Since the financial results of all three of these E&P names are tied directly to the prices of the commodities they sell, the stocks logically declined. But that's just the top level here.\nThe bigger picture that drove oil prices lower was related to COVID-19. Some history is relevant. Early in 2020, oil prices fell all the way to zero because of a massive supply/demand imbalance. There were multiple factors that led to the dislocation, but the really big hit came from the worldwide economic shutdowns enacted to slow the spread of the coronavirus. With economies at a standstill, demand for energy fell off a cliff and supply swamped demand to the point where drillers were, technically, paying customers to take their oil. Meanwhile, oil and natural gas, with nowhere to go, started to pile up in storage. It was a very bad situation and energy stocks across the board fell into a deep downturn.\nToday, however, economies around the world are starting to reopen, which means demand is returning. The big question now is over the shape of the recovery as businesses start up again and consumers venture outdoors. The answer isn't exactly clear yet, but one thing is for sure -- the coronavirus is not going away. In fact, countries around the world are now seeing upticks in cases as they allow more movement and business activity. China, Europe, and the U.S. (notably, early reopening states like Florida and Nevada) are all experiencing increases in coronavirus cases.\nThere are fears that the economic progress that's been made may have to be slowed, halted, or even reversed. In other words, demand for energy commodities might not be as strong as investors had been hoping. Energy prices fell on that news, taking the shares of drillers QEP, Matador, and Denbury along with them.\nThere's two lingering negatives from here. On the commodity front, all of the oil sitting in storage will be an overhang on the market until there's more demand or there's a more dramatic and sustained decline in production.\nSecond, and more company specific, a lot of E&P names have heavily leveraged balance sheets. That's certainly true for QEP and Matador, which both had financial debt-to-equity ratios of around 24 times at the end of the first quarter. But it's also true of Denbury, where that metric was a far lower 3.7 times. While that sounds much better, and it is, it's still high when you compare it to a company like Chevron, which has a financial debt-to-equity ratio of a touch under 0.25 times. While it's been difficult for financially strong giants like Chevron to navigate this downturn, it's that much harder for highly leveraged names like QEP, Matador, and, to a lesser degree, Denbury.\nThe COVID-19 health scare is far from over, and it will continue to have material repercussions throughout the global economy. Energy prices are just one example. That said, in times of crisis, a strong financial foundation can make all the difference. QEP, Matador, and Denbury are not working off of the strongest bases. Investors should expect heightened volatility to continue here, suggesting that only the most aggressive investors should be looking at this trio.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Sorcha Holohan\nHappy New Year all! As the second semester begins, the beginning of a new micro chapter in college greatly excites us all.\nWhat lies ahead of us is unknown, but for us rugby players we know that this is the semester for performance.\nThe Intervarsities and the lead up to the All-Ireland Final are both upcoming, and the future’s winners will be determined by the application of hard work, preparation, and positive psychological mindset.\nFirstly, we will have a stand at the recruitment drive for all new members, both experienced and non-experienced players, all very welcome to join our family-like team.\nThis will take place on the 2nd of February in the University Concert Hall.\nLooking back on the previous year, the unsuccessful retention of the Senior All-Ireland Cup and the loss of the Intervarsities were heartbreaking.\nHowever, it motivated the players to work hard to piece together the various elements to form a winning team.\nThis includes a high-quality backroom team.\nIrish player Fíona Reidy is at the helm, always steering us in the right direction.\nValerie Mitchel is also on board, and we are very thankful to both of them.\nA new Junior Team was formed in 2016 and won the Junior All-Ireland Final.\nThey are looking to retain that cup and the title this year and they have had the perfect start to the year, winning 4 out of 4 in the Senior league, and 2 out of 2 in the Junior league.\nFinally, our team is setting out in pursuit of winning and becoming champions, nothing less.\nThis will include numerous training, gym, and team bonding sessions.\nWe welcome these challenges and as Vince Lombardi once said: “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand”.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Frank Russell, a former college basketball star who played pro before making a bigger impact across Oakland County, died Monday at age 72.\nAfter playing high school basketball at Pontiac Central High School, Russell played three seasons for the University of Detroit Mercy Titans from 1969-72, where he scored 1,188 points — seventh most in school history when he graduated.\nHe was inducted into the Titans’ Hall of Fame in 2020.\nRobert Vowels, athletic director for U of D, found out about Russell’s death on Wednesday. Vowels called him a “salt-of-the-earth type guy.”\n“I was shocked when I got the news,” Vowels said. “I’m just so sad about that because we just inducted him into the hall of fame prior to COVID, so things were just going well and on the upswing. Everything was going well for him. He’s an iconic figure for Detroit Mercy basketball.”\nThe Chicago Bulls drafted Russell in the third round of the 1972 draft. He played one season with the franchise, scoring a career-high 11 points against the Detroit Pistons at Cobo Arena.\nHis brothers, Campy and Walker Russell, played collegiate basketball at the University of Michigan and Western Michigan, respectively. They also played in the NBA.\nFollowing his basketball career, Russell became a youth advisor, attended law school, and founded The Youth Development Institute in Pontiac. He also worked for Oakland County for over three decades in a human resources capacity.\nIn 2007 Russell founded the Pontiac News. Six years later, he was unsuccessful in a bid to become Pontiac’s mayor, losing to current Mayor Deirdre Waterman.\n“All of Pontiac recognizes the Russell family for their loyalty to the city, as well as their myriad contributions as well as the sports talent to which they are legendary,” Waterman told The Oakland Press.\nShe said she knew Russell as a friend, a business person, and as a leader of the community. Isaiah Jackson, also from Pontiac, was drafted in this year’s NBA draft almost four decades after Russell was drafted himself.\n“This is 41 years that the mantle was handed down from one generation to the next,” she said.\nPontiac mayoral candidates Tim Greimel and Alexandria T. Riley, who are facing off this November, made statements on Facebook regarding Russell’s passing.\n“Pontiac lost a legend with the passing of Frank Russell,” Greimel said, thanking Russell for his service and saying he will be dearly missed.\nRiley said she was heartbroken to learn of Russell’s death, saying he devoted his life to his family and community and set a high standard.\n“Personally, I valued his wise counsel,” Riley said. “I cherished his confidence and support. I’ve benefited from his encouragement and wisdom. Our city has lost a great leader whose presence will be missed but the legacy of his contributions will endure for generations. The Russell family has lost their patriarch, a tower of strength and support through good times and bad.”\nDave Coulter, Oakland County executive, said in a statement that Russell was a champion of diversity.\n“His strong presence in county government will be missed,” Coulter said. “My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and loved ones.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Below is the text of the speech made by Lilian Greenwood, the Labour MP for Nottingham South, in the House of Commons on 4 July 2019.\nThank you, Mr Speaker. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for the opportunity to make a statement to the House on the 10th report of the Transport Committee, “Local roads funding and maintenance: filling the gap”, which we published on Monday. The successful preparation of all our reports depends on the hard work of the Committee’s Clerks and staff, the diligence of the Members who make up our Committee—I am glad to see my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner) in the Chamber—and the generosity of our witnesses, who give up their time to prepare for and take part in our sessions.\nI particularly thank Paula Claytonsmith, Lynne Stinson, Lynne Wait and Anne Shaw for ensuring that we heard expert female voices in a male-dominated sector. I am sorry that the Roads Minister, the hon. Member for Northampton North (Michael Ellis), cannot be here today, but he has conveyed his sincere apologies, and I am sure he will pay close attention to Hansard tomorrow.\nThere is a plague of potholes blighting our local roads and pavements. This is not a new phenomenon, but one that successive Governments and councils across the land have failed to tackle. The consequences of this failure are all around us—we see them every day. I want to talk about the impacts of poor road and pavement conditions, why Government and local authority actions to date have been ineffectual and our report’s recommendations for tackling the problem.\nOn my journey to work, here in Westminster and out and about in my constituency, I see many examples of cracked and crumbling roads. Just today, a constituent emailed me about Green Lane in Clifton. Last week, Westminster City Council filled a pothole just around the corner from the Department for Transport that I had ridden into on my way home—I confess that it caused me to use some very unparliamentary language.\nOur witnesses told us about the serious impacts that potholes have on the lives of pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and other road users. For example, poor pavements can strand older, frail and vulnerable people in their homes. Living Streets has found that nearly a third of adults over 65 felt reluctant to leave the house on foot due to the volume of cracks and uneven surfaces on surrounding streets, and almost two thirds of older people were worried about the state of street surfaces. Nearly half said that well-maintained pavements would make them more likely to go for a walk. Poorly maintained roads create real risks for vulnerable road users. DFT data shows that the number of cyclists killed or seriously injured due to defective road surfaces more than tripled between 2005 and 2017.\nLocal authorities must compensate motorists for damage to vehicles resulting from poor road conditions, and the cost of doing so has risen dramatically in recent years. Kwik Fit has estimated that the damage caused to vehicles from potholes in 2017 cost £915 million to repair, an increase of more than a third on the repair bill in 2016. Based on its share of Britain’s car insurance market, the AA has estimated that 3,500 claims had been made for pothole damage in 2017. The cost of this compensation ultimately falls on taxpayers, and it diverts money away from funding vital public services.\nOne of the most frustrating things about poor road conditions—this came through very clearly in our evidence—is the lack of any consistent reporting tool that drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and other road users can use to report problem potholes. Some councils have their own online tools, and there are nationwide sites such as FixMyStreet, but there is a lack of transparency around the whole reporting process, little clarity about what will be done and no guarantee that people will get a reply. Mark Morrell—“Mr Pothole”—for years a doughty campaigner against the pothole scourge, made a powerful case to us to fix this.\nWhy, year after year, do these problems persist? Why have successive Governments and local councils not done anything about them? In truth, they have tried, but their efforts have been inconsistent, and as a result the outcomes have been sub-optimal. They are constrained by three key things: funding, information and collaboration.\nThe key issue is funding. For decades, councils have complained that they do not have the funding to undertake a preventive—and, ultimately, cheaper and more effective—approach to maintaining their local roads and pavements. Successive Governments have responded to this by providing short-term, stop-start capital pots, such as the pothole action fund. Any extra funding is of course welcome, but the wrong funding in the wrong place at the wrong time means that councils simply mitigate the most obvious damage. It does not encourage the more effective, proactive maintenance that is the key to the long-term renewal of our local roads, as we heard from council after council.\nThe second issue is that councils sometimes do not have a full picture of the state of their road networks. If they do not know what they are dealing with, how can they plan and price maintenance properly? This lack of knowledge can be improved by innovating in data collection methods. There has been good work in this area in recent years, and there is a real desire on the part of Government and industry to work together to find solutions.\nWe heard about a similar willingness to innovate in the third area—good practice and collaboration. There is a real opportunity for initiatives such as the use of recycled plastic, self-repairing technology, graphene and even drones to bring down the cost of road repairs. We heard about the innovation and good practice going on across the country, but it was not always easy for this to be shared beyond individual councils and regions.\nOur report makes a series of detailed recommendations to the Government to tackle these problems, and I want to highlight four of them. First and foremost, funding: there is not enough of it, and what there is is not allocated efficiently or effectively. Local government revenue funding has fallen by about 25% since 2010. The allocation within it for local roads is not ring-fenced, and it is often used by councils to plug gaps in other budgets. Capital funding, through the pothole action fund and other pots, is sporadic and time-limited.\nTo tackle this problem we recommend a front-loaded, long-term funding settlement for local councils in England. The DFT should champion it, and the Treasury should seriously consider it as part of the forthcoming spending review. This would enable local authorities to address the historical road maintenance backlog and plan confidently for the future. The settlement should not only include capital pots managed by the DFT, but roll up into a five-year settlement the revenue support elements of roads funding administered by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. This critical funding reform must not be an excuse for a budget cut.\nSecondly, innovation is essential if the efficiency and effectiveness of local road maintenance is to continue to improve, which it must in the face of limited funding. It is right that the Government stimulate and encourage innovation, but the value for money of any investment is properly repaid only when new technologies, ideas and ways of working are scaled up and made available to all. In the light of this, we have recommended that the DFT work across government to collate all innovation funding for local roads in one place, establish as far as possible common rules for bidding and properly assess the benefits of innovation initiatives.\nThirdly, local authorities will be able to make better use of available funds for road maintenance only if they can target such funding well, and this requires good data. The DFT needs to be clear about whether the data it receives from local authorities on road conditions is consistent and allows valid comparisons to be made. It needs to be clear what it does with such data, how it is analysed and what action is taken on the back of the conclusions it draws. The DFT should also make it easier for the public to report road condition concerns and access local authority road condition data. We recommend that it does this by running an innovation competition to develop a platform the public can use to make online reports about road conditions directly to their council and to access real-time local road condition data.\nFourthly, making the best use of the available funding requires the sharing and adoption of good practice in road maintenance. This is a key role for central Government. The DFT should commit to monitoring and reviewing the current approach and reporting within two years on its effects and impacts. Local councils and industry are developing good practice in highway survey and maintenance. However, from the evidence we have received, it is not always clear that this is being widely shared. Regional highway alliances should be sharing good practice and benchmarking it against one another. The DFT could do more to facilitate this—for example, by providing a virtual good practice toolkit and repository, so that councils across England can find examples of good practice.\nIn conclusion, local roads are the arteries of prosperous and vibrant villages, towns and cities. They are critical to the movement of goods, as well as helping people to get around. The consequences of a deteriorating local road network are significant. It undermines local economic performance and results in direct costs to taxpayers. The safety of other road users is seriously compromised. This plague of potholes is a major headache for everyone. It is time for the Government to be bold, to take up our recommendations and to give councils the funding and the wider system of support that they need if they are to deliver for our constituents the roads and pavements they deserve.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "MIAMI (CBSMiami.com) – Miami Heat fans have gotten used to being able to pass on watching the NBA Draft while Pat Riley has been in charge. With the 2011 NBA Draft just hours away, the Heat has all of one pick in the draft at the top of the second-round.\nIt’s not without a certain sense of irony that Riley despises the draft so much, yet the Heat’s best player, guard Dwyane Wade, was selected with the fifth overall pick in the 2003 draft.READ MORE: Coast Guard Recovers 1 Body In Search For 38 After Boat Capsizes Off Florida Coast\nNevertheless, the Heat are more than happy to not have a first-round pick this year or in the next few years since those picks helped bring them LeBron James and Chris Bosh.\nWhile the likelihood of finding an impact player at the top of the second-round is slim, the Heat do have two areas of need: point guard and center. Point guard will likely be the Heat’s target in with the 31st pick in the draft, according to Heat vice-president of player personnel Chet Kammerer.\nAt the point guard position, there are three players at the top of the Heat’s wish list: Reggie Jackson of Boston College, Shelvin Mack of Butler, and Nolan Smith of Duke.\nJackson has a huge 7-foot wingspan and is 6’3” tall, which is a great size for a point guard. He’s a good shooter and can put the ball on the floor to make a play. He’s reportedly been promised to be drafted by a few teams including the Boston Celtics. If he’s there, the Heat will waste no time submitting the pick.READ MORE: Broward Sheriff's Investigators Looking For Two People Accused In Gas Station Confrontation\nNolan Smith is more of a safe pick. He’s a four-year player at Duke who took over last season and led the Blue Devils deep into the NCAA tournament after likely number one overall pick Kyrie Irving went down with an injury.\nSmith is mature and would provide great depth to the Heat’s roster at the point guard position.\nMack is an intriguing prospect out of Butler. He had a subpar junior season, but he was also a key cog in Butler making back-to-back trips to the NCAA Championship game. Mack averaged 16 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 3 assists per game as a junior. He’s also likely to be a backup who will provide depth to the Heat’s roster.\nFinally, if the Heat chooses to look for a big man, there’s a strong chance a potential steal could be on the board at 31. Purdue forward JaJuan Johnson is 6’10” and was a great scorer who improved each year during his four years as a Boilermaker.\nHe will need to put on weight, but if he can, he would give great depth to the Heat’s frontline. He could work alongside last year’s pick, Dexter Pittman, as both battle for a spot on the active roster.MORE NEWS: Getting To Know New CBS4 News Co-Anchor Kendis Gibson\nThe NBA Draft starts at 7:30 p.m.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Approximately 95 percent of adult Americans either “always” or “sometimes” look for healthy food options when grocery shopping according to a 2018 study jointly conducted by the International Food Information Council Foundation and the American Heart Association. If that’s the … [Read more...] about 7 Ways to Eat Healthier, Even with a Hectic Schedule\nArticles and posts that offer health and wellness advice, ideas, and encouragement.\nEver wake up in the morning only to feel as if you haven’t been to bed at all This is an issue that roughly 20 percent of Americans say they face every night of the week according to a study conducted by the National Sleep Foundation. Another study, this one by Consumer … [Read more...] about Not Sleeping Good Enough? Effective Strategies for a Better Night’s Rest\nTurn on the TV and all you hear is about is politicians who can’t be trusted, stories of innocent people being victimized, and horrible diseases that are threatening our health. Scroll through social media and there’s more of the same. Then, depending on the attitudes of your … [Read more...] about How to Stay Positive When You’re Surrounded with Negativity\nOur schedules today seem to be busier than ever. Between long work days, getting kids to and from school functions and extracurricular activities, and handling home responsibilities, it can be difficult to find time to do things you enjoy. Like golfing, dancing, or just sitting … [Read more...] about 4 Ways to Find More Time In Your Day\nHave you ever set a goal—maybe to lose weight, improve your relationship with your significant other, or advance your career—only to have your efforts fall by the wayside before you see it come to fruition? While this can definitely be frustrating, it happens all the time. In … [Read more...] about 3 Reasons You’re Not Achieving Your Goals", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Cyber attacks affect the finances of every healthcare institution like no other. This development unmasks a truth that can’t be hidden by the healthcare industry—it has become a prime target of cyber attacks. The healthcare industry is facing a host of cyber security issues, which has\nAccording to industry experts, the average cost of a data breach is nearly $6 million. And while many organizations understand the importance of preparing for a breach, few understand what it could cost to recover from an attack and what cyber criminals might be after.\nAs technology becomes increasingly important for successful business operations, the value of a strong cyber liability insurance policy continues to grow. According to Home Health Care News’ article, With Data Breaches on the Rise, Home Health Providers Especially Vulnerable, the numb", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Democracy comes at a high price. Needless to say, US elections are more expensive than anywhere else in the world and their value is only climbing. Taking into account inflation and rising prices, the cost of an election has increased more than 250 times from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 to Donald Trump in 2016, where a total of $6.5 billion dollars was spent on the presidential and congressional campaigns. 2020 has smashed the record of election spending, with the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan group that monitors and analyses finance in politics, estimating that $14 billion was spent, a figure which trumps (if you’ll pardon the pun) the GDP of sixty countries.\nMoney does not determine the outcome of elections, as Trump proved in 2016, when he spent just half of what Clinton spent, but it does help. Not merely because of the immense number of television and social media adverts, it is more because the money behind a campaign tends to be a good indicator of the size of a party’s support base. But what is the money spent on and is there a limit to how much money donors can offer?\nOver the past year, Trump raised a total of $595.6 million, with his top donors including America First Action and Preserve America PAC (political action committee). Meanwhile Biden surpassed this figure, raising $937.7 million, with significant donations from Priorities USA Action and Future Forward USA. The Center for Responsive Politics revealed that the 2020 presidential race (without congressional campaigning) cost a grand total of $6.6 billion, which was more than the entire 2016 election. Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, said that “donors poured record amounts of money into the 2018 midterms, and 2020 appears to be continuation of that trend, but magnified”.\nInfographic courtesy of Cocosign – see their full article The Presidency VS The Cost: A Revelatory Glide to the Campaign Costs of U.S. Presidential Elections [140 Years Timeline]\nJohn F. Kennedy’s 1960 election campaign is arguably where expensive elections originate from. In the early days of the election, before a democratic nominee had even been decided, Kennedy came under attack from his opponent, Hubert Humphrey, for spending excessive amounts of money in an attempt to win the nomination. At the time of the complaint, JFK had spent $72,000 ($750,000 today), and he was, in Humphrey’s words, running the “most plush, the most extravagant” campaign in American history.\nKennedy’s fixation on his image undoubtedly won him the election and set a precedent for future candidates. The first televised presidential debate played a great role in this, where 66.4 million households tuned in. At the time of the debate, Kennedy and Nixon were neck and neck in the polls. Unlike Nixon, Kennedy, knew the power of television and he rigorously prepared for the questions, chose a suit which would make him stand out, and asked his team to give him makeup touch-ups. Although Nixon is said to have spoken better and seemed more convincing on the radio, the American public took notice of the appearance of the two candidates, and the majority voted for Kennedy.\nDonations for candidates tend to come from several benefactors. The BBC reported that one-third of campaign donations come from American citizens, with people giving on average $200 or less. The proportion of donations from women has significantly increased: this year, more than 1.5 million women have donated to federal committees. However, a larger proportion of the money comes from a small group of wealthy donors; in 2016, $1 billion was donated by just two-hundred people. A substantial amount of money is also levied through lavish dinners hosted by candidates. The rule though, is that only Americans can donate.\nTwelve years ago, the legality of election spending was called into question, but not for the reason you may be thinking. In 2008, a case arose when Citizens United, a conservative non-profit organisation, released an advert criticising Hillary Clinton, who was running to be the Democrat candidate. By doing so, Citizens United were violating the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, which regulated corporate spending for political campaigns and forbade any corporation or union from producing election adverts.\nCitizens United were outraged and in 2010 went to court, where it was ruled, in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, that the first amendment of the constitution (freedom of speech) prohibited the government from limiting the amount or nature of donations and support from independent corporations. The court also overturned Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce which restricted corporations from donating or using treasury money to endorse election candidates. Ultimately, both rulings paved the way for profit and non-profit organisations spending millions on election communications.\nMore from Yorkshire Bylines:\n- A new era for Chile? by Kerry Pearson\n- What will US foreign policy look like under President Joe Biden, and what does it mean for the UK? by Marc Limon\n- Will climate migration pressure get governments to save the planet? by Beanna Olding\nThe donations that candidates receive are diversely spent. Half of the money in the 2016 election was spent on media exposure, namely television and social media adverts. Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire who ran for the 2020 Democrat nomination, spent $320 million on television adverts and spent more on Facebook adverts than Biden, Sanders, Buttigieg and Warren combined.\nThe pandemic has increased the scope for digital adverts: as candidates were forced to rely on their online presence, political groups spent over $1 billion to advertise on platforms like Facebook and Google. Money is spent elsewhere too. Staff salaries consumed $85 million of Hillary Clinton’s donations, and Donald Trump spent a colossal $3 million on his ‘Make America Great Again’ caps.\nFacebook adverts have seen the birth of an era of American oligarchy, where money and politics are dangerously intertwined and stand to threaten democracy itself. Cambridge Analytica’s infamous role in Trump 2016 success must also be noted. According to the Federal Election Commission, the Trump campaign paid Cambridge Analytica $5.9 million, $5 million of which was used for political adverts.\nThe company’s principal aim was to develop comprehensive profiles of every American voter, and then pass information to the Republican Party in order for them to tailor their adverts personally. They also assembled a list of people likely to offer donations to the Republicans, with a Trump aide revealing that Cambridge Analytica’s work was essential in securing $80 million worth of donations. Finally, Trump used the firm to discourage nearly 3.5 million black voters from going to the polls and voting for Hillary Clinton, an explicit example of how election funding can lead to a suppression of democracy.\nAmerica is already deeply, politically divided, and as more money is pumped into elections, cynicism and distrust is becoming increasingly pronounced. In a 2014 study by two political scientists, it was revealed that economic elites and independent corporations had the ability to substantially impact American government policy, while average citizens lacked anywhere near as much influence.\nTen years ago, a billion-dollar candidate was unheard of, and yet today, the price tag on the White House has “significantly outpaced the price of gold” in the last century. As the Guardian reported, “democracy is broken if someone can parachute into an election at the last minute and spend unlimited amounts”. Populism is rife, and with increasing interference from external bodies in elections, referendums, and government policies, who knows what is in store for the future of UK, and global democracy.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Caring for London’s homeless and working to ease their despair with impactful new initiatives is a centrepiece of Ms Farah London’s campaign for Mayor.\nIn December 2020 there were an estimated 700 rough sleepers on a typical night in London and the number is growing. 2019 figures confirm there were a total of 170,068 homeless people in the capital either staying with friends, squatting, or living in a hostel, night shelter or temporary Bed and Breakfast. 148 people died while homeless last year.\nMs London has recently announced plans for free homeless hygiene centres, to provide practical help and to address the chronic health concerns faced by the homeless, which have been compounded by the COVID outbreak. Today she has announced a fast-tracked housing strategy with two key elements. The provision of new, low cost, sustainably designed housing in the form of eco villages and a program to urgently refurbish London’s neglected government housing, that has lain fallow for years.\nBuilding new low cost eco villages using innovative building technologies including converted shipping containers and prefabricated modular housing is key to Ms London’s vision. The fully self-contained villages will be scalable and modular in design capable of accommodating anywhere between 50 to 500 residents depending on the location. They will be a mix of shared and independent living arrangements suitable as long-term housing. City Hall will work with local companies, to fine tune and develop solutions that deploy leading edge renewable technologies and sustainable, low impact building practices. The villages becoming a showcase for British design capability and attracting sponsorship from private firms keen to demonstrate their green credentials.\nMs London stated “for too long the issue of London’s homeless has been viewed as impossible or as if the majority of homeless people are happy and don’t want to change. It is simple, we need to take action. We need to empower the homeless to change their lives and to do that they need somewhere to live, to put their lives in order and to allow them to start contributing and putting back into society. This will benefit all of us, improving our city and raising the standard of living for all Londoners.”\nThe refurbishment of the Newham tower blocks, cleared by the local council for the Olympics and which encompass 400 hundred flats, which currently remain empty, will also be an immediate priority for Ms London. The empty tower blocks, are considered an embarrassment for the local authorities given the current housing shortages, and viewed as the subject of inaction and neglect by successive governments.\nMs London said “how can it be possible that so much important housing has been allowed to decay and remain empty when Newham has the highest level of homelessness in the country– one out of every 24 people, the highest number of children living in poverty, the worst overcrowding of homes at 25%, and the highest number in the country of households in temporary accommodation. Added to this Newham has one of the worst Covid19 death rates in Britain. This simply will not continue on my watch.”\nIt is proposed that work will commence immediately on identifying available sites for the eco villages. Potential allotments at the Olympic Park precinct, directly under the Mayors control, will be made available immediately. Ms London will also work together with the leaders of other relevant boroughs to identify sites across London where the needs are most pressing.\nMs London said “yes this will be an opportunity to showcase new building technologies but most importantly it is about adopting technology with a very quick turnaround time that will provide low cost, appropriate housing where it is needed most. I will work together with the Boroughs where, with the right leadership from City Hall, we can expect to see plenty of good will to get these projects off the ground quick-smart after many years of neglect.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Usha Uthup was Honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Radiant Wellness Conclave 2023, which was presented by Dr. Renuka David, Col. David Devasahayam and Dr. Palanivel Thiagarajan”\nChennai, 16th September: The Radiant Group of Companies organised its annual Radiant Wellness Conclave (RWC) – a premier event focused on holistic wellness, on the 16th of September. This captivating event, curated by the brand’s mentor Dr. Shashi Tharoor, featured some of the country’s most illustrious thought leaders and speakers at the Taj Coromandel in Chennai. The theme of the Conclave’s 6th edition was – ‘Power of Possibilities,’ through the nine dimensions of wellness.\nThe Radiant Wellness Conclave is an intellectual property of the Radiant Group of Companies and has grown to be one of the largest gatherings in Chennai, highlighting the importance of wellness in today’s urban society. This year’s lineup of speakers included distinguished individuals such as Dr. Palanivel Thiagarajan, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, Barkha Dutt, actor-director Revathi, Maj Gen Vikram Dev Dogra AVSM, Gen Devraj Anbu, Lt Gen Sandhu, Dr. Shriram Madhav Nene and Raju Venkatraman, each sharing unique insights into the discourse on holistic wellness. There was also a panel discussion with start-up entrepreneurs. Following the discourse, there was an entertaining musical evening featuring legendary singer Usha Uthup, who was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented by Dr. Renuka David, Col. David Devasahayam and Dr. Palanivel Thiagarajan.\nThe Radiant Wellness Conclave is a not-for-profit event organized by Radiant Foundation, a CSR initiative by the Radiant Group of Companies. This year’s theme centered around the concept of wellness equilibrium, fostering a conscientious society that values wellness across all parameters, including Physical, Spiritual, Intellectual, Financial, Occupational, Health, Technology, and Emotional aspects.\n“We believe in creating a better India by nurturing disruptive and thought leadership in the nine dimensions of wellness,” said Dr. Renuka David, Founder of Radiant Wellness Conclave. “I was a gynaecologist and frontier doctor for several years in the Indian Army. After I moved to Chennai, I realised there were a lot of gynaecologists, but the real need of the hour was to address lifestyle diseases. According to a report published this year by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India, non-communicable diseases account for 53% of the nation’s deaths and 44% of disability-adjusted life-years lost. Around 77 million people live with diabetes. Both rural and urban populations suffer from hypertension. The current life expectancy here is 70.42 years, as opposed to 77.28 in the US, 81.75 in Canada, and 84.62 in Japan. So, we really need to address some of these issues. Along the way, I’ve also realised it’s not just important to be physically fit. One needs to focus on other aspects of wellness as well; for instance, being financially sound; or looking after mother earth through the concept of environmental wellness. So, we’ve consciously looked for experts and thought leaders in these fields who would share their insights with us. What makes this conclave truly special it is that it’s a live conclave. It will be streamed live, and we will connect to people instantly along with regular social media updates.”\nAbout Dr. Renuka David:\nDr. Renuka David is the dynamic Managing Director of Radiant Medical Services. With extensive experience, she offers holistic solutions for disease prevention, emphasizing healthy lifestyles. An alumna of Coimbatore Medical College, Dr. David has been a frontier doctor, working extensively on women’s and young adults’ well-being in urban, rural, and tribal India. She’s a TEDx speaker, entrepreneur, and wellness expert. Dr Renuka David is the Creative Editor of Medals & Ribbons, a quarterly magazine about the Indian Armed Forces.\nThe Radiant Wellness Conclave attracts a diverse audience, including professionals, corporate heads, entrepreneurs, educators, and an exuberant youth force from local colleges. This year, the event was live-streamed, ensuring that its impactful discussions reach a broader online viewership. “We are excited to bring back the physical format of the Conclave after two years of virtual events due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Dr. Renuka David.\nThe Radiant Wellness Conclave has consistently elevated the level of debate, discourse, and discussion surrounding wellness, featuring prominent speakers like Abhinav Bindra, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Nandita Das, Lisa Ray, Meghna Gulzar, and R Madhavan in previous years. The event’s impact extends beyond the Conclave through projects like Radiant Ashraya, Radiant Sambandh, Radiant Shiksha, and COVID-19 relief initiatives, showcasing Radiant Foundation’s commitment to social responsibility.\nAbout Col. David Devasahayam:\nCol. David Devasahayam, Chairman and Managing Director of the Radiant Group of Companies, is the Patron of the Radiant Wellness Conclave. A veteran of the Indian Army, he founded Radiant Cash Management Services, leading it to a successful IPO in January 2023. He’s an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard Business School. Among his awards are Asia’s Greatest Leader and Excellence in Entrepreneurship. He has also received an Award of Excellence last year from Members of the UK Parliament, House of Lords and Vice Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on UK India Trade & Investment for stewarding the Radiant Group of Companies.\nAbout Radiant Wellness Conclave:\nThe Radiant Wellness Conclave is an annual event organized by Radiant Foundation, a CSR initiative of the Radiant Group of Companies. The Conclave brings together esteemed thought leaders to discuss wellness across various dimensions and inspire positive change in society.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Reviewing Professor Misagh Parsa’s Democracy in Iran, the paper says, “Although Mr. Parsa barely discusses U.S. policy toward Iran, his book is easily the most important work in English on the Islamic Republic since the revolution.”\nThe online magazine presents a slideshow documenting Katie Bono’s trip up Denali, in which the alumna, a former Nordic skier at Dartmouth, set a record for women making the ascent up the highest mountain peak in North America.\nIn a story about the Posse Foundation program helping veterans connect with elite schools, the magazine notes that since Vassar enrolled its first Posse cohort, only two other schools, Dartmouth and Wesleyan, have become program partners.\nIn a story about Associate Professor Soo Sunny Park’s exhibit at New Hampshire’s Currier Museum of Art, NHPR says, “After decades of making everything herself, Sunny now has help turning her ideas into sculptures big enough to fill rooms.”\nIn a story about the troubled ride service, the newspaper turns to Tuck School of Business Professor Sydney Finkelstein, who says, “This is going to be a classic business school case study, there’s no question.”\nIn an opinion piece about partisan animus, the newspaper cites research by Dartmouth’s Sean Westwood and a Stanford colleague that indicated that party affiliation is the major divide in American society today.\n“We’ve known that extremist groups have been weaponizing the internet for years,” says Dartmouth’s Hany Farid, who studies ways to eliminate extremist content from the internet. Why, he asks, has Facebook been so slow to deal with it?\n“I’m not persuaded that the historical evidence actually shows that if leaders have military experience themselves, or if they have family members that served, it makes them less likely to go to war,” says Dartmouth’s Edward Miller.\n“Don’t tweet, post, Instagram, or email anything you wouldn’t feel comfortable seeing on the front page of The New York Times,” said Jake Tapper ’91 in his commencement speech, which USA Today listed among the best of the year.\nIn a story about the relevance Shakespeare’s play has to politics today, the paper turns for comment to Dartmouth’s Brett Gamboa. A 1937 production was “like nothing anybody had ever seen,” he says, and influenced many subsequent productions.\nIn a column, Dartmouth’s Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon write that “Mr. Trump has ... lined up behind Iran’s main rivals, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies,” whose interests “aren’t necessarily identical with those of the U.S.”\nThe Geisel School of Medicine’s Associate Professor of Medicine Tim Lahey says some symptoms should make people decide not to fly. “There are some viruses that just go like wildfire through close quarters,” Lahey tells The Huffington Post.\nProfessor of Computer Science Hany Farid says he’s “not buying the story” that tech companies can’t delete extremist content because it would possibly lead to more censorship. “That’s a smokescreen, saying there’s a gray area,” he says.\nIn an AP story published in the Times, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Emily Whiting discusses a system she and colleagues created to replicate parts of challenging climbs so they can be practiced on indoor climbing walls.\nTwo biologists believe they’ve discovered how human brains encode facial images, writes the paper. “Cracking the code for faces would definitely be a big deal,” Brad Duchaine, a professor of psychological and brain sciences, tells the paper.\nAmerican democracy’s health has worsened “for the first time in recent history,” writes the newspaper in a story about Bright Line Watch, created by Professors John Carey and Brendan Nyhan and colleagues from Yale and Rochester universities.\nMichael Sateia, an active emeritus professor of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine, talks about benefits of getting enough sleep—better powers of concentration, better health—and the downside of getting too little.\nSenior Lecturer Gerald Auten’s “meticulously rendered drawings” ask viewers to “consider how a culture memorializes itself,” writes the newspaper. A show of Auten’s work continues through June 8 at the Aidron Duckworth Museum in Meriden, N.H.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, while taking a stock of the rising number of deaths in Muzzafarpur and surrounding areas due to encephalitis, said that he is coordinating with state authorities and health officials to deal with the disease.\nCalling Tamil Nadu a \"water-\nscarcity\" state, Karunanidhi on Sunday said the Centre should \"wake-up\" and take responsible and pro-active\nsteps to solve water disputes the state has with Andhra\nPradesh and Karnataka.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Just before our 10:30 service began this morning the lights in the sanctuary went out. The lights throughout the building went out. The air-conditioning went off. The screens and the sound system shut down. The power went out. We went ahead with worship, and many of those who were there reported a heightened worship experience because of the power outage. But the whole time I kept thinking about the shut-ins and those who listen in on the radio. Without power, we can’t broadcast and without power we couldn’t explain to those who would have been listening what was going on. If you speak to a shut-in this week, please let them know we’re sorry and that we missed having them worship with us. The sermon should be online soon. If you know someone who would like to listen, but doesn’t have internet access, let us know, and we’ll be happy to burn them a CD.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "News At Noon\nNews Channel 3 TV Schedule\nYour Voice, Your Vote\nWhat’s Going Around?\nSee complete forecast\nSevere weather alert\nIs there finally more help in the fight against robocalls?\nHow to turn the tables on scammers & spammers calling your cell phone\nExperts warn Memphians about robocall scam from Sierra Leone\nArkansas governor signs bill to cut robocalls, ‘spoofing’\nGroup running robocalls impersonating Trump’s campaign has already raised more than $100,000\nTennessee, other states ask for action on illegal robocalls\nHow robocallers make money even when calls go unanswered\nGovernment, phone companies take steps to stop robocalls\nConsumers turn to technology to stop robocalls\nThat annoying robocall about a ‘free cruise’ could get you $900\nPlan To Stop Harassing Robocalls\n: you are using an outdated browser.\nMicrosoft does not recommend using IE as your default browser\n. Some features on this website, like video and images, might not work properly. For the best experience,\nplease upgrade your browser", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who very much wants to succeed John Boehner as House Speaker, essentially admitted that the Benghazi hearings were intended to hurt Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers, a very different Kevin McCarthy begin receiving some angry backlash on Twitter.\nWhile Congressman McCarthy uses the Twitter handle @GOPLeader, the man who owns @KevinMcCarthy just happens to be a Hillary Clinton supporter from Iowa.\nOn the same day Boehner announced his resignation from Congress, McCarthy tweeted:\n— Kevin T. McCarthy (@KevinMcCarthy) September 25, 2015\nNow, less than two weeks later, McCarthy has teamed up with The Briefing, part of Clinton’s campaign apparatus that aims to debunk misinformation about the candidate, to produce a video ad intended to clear up the confusion. Both Hillary Clinton and McCarthy shared the video they put together on Twitter Wednesday:\n— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 7, 2015\n— Kevin T. McCarthy (@KevinMcCarthy) October 7, 2015\n“You know, it was really funny at first,” McCarthy says in the ad about the trolling tweets accidentally sent his way. “And then they just kept going and going and going.” After playing a clip of McCarthy’s remarks, he urges people to direct their anger at House Republicans and not his unrelated Twitter feed. “Oh and by the way, go Hillary!” he adds at the end of the spot.\nThis new online ad is just the latest example of Clinton’s decision to seize on Rep. McCarthy’s unfiltered comments as proof that Republicans care more about taking her down than getting to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi. She called his comments “deeply distressing” in an interview last week and included them in her first national TV commercial released this week.\n[Photo via screengrab]\nHave a tip we should know? firstname.lastname@example.org", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Climate Change and Sustainability\nFort Collins looks far into the future to be more innovative today\nThe Colorado city’s “Futures Committee” has one job: Look ahead to challenges and opportunities lying 20, 50, or even 100 years down the road.\n10 of the top moments from CityLab 2021\nMemorable conversations and inspirations from the first virtual and most global CityLab convening ever.\nSolution Spotlight: Turning garden waste into a carbon sink in Stockholm\nIn the fight against climate change, Stockholm is looking to an unusual place: fallen tree branches and other garden waste from\nInfographic: The Mayors Challenge, by the numbers\nEver since its launch in 2013, the Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge has empowered city leaders from around the world to tackle their most pressing concerns.\nMayors Challenge impact: A look back at previous winners\nHere's how past winners of a one-of-a-kind ideas competition addressed their toughest challenges—and the impact they were able to create as a result.\nWhy the EU’s ‘innovation capital’ is a model for cities worldwide\nSome people know Leuven, a Belgium city of 100,000 not far from Brussels, for its beer: It’s home to both Stella Artois and the world’s largest brewer, AB InBev.\n6 city innovations that are powering the rollout of electric vehicles\nVehicles that run on electricity instead of gasoline have a\nInspired by Stockholm’s success, a U.S. city goes big on biochar\nBiochar is nothing new in Minneapolis.\nHow to make innovation capacity stick for the long haul\nOne of the most recent and important developments in local government these days is for cities to hire\nThe future of city innovation\nThis is a critical time for city leaders across the United States and around the world.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Three Contemporary Painters Who Just Happen to Be Women\nJanuary 8th – February 15th\nReception: Saturday, January 10th\nThe upcoming winter exhibit at Carrie Haddad Gallery will feature works by three diverse artists; Darshan Russell, Eileen Murphy and Donise English. The title of the exhibit “Three Contemporary Artists Who Just Happen to Be Women” emphasizes the gender of the artists in the exhibit.Gallerist Carrie Haddad enjoys giving equal exhibition time to women so she has planned this show to follow up on two artists who have been with the gallery for some time; Darshan Russell and Donise English, and to introduce a new artist to the gallery, Eileen Murphy.\nThe colors and feeling of Darshan Russell’s compositions are greatly influenced by Matisse, but her inspiration comes directly from life and the simple scenes that surround her in Poughkeepsie, Kingston, Hudson and other Hudson River towns where she paints. Occasionally, Ms. Russell will paint cities that she has traveled to like New York, Baltimore, Portland and Paris, but the bulk of her work documents local scenes and local people. Family photos and photographs from the Poughkeepsie Journal or the New York Times inspire much of her figurative work. Portraits of Madelaine Albright, Barak Obama, and Mayor Dinkins are part of her repertoire, as well as less prominent individuals.\nMs. Russell’s paintings have a unique look that can be contributed to her practice of daily painting and years of dedication to develop a primitive style all her own.\nIn 1993, Rich O’Corozine of the Poughkeepsie Journal wrote, “With vision comes transformation, and Darshan Russell has the power to transform. With paintings so potent and beautifully realized that one wonders of the pain inherent in their gestation, Russell’s paintings are magical interpretations of a Poughkeepsie that few can ever visit.”\nAnd, critic Wayne Lempka writes, “Russell’s works are truly seductive. One is immediately lured into them by their lively surface and bright colors. Her grouping of three separate New York City scenes is a fine display with their whirlwind of furious brushwork and quirky stacking of shapes. One feels the continual motion of life in the city even when some of the works lack a human presence.”\nRussell has studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Suny New Paltz and VassarCollege and currently lives in Poughkeepsie.\nLocal artist Donise English received a BS in Art History at SUNY New Paltz and a MFA in Painting at BardCollege.She has received numerous awards and has exhibited in galleries and museums across the country including, the Bronx Museum of Art, the DeCordova Museum of Art, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.English currently teaches at MaristCollege.For this exhibit, Ms. English has created encaustic works on paper and panel.Encaustic, or pigmented beeswax, has been in use as an artistic medium since the 5th century, B.C. Despite the difficulty of working with a medium that must be melted in order to be used, encaustics have long been prized for their translucent, varnished effect.\nThe abstract pieces featured in this exhibit remind the viewer of tribal art or cave drawings with spirals and simplistic images.Other works on panel combine geometric shapes and line drawing in layers of soft colors.\nBorn in Yorktown Heights, NY, Eileen Murphy received her BA at MountHolyokeCollege and her MFA at Pratt Institute.She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.\nThis will be her first exhibit at Carrie Haddad Gallery.Ms. Murphy is a representational painter and the subject of her recent work is Brooklyn.There are paintings of the WilliamsburgBridge, the underbelly of freeways, and colorful views of rooftops and graffitied walls in the commercial districts, which all look beautiful and crisp in Murphy’s large oil on canvas paintings.\nIn the Backroom gallery, another female artist, Jessica Houston, is featured with a mini exhibit of new works inspired by the artist's passion for the Arctic.\n\"My work,\" writes Ms. Houston, \"is an investigation of ephemera and transformation of the everyday. I often use found materials that either reveal or subvert underlying formative principles. Whether I’m painting over newspapers, making installations from objects collected in the Arctic, intervening in public spaces, or inviting scientists to interact, I am driven by subtle shifts in perception and a rearrangement of form. I’m drawn to the fleeting experience that allows for impermanence, chance, unpredictability and tenuous stability. I’m looking for the possibility of revelation through simple means, a place and a moment where now dissolves into always, and always into now.\"\nFor over a year, Jessica Houston has been painting over newspapers—obliterating, whiting out, and rearranging the page. The underlying typographical structure is laid bare by the absence of language and a parallel, simultaneously existing abstraction is exposed. These are works about sustaining an epiphany of bodily presence while working within parameters of pre-determined systems. The newspaper provides a constant format within which there is no possibility of prediction, allowing chance to provide the parameters of the work. In their multilayered process of making, Houston's paintings become a palimpsest—a chance to sand away and begin anew.\nThree Contemporary Artists Who Just Happen to Be Women will run from January 8th through February 15th with a reception for the artists on Saturday, January 10th for .All are welcome to attend.\nCarrie Haddad Gallery is located at 622 Warren Street in Hudson, NY.Gallery hours are daily and for the winter the gallery will be closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.You can call the gallery for directions or more information at (518) 828-1915 or check the website at www.carriehaddadgallery.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Johnnie Boden and Gymshark founder Ben Francis recognised in New Year's Honours\nJohnnie Boden, founder of Boden, and Ben Francis, the founder of fitness clothing brand Gymshark have both been recognised – with a CBE and MBE respectively – in the King's New Year's Honours list.\nJohn Peter Boden, better known as Johnnie and one of the UK's best-known entrepreneurs, has been awarded the CBE for services to Fashion and to the Retail Sector, while Ben Francis, who is well on his way to billionaire status, received his MBE for services to the Business Sector.\nBoden is a former stockbroker who set up Boden, a mainstay fashion brand for the British middle class, in 1991 with just an eight-piece menswear collection, which was modelled by his friends. Womenswear arrived the following year with kidswear in 1996.\nHe pioneered the use of home shopping catalogues for stylish brands and the brand was an early adopter of e-commerce launching its first transactional website in 1999. While predominantly a home shopping brand, Boden did venture in to retail with stores in Hangar Lane and Westfield London (though this store has since been closed), and it is also sold in select branches of John Lewis.\nKnown for its colourful, relaxed designs, in autumn of this year the brand unveiled a new corporate identity and a fresh, contemporary take on its clothing which Boden described as \"Evolution, not revolution.\"\nMeanwhile Ben Francis, who is still only 30, is appointed MBE. He now presides over a brand that is worth more than £1 billion with Francis himself said to be worth around £900 million.\nHe began making his own gym clothes from his parents garage in 2012 and went on to successfully harness the power of social media to create a community around Gymshark, which is the fitness brand of choice for Gen Z and millennial gym-goers.\nFrancis has had a big year, opening a huge experiential retail store on London's Regent Street and the last post on his Linked-in profile spoke of his impending paternity leave as he was about to become a father of twins. He is the youngest person on the honours list to be recognised for services to business.\nOther industry figures recognised on the list include British Vogue publishing director and chief business officer at Condé Nast added the OBE to her existing MBE for services to the media industry, while celebrated hair dresser Sam McKnight was awarded the OBE for services to the British fashion and beauty industries.\nNicola Taylor, national coordinator, Fashion Revolution Scotland received the MBE for services to the Promotion of Net Zero Apparel in Scotland.\nDame Mary Quant has been recognised with one of the highest honours on the list, the Companion of Honour. Only 65 Companions of Honour exist at one time with current holders of the award including Dame Maggie Smith and Sir David Attenborough. Dame Mary, who is 92, was recognised for her outstanding contribution to British culture. Read our separate story on Dame Mary's award here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Even if it was predictable and even though it also was happening elsewhere, the news out of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship was still jarring.\nAnd also all too familiar.\nSecond-seeded Kansas has withdrawn from the tournament semifinals after another positive COVID-19 test by a player. The news that third-seed Texas will advance to Saturday’s Big 12 tournament final for the first time since 2011 was secondary.\nThe Longhorns will face fifth-seeded Oklahoma State, which upset top seed Baylor 83-74 behind 25 points, eight rebounds and five by freshman Cade Cunningham. The Cowboys had a late 11-0 run to take control and hand Baylor just its second loss.\nThe Jayhawks became the third name brand to exit its conference tournament this week because of COVID-19 protocols.\nDuke saw its ACC tournament, season and streak of 24 consecutive NCAA Tournaments all end. Defending NCAA champion Virginia — going back to that memorable 2019 final against Texas Tech — also got knocked out of the ACC.\nThe Kansas announcement came a year to the day from when the pandemic forced the cancellation of the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments.\nAhead of Selection Sunday and 68 teams heading to Indianapolis for March Madness, it’s not an encouraging sign. No wonder the NCAA has said teams will be able to participate in the tournament with just five healthy players.\nYes, the NCAA is taking all kinds of precautions to make sure its biggest cash cow by far doesn’t get canceled for a second straight season.\nWhile not a true NBA-style bubble, the setup in Indianapolis will be fairly close.\nOf course, the Big 12 did its best, buying out Kansas City hotels for the men and for the women, with a single floor for each team. Access was very limited as was fan attendance and media access.\nYou could argue that maybe discretion might have been the better part of valor for conference tournaments this year. In a media availability, Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said the conference was focused on the tournament although there was talk among coaches about the wisdom of holding a tournament after the season they just experienced.\n“I think it’s reasonable to ask those questions,” Bowlsby said Monday.\n“But we have obligations, and we have the event on the schedule. I think it’s the right thing to go forward and contest the tournament, so that’s what we’re doing. To directly answer the question, we didn’t have any discussions about not playing the tournament.”\nStill something happened with Kansas, which lost two players to positive tests before the tournament began.\n“While we have been fortunate to avoid this throughout the season, there are daily risks with this virus that everybody participating is trying to avoid,” Kansas coach Bill Self said in a statement. “We have followed the daily testing and additional protocols that have been set up for us, unfortunately we caught a bad break at the wrong time. I look forward to preparing my team in probably a unique way for next week’s NCAA Tournament.”\nUnique way, huh? That’s one way to put it.\nTeams have until 11 a.m. Saturday to notify the NCAA if they can’t meet the medical protocol.\n“We are exhausting all options to participate in the NCAA Tournament,” Virginia coach Tony Bennett said.\nBaylor has dealt with COVID-19 throughout the season. Coach Scott Drew tested positive early in the season, and the team went 21 days between games in February during a COVID-19 pause.\n“Heart goes out to them because how the players feel about that and how tough it is on them,” Drew said when asked about Kansas, Duke and Virginia. “And I know the concerns the coaching staff has with just the safety and when and if the team will be back and how you go through it.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "No matter your preference, it is always fun when new players are added to the organization. That can mean via trade, free agency, or even an international signing but the excitement about learning how the player found their way to the Cardinals will top my list every time.\nSt. Louis more than any team in the National League Central has overcome more hurdles when it comes to drafting and still keeps finding players that make a difference. Only the Cards and Yankees can boast what I found to be an utterly amazing stat that just shows how different organizations do business. New York obviously has the money to acquire or sign just about any player (Stanton) but also the longevity as a winning franchise to not have to rely on the draft for talent.\nIn the modern draft era (since the calendar hit 2000), the Birds on the Bat join the Yankees as the only other club not to have made a selection in the Top 10 of the draft. Think about that for a minute – as good as front office staffs are and the mileage that scouting departments put in, it takes more than luck to find the hidden gems or even ones that fill rolls in the minors. Every year there will be a few top players that slip for whatever reason, and this may again end up being the model chosen by both teams.\nThe main difference that sets the two model franchises apart outside of market obviously has to be getting the player signed. New York can afford to go big and possibly miss out on a player, but the same can not be said under the Arch. That does limit options to a degree, but the Cards proved in 2016 that they found the model needed headed into this draft season. Holding three selections the first day, St. Louis will be quite busy reading the boards and hoping everything goes to plan.\nLooking back at the landmark draft from two years ago, Delvin Perez was that guy too hard to pass up when he fell. Will the same thing happen again and if so, what’s the strategy for finding the money in order to make it a perfect Day 1? The most likely outcomes have already been debated plenty of times in the War Room for the Cardinals, so this is my best guess at figuring out the equation.\nGiven how deep this draft has developed for picking three in the top 75, St. Louis will be able to decide how to proceed when one or two of the top rated players falls to 19. Much like in 2016 with Perez, the preferred method was to use the 2nd selection on a ‘safe’ pick where the team already knew how much under budget the player would take. Dylan Carlson might not have been rated as a first round talent, but it was a smart play for both sides. Finishing out the round with a monster signing like Dakota Hudson was basically hitting the draft lotto, but those rarely happen multiple times.\nThis will be called the back-up plan simply because one other team has the exact same set-up as the Cardinals did two years ago. Play close attention to how the Royals draft given that they have four of the first 40 picks and will see five total additions to the system by the end of day one. Oh, and Kansas City first goes on the clock at #18 so they could very well play spoiler to the entire start of the night.\nMy preferred method of attacking the draft has to be ignoring who falls initially and sticking with the board. That simply means not drifting from the chosen path and taking the best rated player who you know will sign at or below the 3.2 million mark. While there is a fairly large gap between picks, Cleveland and Tampa Bay will have joined the Royals in making at least three selections already which puts St. Louis in the driver’s seat. Look for a highly-rated prospect with a fairly significant price tag to be available before the second round begins, and the Cardinals ready to pull the trigger.\nAs far as how the board looks, that is truly anyone’s guess at this point. While everyone seems to have a college hurler already destined to be the first pick, the fast-moving pitchers can wait a round or two in my opinion. Give me a player who slots at a position of need (first or third base), already apt at connecting with a wood bat and call it a win. So basically if St. Louis announces Seth Beer with the 19th pick, I will be MIA the rest of the week.\nInstead, it would be absolutely amazing to see an under slot deal with Wichita State’s Greyson Jenista or former target Cadyn Grenier with the saved money going to the other first day selections. If anything has been proven the last decade, it is that the Cardinals will use all their resources right up to the loss of an ever-important pick in order to maximize the returns.\nAfter missing out on much of the fun last year, it means even more to see how the drama unfolds with a variety of methods at work. Will the high school talent win out in the end or have some clubs decided the sticker shock isn’t worth it after all? The time for debate has all but passed as the Tigers are on the clock so let the madness begin!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "UPDATE: Jefferies Raises PT on Verenium to Match BASF's Bid\nIn a report published Monday, Jefferies analyst Laurence Alexander reiterated a Hold rating on Verenium Corp. (NASDAQ: VRNM), and raised the price target from $2.60 to $4.00.\nIn the report, Jefferies noted, “We are raising our price target to match BASF's (BAS GR, Hold) bid of $4, which is expected to close in Q4. We view a counter-offer as highly unlikely. We reiterate our Hold rating.”\nVerenium Corp. closed on Friday at $3.98.\nLatest Ratings for VRNM\n© 2017 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "From the publisher\nWant to know the best way to live in the Bay of Plenty? It's all here in UNO Magazine. We shine a light on all the extraordinary people who live here, and show you the best places to explore, eat, drink, live and more.\nBe the first person to tell us what you think about UNO Magazine and you'll save $5 on your next purchase!ADD A REVIEW\nFor quarterly titles please allow up to 1-2 weeks for your first delivery. Your subscription will begin with the next available issue.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Nov. 27, 2007\nCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Eight of Virginia's first nine field goals came from the three-point line against Northwestern on Tuesday night, leading to a 94-52 victory in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge.\nNorthwestern (1-4) shot 44 percent in the first half but made only 11 field goals. Freshman Michael Thompson (Chicago, Ill./Lincoln Park) led the way for the Wildcats with nine points in the first half, 14 overall on the game. Virginia (6-1), conversely, had 12 3-pointers as Mamadi Diane and Calvin Baker combined to go 9-10 from the floor with 27 points. The duo helped UVA to a 54-29 lead at the break.\nJason Okrzesik opened the second half on fire attempting to lead the 'Cats back and scored 12 points to go along with his two rebounds and a steal. Overall on the game, the Wildcats shot 35.7 percent, while the Cavaliers made almost 52 percent of their shots.\nThe tone was set very early, after Virginia fell behind 4-3. Adrian Joseph gave the Cavs the lead with a 3-pointer, and Jamil Tucker followed with another. Following a 3 by Thompson, Sean Singletary and Diane both made one for the Cavaliers.\nBefore the Wildcats scored again, Baker hit a 3-pointer and the Cavaliers' first 2-point basket, Joseph hit his second 3-pointer and Baker's second made it 26-11.\nVirginia then snuffed out Northwestern's comeback attempt after the break, starting the second half on a 9-2 run capped by another 3-pointer by Diane.\nCraig Moore grabbed a team-high six rebounds and Mike Capocci snagged five of the 'Cats 28. Both Moore and Thompson added two three-pointers, as well, and held the Cavs to a 4-of-12 performance from beyond the arc in the second half.\nThe loss marked NU's first in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge since 2005 as it beat Miami in last year's Challenge. The victory, meanwhile, gave the Cavaliers a 5-3 record in the annual matchup with the Big Ten and a 12-game win streak at John Paul Jones Arena.\nNU makes its fourth-straight appearance for a national audience at 11 a.m. on Saturday when it takes on Savannah State at Welsh-Ryan Arena.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jul 6, 2014, 8:35 AM EST\nThe Nigeria football federation were voted out of office on Saturday, accused of having botched the country’s World Cup campaign. But the Super Eagles face suspension from international competition if they do not restore the leadership to power by Tuesday.\nEarlier in the week, a regional high court ordered the dismissal of the Nigerian football federation executive, including the president, Aminu Maigari. The court then appointed a temporary caretaker, who ordered the elections held on Saturday. A statement following the removal of the leadership read:\nThe Congress bemoaned the unfortunate incident of the international embarrassment caused by failure of the Aminu Maigari-led NFF to fully and firmly resolve issues of finance with the Super Eagles ahead of the championship.\nNigeria players threatened to strike before their Round of 16 matchup with France, but resumed training after several players spoke with the country’s president, who reassured them that their bonus money would be paid. Nigeria then held out for nearly 80 minutes against les bleus, before errors allowed France a 2-0 win and sent the Super Eagles home.\nFIFA rules permit for the suspension of countries from international play when governments have interfered in the running of the country’s federation. The court order, the rapid call for new elections and the speed with which the federation’s executive was dismantled have FIFA concerned, which is why they are now threatening suspension if Nigeria do not restore the previous executive.\n- Chelsea 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Mourinho’s boys win League Cup trophy 0\n- Three things we learned from Liverpool’s win vs. Manchester City 3\n- Liverpool 2-1 Manchester City: Pair of Reds stunners stupefy City 4\n- MLS roundup: LA Galaxy, Orlando, Red Bulls, Union, RSL, 13 others in preseason finales 0\n- WATCH: NYCFC’s Mix Diskerud hits a screamer from 20 yards 0\n- WATCH: Michael Bradley, Sebastian Giovinco combine for Jozy Altidore’s first Toronto FC goal 4", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "h a l f b a k e r y\nGood ideas at the time.\nadd, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random\nnews, help, about, links, report a problem\nor get an account\nIt was announced last week that billionaire Robert Sillerman bought control of Elvis Presley Enterprises, and there are strong concerns that he might crack down on Elvis impersonators in order to protect the Elvis brand.\nThe most likely way this might happen is that Elvis impersonators would have\nto get some kind of official authorisation if they want to continue performing.\nNow, that could be through paying for a licence from EPE. However, Mr Sillerman also owns American Idol...\n...you see where I'm going with this, right?\nA massive series of Elvis Elimination Experiences would make for great TV* as different impersonators try to win the audience votes, and gain their official licences. Or perhaps a group of impersonators are summoned to appear each week, with the worst ones being banned from further public performance.\nIt would be fascinating to see the diverse mix of backgrounds and personalities, and their reasons for being Elvis impersonators.\nWith the zillions of Elvis impersonators around, this show could run and run. And it's got a ready-made catchphrase, for when the losers are voted off: \"Elvis has left the building.\"\nTune in! Vote now! And find out which King will become *The* King!\n*If not in the critical sense, at least in the corpulence stakes.\nElvis Impersonators Under Threat\nOne of the news articles about this [imaginality, Apr 24 2006]\nShameless plug for my favourite Elvis impersonator. Also does an excellent Tom Jones. [DrBob, May 09 2006]\nMy second favourite. [DrBob, May 09 2006]\nOfficial Elvis tribute artist contest\nFinal takes place in Graceland this week [imaginality, Aug 16 2007]\nPlease log in.\nIf you're not logged in,\nyou can see what this page\nlooks like, but you will\nnot be able to add anything.\nDescription (displayed with the short name and URL.)\n||I'll be loading my six-gun and putting it by the couch in anticipation.\n||I'll be stacking my couch up against the television in anticipation.\n||Can we call the winner the \"King of Kings\"? Just to further highlight the Elvis/Jesus similarities.\n||A bun for eliminating Elvi.\n||[baconbrain], love the plural, great word. *edits description*\n||It would be an interesting project to try and eliminate all\nrecordings, footage and photographs of Elvis and\nsurreptitiously replace them with those of Paul Hyu,\na.k.a. Chinese Elvis. I don't have anything against Elvis per\nse, I just feel that it's time for a change.\n||\"It would be fascinating to see the diverse mix of backgrounds and personalities, and their reasons for being Elvis impersonators.\"\n||I think people would have trouble telling them apart thus choosing a favorite\n||[RayfordSteele], it *could* be interesting, seeing the real people, their individual quirks and uniquenesses, and then seeing those disappear as they become The King. Not to mention the human drama and the tension as the Elvi try to save their careers.\n||In any case, my target audience is the people who watch American Idol and the like, so standards don't have to be too high...\n||\"So, why did you become an Elvis impersonator?\"\nContestant #1: 'cause I looked like him and needed a job.'\nContestant #2: 'cause it's fun.'\nContestant #3: 'cause he's the King!'\nContestant #4: 'cause I lost a bet one night at college'\nContestant #5: 'cause I got stranded in Las Vegas...'\nContestant #6: 'Impersonate? I AM Elvis!'\nContestant #7: 'cause I had a frontal lobotomy...'\nContestant #8: 'part of my deal with the devil...'\nContestant #9: 'cause he dresses real neat'\nContestant #10: 'for the babes, man!'\nContestant #11: ' well, one night while I was puttin' the wheels back on the homestead, (got evicted for sumpthin' to do with mah pet skunk, accordin' to the note), I hit myself with the tire-iron and suddenly had this vision of the King himself, tellin' me to go and convert all to Elvis worshippers...\n||I dunno. In my mind it's usually hardly fascinating why people do things I consider rather dumb...\n||I like it. The fact that is is restrained to Elvis makes it kind of like haiku: the limitation makes the variation more interesting. One could require the singers to cover songs Elvis had recorded - still a lot of music. I like the idea of an updated Elvis - would he be like a southern Ricky Martin? Would he be a Christian rocker? Would he be a suave Baliwood bigpicture star? Roots folkster with a beard? All of the above? Oh yah!\nActually, 'Elvi' would only work as the plural of 'Elvus'; the Latin plural of 'Elvis' would be 'Elves'. (Unfortunately it would be pronounced as two syllables, but let's ignore that).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Brussels, 22 September 2021\nThe Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) welcomes the European Commission’s proposal to renew the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Regulation (GSP). FESI firmly believes that the new GSP, including the GSP+ and EBA regimes, will further contribute to the sustainable development of the GSP beneficiary countries. So far, it has proven to help the latter becoming more competitive, reduce poverty, build their domestic industries, increase employment, and improve good governance.\n“FESI has followed with great interest the recent debate on the GSP Regulation, and we can only applaud the decision taken today by the Commission to renew the scheme for the next 10-year cycle”, commented Jérôme Pero, FESI Secretary-General. “The GSP is the crown jewel of the EU Trade Policy. GSP, GSP+ and EBA programmes are all still relevant and offer the right degrees of incentives towards sustainable development. It is now crucial to make sure that the proposed schemes are simple and predictable enough for companies”, he added.\nIndeed, predictability is a key feature of the GSP regulation. Over the years, the GSP programmes have proven to be highly effective in encouraging European companies to invest in partner countries while bringing their social and environmental standards with them. The GSP programmes did not only drive economic growth, but also helped bringing sustainable business practices to developing countries. But to continue driving change, sporting goods companies need the GSP Regulation to be sufficiently predictable to let them plan their local leadership programmes and investments many years in advance.\nThe inclusion of the Paris Agreement on Climate change is also a positive move. The sporting goods industry is deeply engaged in addressing its carbon footprint and has the ambition to become an industry leader in this field. For instance, many FESI members are among the signatories of the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action and are committed to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.\nMoreover, it is important that the advantages granted under the GSP are not removed by a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The latter should provide for either the equivalent or enhanced preferences for the countries concerned. If we take the example of Vietnam and the recent FTA with the EU that came into force last summer, companies are now in a least favourable situation as they must comply with the double transformation rule with very limited possibility of regional cumulation. Although to avoid this and uphold the initial purpose of the GSP we suggested foreseeing a cumulation among all GSP beneficiaries’ and FTA countries, we welcome the additional flexibility to the Rules of Origin for GSP beneficiaries’ countries that the Commission put forward in the new proposal.\nWhile FESI welcomes the new adjustments made today to the GSP, we believe that further improvements could be made to ensure a more fair, transparent, and manageable framework. In particular, we regret the that the classification of products deemed “sensitive” has not been clarified in the new proposal. In fact, the new Regulation continues to qualify footwear and apparel as sensitive, thus putting a discriminatory cap on the duty reduction of these products. The absence of a clear definition and criteria of what is considered “sensitive” and “not-sensitive” creates a lack of transparency. FESI now calls on the co-legislators for further clarification and recommends classifying footwear and apparel as “not-sensitive”. As an alternative, FESI would support the “Sunset clause” proposed in the external study supporting the impact assessment on the GSP Review. A sunset clause for all excluded and sensitive products could be considered, together with an industry-driven mechanism to establish (or continue) a country product exclusion/sensitivity. This would also contribute to diversification in the beneficiary countries and systematically re-tailor the scheme to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving EU industrial structure.\nThe EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) grants unilateral tariff preferences to developing countries as a means of supporting their economic and social development, as well as promoting human rights, employment standards, sustainable development, and good governance practices. Today’s proposal to renew the preferential tariff scheme between the EU and developing countries was very timely as the Regulation governing the scheme expires on 31 December 2023. The new proposal therefore allows for a renewal of the scheme for the period 2024 – 2033.\nContact: Ariane Gatti, FESI Communication Officer / [email protected] / +32 274 08 94", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Michelle Yeoh joins Avatar sequels\nThe Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon actor will play a scientist named Karina Mogue\nMichelle has always created unique and memorable characters. I look forward to working with her to do the same thing on the Avatar sequels. https://t.co/ExokGb0YZg— James Cameron (@JimCameron) April 15, 2019\nLast seen in the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians, the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon actor will play a scientist named Karina Mogue in the Avatar franchise.\nYeoh is also in talks to lead a Star Trek: Discovery spinoff, where she will reprise her role as Captain Philippa Georgiou from the original series.\nCameron's Avatar, starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, was released in 2009, and is the highest grossing film of all time, with earnings to the tune of $2.7 billion globally. The first of its four sequels is scheduled to be released on December 18, 2020.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Reality TV star and businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize says she doesn't condone abuse of any kind.\nThis is after the mother of her grandchildren Sithelo Shozi (28) made abuse allegations against her son and Royal AM chairman Andile Mpisane.\nThe DJ, businesswoman, and influencer revealed why she and Andile separated and how the Gqom artist got married to Tamia Louw Mpisane three months after she gave birth.\nSithelo is known for keeping her private life a secret, but during a question and answer session on her social media, she decided to speak up.\nIn several Instagram stories which have since been deleted, Sithelo accused the father of her two children - Florence “Flo” and Likuwe “Coco” Mpisane of being abusive.\n\"I’m not one to speak out about anything concerning my private life, more especially where my kids are involved. But everyone has a breaking point, and this narrative has gone too far. I’ve been silent for far too long and hid my truth for the sake of peace but today I will not be silenced,” she wrote.\nSithelo shared how Andile left her just after their baby was born and married Tamia Louw. She said she had endured abuse.\n“You all mocked me and made ridicule of me when I was left with a three-month-old child, but little did you know that was my break free from endless pain. That was God saving me from eventually taking my own life. Nothing has been more liberating. I saw God’s hand in my most vulnerable place.”\nShe made allegations that she had a miscarriage due to the physical violence and showed proof of psychologist visits.\n“Let’s start when I was beaten to a pulp and had a miscarriage at the hands of my so-called ‘victim’ in a room of his family and friends, rushed to the nearest hospital and treated like nothing happened,” she wrote.\nShe then shared pictures of bruises on her face, lip, and a damaged cell phone she alleges Andile was responsible for breaking.\n“Should I speak about the beatings I’d get every week or month followed by a bunch of flowers, so I’d never speak out?”\nIn a statement, Andile’s mother Mamkhize said she was unaware of the alleged abuse despite Sithelo having said that it happened in full view of the family.\n“I have been made aware of allegations made against my son, Andile Mpisane by Sithole Shozi on her Instagram account,” the statement reads.\n“I do not take lightly these accusations given my history and strong stance against gender-based violence. I do not and will never condone violence in any form or nature.”\nMamkhize says she in no way tolerates gender-based violence and her family was unaware of the alleged abuse.\n“I would like to categorically state that neither myself nor my family have been witness to any alleged abuse. These allegations are false and defamatory.” She goes on to say that they will be seeking legal advice on the matter.\n“Given the nature, severity, and extent of these allegations, the matter has been referred to our legal team. It’s of the utmost importance that the law takes its course,” she says.\n“Furthermore, false accusations do tremendous damage to victims of actual assaults and or abuse. As we all know there are always two sides to a story. I will not be making any further statements with regards to this matter.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Nanjangud: Noted lawyer Mallikarjunaswamy released the teaser of Baa Nalle Mundagege at Shravana Kalyana Mandapam in the city. Later, lawyer A.R. Kantaraj said, “Baa Nalle Manjake” is a film made by young talents from rural areas.\nHe said that people should take initiative to develop rural talents. The teaser of the movie was released and watched for the wedding in Baa.\nOn this occasion, Gram Panchayat member Gattawadi Manjunath, director Yogesh Nandan, actress Shobha, actor Sachin and many others participated.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "April 8, 2018\n\"Combat should never be easier than coming home to you!\" Kathie Costos\nFor The Love of Jack, His War My Battle originally published in 2003 because I tried to warn people about what was coming into their lives. PTSD! It was republished in 2013 because too many thought their love alone would be able to heal them.\nLove has to be strong enough to do whatever it takes to help them heal! Stop making excuses for what you fail to do. We lose more after combat than we do during it. Wars end and they come home but that battle lasts a lifetime! We have to be trained to win it for them!\nThe battle to save the lives of combat veterans is not lost and it is not new. 18 veterans and more than one active duty service member take their own lives each day. More attempt it. Kathie Costos is not just a Chaplain helping veterans and their families, not just a researcher, she lives with it everyday. Combat came home with her Vietnam veteran husband and they have been married for 28 years.She remembers what it was like to feel lost and alone.Everything you read in the news today about PTSD is in this book originally published in 2002 to serve as a guide to healing as well as a warning of what was coming for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.read more here\nSun Herald out of Mississippi released resources for veterans to get help!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "L.A. Galaxy Soccer Wives\nThe Battle Of the Sexiest\n8/18/2011 12:02 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF\nThe wives of L.A. Galaxy superstars David Beckham and Robbie Keane are in a battle of the sexiest -- and now we have inside info on the showdown ... thanks to our new Irish staffer.\nCheck out TMZ on TV -- click here to see your local listings!\nGet TMZ Breaking News alerts to your inbox", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Mueller Report:\nManafort also twice met Kilimnik in the United States during the campaign period and conveyed campaign information. The second meeting took place on August 2, 2016, in New York City. Kilimnik requested the meeting to deliver in person a message from former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was then living in Russia. The message was about a peace plan for Ukraine that Manafort has since acknowledged was a “backdoor” means for Russia to control eastern Ukraine. Several months later, after the presidential election, Kilimnik wrote an email to Manafort expressing that view—which Manafort later said he shared—that the plan’s success would require U.S. support to succeed: “all that is required to start the process is a very minor ‘wink’ (or slight push) from [Donald Trump].” The email also stated that if Manafort were designated as the U.S. representative and started the process, Yanukovych would ensure his reception in Russia “at the very top level.”\nManafort communicated with Kilimnik about peace plans for Ukraine on at least four occasions after their first discussion of the topic on August 2: December 2016 (the Kilimnik email described above); January 2017; February 2017; and again in the spring of 2018. The Office reviewed numerous Manafort email and text communications, and asked President Trump about the plan in written questions. The investigation did not uncover evidence of Manafort’s passing along information about Ukrainian peace plans to the candidate or anyone else in the Campaign or the Administration. The Office was not, however, able to gain access to all of Manafort’s electronic communications (in some instances, messages were sent using encryption applications). And while Manafort denied that he spoke to members of the Trump Campaign or the new Administration about the peace plan, he lied to the Office and the grand jury about the peace plan and his meetings with Kilimnik, and his unreliability on this subject was among the reasons that the district judge found that he breached his cooperation agreement.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Three Days To Go!\nWe are excited to announce that Captain Hank Cheng will pilot Inspiration (B-KOO), Hong Kong’s FIRST homebuilt and registered aircraft, to commence the Round the World (RTW) journey on 28-Aug (Sun). It is scheduled to take off from Hong Kong International Airport in the early morning, with Clark, Philippines as the first destination.\nAs a final preparation for this historical moment, the Inspiration team met HKCAD today (25-Aug) to finalize the aircraft departure arrangements. The team was also greeted by Mr. Simon Li, Director-General of Civil Aviation.\nA flight tracker will be available on our official website. Stayed tuned to the website and our Facebook page for news and stories of Inspiration's RTW journey.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What’s the story about?\nUnited Nations diplomat Sérgio Vieira de Mello (played by Wagner Moura) is sent to Baghdad soon after Saddam Hussein’s regime falls in Iraq. While the US Administration, headed by Bush, expects Sergio to toe their line, the veteran UN diplomat has a plan of his own. And in his attempt to stay independent and assert his authority over the local affairs, as he had done in East Timor and Cambodia, Sergio takes an audacious path which is often at odds with other power centres. The entire story of the film, directed by Greg Barker, focuses on Sergio’s attempt to connect the dots of his own life just moments before he’s about to die following a terrorist attack.\nThe film is essentially a love story between Sergio and his partner, Carolina, and how different circumstances in conflict zones shaped Sergio’s approach to work and life itself. Wagner Moura is brilliant throughout the film and his dazzling chemistry with Ana de Armas, who plays Carolina, is endearing to watch. One of the best scenes in the film has Sergio listening to an elderly woman in East Timor and her confession about what she craves brings tears to Sergio’s eyes. His reaction is essential to understand the emotional turmoil that Sergio goes through as the story unfolds, and how it changes him as a person. Wagner Moura brings a lot of empathy to his character and makes us believe in his actions, be it that of a father who has struggled to strike a bond with his sons or a seasoned diplomat, who wants to do good for society. Ana de Armas stands out with her performance, although her character, Carolina is always in Sergio’s shadow.\nThe entire story unfolds from Sergio’s perspective through a series of flashbacks, and this narrative style turns out to be counter-productive in the larger scheme of things. Before diving into the story, filmmaker Greg sets up the background quite well that Sergio is UN’s best bet to ease tensions in Iraq, and the former’s commitment to make the UN a truly independent organisation leads to plenty of friction with the officials from the US. Then, a terrorist attack derails the whole mission. As he awaits help in the last stage of his life, Sergio tries to recollect how his life and relationships have shaped up in the past few years. This narrative technique is perfect for a book; however, since it’s a film, we never get the full picture. We hardly understand what made Sergio so good at his job. Every negotiation, no matter how fragile the political environment might be, is just shown in flashes, as if it was yet another entry in his Wikipedia page. At best, Greg Barker’s Sergio, despite getting a rich treatment, will inspire you to read more about the former UN diplomat’s life and work, but as a film, it’s all over the place.\nMusic & other departments\nA significant part of the story is set in Iraq and East Timor, and cinematographer Adrian Teijido does a fine job to give us a sense of the inner turmoil and conflict that the film’s lead character goes through. Editing doesn’t quite salvage the film since it barely scratches the surface of the subject it tries to tackle. Fernando Velázquez’s music brims with energy when Sergio recalls his happier moments spent with Carolina.\nWagner Moura and Ana de Armas’s dazzling chemistry is a major highlight in the film, apart from the emotional depth that Wagner Moura brings to his own performance.\nThe film’s narrative style, where everything is told in a series of flashbacks, never lets you settle down and really get a good understanding of what Sergio had done. Even the dialogues don’t quite make an impact, despite Sergio being a biopic of a diplomat who was really good at negotiations.\nDo I recommend it?\nAs a film, Sergio doesn’t quite fall in place and it leaves you wondering if the story holds back more information than it gives outright from the beginning. Perhaps, the life of Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and his many victories and low points in life, can only be brought alive through a book.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If there’s a word that always comes up in digital media, it’s “complexity.” That’s not just in the many ad tech companies on a certain slide. Simply executing daily tasks at agencies, publishers and tech providers is pretty difficult. Getting to “inbox zero” is seemingly impossible, and keeping on top of everything at times appears hopeless. We polled some top execs for their “hacks” that make their lives easier — and more productive. Please add your own hacks in the comments.\nIOs from Anywhere: Richard Frankel, president, Rocket Fuel\nMy favorite digital media hack during the fast-and-furious last week of the quarter is Docusign. Anyone in the biz knows that, for a digital industry, we spend a lot of time scanning, printing and faxing around scraps of paper (insertion orders) to get deals done. Yuck! At Rocket Fuel, we’ve adopted Docusign to sign all documents — and with a Web app, an iPad app and an iPhone app, I can pretty much sign contracts wherever I am. My second favorite is Gogo — in fact, I’m writing and emailing this while flying cross country today! Now, if we could only figure out how AI could sign IOs for me ….\nIdeas Everywhere: Eric Franchi, co-founder, Undertone\nI got in the habit of using the “tasks” tab in Outlook a long time ago to jot down notes specific to recurring meetings or projects that I was working on. The problem with that is that ideas and thoughts generally happen when I am not at my laptop. I would be constantly emailing myself with ideas or writing things down on a sticky pad. With the latest iOs and iCloud update, the “reminders” app syncs with Outlook’s tasks perfectly. Small hack, big help.\nSurviving the CC: Avi Savar, chief creative officer, Big Fuel\nOne of the best things I ever did to help manage my extraordinary volume of emails is to create a rule that automatically moves all emails where my name appears in the CC (not the to field) into a separate “CC folder.” This eliminates tons of email clutter and allows me to focus on emails that are directed at me first rather than all the noise — then once a day I scan my CC folder to make sure that I am looped into everything else and have not missed anything. This is one of several “rules” that helps me focus on what matters most – for example, I have rules that color internal emails gray and emails from clients red. I also use “smart folders” that show me emails in my inbox that are more than a week old, two weeks old, a month old, internal, external and so on. Lastly, I use a terrific service called OtherInbox that automatically organizes newsletters, web receipts, confirmations and pretty much anything else you need – and then sends you a daily digest for review. Happy emailing.\nGo to the Cloud: Jeff Hasen, CMO, Hipcricket:\nLiving in Seattle, I’m always looking for sunshine on a cloudy day (someone should write a song about that). My sunshine actually comes from the cloud. With two Macs, a PC, an iPad, and a smartphone, I’m invariably starting something on one piece of technology and picking it up on another – sometimes even more than one. Dropbox and Evernote are more important to me than an umbrella.\nTaming the Email Monster: David Berkowitz, vp of emerging media, 360i\nOne favorite service is Boomerang for Outlook. It allows me to get an email out of my main inbox and then return it at a later date. Often, I do this when I want to remind myself to follow up scheduling a meeting with someone, or I want to review something in greater detail once a deadline is completed. When used selectively, it then allows me to keep more time-sensitive messages in my inbox.\n‘Halloween is when Christmas ends’: A look at publishers’ pre-Black Friday commerce content playbooks\nPublishers' Black Friday coverage plans are starting earlier and earlier but commerce teams are evolving to meet the demand.\nHow social media managers are coping with the Twitter debacle\nTwitter – once a stable and trusty workhorse for social media strategists – now resembles the most wildly unpredictable social platform in the marketing arsenal.\n‘A big reset in 2023’: After Big Tech’s mass layoffs, job candidates face intense competition\nRecruiters report that 'we've never seen a market quite like this' as tens of thousands of employees flood the market.\nSponsoredWhy cookie deprecation is deflating performance and inflating costs for advertisers\nWith the full deprecation of third-party cookies on the horizon, advertisers and publishers are navigating a challenging and quickly evolving landscape. The sunset of the third-party cookie continues as usage and lifetimes fall. Their deprecation is preventing brands from effectively measuring the effectiveness of media campaigns in real-time at highly granular levels. As the industry […]\nMartin Sorrell-backed S4S Ventures, Bertelsmann invest $10M in data asset management outfit as it blends new content, analytics-based marketing for clients\nThe recent explosion in content has created the need not only for more sophisticated tools to manage it, but better ways to attach data and analytics to the content in order to better optimize it at the right time for the right opportunity.\nMember ExclusiveMedia Buying Briefing: Which media will buyers turn to in a soft local market in 2023?\nTraditional media including broadcast and print are expected to be hit hard by revenue losses. What will save local from a deeper downward trend next year will be local ad spending on digital, digital out-of-home (OOH) media and connected TV.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "With 18 additions debuting at Dine Out Boston, this year's prix fixe menu promo promises to be a showcase of what to try next. Running Sunday to Friday, March 6-11 and 13-18, Dine Out challenges chefs to create multi-course menus at three pricing tiers for lunch ($15, $20, $25) and/or dinner ($28, $33, $38). That’s quite a budgeting task for the discerning cook. We spoke to three chefs bringing their new restaurants into this year’s Dine Out, who aren’t dumbing down dishes to fit the price. Instead, they’re cooking to impress.\nOpened last fall in The Envoy Hotel on Northern Boulevard, Outlook Kitchen and Bar’s Dine Out debut includes a two-course lunch and three-course dinner ($20, $38).\n“I don’t change the menu to fit a price structure. I don’t want to take from the integrity of the dishes by using cheaper ingredients,” says Chef David Verdo, who took part in Dine Out at his previous restaurant, the suburban hidden gem Chopps in Burlington. With a dinner menu that embellishes cod loin with a ginger-shiitake broth, and Aspen Ridge flat iron steak with New England hedgehog mushrooms and first of the season pea shoots, bright flavors are brought to life: “With spring just around the corner, I wanted to create light, aromatic dishes,” he adds.\nAt Sfizi in the North End, Chef Gianni Caruso is discounting most of the regular classic Italian and Pan Mediterranean inspired menu for a three-course dinner ($33):“Popular homemade dishes is what we’re about. We’ll embrace our Italian roots and include a selection of dishes that shows who we are.”\nThose include zucchini blossoms stuffed with truffled mozzarella, angel hair pasta with seafood, New England swordfish with sweet potato puree and smoked shrimp, and a luscious tiramisu. “We don’t look at cost for this, so this is very good value,” Caruso explains. “This is an opportunity for sharing our menu with people who don’t know Sfizi. We want people to fall in love with our restaurant and come back again, and share with friends.”\nChef Tom Borgia’s Dine Out menu for FiDi's new State Street Provisions keeps it simple: a two-course appetizer and entrée dinner menu ($28) with the option of beer or wine pairing ($12). The sweet toothed can choose from the regular menu’s ample selection.\n- PHOTOS: What's Brewing in Steamy Hallows, the Harry Potter-Inspired Cafe19 Pictures\n- PHOTOS: Frida Kahlo at the Brooklyn Museum doesn't hold back23 Pictures\nBorgia also worked season forward with a spring vegetable minestrone, and beet tagliatelle with shaved asparagus, roasted oyster mushrooms, and mascarpone. “Spring is the most difficult season because it’s the shortest and everyone tries to hit that window when fava beans, young asparagus, morels, and ramps are at their best,” says Borgia, a Dine Out veteran from his tenure at sister restaurant Russell House Tavern in Harvard Square.\n“It’s hard to be cost effective at these prices, so I say to hell with it. It’s more important for me to work within the restaurant’s framework of being seasonal and local, and celebrate New England.”\nFor more information on Dine Out Boston: bostonusa.com/visit/dineoutboston", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Active aero winglets could have multiple applications\nElectric motors control each wing independently\nActive Aero is currently banned in MotoGP\nThe Piaggio group has patented a new active aero winglets technology that is expected to make its way to future two/three-wheelers. The patent was filed at the World Intellectual Property Office. This is the second time that Piaggo has filed a patent for active aero winglets, the first being when it presented the Aprilia RS660 concept at EICMA 2018.\nPiaggio’s new active aero winglets are designed to work independent of each other and help steer the vehicle, in addition to generating downforce or reducing drag. The patent drawings show the C-shaped active aero winglets attached to the fairing of the Piaggio MP3, a popular scooter in Europe. However, Piaggio probably has much bigger plans for this technology…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Warpath News Room - http://www.chiefswarpath.com/news -\nRoaf Won’t Play, Holmes Doubtful for Raiders\nPosted By ChiefsWarpath.com On November 5, 2005 @ 10:30 am In Latest News | Comments Disabled\n[Kansas City.com] Left tackle Willie Roaf again missed practice on Friday with hamstring problems and won’t play against the Raiders. Roaf was involved in an auto accident Friday morning on Interstate 435 in Kansas, but said he wasn’t injured.\nHalfback Priest Holmes didn’t practice and was downgraded to doubtful on the official injury report filed by the Chiefs. Coach Dick Vermeil held out the slim possibility Holmes could play as a backup to Larry Johnson.\nCornerback Patrick Surtain was limited to individual drills and will be a game-time decision.\nArticle printed from Warpath News Room: http://www.chiefswarpath.com/news\nURL to article: http://www.chiefswarpath.com/news/2005/11/05/roaf-wont-play-holmes-doubtful-for-raiders/\n© Copyright 2000 - 2013", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A sailor at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center was killed Monday when he was struck by a coal train at 22nd Street in North Chicago.\nHe was returning to the base with a fellow sailor after an evening in Wisconsin, police said. The victim was walking when he was hit about 3:25 a.m., they said. The other sailor was not hurt.\nLake County Coroner Barbara Richardson said the identity of the 23-year-old Wisconsin man was being withheld.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The power of Project Canvas in terms of watching TV\nBBC iPlayer might be big but the project Canvas is bigger and aims at eating up the entire chunk of video content.\nIt is supposed that users will find it difficult to claim their choice as video on demand and classic linear TV consumption both shall be open for viewers. The recent nod from BBC Trust brings out detailed specifications about the platform that soon shall be made public by the end of the month.\nA concept similar to Freeview, Canvas would be an open platform and is considered to be an extension of iPlayer that adds to the list of many more channels and significantly more features.\nCanvas chief technology officer (CTO), Anthony Rose, sited an example claiming that this platform helps pull data in practicality about a player on the field in a World Cup match, as reported by DigitalSpy.\nIt has also further been stated that the idea of embedding URIs (Uniform Resource Identifier) comes with an availability of incredibly vast data warehouses like Wikipedia or Google with abundance of cheap broadband.\nNew Zealand News\n- Porsche reportedly developing electric version of 718 sports car\n- Tesla Model Y Performance becomes little bit more expensive to order in China\n- Porsche’s recently unveiled Mission R Concept previews electric race cars of future\n- Chinese manufacturer GAC’s Aion V e-SUV can charge 0-80% in just 8 minutes\n- Oshidori International exits Japanese casino race, citing serious ethical irregularities\n- Plug-in cars’ share grows to 32% in Netherlands in September 2021\n- Italian motorcycle racer Valentino Rossi enters e-bike business with VR46 MTB range\n- Micro Mobility shows off production version of Microlino 2.0 and 3-wheeled e-scooter\n- Chinese electric motorcycle maker Evoke Motorcycles to set up shops in Spain\n- TenneT adds more electric BMWs to study use of EVs to support power grids", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"I collapsed on the landing floor, just crying. After that I locked myself away for two weeks.\"\nSix years ago on Sunday (August 22), Sussex was rocked by tragedy.\nDaniele Polito was in the passenger seat of his friend Matt Jones' car in the early afternoon of August 22, 2015.\nHis girlfriend, Georgina Brown, was waiting for him to come home so they could go out on a date.\nJoin SussexLive and sign up to our newsletter\nIf you want to stay in the know with all the latest news, reviews and features from SussexLive then you can sign up to our daily newsletter email.\nEach day we'll be sending you a selection of our top stories from across our county, as well as breaking news so you can be the first to know.\nSigning up to the SussexLive newsletter means you'll get the latest news direct to your inbox each day. It couldn't be simpler and it takes seconds - simply click here OR here, enter your email address and follow the instructions.\nDaniele, along with 10 other men that day, never came home. He was one of the victims of the Shoreham Airshow crash which claimed the lives of 11 people in Shoreham and left 16 more injured.\nOn the afternoon of Saturday, August 22, a vintage jet piloted by Andy Hill plunged into the A27 next to Shoreham Airport, causing a massive fireball to engulf the road.\nGeorgina, 23, told The Mirror of her panic when Daniele was late to get home.\n“Eventually I rang one of his friends to ask what was going on,\" she said in 2016, \"he came round and we were looking through Facebook – news about the disaster had started to spread. There were loads of posts saying ‘RIP Daniele’.\n“We thought people were jumping the gun, and maybe he was being held somewhere and couldn’t contact us. It didn’t feel real. I just thought he had to be OK. We decided to wait until the morning and hope for the best.\n“I couldn’t sleep, and the next morning I saw his death had been confirmed on the TV news.\n“I collapsed on the landing floor, just crying. After that I locked myself away for two weeks,” Georgina said.\nEvery one of the victims had a story like Daniele's.\nMaurice Abrahams, 76, was a chauffeur on his way to pick up a bride on her wedding day.\nRichard Smith, 26, and Dylan Archer, 42, were two friends who were going for a bike ride on the South Downs.\nMark Reeves, 53, had taken his motorcycle to the edge of Shoreham Airport to take photos of the planes.\nAt around 1.20pm that day, a Hawker Hunter jet crashed onto the road below during a loop manoeuvre.\nThe impact of the crash destroyed several vehicles, while fuel from the vehicles caused a massive fireball to ignite.\nThe news came through in a burst of confusion. People across Sussex were glued to their phones and TV screens as the shocking scenes started to filter in, with estimates of the death toll rising as high as 20 or 30 at times.\nIt was later confirmed that 11 men had died in the crash.\nThe pilot, Andy Hill, miraculously survived the crash and was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.\nHe had been thrown clear of the burning wreckage of the plane and landed in the bushes, but was seriously injured in the process.\nThe Air Accidents Investigation blamed the tragedy on pilot error, and Mr Hill was to face a trial after he recovered.\nMr Hill, 57, was charged with 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence, and one count of endangering an aircraft.\nMr Hill had attempted a loop manoeuvre, which ultimately failed and his aircraft crashed into the road below.\nMore than three years later, on March 8, 2019, he was found not guilty of all charges.\nThe tragedy left Sussex in a state of grief and shock. Tributes from all angles began pouring in as the county came to terms with the shocking loss of life it had just witnessed.\nMatt Grimstone and Jacob Schilt were two young footballers who were travelling to a game before they lost their lives in the crash.\nThe pair were close friends and former pupils of Varndean School in Brighton, where Jacob’s dad Bob was a teacher.\nBoth of them played for Worthing United, and got stuck in traffic on the A27 on their way to play in a Worthing match.\nThey also had a connection with Brighton - Matt had been a member of the ground staff there for seven years and was good friends with goalkeeper David Stockdale.\nBoth clubs soon released touching tributes, and Brighton dedicated their fixture against Hull three weeks later to the pair.\nFans were given banners to hold up which formed the word \"together\", while giant shirts bearing Matt and Jacob's names were held aloft on the pitch.\nA stand at Worthing United's ground has been renamed in their honour, while the pair have a permanent memorial and plaque in the north stand concourse at the Amex stadium; a place where thousands of people see their names every Saturday afternoon.\nA few years later in 2019, a permanent memorial to all 11 victims was erected on the banks of the River Adur.\nHowever, the families of the victims are still waiting for closure in the court room.\nMr Hill was found not guilty of manslaughter in his trial at the Old Bailey in 2019. Many of the victims' families have publicly spoken of their anger at the trial's verdict.\nCaroline and Bob Schilt, Jacob's parents, spoke to the Mirror in 2020 about their \"anger\" at the decision to allow Mr Hill to walk free.\n“Yes I can’t deny it – I was angry,” said Caroline, a retired drama teacher.\nBob, 66, added: “But we can understand it and we can see all of the reasons why it happened – the main reason being the very high threshold for gross negligence.”\nThe court heard Mr Hill had attempted the risky “bent loop” move too low and too slow to complete it.\nCaroline said: “I think he had a cavalier attitude. He was very keen to demonstrate his knowledge of flying and to show what an expert he was at flying. And two-and-half days of that became quite wearing.\n“He seems to have been able to somehow shut off from what he did.”\nMr Hill claimed during the trial that he blacked out in the air, possibly due to the effects of G-force.\nSpeaking outside the court after the case from a prepared statement, Hill read the names of each of the victims, said he was “truly sorry” and added that he would “remember them for the rest of my life”.\nAn inquest into the victims' deaths was due for September 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic has seen that date postponed twice already.\nIt is now due to take place in February or March of 2022 - close to seven years after the tragedy happened.\nThe Shoreham Airshow has not been staged again since the crash. More stringent safety regulations governing airshows have been put into place, but, as Caroline says, “that doesn’t help us”.\nIt was a harrowing tragedy, the scale of which had not been seen in Sussex for decades, that left the county raw and grieving.\nSix years later, the families are still waiting for their closure.\nThe 11 men who died were wedding chauffeur Maurice Abrahams, 76, from Brighton; retired engineer James Mallinson, 72, from Newick, near Lewes; window cleaner and builder Mark Trussler, 54, from Worthing; cycling friends Dylan Archer, 42, from Brighton, and Richard Smith, 26, from Hove; NHS manager Tony Brightwell, 53, from Hove; grandfather Mark Reeves, 53, from Seaford; Worthing United footballers Matthew Grimstone and Jacob Schilt, both 23; personal trainer Matt Jones, 24; and Daniele Polito, 23, from Worthing.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said that some progress has been made during the talks between military commanders of India and China but the there is no visible expression of that on the ground.\nHe said nine rounds of talks have been held between the military commanders on the process of disengagement of troops in eastern Ladakh and the negotiations will continue in future also.\n\"Military Commanders (of India and China) have held nine rounds of meetings so far, we believe some progress has been made but it's not yet in a kind of situation where there is a visible expression of that on the ground,\" Jaishankar told reporters in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.\n\"After last years' events, we've deployed troops in very large numbers to meet the challenge which has come from the massing of Chinese troops there,\" he said.\nThe minister was referring to the border tension at the LAC between Indian and Chinese soldiers and death of 20 Indian army personnel in a clash in eastern Ladakh.\n\"The disengagement talks, because it is a very complicated issue, because it depends on troops, you have to know the geography (like) which position and what is happening, this is being done by the military commanders,\" he said.\nHe was replying to a query on whether there would be any ministerial level talks between both the countries on skirmishes between troops of the Asian giants.\nChina and India are locked in a military standoff in eastern Ladakh since May 5 last.\nThe two countries have held several rounds of military and diplomatic talks to resolve the face-off, but no significant headway has been made so far.\nJaishankar said he and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held parleys with their counterparts of China last year and agreed that they should disengage in some parts.\n(With inputs from agencies)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Four persons died yesterday while four others sustained injuries in an auto crash around Pipeline Junction, Ogere, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway,Ogun State.\nMr. Babatunde Akinbiyi, the spokesperson for Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), said that the accident occurred around 4:30 a.m. and that it involved a Man Diesel truck with registration number: TKP 653 XA, conveying people and yams.\nHe explained that the accident involved 14 people: 13 males and one female; that four males died and another four sustained injuries. “I learnt the vehicle was coming from the North to Lagos and loaded with yams,” he said. “The casualty was much because some of the passengers who are the likely owners of the yams were sitting on the yams in the open space at the back. The truck lost control due to excessive speed and poor visibility; fell by its side with the yams and the vehicle fell on them.”\nAkinbiyi ,said that the dead bodies had been deposited at FOS Mortuary, Ipara Remo, Ogun State, while the injured were taken to Idera Hospital, Sagamu. He advised motorists to maintain their vehicles, avoid speed and night travel if possible, especially now that the harmattan season is here, with poor visibility everywhere.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In July, state Sen. Nate Blouin, D-Salt Lake City, authored an email paid for and distributed by Erin Mendenhall's mayoral reelection campaign. \"The constructive tone Erin has set has finally created a real partnership in confronting the statewide homelessness crisis,\" he said.\nThe idea of \"partnership\" between the incumbent Salt Lake City mayor and state legislators obscures the statistics of Utah's 2023 Annual Data Report on Homelessness. The Deseret News reported that it \"showed a 96% increase in people experiencing chronic homelessness since 2019 and a 10% jump, year over year, to 8,637 people experiencing homelessness for the first time.\"\nSquare these numbers with a recent re-election ad by Mendenhall, boasting that Salt Lake City's two homeless centers can increase capacity by 50 beds apiece, plus another 200 beds during \"Code Blue\" events when temperatures are 15 degrees Fahrenheit or lower. The majority of overflow beds aren't even in Salt Lake City, but other places throughout the county.\nPaucities. Out-of-city solutions. Arbitrariness.\nAnything below 32 degrees is freezing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that extreme cold varies, meaning we can experience it at temperatures above freezing. Fifteen degrees—well below freezing—is an odd number that appears to mean something.\nI invite Mayor Mendenhall or state homeless coordinator Wayne Niederhauser to spend a couple nights outside this winter and report back to the public. What is the difference between 15 and 17 degrees? Or between 17 and 20?\nLast winter, unhoused SLC residents died at unprecedented rates. Richard Markosian of Utah Stories reported that the city's count is likely low, and The Salt Lake Tribune revealed that at least a dozen people had died due to exposure. Winter descends, and Mendenhall touts a long-term strategy. But, as reported by the Deseret News, she now lacks funding.\nA strategy without funding? At best, this is wishful thinking. And at worst? Another winter with our incumbent as mayor.\nInstead of ideating and enacting solutions, Mendenhall is on record saying that sanctioned encampments aren't the city's responsibility. Mendenhall ultimately flip-flopped on the topic, changing her campaign message. \"[M]y administration and staff ... are working daily ... on a safe, structured sanctioned campground,\" she now claims, while continuing to condone raids on the houseless.\nOf the abatements, Mendenhall said in June: \"We participate in those because it's inhumane for a city to allow [unhoused residents to live in] public spaces that were never fit for human habitation.\" This is a classic example of punishing the victim.\nSen. Blouin claims that Mendenhall's work has \"resulted in direct investment in reducing the impacts of homelessness.\" Huh? I've deliberated over what his words, when cobbled together, mean. A deconstruction of the sentence reveals it describes nothing. Moreover, our streets showcase the opposite of Blouin's sloganeering.\nPeople are forced from one unlawful camp to the next because there's nowhere to go. These folks require shelter, hospitalization and/or rehabilitation. Instead of meaningful reform, Mendenhall humanizes the cyclical abuse of government-sanctioned abatements—a mean-spirited act that includes stealing from the poorest among us.\nIn a KSL NewsRadio report, Rocky Anderson—former two-term mayor and candidate for reelection this November—talked about the previous winter: \"We had people on our streets dying of the freezing cold, getting frostbite and having their fingers and their toes amputated,\" he said. \"That is an absolute crisis, and it was ignored.\"\nWhat do meaningful political partnerships really look like? They look like Anderson's relationship with Latter-day Saints and non-LDS communities, his positive associations with Republicans and his forthright engagement with the media, Capitol Hill and the public.\nAnderson is transparent. He's empathetic. This past winter, he personally drove a frostbitten victim to the emergency room. Between The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News, there exist many articles that report on his commitment to bipartisanship.\nFollowing the 2002 Winter Olympics, Anderson endorsed now-Utah Sen. Mitt Romney for Massachusetts governor, and Romney in turn endorsed Anderson's reelection campaign. As reported by the Deseret News, the Alliance for Unity was a \"brainchild of two political opposites, industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr. and Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson.\" The program brought together civic, business and religious leaders of all faiths and political backgrounds to bridge divides in the community.\nA 2003 Deseret News article about the Joseph Smith Memorial Building's 10th anniversary quotes Gordon B. Hinkley—the late president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—praising then-Mayor Anderson's leadership. Anderson also received the 2019 Leonard Weinglass in Defense of Civil Liberties Award from the American Association for Justice.\nHumane results through dialogue, constructive collaboration, partnerships unrestricted by political or religious affiliation as well as humor, sensitivity, transparency and seriousness. These rank among the man's documented strengths as a public servant.\nOur collective humanity deserves solutions for our city's houseless—not senatorial marketing puffery in \"Paid for by Mendenhall\" advertisements. We need representation that understands the difference between brinkmanship and positive change.\nI'm disenchanted with Sen. Nate Blouin and the other supporters of Mayor Erin Mendenhall, not because they don't see what I see—but because what they describe isn't what I see.\nCalvin Jolley lives in Salt Lake's Central City neighborhood. His credits include The American Book Review, MAYDAY Magazine by New American Press, Context South, 15 Bytes, Otis Nebula, and The Salt Lake Tribune. He is an issue voter who has no formal political affiliation with Rocky Anderson's campaign for mayor.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As we wind down our series on the history of Cardinals draft picks, this week we will take a look at the safeties. The Cardinals have drafted quite a few solid safeties over the past few decades and Cardinals fans hope they can continue that trend, especially since I have safety as the team’s biggest need in May’s draft.\nIt’s timely that this week is the week we focus on Cardinals safeties, since much of the media is taking time to remember the most famous Cardinals safety in their history this week. This week marks the tenth anniversary of the death of former Cardinals seventh-round pick Pat Tillman. While Tillman may not make the list of top Cardinals safeties drafted for his on the field performance, he certainly tops the list for what he stood for off the field.\nThe word hero is thrown around a little too loosely in my opinion these days, but in Tillman’s case I think it’s justified. Not too many people walk away from a life in professional sports to do what they think is right. If anything it seems half of today’s athletes couldn’t find the right thing to with a pre-programmed GPS. Tillman is a symbol for the sacrifice of all of our men and women in the Armed Forces.\nThere have been many articles written and revisited about Tillman this week. Many media members talking about his memory. I especially enjoyed listening to Fox Sports 910’s Mike Jurecki tell his personal stories about his relationship with Tillman and the kind of guy he was. Cardinals fans will certainly never forget him.\nBack to the topic at hand. The best safety the Cardinals have ever drafted. Going back to the first round of the 1983 draft, the Cardinals used their first-round pick on Leonard Smith. Smith played about half of his career with the Cardinals accruing 14 interceptions and 14 sacks. In 1984 they drafted Martin Bayless in the fourth round. Bayless ended his career with 776 tackles, 12 interceptions and 11.5 sacks.\nIn more recent history, the Cardinals selected Corey Chavous with the 33rd overall pick in 1998. Chavous made one Pro Bowl and retired with 592 tackles, 20 interceptions and 5.5 sacks. In 2005 the Cardinals used their first-round pick on a Antrel Rolle. Rolle was a fan favorite before signing with the Giants as a free agent. Rolle has been elected to three Pro Bowls and currently has 607 tackles, 23 interceptions and seven forced fumbles.\nAll of those players had very good NFL careers, but when it comes to the top safeties drafted by the Cardinals, two names stand above the rest. In 2001 the Cardinals drafted Adrian Wilson in the third round. The player that was affectionately referred to as A-dub has had a pretty fantastic career. That career includes one 1st team All-Pro selection and 5 Pro Bowl teams as well as 721 tackles, 27 interceptions, 25.5 sacks and 16 forced fumbles. Wilson was the kind of big-hitting safety that has gradually been phased out of the NFL game. He’s laying the lumber on Mikel Leshoure of the Detroit Lions in the picture above from 2012.\nAdrian Wilson was a great player, but the number one spot on this list goes to another Cardinals draft pick by the slimmest of margins. In 1987 the Cardinals used their second-round pick on a player from USC named Tim McDonald. McDonald played on six Pro Bowl squads and finished his career with an impressive 1063 tackles, 40 interceptions, 16 forced fumbles and 9.5 sacks. McDonald has two sons that have followed in his safety footsteps too. His son TJ played safety for USC and was drafted in the third round by the Rams and Tevin played safety for UCLA for two seasons before transferring.\nThe Cardinals head into the 2014 NFL draft hoping they can add yet another name to this distinguished list.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Load mobile navigation\nTraffic & Travel\nCelebs & TV\nUK & World News\nNews By Area\nIn Your Area\nUK Sports News\nPlymouth City Patriots\nLatest What's On\nFood & Drink\nFamily & Kids\nMusic & Nightlife\nPlymouth Visitor Guide\nBuy a Paper\nBook an ad\nBuy a photo\nAdvertise with us\nBuy a photo\nOK! BeautyBox Subscription\nHopsmore Beer Club\nWork for us\nAdvertise with Us\nHow to Complain\nCorrections and Clarifications\nTerms and Conditions\nNotifications and alerts help\nSyndication & Licensing\n© 2022 Local World\n07:30, 19 FEB 2022\nFaces of St Budeaux in 56 photos through the years\nWe dive into the archives to take a look at photos from St Budeaux\nTom Daley stranded in Storm Eunice during Comic Relief challenge\nPlymothian and gold medal winning athlete Tom Daley has said he's spending another day in his home city after his train was cancelled\nStorm Eunice: The parts of Plymouth most at risk of flooding\nAn amber weather warning for Friday has been issued\n13 things that made me smile while walking around St Budeaux\nFrom vibrant street art to friendly faces and local history - there was a lot to smile about during my first proper walk around St Budeaux\nDeveloper of Plymouth's £22m Barne Barton rebuild to go ahead without Midas Group\nLondon-based Clarion Housing Group said it will press ahead with the ambitious redevelopment of the former naval estate, and said it is close to appointing another contractor to carry out the work.\nKFC and McDonald's food hygiene ratings for every Plymouth branch\nThe Food Standards Agency provides ratings for any venue which serves food\nMidas: Barne Barton housing scheme under threat after building giant's future hangs in the balance\nMidas Group Ltd announced its intention to appoint an administrator with up to 1000 jobs at risk\nDrivers facing A38 closures due to footbridge improvements\nThe bridge is being widened for cyclists\nBig Brother application changed the life of Plymouth author\nJason Andrews has been a published author for two years and says he only started writing after he applied to Channel 5's Big Brother\nPlymouth funeral notices: Heartfelt tributes to 43 lost loved ones\nThe messages, placed between January 21 and 27, provide comfort to the loved ones of those either lost or being celebrated.\nPlymouth Covid cases rise in week Plan B restrictions removed\nMore than half of the patients in hospital with Covid are not primarily in hospital because of the virus.\nDamning Ofsted report slams Plymouth school where pupils 'frequently climb on the roof'\nMount Tamar School has brought in a new headteacher after being placed in special measures\nPlymouth Covid hotspots as Plan B measures about to end\nIn Plymouth, infection rates for the seven day period ending January 21 are currently at 1064/100,000 – up 13 per cent week-on-week.\nAll the ways in which Plymouth is going greener to tackle climate change\nPlymouth City Council\nThe proposals are part of the council’s latest ‘Climate Action Plan’, an annual set of actions agreed by the council to reduce Plymouth’s emissions.\nPlymouth Covid rates fall with no area in the 'black zone'\nInfections are down 36 per cent in a week\nThe 114 ways Plymouth will take action to tackle climate change in 2022\nThe Climate Emergency Action Plan 2022 continues to move Plymouth towards the ambition for net zero by 2030 and that the city will be on the right side of history on climate change.\nCovid cases across region fall by a quarter in a week\nNumbers are down everywhere and among the lowest in England\nPlymouth to Tavistock railway link 'moving up the priority list'\nWork on the business case for the rail line reopening has begun\nBusy Plymouth road closed as manhole collapses - live updates\nFletemoor Road is closed, after a manhole collapsed between Wolseley Road and Bridwell Road\nWhat are Covid black zones and which areas in Plymouth have highest infection rates?\nOf the 32 MSOA areas of Plymouth, 12 of them currently are classified as having the highest infection rates, based on the way the maps on the Government dashboard are classified.\nHalf of Plymouth now in the 'black zone' for Covid infection rates\n16 of the 32 areas have rates above 1600/100,000 - but infection rates in the city have dropped for the first time in nearly a month\nBounce Playzone offer work to Plymouth Buyology staff after closing down sale launched\nThe company directors of Bounce Playzone have asked anyone who may be looking for work when the store does eventually close to apply to work at their new site\nPlymouth roadworks: New schemes starting on Tavistock Road and Western Approach this week\nTraffic and Travel\nWorks will be taking place on Plymouth Road, Tavistock Road, Western Approach and Outland Road this week – in addition to several long-running schemes taking place in the city.\nPlymouth sewage pipe collapse causes road closures\nTraffic and Travel\nRepairs are due to last until Monday 10 January", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – The Chicago Fire have given up five goals in their last three games.\nBut according to goalkeeper Sean Johnson, it hasn’t been because they’ve played bad defense. It’s that they’ve made a few costly mistakes in otherwise sound efforts.\n“We’ve been a bit misfortunate,” Johnson told MLSsoccer.com after Saturday’s 2-1 loss to the Seattle Sounders. “We’ve just got to get back to it and limit those mistakes that put us in a bind.”Read More\nEngland will debut their new away jersey against Brazil at the Maracana Stadium on Sunday. Get in the Gear\nManchester City will try and win back the Premier League title with this new soccer jersey from Nike!\nBarcelona will wear this new home soccer jersey next season. They also have a new away jersey. Get them both.\nThe Nike Hypervenom is the latest cleat silo from Nike. It will change your game and is worn by the game's top players.\nThe hoop soccer jersey is classic and cool. The USA hooped jersey is perfect for every fan. Get in the Gear.\nThe USA will wear their blue away jersey against Jamaica in their World Cup qualifier on Friday night.\nNeymar's move from Santos to Barcelona is no doubt the biggest summer transfer.\nGermany is one of the top teams ever and they will play the US on Sunday.\nThe adidas Nitrocharge is the most talked about new cleat in years. It was released on May 15 and will take your pitch by storm.\nJamaica is in need of a win against the U.S. Get the jersey of the Reggae Boyz.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "WRITER: Stephen Brady (Fortitude, Silent Witness, Lucky Man, The Loch)\nDIRECTOR: Jill Robertson (Humans, Harlots, Missing, BAFTA-nominated)\nDemocracy is dead. Red Election is a race-against time thriller that keeps serving up plot twists from left field. Against a backdrop of international tensions, we follow our two female agents, one British, one Danish, who must join forces to avert a Russian terrorist attack on British soil. Whilst the newly elected British Prime Minister announces a referendum to decide the future of Scotland, behind the scenes, a shady foreign power seeks to influence the election, unleash its agents of chaos and upset the world order.\nWith Peyton Manning\nAnd The Duke\nHistory’s Greatest Mysteries", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane on North Korea’s Kim Jong Un’s health reportedly being questioned after recovering from surgery.\nSubscribe to Fox Business!\nWatch more Fox Business Video:\nWatch Fox Business Network Live:\nFOX Business Network (FBN) is a financial news channel delivering real-time information across all platforms that impact both Main Street and Wall Street. Headquartered in New York — the business capital of the world — FBN launched in October 2007 and is one of the leading business networks on television, having topped CNBC in Business Day viewers for the second consecutive year in 2018. The network is available in nearly 80 million homes in all markets across the United States. Owned by FOX Corporation, FBN is a unit of FOX News Media and has bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.\nWatch full episodes of FBN Primetime shows\nLou Dobbs Tonight:\nFollow Fox Business on Facebook:\nFollow Fox Business on Twitter:\nFollow Fox Business on Instagram:\nXem thêm bài viết khác: https://masothuecongty.com/tin-hot\nXem thêm Bài Viết:\n- Liên Quân Mobile _ Hướng Dẫn Nạp Quân Huy Bằng Thẻ Việt Theo Vô Cùng Đơn Giản\n- Sau The Face Phí Phương Anh thành công, chi nửa tỷ mỗi tháng mua đồ\n- Đường đến danh ca vọng cổ | tập 12: Lê Minh Chí – Sông dài\n- Lewandowski back to scoring ways as Bayern Munich defeat Union Berlin | 2020 Bundesliga Highlights\n- Chi Pu | EM SAI RỒI ANH XIN LỖI EM ĐI (#ESRAXLED) – OFFICIAL M/V (치푸)\nLeave a Reply", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Compañia Nacional de Teatro’s Henry IV, Part 1 is performed in Mexican Spanish as part of the Globe’s innovative programme Globe To Globe.\nCreated in 1977, the National Theatre is one of Mexico’s leading cultural institutions. Under Artistic Director Luis de Tavira, the company stages classics, new Mexican plays and contemporary drama from around the world.\nThis new production of Shakespeare’s great dramatisation of madness in the land and mayhem in the pub, is directed by the electrifying young director Hugo Arrevillaga.\nGlobe To Globe sees every one of Shakespeare’s 37 plays performed in a different language by an international company. The result is a once in a life time, six week celebration of the incredible breadth of communities and languages that make up London’s vibrant cultural landscape.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ERWIN, Tenn. (WJHL) – Appalachian Trail officials are discouraging long-distance hikes due to COVID-19, which could impact some local businesses.\nThe Appalachian Trail Conservancy told News Channel 11’s Amy Cockerham that the recommendation is in an effort to prevent hikers from spreading the virus when stopping in communities alongside the trail to resupply and rest.\n“If you’re out for a longer distance hike, the odds are you’re going to have to go into local communities to resupply,” Appalachian Trail Conservancy CEO & President Sandi Marra said. “All of this expands the exposure and goes against the guidance of the CDC.”\nOne of those businesses frequented by hikers is Uncle Johnny’s Nolichucky Hostel Cabins & Camping alongside the Nolichucky River.\n“Last year, we closed for two months when COVID first came out,” Uncle Johnny’s Owner Charlotte Shores said. “At this point, we’re still doing our CDC COVID recommended guidelines.”\nThe Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s recommendation could have an impact soon as most hikers aiming to trek the entire Appalachian Trail begin their journey between January and the end of March.\n“Last year, financially, it was difficult,” Shores said. “I’m not sure if this year we’re going to have a good year or not, but we’re still going to try.”\nFor now, trail officials said the recommendation will stay in place until vaccines are more widely available or the Center for Disease Control and Prevention changes guidelines.\n“Some of these people have quit their jobs, sold their homes, and I can understand how they would want to get on the trail,” Shores said. “I think it’s a great stress release for a lot of people.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Breaking: Rapist, murderer of Akwa Ibom job seeker to die by hanging\nThe State High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has sentenced Uduak Akpan to death for raping and murdering a female job seeker, Iniubong Umoren, in the state last year.\nThe judge, Bassey Nkanang, in his judgement on Thursday, said the convicted man will be put to death by hanging.\nMr Nkanang also found Mr Akpan guilty of rape and sentenced him to life imprisonment.\nThe judge said the prosecution has proved beyond doubt the case of rape and murder against Mr Akpan.\nHe, however, discharged and acquitted the father and sister of Mr Akpan, who were the 2nd and the 3rd defendants in the case.\nAfter the judge read out the judgment, the convicted rapist attempted to escape from the courtroom but was overpowered by security officials.\nMr Nkanang took over two hours to finish reading the judgement.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After the holidays, we all gain a few extra pounds from the turkey and dressing. But then the new year rolls around, and many will hit the gyms as a part of New Year's resolutions to work off the holiday weight.\n“Not only is all the emphasis on how you look, but all the advertising and the pressures and all of the messaging that gets put out there about fixing yourself, the perfectionism around food and bodies... It just gets magnified,” said Dr. Allison Chase, PhD, Regional Clinical Director, Eating Recovery Center.\nWith an increase in advertising for gyms and more individuals posting about their fitness journeys, this can be a trigger for many who struggle with eating disorders.\n“You don’t have to say, \"I can't post that. I am going to hurt somebody.\" But you might be mindful of how you post it and what you say and not making it look like that it came overnight or easy or that everything is better now that I look this way,” said Dr. Sam Fiala, Professor of Psychology at Texas A&M Central Texas.\nEating disorders typically begin as small and unnoticeable, but then grow into a major health problem.\nStudies have shown that eating disorders typically develop in college age or young adults after puberty, but in an age of social media, more cases are beginning to develop even earlier.\n“It’s kinda in that puberty phase that humans bodies are changing, and they begin to become more self aware and self focused. Little kids don’t really care. But we do see, even more today then we did 20 to 30 years ago, body dissatisfaction in pre-pubertal children,” said Dr. Fiala.\n“What we really know about them is they are really a mental health disorder. We have all these physical complications, but they are a mental health disorder and we talk about them in more terms of being mismanaged emotions. So that underlying emotional piece that is going on, and food is being used to handle all the discomfort around it,” said Dr. Chase.\nDr. Chase and Dr. Fiala say while it's great to encourage and compliment others, be careful and try to not to compliment an individual's appearance. Instead, compliment them on accomplishing a goal or a hard workout at the gym.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Both shows will be delayed from early 2021 due to the coronavirus.\nReedPop, the parent company that produces the Emerald City Comic Con and Chicago’s C2E2 convention, has announced that both conventions have been delayed until December 2021.\nECCC will now take place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle Dec. 2-5, 2021, with C2E2 following it at McCormick Place in Chicago on Dec. 10-12, 2021.\nThe 2020 C2E2 was one of the last comic conventions to actually hold a show; it took place at the end of February, right before the coronavirus hit the United States and everyone started going into lockdown. The 2020 ECCC show was not so lucky; it was originally scheduled for March 12-15, and was one of the first events that had to decide whether to postpone or continue on. They did postpone, pushing the show back to August, when they hoped COVID-19 might no longer be a concern. Eventually they cancelled the show completely for 2020.\nContinue reading “ECCC, C2E2 postponed until December 2021”\nAs you probably expected, ReedPop has announced that they are canceling the in-person New York Comic Con and will hold a virtual event instead.\n“We are thoroughly disappointed that we can’t gather together, in-person for the New York Comic Con we love to build and our fans love to revel in. We look forward to this weekend all year long, just like you, and with this being our 15th edition, we were particularly excited. I will miss walking up and down artist alley and seeing friends that I’ve made since we were in the basement at the Javits Center,” said Lance Fensterman, President of ReedPop, in a press release. “While this year will definitely be a different experience, we are going to look to bring the best and most engaging event to our fans, exhibitors and studios through our partnership with YouTube.”\nContinue reading “New York Comic Con goes virtual for 2020”\nA live convention, which was postponed to August, is now off the books for this year due to COVID-19.\nIt seems like such a different time now — compared to all way back in March, when Emerald City Comic Con had to decide whether to move forward with their annual convention or postpone to a later date. They opted to postpone, looking toward the end of August as their new dates, and became the first major comic book convention to be affected by COVID-19.\nThree months later, everything else has been canceled, too, to the point that the surprise is gone when you hear about another event that won’t move forward. But ECCC has officially announced that the convention won’t go on as planned in August. Instead, they’re planning to hold a digital event, with the hopes that a live convention can occur next March.\nContinue reading “Emerald City Comic Con canceled for 2020”\nFor the first time in its 50-year history, the San Diego Comic Con will not happen due to the coronavirus pandemic.\nComic-Con International has announced that the annual San Diego Comic Con has been officially canceled for 2020. The convention will not return until July 22-25, 2021.\n“Recognizing that countless attendees save and plan for its conventions each year, and how many exhibitors and stakeholders rely upon its events for a major portion of their livelihood, they had hoped to delay this decision in anticipation that COVID-19 concerns might lessen by summer,” their page reads. “Continuous monitoring of health advisories and recent statements by the Governor of California have made it clear that it would not be safe to move forward with plans for this year.”\nContinue reading “Comic Con International in San Diego canceled for 2020”\nTicket holders for the March event can transfer their badges to the August show.\nAfter postponing this weekend’s show due to the coronavirus pandemic last week, ReedPop, which hosts the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, has announced their new dates for later this year — Aug. 21-23, which is one day less than the original show.\nIf you had tickets for this weekend’s show, you can transfer your registration to August using this form. You’ll need to do this by March 27, or else you will automatically receive a refund. If you do transfer a four-day badge, you’ll receive a refund for that extra day.\nContinue reading “Emerald City Comic Con rescheduled for Aug. 21-23”\nConvention, originally set for April 10-12, will be ‘postponed until a later date.’\nComic-Con International has announced they are postponing this year’s WonderCon, their annual spring convention in Anaheim, California. This year’s convention was scheduled for April 10-12.\n“To protect public health and slow the rate of transmission of COVID-19, the California Department of Public Health announced a recommendation that gatherings and events of more than 250 people should either be postponed or cancelled. Comic-Con (organizer of WonderCon) will abide by this recommendation,” the organization said on their website. “Therefore WonderCon Anaheim, scheduled for April 10-12, 2020 in Anaheim, California, will be postponed until a later date. We will begin processing refunds in the coming days.”\nContinue reading “CCI postpones WonderCon”\nPortland area retailers will host creators this Saturday and Sunday as an alternative to ECCC.\nUpdate, March 12: PDX Popup Con has been cancelled.\nWith ECCC postponed, we’ve seen several alternatives pop up, from Pajama Con to Oni’s online convention shop. For those in Portland, here’s another way to spend your weekend — PDX Popup Con, which is being put on by PDXComicArts.com and several Portland-area comics retailers.\n“With the last-minute cancellation of Emerald City Comic-Con due to fears of a COVID-19 outbreak, many artists, publishers and exhibitors have been left without an opportunity to share their work and chat with their audience next weekend,” their site reads. “Many self-published artists rely on conventions like ECCC as a financial foundation for their year, and income lost from these shows can be devastating. Not to mention the upfront costs of booking travel and hotels, which at this point probably cannot be canceled or refunded.”\nContinue reading “PDX Popup Con 2020 to take place this weekend [Update: It is cancelled]”\nPublisher will host livestreams and other activities following the cancellation of the Emerald City Comic Con.\nIron Circus Comics, one of the scheduled exhibitors at this year’s now-postponed Emerald City Comic Con, has announced plans to host a virtual, livestreamed convention this coming weekend called Pajama Con 2020.\nPajama Con will take place from noon to 6p.m. Central March 13-15 on the Pajama Con Twitch channel. Guests so far include Steve Leiber, Chris Roberson, Lin Visel, Genue Revuelta, C. Spike Trotman and Kate Leth, with more to be announced.\nSeattle’s biggest comic book convention won’t happen in March as planned.\nFollowing the many exhibitors and creators who opted not to attend this year due to coronavirus concerns, the Emerald City Comic Con has announced they will postpone the convention until this summer. An exact date has not been announced yet.\n“Our hearts go out to the entire Seattle community, everyone impacted by the COVID-19 virus, and all of you, the nearly 100,000 amazing human beings who look forward to this event each year,” ECCC said in a statement on their website. “Our team was incredibly excited to see you at Emerald City Comic Con next week, however, fans, artists, exhibitors and the rest of the community are what make Reedpop events so special and it is our duty to make sure that your safety comes first.”\nContinue reading “ECCC postponed until summer 2020”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Justine Love gives her dish on the latest sci-fi drama to hit the big screen this year “The Hunger Games.” Based on a novel written by , has now hit the big screen under the direction of Gary Ross. The Hunger Games takes place in Panem which was once North America. Now divided into 12 districts [photogallerylink id=112526]run by an evil government, one teenage boy and girl are chosen to fight one another until one remains. The bloody game is televised by the government as punishment for a previous uprising and a way to control the 12 districts. Get the full scoop with Justine Love plus watch the official trailer!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I’m sorry everyone, that’s the best joke title I could come up with.\nOn this week’s episode of Film Fallout, Dylan Schwan and Christopher Cross take to the skies then dive into the ocean with Sully, the newest film from Clint Eastwood. What makes this true story worth adapting into a film? Well, give the podcast a listen to find out if we even have an answer for that. Worse comes to worst, you can always listen to us discuss how much we’re baffled by the film.\nWe’ve also got blu-ray releases this week, and a bunch of news, including some festival coverage. On top of that, Dylan talks about a new Cinemax show called Quarry, starring Logan Marshall-Green. Then we both discuss Before I Wake, the second film from Mike Flanagan this year, which somehow keeps dodging a proper release. Find out if it’s worth all the shuffling around.\nIt’s TIFF week, so I’m scurrying around everywhere, but next week we will have a review of Blair Witch. We will also have several reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival when we do a one-off episode regarding what I’ve seen there.\nListen to the podcast below:\nFilm Fallout is a weekly podcast about film and television. Every week, Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan discuss news happening in the industry, blu-ray releases coming out this week, what they’ve been watching, and then a review of one movie. You can listen to it on SoundCloud, iTunes, or on BagoGames. Also follow us on Instagram for some behind-the-scenes magic.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SMOKIN’ IN THE BOYS ROOM: Darren Watson Interview\nFormed in Wellington in mid-1986, Smokeshop have earned their reputation as New Zealand’s number one blues band. They have toured the country regularly and extensively with a show that has all the class and panache of a BB King revue.\nThere’s a high powered horn section, some of the hottest rhythm players in the country and, fronting the whole thing, Darren Watson who, at 23, sings and plays the blues with a skill and conviction that is more than impressive. It’s scary.\nIn late ’88 they took three days out to record their first album, a strong set of new and old blues songs, mainly favourites from the band’s live repertoire. It was a fine debut, although it received criticism for its lack of original songs and the predominance of 12 bar shuffles. Their new album should appease those critics. Recorded in Marmalade over ten days in January So Glad shows that an enormous amount of growth and maturing has taken place.\nAs it to emphasise the changes, they have dropped the Chicago from the front of their name.\nChicago is, of course, known as the Home of the Blues, giving birth to the Chess sound in the 50s and housing the Alligator label today. Darren Watson believes it no longer gives an accurate indication of the band’s style.\n“It was relevant when we started and we needed something to say we played blues,” he explains, “but people basically made the name change by themselves. We got called Smokeshop by most people.\nAlso, people in Australia and the States liked the band but couldn’t handle the name, they couldn’t picture it.”\nNine of the new album’s ten tracks are originals and while they are filled with the feeling of the blues, they stretch well beyond the 12-bar format to show the influence of Stax soul, New Orleans funk, gospel and singer-songwriters like John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett.\nAsked if he’s pleased with it, Darren Watson gives an affirmative “yep”, followed by a self-effacing laugh. He needn’t be bashful; the album’s of an international standard with excellent playing and arrangements centred around Darren’s fine songs, singing and firey guitar style.\n“I think it sounds more like I want Smokeshop to sound like than what we have sounded like,” he says, “the last album was already out of date before it came out. This one’s a lot more contemporary. A lot of the songs we’re only learning to play live now. It’s a much more serious record and I hope it gets taken that way.”\n‘So Glad’ clearly has a more personal significance to Darren as well. “The album’s definitely got a theme to it. It’s all about one particular relationship. You could actually list the songs out in the way things happened, but we didn’t. We didn’t want an opera!”\nThe songs were written on and off the road over the past eighteen months. Some have ended up close to Darren’s original conception, while others have been drastically rearranged by the rest of the band.\n”I remember when I wrote ‘Truth In My Life’ at the bottom of the page (I actually wrote it at 3 o’clock in the morning!). I wrote “piano, guitar, bass, gospel choir”. That’s what I originally intended and that’s what it came out like, only we couldn’t afford a gospel choir.”\nBut “I Can’t Live”, the album’s bright, punchy, Stax-like single, began life as a country song.\n“Richard Te One basically came up with a feel that works. Things gradually evolve as you play with him. He’s a great drummer. ‘Patient Little Boy’ was going to be a straight blues. First Richard decided to shuffle it, because Richard wants to turn everything into a shuffle. Then Alan Norman (guest piano man on the album) said “I’ll play you my famous lick, see if it will sit.”\nDarren is prepared for the criticism that, even in their original songwriting, Smokeshop are strongly derivative of American music. He believes that his use of an R&B format makes his work no less valid than that of other Kiwi songwriters.\n“Sure, it’s American music in lots of ways, but it’s also Kiwi music because we wrote it and it’s about things that happened to me. I listen to the so-called Dunedin sound and I think these guys are doing something that’s unique in some ways but a lot of it’s taken from the Velvet Underground, a lot of 60s English music, early Pink Floyd. Everyone’s got their influences. It just seems that if you’re playing R&B in this country you’re more likely to have someone breathing down your neck saying “You’ve got to be an American, a Kiwi can’t do it” or something.”\nWhy the prejudice?\n“I think a lot of that is due to the fact that people perceive R&B as something that’s easy to play. You know 12 bars, three chords, how hard can it be? People say it to me all the time. We know it’s not that easy.”\nIn August Smokeshop are touring a new live show in which they showcase most of the material on So Glad. While they still guarantee a big dose of the blues, there is much more to the current set than straight 12-bars. How are the ‘Madison Blues’ hoons coping with the newer, subtler material?\n“We might be losing a few of the diehards, but by the same token we’re gaining a new audience. Now people who would go out and see a normal contemporary rock band will think about coming to see us. People are listening to us a lot more now that we’re doing something of our own.”\nSMOKIN’ IN THE BOYS ROOM from ‘Rip It Up’ No. 156, July 1990.\nPagan Advertisement from ‘Rip It Up’,No. 155 June 1990.\nUsed with permission.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Gophers women’s basketball team has only one game left before the Big Ten tournament. But the question is, how much does the team have left for the stretch run?\nUntil senior Sari Noga gave the team a jolt of energy in Thursday’s come-from-behind victory over Indiana, the Gophers looked like a tired group.\nEven coach Pam Borton admitted as much.\n“I saw a little fatigue from our players,” she said. “But we willed our way and found a way to win.”\nBy doing so the Gophers (18-11, 7-8 Big Ten) kept their hopes for an NCAA tournament berth alive. Entering Thursday’s game the Gophers were 37th in the RPI rankings and were included in the tournament field by ESPN analyst Charlie Creme. After the victory, Borton indicated the team’s RPI was strong and that, should the team win at home in Sunday’s regular-season finale against Ohio State, the team’s résumé should be strong enough no matter what happens in the conference tournament.\nNow it’s just a matter of replenishing the team’s energy supply.\nBorton started the season with only 10 players on the roster, a number that dwindled to seven late in the season because of injuries.\nThat has meant a lot of minutes for the starters, particularly guard Rachel Banham and center Amanda Zahui B.\nWhile the Gophers have won five of their past seven games, Banham has averaged more than 39 minutes per game. And it has taken a toll on Banham, who has shot 53-for-46 (36.3 percent) in that time.\n“I’m used to playing a lot of minutes,” she said Thursday. “But I’m definitely getting tired at certain points. … I’m doing everything I can. I’m staying hydrated. I’m drinking Pedialyte every day. There are times when my energy is low, but I have to fight through it.”\nSo does the team. Which is why Borton joked Thursday about having the coaches follow the players home and make sure they got their sleep.\nThe Gophers will face an Ohio State team Sunday that is fading, losing six of its past seven games. It’s a game Minnesota is favored to win. A victory would give them a .500 conference mark and 19 wins overall. And the team would have three days to rest and practice before the conference tournament begins in Indianapolis.\nEnergy should not be an issue Sunday. There is still a lot at stake. Seniors Noga and Micaëlla Riché will be honored.\n“They’ll be ready to go,” Borton said of her players. “It’s Senior Night. How can they not put it all on the floor for Micaëlla and Sari?’’", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In his Front Page article “The Muslim Student Association and the Boston Terrorist Connection,” Daniel Greenfield chronicles the radical role of Muslim Student Associations on America’s tax-funded public university campuses. He also tells us the University of Arizona, in Tucson, helped educate the co-founder of Al Qaeda, definitely not good billboard advertising fodder for UA. And student clubs like the MSAs are funded by your tax dollars.\nAl-Awlaki wasn’t even the highest ranking Al Qaeda leader to have been an MSA president. That honor went to Wa’el Hamza Julaidan, a co-founder of Al Qaeda and MSA president at the University of Arizona. The highest profile MSA president to have gone down was MSA national President Abdurahman Alamoudi, currently serving out a 23-year prison sentence.\nBoth the national and the local Muslim Students Association groups had long histories of being involved in terrorism, of raising money for terrorists and of promoting terrorism. Nor was the Dartmouth MSA a moderate oasis in a sea of radicalism. Not only were the Dartmouth MSA officers taking sides in the religious war consuming Syria, but Charles C. Johnson found that the Dartmouth MSA “routinely advertises speeches and seminars taught by radical imams.”\nThe MSA’s track record in turning out terrorists is indisputable. As are its links to imams and sheiks who preach Jihad. Maybe Dzhokhar Tsarnaev never did more than take part in MSA soccer games alongside MSA officers and did not absorb any of their views. Perhaps he never attended an MSA-sponsored lecture by an imam or sheik who discussed the finer points of which infidels you can kill. But considering the MSA’s murderous track record, it is far more likely that he did.\nThe Dartmouth MSA was eager to associate with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev when he was only a terrorist in training, but is now just as eager to write him off as a soccer buddy. But Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the MSA shared more than an interest in soccer. They also shared an interest in Jihad.\nFrom the congressional hearing underway on the Obama Administration cover-up of the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the Benghazi, Libya compound …\nArizona Congressman Paul Gosar (Republican) asks Gregory Hicks, the No. 2 man at the Benghazi compound in Libya, to respond to Hillary Clinton’s angry outburst “what does it matter?” Clinton, former secretary of state, made those angry remarks in stonewalling a previous congressional hearing into the Obama Administration’s refusal to acknowledge the terrorist attack and its insistence that the attack resulted from an anti-Muslim video.\nHicks said it does matter, contradicting Clinton’s outrageous claim. Another congressman who spoke to the families of the murdered Americans said it matters strongly to them.\nThree whistleblowers are testifying on what happened during the terrorist attack, despite Obama Administration lawyers telling them not to cooperate with Congress. They have been subjected to attacks on their job performance, by the Obama Administration, since they came out as whistleblowers. Hicks was demoted in defiance of federal laws protecting whistleblowers.\nHicks also said special forces personnel were “furious” over being told to stand down during the attack.\nRepublican congressmen are attempting to find out from the whistleblowers what happened. Democrats are trying to detour the inquiry by complaining about funding issues. These assertions have been sufficiently refuted.\nBreitbart.com reports 5 top take-aways:\n1. . Two “stand-down” orders were given while the Benghazi attacks were in progress.\n2. The “protest” about a YouTube video was a complete fabrication by the Obama administration.\n3. Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s lawyer at the State Department, told witnesses not to speak to House investigators.\n4. The diplomatic personnel on the ground acted with incredible, unheralded heroism.\n5. Democrats came to rebut the eyewitnesses with talking points.\nJohn Semmens: Semi-News — A Satirical Look at Recent News\nDetails on how Dr. Kermit Gosnell dispatched babies who survived late term abortions by “snipping their spinal cords” are as grisly as any contemporary “slasher film.” Unfortunately, the practice of disposing of such survivors by abortionists is not unusual.\nDr. Cesare Santangelo of Washington, D.C. was caught in an undercover video reassuring a prospective abortion procurer that “even if the fetus comes out alive we would not help it.” At Dr. Emily Women’s Health Center in New York City abortion survivors are drowned in “jars of solutions.”\nNational Abortion Federation President Vicki Saporta says “Gosnell’s main problem is his own incompetence. If the job is done right the fetus is killed before it gets outside the mother’s body. When there are no survivors there are no ‘gray areas’ where the appropriate actions are ambiguous.”\nPlanned Parenthood spokeswoman Adora Slaughter expressed consternation that “this whole Gosnell thing and now these undercover videos may muddle our thinking on this critical issue. Let’s not forget that the whole point of an abortion is to prevent a woman from giving birth to a child she does not want. That objective isn’t changed if the procedure doesn’t go as planned. Those who believe that just because a baby somehow escapes being terminated he should then be helped would inflict the burdens of rearing this child on an unwilling victim.”\nSlaughter rejected contentions that abortionists are serial killers insisting instead that “they are trained professionals providing a highly desired service that is completely legal. The analogy that they are ‘hired hitmen’ is entirely inappropriate. Hitmen commit illegal killings for pay. That’s the crucial difference.”\nObamacare “Train Wreck” GOP’s Fault, Reid Says\nIndications that President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), his signature legislative accomplishment, is turning into a fiasco of major proportions has Democrats uneasy.\nA man instrumental in its enactment, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont), labeled it a “train wreck. The implementation is a total shambles. It’s as if Secretary Sebelius has no idea of what she’s doing. She’s been quick to ensure that everyone is entitled to abortion coverage, but how the average person is supposed to cope with unforeseen medical contingencies is up in the air. On top of this, employers across the nation are cutting employees hours in order to evade their responsibility to pay for health insurance.”\nSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) laid the blame squarely on the GOP. “We did our part to create this new entitlement, it’s the Republicans’ turn to step up and vote for the funding needed to finance it,” Reid said.\nThat funding is needed contradicts the original script of the Democrats’ case for the legislation. It was supposed to be self-financing. It was supposed to save money. Neither of which now seems to be true. In fact, projections now show that the cost of health insurance is set to increase by 25% to 50% under the law.\nWhile the rising costs of Obamacare is now the consensus view, the contention that it will improve health care also received some disconcerting contrary news. A study of the federal Medicaid program in Oregon revealed that while spending rose by 35% for eligible recipients, health outcomes did not improve. In the 18-month period studied, participants fared no better than non-participants.\nBased on this study’s results, Avik Roy, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute called it “unethical to take money from taxpayers to fund a program that doesn’t improve health outcomes.”\nHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius disagreed. “Health outcomes aren’t the only metric with which we are concerned,” Sebelius asserted. “Taking money from those who have more than they need and spending it on those who have less is, in itself, a worthy goal. Just because a person is poor is no good reason for him to be denied the opportunity to have money spent on his behalf regardless of whether it does any good.”\nAG Declares Kansas Gun Law “Null and Void”\nIn a bid to protect the state’s right to determine the laws that apply within its borders, the Kansas legislature enacted a law barring any federal intervention against Second Amendment rights in their state. Under the Kansas law, guns manufactured and sold within the state to residents who keep the guns within the state are immune to federal interference.\nNot so says US Attorney General Eric Holder. “This state’s naked attempt to assert so-called Tenth Amendment prerogatives has no standing,” Holder insisted. “The notion that powers not expressly delegated to the federal government by the Constitution are somehow reserved to the states has been defunct since the Roosevelt Administration.”\n“Despite what Governor Brownback and his legislature may think, federal laws and regulations override any and all state actions,” Holder continued. “Just because the manufacture, sale, and ownership of a gun may occur totally within the boundaries of a state is a meaningless distinction.”\nHarvard Constitutional scholar, Professor Chester Cringely, came down strongly on Holder’s side on the issue. “While the plain language of the Constitution seems to say that powers not explicitly granted to the federal government are reserved to the states this is not how the Court has read the document,” Cringely observed. “If federal regulations can penalize a farmer for growing and consuming his crop on his own land, as the Court decided they could in Wickard v. Filburn, they certainly can penalize those involved in firearms transactions and use even if all parties and all actions take place solely within one state. As the law stands now, states can only do what the federal government allows them to do. Governors who defy the Feds do so at their own risk.”\nGlobal Warming Will Force More Women into Prostitution\nRepresentative Barbara Lee (D-Calif) warns that global warming will lead to an increase in sex-for-pay. As Lees sees it, higher temperatures will force women to wear skimpier clothing in an effort to endure the heat. More scantily clad women will induce more men to approach them with indecent propositions. The persistence of horny men and the lure of easy cash will be irresistible.\nLee admitted that she wasn’t sure what could be done to avert this calamity, but thought that “we ought to be looking at possible options. Do we enforce a stricter dress code like some religions do? Do we make it illegal for men to approach women who are strangers to them? Do we invest in giant cooling fans for areas with heavy pedestrian traffic? I don’t know. What I do know is that we can’t sit by and do nothing.”\nFormer President Bill Clinton urged that “we not go off half-cocked. The implications of warmer temperatures aren’t all bad. There are real material savings to be had if we could all dress more lightly. I don’t know if there is anything we can really do to significantly affect global climate. Maybe we should just try to acclimate ourselves to a warmer Earth. Perhaps we could decriminalize prostitution. Is there any good reason why paying for sexual services should be illegal anyway? It’s a voluntary transaction, a so-called crime, but one without a real victim.”\nCongressional Inquiry into Benghazi Called a “Waste of Time”\nPress Secretary Jay Carney called Congressional intentions to probe into the attack on the Benghazi Consulate a “waste of time. Whatever happened was so long ago that I doubt if anyone can clearly remember it.”\nHouse Oversight and Foreign Affairs Committee leaders complaints that the administration is impeding their investigation were rebuffed by Secretary of State John Kerry. “I am not familiar with this notion that anybody’s been blocked from testifying,” Kerry offered. He did, however acknowledge that certain employees “may have been advised of the risks. Even if you tell the truth your reputation can still be trashed. Look what happened to Linda Tripp. Then there’s always the possibility that you could be financially ruined by legal expenses stemming from what you say. Even a successful defense can drain your bank account.”\nAttorney Victoria Toensing represents a whistle-blower who’s testimony she says has been blocked by the Obama Administration. “Their contention is that knowledge of what occurred during the attack is a ‘state secret’ that I’m not cleared to hear,” Toensing complained.\n“All governments have secrets that must be protected from prying eyes,” Kerry explained. “The American people have elected a President and he has installed officials who are entrusted with determining what information will be revealed and what will be withheld from public knowledge. Everyone needs to simmer down and let us do this job.”\n“If people are determined to point the finger at anyone it should probably be at Woods and Smith,” Kerry suggested. “I wasn’t here at the time, but as I have been briefed, Administration officials were working behind the scenes trying to arrange a peaceful prisoner exchange when these two guys started shooting. If they hadn’t butted in we could’ve swapped Omar Abdel Rahman for Ambassador Stephens and no one would’ve died.”\nCalifornia Dems Move Bill to Allow Non-citizens to Serve on Juries\nThe California Assembly voted out a bill that would allow resident aliens to serve on juries. “Why not?” asked sponsor Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont). “We already allow them the privilege of voting. Why shouldn’t they have to bear the drudgery of jury duty?”\nCritics who think the move is unConstitutional were disabused by US Attorney General Eric Holder who pointed out that “the manner of elections is a state prerogative unless the federal government chooses to intervene. I see no reason for intervention in this instance. Aliens are subject to the same laws as citizens. Playing a role in the adjudication of cases under these laws strikes me as supremely equitable.”\nA Satirical Look at Recent News\nPlease do us a favor. If you use material created by The Arizona Conservative, give us credit, and do not change the context. Thank you.\n“Today, we face incredibly well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by forcing their weaponized and twisted version of Christianity upon their helpless subordinates in our nation’s armed forces.”\n“We MUST vigorously support the continuing efforts to expose pathologically anti-gay, Islamaphobic, and rabidly intolerant agitators for what they are: die-hard enemies of the United States Constitution. Monsters, one and all. To do anything less would be to roll out a red carpet to those who would usher in a blood-drenched, draconian era of persecutions, nationalistic militarism, and superstitious theocracy.”\n– Mikey Weinstein, hateful, anti-Christian extremist, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, supporter of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which inspired Floyd Corkins to try to murder the staff at Family Research Council in Washington, D.C.\nLet these words sink in.\nThese are some of the angriest, most vulgar and vile, and certainly some of the most hateful remarks ever directed at American Christians. American Christians serving in the military, risking their lives for liberty, by the way.\nThese are among the most hateful, disgusting, incendiary remarks we’ve ever seen. And Barack Obama’s military leaders agree with them. Breitbart.com reported this week that Weinstein will be a consultant to the Pentagon to develop new policies on religious tolerance, including a policy for court-martialing military chaplains who share the Christian Gospel during spiritual counseling of American troops.\nThat created such an uproar that the government backtracked and toned down its anti-Christian threat.\nBut do not let down your guard. The times are ominous and the hour is late. The persecution of the Church is in a full sprint. And President Obama — the most radical and antagonistic president ever, against religious freedom — is encouraging it.\nThis latest outrage is not surfacing in a vacuum. Recently it was learned that a U.S. Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief identified “Evangelical Christianity” and “Catholicism” as examples of “religious extremism” like al-Qaida, Hamas, and the Klu Klux Klan.\nCol. (Ret.) Ron Crews, executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, said: “Men and women of faith who have served the Army faithfully for centuries shouldn’t be likened to those who have regularly threatened the peace and security of the United States. It is dishonorable for any U.S. military entity to allow this type of wrongheaded characterization. It also appears that some military entities are using definitions of ‘hate’ and ‘extreme’ from the lists of anti-Christian political organizations. That violates the apolitical stance appropriate for the military.”\nThese troubling developments are reminders that the so-called “progressive movement” represents anything but progress. Progressivism — as Democrats define it — is taking America backward, coursening the culture, spreading hate and fascism. They have no intention of competing fairly in the marketplace of ideas, preferring instead to lie, demonize, and destroy their opponents as “enemies.” It’s part of the politics of destruction, a hideous practice all too characteristic of the Clinton and Obama administrationws.\nPHOENIX – State Representative Steve Montenegro (LD13), today asked State Senator Michele Reagan (Scottsdale RINO) to denounce and retract attacks made by her campaign consultants that introduced ethnicity into a debate over the voting rights of all Arizonans.\n“I was one of several lawmakers who voiced objections to several pieces of legislation that would take power from the citizens of Arizona and give it to the judiciary or the secretary of state. In our objections we made no mention of Senator Reagan and our objections were in no way related to the race or ethnicity of any group of voters. To the contrary, the bills trample the rights of every voter and each and every voter is equally deserving of protection.”\n“I was saddened that I alone, of all of the signers of the letter, was singled out for attacks by Senator Reagan’s campaign. Far worse was that I was accused of “Pandering to Hispanics”. Senator Reagan’s campaign team is clearly eager to begin a contest that does not even exist yet, but introducing race or ethnicity where it doesn¹t belong is the ugliest form of political mudslinging. I am not sking for an apology. After defending our conservative values for the last five years I have developed some pretty thick skin. But these types of attacks demean the process, insult the voters, and illustrate why our Republican Party still has a long way to go if we are to appeal to every Arizonan.”\nMontenegro asked Reagan to have her campaign retract their attacks and to promise that any potential campaign would be waged on the issues and the records and positions held by the candidates in the race, rather than on racial or ethnic stereotypes or attacks.\nThere were several tweets from Kyle Moyer & Company that targeted Montenegro including one from Chris Tolino, a consultant with that firm that contained the inappropriate attack.\nThe State of Massachusetts allows a resident a vanity license plate bearing the word “terrorista” … and then the state acts horrified when that person was actually involved with real-life terrorists!\n“We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst,” wrote the late C.S. Lewis. So true and so tragic in Massachusetts.\nA partial list of false leftist gospel:\nOrigin of the Species – Charles Darwin\nThe Cosmos – Carl Sagan\nAn Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore\nThe Descent of Man – Charles Darwin\nThe Audacity of Hope – Listed as by Barack Obama, but presumably by Frank Marshall Davis\nRules for Radicals – Saul Alinsky\nThe God Delusion – Richard Dawkins\nThe Godless Constitution – Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore\nUnite and Conquer – Kyrsten Sinema\nLies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right– Al Franken\nChange We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise – Barack Obama\nThe Assault on Reason – Al Gore\nFrom Lucy to Language – Donald Johanson\nQueen James Bible – Anonymous\nLetter to a Christian Nation – Sam Harris\nBy U.S. Reps. David Schweikert, Matt Salmon and Paul Gosar\nAmerica is a nation of immigrants.\nIn our relatively short history, millions have left their homelands and traveled great distances to be a part of a grand experiment called America. Today, we are a melting pot of traditions, cultures and ethnicities – all united by a shared belief in the freedom and opportunity that we call the American Dream.\nBut we are also a nation of laws and fairness. Ours is a land where people can come, work hard and be successful regardless of where they come from, so long as they play by the rules and earn their way honestly. It is our belief in the rule of law and our belief in opportunity that makes the American Dream possible.\nBoth of these traditions are intertwined into our history and both must be preserved as we embark on the debate over immigration reform.\nThere is no question that our immigration system is not working, and debates on how to reform it spurs deep emotions for those on all sides of the issue.\nBut reform should not be driven by emotion alone. To successfully implement immigration reform, we must not lose sight of the ultimate goal: immigration reform must strengthen America as the flagship of freedom in the world.\nReforming our immigration system must start by streamlining and expanding legal immigration for skilled workers. American businesses are plagued by a shortage of skilled and educated workers particularly in the fields of science, math, engineering and technology.\nCurrently, only 13 percent of green cards are awarded based on economic considerations. This needs to change. We should be encouraging skilled workers to come to America to help grow American businesses and boost our economy.\nAdditionally, we need to reform and streamline our temporary work-visa program. To the extent that American businesses find themselves in need of low-skilled labor, we can and should expand this program. Not only will this help our economy, but it will also discourage illegal immigration by offering immigrants legal employment opportunities.\nHowever, any temporary work-visa program must include enforcement mechanisms to ensure temporary workers do not overstay their visas, add to the ballooning cost of entitlements and increase the population of illegal immigrants already in the country.\nWhich brings us to the most contentious part of the immigration debate: what to do with the 11 million immigrants who have come here illegally? To answer this question, we must return to the two principles that have guided our nation from its inception to this day.\nThe desire to make a better life for oneself and one’s family is certainly admirable, but we should not reward those who have broken our laws at the expense of the millions of immigrants who have played by the rules and are patiently waiting their turn in line. Simply put, those in our country illegally should not have a unique path to citizenship not available to those who have chosen to abide by our laws and attempt to emigrate legally.\nAt the same time, there is no benefit to keeping 11 million illegal immigrants trapped in the shadows. In fact, it is in our country’s interest to know who they are and where they live.\nReforming our immigration system to address the status of the 11 million people in our country illegally should focus on normalizing their legal status without access to federal benefits or a special pathway to citizenship.\nFinally, real and objectively verifiable border security must be a part of any legislation. If we cannot stem the tide of illegal immigration, we are destined to repeat the cycle of amnesty again and again.\nIn 1986, Congress passed comprehensive immigration reform, granting amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants, while promising that it would solve our country’s illegal immigration problem. Today, we have 11 million illegal immigrants, and we are on the verge of repeating the same mistakes.\nWe have an opportunity to learn from those mistakes and reform our immigration system in a way that preserves America’s tradition of fairness, freedom and equality. We hope Congress will not squander that opportunity.\nIn the spirit of the Statue of Liberty that declares, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” we welcome those who want to lawfully be a part of the American Dream.\nBut it is up to us to protect that dream, to respect the rule of law and to make sure future immigrants and future Americans have a place to call home. It is up to us to preserve the American tradition of fairness and laws that keep us the most prosperous, strongest nation on this Earth.\nTwo marginal professional athletes – both without a team to call home — dominated the nation’s news cycle today – and for radically different reasons. Both were first-round draft picks in their respective leagues.\nA young pro struggling to get his career going was released today. He’d been given one chance to shine in his brief pro career, and he enjoyed spectacular success. But after being traded to another team, he mostly rode the bench last fall, before his release today.\nHe spent much of his early life sacrificially working with his family to help better the lives of poverty-stricken people in Africa. In a time devoid of heroes, he’s a role model for young men. And he’s destined to become a great husband, father, and mentor. He’s already in demand as a religious and motivational speaker in the Christian community. Yet he’s been scorned and attacked by fascists and the Left-stream media for his faith. The sheep in the Left-stream media’s echo chamber repeatedly say he’s the most polarizing athlete in America.\nHe lives a clean and healthy lifestyle, but people complain he’s “too Christian.” Recently he’s been working out at a feverish pace in MaricopaCounty to fine-tune his game. He is hoping to sign on with another team and prove he belongs in the National Football League. His coaches marvel at his integrity, his work ethic and how much he has improved his skills and fundamentals in the past three months.\nNo one of note praised him today.\nThis aging journeyman center has bounced around the NBA for a dozen years. He has had low visibility from his seat on the bench of six pro teams, and he has not been recognized for anything of note in his communities. Averaging just 3.6 points per game in his career, he has not registered on anyone’s radar. Until today — for something that has nothing to do with his profession.\nHe has a personality disorder of a type that is often caused by neglect or, at worst, traumatic experiences including abuse. But current and former presidents and the commissioners of the National Basketball Association and the National Football League are tripping over each other to congratulate him. Along with former coaches. They’re hoping many more of their athletes will go through whatever it is he’s been through – and often times it isn’t something you’d wish on anyone – so they can gush how wonderful it is.\n“We are proud he has assumed the leadership mantle on this very important issue,” said NBA Commissioner David Stern. A former president, the scandal-ridden Bill Clinton, said the “announcement today is an important moment for professional sports.” One of this journeyman center’s former coaches, who just traded him away, said he is “extremely happy and proud” of this player, whose career is nearing its end. “I am extremely happy and proud” of him, said Roger Goodell, NFL commissioner. ESPN is ready to declare him athlete of the century. The Democrats are probably booking him as keynote speaker for their 2016 national convention. Stanford University would gladly name this alum president. And with his newfound fame, he could easily win an election in practically any left-wing state. Neil Armstrong didn’t get this many accolades for walking on the moon.\nYou probably know Athlete A is Tim Tebow, released today by the New York Jets of the NFL, and Athlete B is Jason Collins, released by the Washington Wizards at the end of the season, and who announced he is homosexual. Collins could not be more highly exalted if he’d just won the Super Bowl and permanently established world peace. He wrote a lengthy story in Sports Illustrated to announce he prefers having sex with men, which biologically speaking, can’t be very much fun.\nBut the left-wingers are exhilarated. Some to push the radical homosexual agenda. Others just going with the flow to say the right things and sound enlightened, rather than to stand apart and look at what’s really going on.\nUntil years ago, the American Psychiatric Association’s official position on homosexual behavior was that it’s a personality disorder. But homosexual fascists caused such a ruckus that they intimidated the APA into discontinuing that. Their decision had nothing to do with science and everything to do with activist threats, pressure and political correctness.\nThe truth is that homosexuality is most often caused by negative events in a person’s life, including sexual abuse and parental disconnection. Collins said his family life is good, intact. But maybe some day after this clamor dies down, a TV or print reporter will interview him and the truth will come out. This man deserves sympathy for what he’s experienced. But the accolades may only serve to the detriment of younger boys who might think the abuse they’ve suffered is normal and acceptable. Many are being deluded, and what is being celebrated today is not compassion.\nThree-fourths of homosexual men studied by the CDC did not even know they have HIV. Male homosexuals live 20-30 years less than heterosexual men, because of AIDs, cancer, drug and alcohol abuse, and more. These men suffer high rates of anal cancer. In one study, 41 percent of homosexual males reported having been forcibly raped as children. Do you still consider yourself compassionate, Coach Doc Rivers, Bill Clinton, Roger Goodell, David Stern, Barack Obama, and all you who glorify damaging and destructive life events? Your praises for Collins may have a devastating impact on countless young people listening to you and who look up to pro athletes. You would have multitudes risk severe health hazards in exchange for political correctness. We have an epidemic in this country and around the world … and you on the Left are celebrating its cause.\nThe political correctness will have a devastating fall-out, as Rush Limbaugh and a caller noted today:\nCALLER: My question, let’s say player A comes out and says he’s gay, and he’s a quarterback, running back, something like that. Player B on the opposing team sacks him a few times over a season or in a game, is that gonna be considered a hate tackle? And will Obama come out and say, “My son’s not gonna play because there’s too much hate in football”?\nRUSH: I have to tell you something. I haven’t even pondered this. You have a gay quarterback or a gay running back, and there’s a vicious penalty that requires the referees to throw a flag, will the people on TV in the sports media say, “I wonder if they hit the guy hard because he’s gay, I wonder if there’s payback? I wonder if that was a hate hit?” Given, Dan, that we’re talking about liberals in the media, that wouldn’t surprise me. I hadn’t even considered that. I can totally see that happening. I can see the allegation that a particularly egregious hit could be alleged to be a hate hit. And then, ladies and gentlemen, might we start hearing whispers, whispers, whispers of perhaps a bounty on gay players on certain teams? That kind of thing could be reported even if it wasn’t happening. If some reporter thinks it might happen, all he’s gotta do is raise the possibility. Are there bounties in the NFL against the gay players? I hadn’t even thought of that.\nThe Left certainly has its priorities out of whack. No wonder our country is so confused and in such moral chaos. What’s up is down; what’s down is up. God forgive us.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On International Women's Day 2017, AIATSIS honours Dr June Oscar AO\nThe UN Women National Committee’s theme for International Women Day’s 2017, Empower a woman, empower a nation, is about transforming the lives of women and girls through empowerment.\nCalling the Shots - Aboriginal Photographies\nPhotographs can be used to explore Aboriginal history and to reclaim culture.\nIndigenous Australians: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people\nAustralia’s Indigenous peoples are two distinct cultural groups, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.\nRare photo of Indigenous involvement in the Boer War\nLearn the story behind this photograph and why it’s so significant.\nRare early image of Corroboree\nLearn about the first image of a major public corroboree to appear in a book.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ABC scores sweeps victory\nAuds are making a practice out of watching ABC on Sunday, and it’s not just for its gameshow.\nWith Emmy-winning “The Practice” courting its largest audience in nearly three months, ABC has again scored a convincing victory on a key night in the May sweeps. And the David E. Kelley drama played a big part in keeping many viewers away from the final hour of high-profile pics on NBC and CBS.\nOn Sunday, “The Practice” (prelim 21.5 million viewers, 8.2/21 in adults 18-49) topped the second hour of NBC mini “Jason and the Argonauts” by nearly 8 million viewers and the second half of CBS’ “Cupid & Cate” by about 7 million, according to prelim national results from Nielsen. It’s “Practice’s” largest aud since Feb. 20.\nCombined with lead-in “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” “The Practice” is also keeping NBC at bay in the sweeps battle for young adults. ABC’s 9-11 p.m. block averaged an 8.3/21 in adults 18-49, topping NBC’s prelim score of 5.4/14 for part one of “Jason.”\n“The Practice” retained a best-yet 98% of its adults 18-49 lead-in from “Millionaire” (8.2 vs. 8.4).\nThis was the second week in a row that ABC was able to sap some of the demo strength out of an NBC mini. Like “The ’70s” a week earlier, “Jason” has gotten off to a much slower start than such monster NBC two-parters of recent May sweeps as “Noah’s Ark” and “Merlin.”\nABC’s “Millionaire”/”Practice” combo figures to get one of its stiffest tests yet next week when CBS sends “Jesus” after them.\nAll three of Sunday’s movies actually had something to crow about.\nABC’s musical “Geppetto,” starring Drew Carey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, was the night’s most-watched pic (prelim 14.5 million), although falling fall short of the blockbuster success of last November’s “Annie” (26.3 million). It was a big winner among kids (9.7/36).\nCBS’ “Cupid,” a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, was the top-rated pic of the night in homes (prelim 10.6/17), topping “Jason” (8.7/14) and “Geppetto” (8.0/15). It’s the second straight week that an Eye pic has been No. 1 in homes, yet fallen behind a kid-fave ABC movie in total viewers.\nAnd NBC’s “Jason,” which concluded Monday night, placed first among the pics in adults 18-49 (5.4/14), topping “Geppetto” (4.3/14) and “Cupid” (4.2/11) in prelims.\n“Millionaire” (prelim 27.3 million, 8.4/21 in A18-49) returned to ratings on par with its recent Sunday outings after four highly rated celebrity editions. The quizzer topped Fox’s “The X-Files” by 29% in adults 18-49 (8.4 vs. 6.5) and nearly doubled “Cate,” its closest competitor in viewers (27.3 million vs. 13.8).\nAlthough no blockbuster, “Geppetto” was likely the reason that three series in the 8 p.m. hour — CBS’ “Touched by an Angel” (prelim 14.9 million) and Fox’s “The Simpsons” (11.9) and “Malcolm in the Middle” (12.3) — skidded to season lows in viewers for firstrun episodes.\nFox placed second to ABC on the night in adults 18-49 (5.2/15 to 6.3/18), while CBS was second in homes and total viewers.\nSunday’s results strengthen ABC’s hold on the May sweeps races. The Alphabet net has taken an estimated 0.7-ratings points lead over NBC in adults 18-49 (5.8 vs. 5.1) and enjoys a big advantage in viewers over NBC (16.2 million vs. 11.9 million).\nABC is also projected to win the week of May 2-7 in homes (by about 3.5 ratings points over CBS) and in adults 18-49 (by about 1.6 over NBC).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "UPCOMING PUBLIC MEETINGS (May)\nPark Rapids School Board\nThe Park Rapids School Board meets at 6 p.m. Monday, May 4 and May 18. Meetings will use the Zoom video conferencing app until further notice.\nHubbard County Board\nThe Hubbard County Board is conducting its meetings by telephone, or other electronic means, The regular meetings are 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 5 and May 19. A work session is Tuesday, May 12. Information for the public to listen to the meeting telephonically or electronically will be posted to the county website (www.co.hubbard.mn.us) and at the entrance of the Hubbard County Government Center each Thursday preceding the scheduled meeting.\nPark Rapids City Council\nThe Park Rapids City Council will have a special meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 6 to appoint Jeremy Jude as the city’s full-time accountant/treasurer and to discuss sidewalk cafes during COVID-19. The council regularly meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 12 and May 26. Meetings are via conference call until further notice.\nNevis City Council\nThe next council meeting is 6 p.m. on Monday, May 11. Until further notice, or until such time as the State of Minnesota determines to no longer be in a state of emergency, all meetings of the council will be conducted by telephone or other electronic means.\nHubbard County Republicans\nA virtual meetings will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 11 . To join the online meeting: https://join.freeconferencecall.com/stomte (Online meeting ID: stomte) or dial-in number (US): (515) 604-9914 (Access code: 463477#).\nAkeley City Council\nThe next council meeting is 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13. The format for the meeting has not yet been determined.\nMenahga School Board\nThe Menahga School Board meeting is 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 18 at the media center. Some board members will be attending via interactive technology. Room access will be limited to CDC recommendations. If anyone would like to virtually view and/or participate during the regular board meeting, request by emailing Deb Lenzen at firstname.lastname@example.org with your email address and you will receive a meeting invitation to join. If you wish to address the board also state the reason in your email.\nNevis School Board\nThe next school board meeting is at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26 on Zoom. For more information go to the school website or call 652-3500.\nACTION Park Rapids\nThe May session of ACTION Park Rapids is cancelled. Work groups are encouraged to work on 90-day plans together electronically. Send new or updated plans to Candy at the Park Rapids Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce (email@example.com) and she will post them on the Action Park Rapids platform.\nThe next tentatively scheduled ACTION Park Rapids meeting is Aug. 6 at the Park Rapids American. Organizers anticipate there will be new needs in the community as residents return to a different normal.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Australian share market lifted at open and spent the day in positive territory, pulling back from the morning’s highs to start the week 0.3 higher. Most sectors closed stronger, with health and mining sectors leading the pack.\nThe S&P/ASX 200 index lifted 15 points to finish at 4,291. On the futures market, the SPI is 27 points higher.\nGunns Limited (ASX:GNS) says the Richard Chandler Corporation abandoned a proposed $150 million investment in the company due to social concerns. The Tasmanian timber company is now working with financial advisers to develop an alternative equity offer. Gunns has also advised that it has completed the first stage of the sale of the Gunns Green Triangle forest estate. Shares in Gunns are expected to remain in a trading halt for at least one more week, and last traded at $0.16.\nShares in Ten Network Holdings Limited (ASX:TEN) rose after the media company revealed it is considering the possible sale of its outdoor advertising business, EYE Corp. Ten says in light of recent corporate activities within the Australian out-of-home industry it is currently undertaking a strategic review of EYE and considering strategic options. Shares in Ten Network Holdings rose 2.44 per cent today, closing at $0.84.\nChemical supplier Nufarm Limited (ASX:NUF) has expanded its alliance with Sumitomo Chemical Company that will see new distribution deals between the two companies for Canada and Europe.\nCoal company Cockatoo Coal Limited (ASX:COK) has finalised the sale of a 49 per cent stake in its Woori project for $37.25 million to Japan’s Mitsui Coal.\nInsurance Australia Group Limited (ASX:IAG) has announced the offer of new convertible preference shares to raise about $350 million for general corporate purposes.\nDepartment store retailer David Jones Limited (ASX:DJS) has placed its shares in a trading halt, it says to consider the company’s strategic plan ahead of its first half results due this Wednesday.\nBest and worst performers\nMost sectors rallied: The best performing sector was Health Care, adding 83 points to close at 8,344.\nThe worst performing sector was Telco Services, losing 10 points to close at 1,110 points.\nThe best performing stock in the S&PASX 200 was Energy World Corporation Limited (ASX:EWC), rising 8.67 per cent to close at $0.815. Shares in Aquarius Platinum Limited (ASX:AQP) and Karoon Gas Australia Limited (ASX:KAR) also closed higher.\nThe worst performing stock was Envestra Limited (ASX:ENV), dropping 5 per cent to close at $0.76. Shares in Kingsgate Consolidated Limited (ASX:KCN) and Telecom Corporation of New Zealand (ASX:TEL also closed lower.\nGold is trading at $US1,663 an ounce.\nLight crude is $0.32 higher at $US107.38 a barrel.\nThe Australian dollar\nThe Australian dollar is buying $US1.0604.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This weekend we took a very brief trip to Blackpool, to visit friends. Christine, if you’ll remember, used to live there and still has a few ties with the place. It’s the first time we’ve been in about eighteen months.\nBlackpool has a reputation for being rather downmarket these days. Gone are the times when huge excursion trains deposited thousands of holidaymakers into (the now demolished) Blackpool Central station by the tower. Whilst it’s still a popular seaside resort, at weekends it’s hard to avoid the legions of stag and hen parties, and it has a reputation of being rather tacky. The tourist attractions tend to cater for the mass market, so there aren’t many museums or art galleries for the more discerning visitor.\nThe local council is acutely aware of this and is trying hard to tidy up the town. The sea wall was rebuilt several years ago, and Blackpool’s heritage tram system has been upgraded, with new, modern trams running between the Pleasure Beach and the northern town of Fleetwood. And there has been much work done on the public realm: shopping streets have been pedestrianised with nice paving.\nIn particular, the area around the town’s main surviving railway station, Blackpool North, has been transformed since we last came with new buildings and paving. Indeed the club where Christine and I had our first kiss, The Tache, has been demolished and replaced by a Sainsbury’s which opens in a couple of weeks (the club has now moved into the town centre thankfully).\nThe problem is that the council is limited in what it can do with privately-owned buildings. Many of the shops that make up the town’s streets are in a bad way – thrown up in the 1950s and 1960s with little architectural merit. Blackpool does have some lovely Victorian buildings, such as its theatres and old post office, but they’re almost drowned out by badly-maintained low rise buildings and out-of-keeping uPVC windows to keep out Blackpool’s notorious strong winds.\nIt’s a shame because it’s clear that the council are trying so hard to turn the town around. But with the economy still in a fragile state following the recession, there’s little incentive for private landlords to invest in their estate. Not only are there shops that have seen better days, but better tenants too, with many vacant or with short-term leases. I was surprised and a little saddened by how many ‘to let’ signs there were.\nI like Blackpool and think it could still clean up its act. But only if everyone in the town gets behind the cause and does their bit to tidy up. Then it could reclaim its place as the seaside destination of years gone by.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Thomas D Elias – It was bound to happen: Some smart Republican campaign strategist was bound to see the opportunities buried in the arcane new rules that party adopted four years ago for its Feb. 5 presidential primary.\nThose rules turn California from a bastion of plurality-winner-take-all politics to a place that will essentially run 53 separate little primaries, with the leading GOP vote-getter in each congressional district taking three of the state’s 173 Republican convention delegates. Another 11 at-large delegates will go to the statewide vote leader and three more will be unpledged.\nSo far, the major Republican candidates have not bothered to change tactics to take advantage of the new rules. You won’t see former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani or ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney or onetime Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson or Arizona Sen. John McCain campaigning in West Los Angeles or San Francisco.\nThey come regularly to those precincts to raise money, but never to plump for votes and delegates.\nAnd yet, plenty of delegates are available. The securely Democratic districts of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and House committee chairmen like Henry Waxman of West Los Angeles and George Miller of Martinez all have thousands of outnumbered Republican voters empowered under the new GOP rules to elect three delegates per district.\nSo while the top tier of Republican candidates concentrates on getting out votes statewide, using television and other standard tactics, they’re leaving an opening for bottom feeders with low campaign budgets.\nEnter Ron Paul, a formerly obscure Texas congressman who has surprised political analysts both with his performance in debates and his ability to draw support and money via the Internet.\nPaul opposes continuation of the war in Iraq, but favors using force against the Taliban and terrorists in Afghanistan. He opposes the North American Free Trade Agreement and amnesty of any kind for illegal immigrants. He’s even against continuing to give automatic citizenship to the children of the undocumented. He’d like to end the federal income tax and abolish most federal agencies. He opposes the Patriot Act and the federal war on drugs, and he’s against abortion rights.\nNot exactly the prototype candidate for the districts of Pelosi, Waxman, Miller and other liberal California Democrats in Congress. But he’s threatening to take convention delegates away from the top Republican candidates in some of those districts.\nIt’s the economic way for a Republican to go. If Pelosi’s district, containing 34,000 registered Republicans, gets the same number of delegates as the Orange County district of Dana Rohrabacher, host to more than six times as many GOP voters, why not go after what’s available in Pelosi-land?\nSo Paul supporters with Libertarian-leaning views like his are organizing in hopes of becoming a national Republican presence out of proportion to their actual numbers.\nIf it begins to look like they might actually have a chance of cutting into the delegate haul the big guys expect from California, you might actually see major candidates forced to change tactics.\nRather than concentrating completely on the safe Republican areas of Orange County, San Diego County, the Inland Empire portions of San Bernardino and Riverside counties and the Central Valley, candidates like Giuliani and Thompson and McCain and Romney might have to attend to the long-neglected Republican minorities residing in mostly Democratic districts.\nFor it’s only a matter of time now before the top-tier Republicans realize their party in this state has created entirely new rules. New rules invariably generate new tactics.\nMeanwhile, Democrats have had similar rules for each of the their last two California primary elections, but so far none of them has done significant organizing among the usually ignored Democrats living in places like Fresno and Redding and Bakersfield and Newport Beach and San Diego.\nIn fact, the two parties have essentially made California into 53 small states, but Paul is so far the only candidate to do anything about it.\nMaybe he will have to make a strong delegate showing Feb. 5 before others take heed and change their approach for the 2012 primary. But it’s also possible major candidates will realize what they’re passing up by sticking close to the areas where their followers are the clear majority.\nIf they do, there’s even a chance the new rules will allow some actual New Hampshire-style personal contact between real people and candidates they usually see only on TV.\nPaul is now pushing the major candidates in that direction. If he does well, he’ll have made a major contribution to American democracy this year even if he never had a real chance at his party’s nomination.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Well on the point of Is Betterhelp Non Profit with the council…\nFor Rackham, who has generalised anxiety disorder, online counselling wasn’t the best fit. “I felt it was near impossible for the therapist to actually get a sense of the problems I was handling, as all they needed to go from was my typed-out words. I think I realised after that online session how essential interpersonal interaction was.\n” I’m a huge fan of using innovation in all areas of my life as a service to daily issues. I have apps for whatever, however when it pertains to psychological health, you need to select how innovation plays a role in your healing really carefully.”. Is Betterhelp Non Profit\nRather, the app prides itself on having licensed therapists and psychological health experts offered to help individuals through text, phone call or video chat. That’s what lots of YouTubers who have actually accepted sponsorships from the business typically state in their own videos, where they speak on the stresses in their individual lives and feelings bordering on anxiety or depression. Bobby Burns, Elle Mills, Philip DeFranco, Heath Hussar, Boogie2988, Shane Dawson and ChandlerNWilson are all developers who have actually Is Betterhelp Non Profit sponsors now.\nA lot of these creators have actually discussed mental health concerns in the past, but as burnout becomes a larger subject within the neighborhood– and traditional world– sponsorships including BetterHelp have actually increased, in spite of the app not being precisely what the creators are touting.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "George Groves plays down stamina questions ahead of Badou Jack fight on September 12 at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas.\nIt would be the biggest upset since stone slinger David felled Goliath but BoxNation examines reasons why Andre Berto has cause for optimism when he confronts Floyd Mayweather Jr in Las Vegas on Saturday week.\nAhead of Floyd Mayweather's 49th fight with Andre Berto BoxNation looks over the records of fighters with similar records.\nBraggadocious Adrien Broner could make history and become boxing's 16th four-weight world champion if he takes down Khabib Allakhverdiev next month.\nFloyd Mayweather claims he will retire after his September 12th clash with Andre Berto, but not everybody's convinced \"Money\" can resist one more final payday", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Feature: Sao Paulo slum sets up its own bank, currency\nSAO PAULO, May 14 (Xinhua) -- In Brazil's biggest city Sao Paulo, the poor long spurned by traditional banks have decided to create not only a bank of their own, but also their own currency.\nThe novel initiative is expected to allow residents of the Paraisopolis favela, or slum, in southern Sao Paulo to do things many urban dwellers take for granted: open a bank account, get a debit card, and apply for a small loan.\nThe non-profit Bank of Paraisopolis, set to begin operating in the second half of the year, will be run by the local community, where the Nova Paraisopolis currency will be an accepted tender.\nBank clients will also benefit from discounts at some 8,000 shops and businesses within the favela, estimated to have some 100,000 inhabitants, according to the latest census, ranking among Brazil's 10 largest slums.\n\"Our intention is to let people have an account and be able to make withdrawals and small loans,\" community leader Gilson Rodrigues, president of the Paraisopolis Union of Residents and Business Owners, told Xinhua.\nAccording to Rodrigues, the bank will prioritize loans, at lower than market interest rates, for those who want to open their own businesses, and even offer trainings on how to set up and run small enterprises.\n\"When you incentivize and prepare business owners, the business tends to do well and the money is paid back without any delays,\" said Rodrigues.\nTo finance the initiative, the residents' association plans to hold a fund-raising dinner for prominent personalities and businesses leaders. The money raised will go into a fund for the bank's operations.\nInstead of going to bank owners or shareholders, the interest on loans are to be invested back into the community through projects, such as establishing a youth orchestra, a dance troupe or building a roof-top restaurant overlooking the city.\n\"We don't want to make money ... we want to invest in community development, in local businesses and consumption, generating jobs,\" said Rodrigues.\nThe residents' association reports that 21 percent of the people who live in Paraisopolis also work there.\nThe favela briefly became famous some years ago when it served as the backdrop for a Brazilian soap opera, though the fame did little to improve the poor living conditions there, such as a dilapidated and in some cases nonexistent sewage system, and a lack of other infrastructure facilities or services.\nNearly 5,000 families in the slum living in very low-rent units receive a monthly subsidy from the city government to help cover rental costs.\nEconomist Bruno Duarte noted that the slum bank initiative has been successfully tried elsewhere in the world and in less densely populated parts of Brazil.\nDuarte said that in 2006, Bangladeshi social entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering the concept of microcredits to help the poor.\nThe idea works because it meets a basic need in marginalized areas with little government presence or access to traditional financing, said Duarte.\n\"The majority of residents in rural parts of Brazil or in smaller cities in the interior today still have no access to (financial) services ... or small loans,\" he noted.\nThe fact that the residents themselves are involved in managing the Paraisopolis bank \"automatically creates a self-management system ... that helps reduce delinquency rates\" in paying back loans, he said.[ Editor: Xueying ]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Add one more amusing character to the list of misfits intending to contest as independent candidates in the upcoming General Election — infamous activist and blogger Han Hui Hui has entered the fray.\nA frequent organiser of the #ReturnOurCPF protests at Hong Lim Park alongside equally infamous blogger Roy Ngerng, Han was seen dropping by the Elections Department yesterday to pick up a nomination form for herself.\nWhich district will see the fiery diatribes of this 23-year-old politico? According to her announcement on Facebook, she’ll be contesting in the Radin Mas Single Member Constituency (SMC) as an independent candidate.\nDespite the district being one of the ruling People’s Action Party’s (PAP) strongholds, she says that she’ll step forward nonetheless and voice out the concerns of Singaporeans.\n“My team and I have been walking at Radin Mas SMC since 2013,” said Han. “The people who attended #ReturnOurCPF events at Hong Lim Park are also mainly the elderly from Radin Mas SMC.”\nBut of course, she can’t do it all alone. She wants your (financial) support to help organise two of her own rallies at Radin Mas SMC. If for some reason you’d like to make her dreams a reality, Han even lists down her POSB savings account number for you to wire over some money.\nWhip out the popcorn boys, this General Election gon’ be good.\nPhoto: Han Hui Hui Facebook page", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Killeen city and school officials failed the taxpayers last week.\nIn a single evening, the Killeen school board approved spending $1 million on a new scoreboard the district doesn’t need — at least not right now — and Killeen City Council members declined to ask substantive questions during a briefing on an audit of the city’s finances that is costing taxpayers nearly $400,000.\nAs a result, residents have reason to question their elected representatives’ commitment to transparency, accountability and good stewardship.\nThe scoreboard purchase for Leo Buckley Stadium — approved by a 4-2 vote — was carried out even though more than 100 district residents had criticized the plan on social media since the proposal was aired at a May 23 board meeting.\nDistrict officials had tried to justify the scoreboard purchase by noting that the current board is 10 years old and that replacement parts would no longer be available in five years. In addition, the new board had additional features, including the option of unlimited digital advertising space, that would make the scoreboard a good investment.\nPerhaps. But two questions remain: Why $1 million? And why now?\nIf the district ostensibly has up to five years to purchase a new scoreboard, the logical approach would be to spend that time looking for sponsors who could help with the purchase in exchange for permanent advertising rights on the scoreboard. The longer time frame would also allow for thorough research into other companies’ products and pricing. But most importantly, by waiting a few more years, the district would have had the opportunity to lock in a scoreboard with more advanced capabilities and features than the model they’re installing this fall.\nBut apparently, money talks — or the lack thereof.\nAfter the vote, board members confirmed the district still owes $153,000 to Daktronics, the current scoreboard’s manufacturer, as part of an agreement in which the district received the board at no cost in exchange for the advertising revenue the board generated over 10 years.\nDaktronics offered to wipe out the district’s debt as part of the purchase agreement for a new scoreboard. Still, it seems logical that the district could have found a cheaper replacement option and still had the money to pay off the debt on the first board. And if they couldn’t sell enough advertising on the existing board, how will more ad space translate to more revenue on the new one?\nNo doubt, board members who voted for the new scoreboard believe the district is getting a good deal. But $1 million is $1 million. It doesn’t matter if they had the money in the athletics budget.\nTaxpayers see a school district that has received poor grades in the Texas Education Agency’s A-F performance rating, as well as a recent Children at Risk study; continuing challenges in the area of special education, students at several campuses relegated to portable buildings; and teachers frequently forced to purchase their own supplies and materials.\nHow many textbooks would $1 million buy? How many teacher salaries would $1 million pay, even if for only one year? How many laptops would $1 million provide for students?\nThe members who cast the dissenting votes — Carlyle Walton and Susan Jones — are to be commended for saying no to this unnecessary expenditure.\nAt City Hall, Killeen council members didn’t face a $1 million vote Tuesday, but they had an obligation to ask questions regarding a $400,000 municipal audit — and few had anything to say. An even bigger concern is that the audit firm’s representative had little to say, either.\nThat’s a problem. Especially since the audit firm’s May 2 report to the council was a real bombshell — offering a list of troubling observations, including unauthorized use of bond funds, inconsistent planning for capital projects, misapplication of pay raises, and creation of an escrow account to transfer funds.\nBut the audit firm’s representative played Tuesday’s briefing close to the vest, offering little new information other than to say the audit is about 70 percent complete.\nWhile Council members Steve Harris and Shirley Fleming are to be commended for asking for more details, including further information on the problem areas listed last month, the other council members did little to advance the discussion.\nEven more troubling is the fact that Tuesday’s meeting originally was billed as a midaudit briefing — a $10,000 item mandated in the audit contract — but was later classified as merely an update.\nSo what happened?\nIn the wake of Tuesday’s underwhelming presentation, it’s obvious that both the audit firm and council have taken a more cautious approach to disclosure of the investigation’s details.\nHowever, it’s a little late for that. You don’t just drop a bombshell and then try to walk it back. To the outsider, it seems the audit firm was either told to pull back, or its investigation is going a different direction than it was last month.\nIn either case, the sudden lack of transparency has the appearance of a cover-up, though that may not be the case.\nAlso troubling is the fact that City Manager Ron Olson sent a memo to council members instructing them not to ask questions of the auditors at Tuesday’s meeting.\nOlson may just be urging caution in the face of an ongoing investigation. However, as the audit firm’s contract is with the council, he should not be telling members how to comport themselves in dealings with the firm’s representatives. As elected officials and stewards of the taxpayers’ money, it’s the council’s job to get the answers on the audit, and it’s the audit firm’s obligation to provide them, where possible.\nAt this point, it’s fair for the council and the public to ask whether the auditors are doing the job they were paid to do. The fact that the auditors have not interviewed any key former city employees in regard to the city’s financial practices raises questions about their ability — or willingness — to connect all the dots in this investigation.\nIt’s the council’s job to closely monitor the auditors’ progress and ensure they provide the most complete assessment possible — and that begins with demanding a detailed midaudit briefing.\nOur elected officials are tasked with the responsibility of putting the residents’ best interests first and spending our tax money wisely.\nBoth Killeen’s city council and school board fell short in those areas last week.\nNow it’s up to the taxpayers to remind them who’s paying the bills.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dan Wheldon embarked on his new mission Monday — finding a job. Less than 24 hours after JR Hildebrand’s crash gave Wheldon an improbable second Indianapolis 500 title, Wheldon was contemplating his racing future. With no ride lined up for IndyCar’s next two stops — Texas and Milwaukee — or any other venue this year, his season could be one and done. “I’m unemployed,” Wheldon proclaimed. But don’t feel too badly for the Englishman. After receiving a $2,567,255 winner’s check Monday, he probably can afford plenty of fish and chips to get by for a while.\nMore in Sports\nThe Avalanche was granted a stay of execution Friday.\nThe feel-good vibes on a chilly night at Coors Field were short lived. Chicago blasted starter Jon Gray and reliever Bryan Shaw for seven runs in a disastrous sixth, the offense sputtered again and the Rockies were sloppy on defense.\nIn Arizona, playing for three days in extended spring training in front of empty bleachers and alongside mostly teenage prospects, the 27-year-old stayed sharp for his return to the lineup on Friday night against the Cubs.\n“All those different scenarios are gonna lead us all to different directions, as far as whether to (trade) up, back or stay where we are,” Elway said during Thursday’s press conference. “But ultimately, it’s really probably gonna come down to draft day.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The mighty baobab tree is found in\nabundance in the Kruger Park.\nSouth Africa’s world-famous Kruger National Park is fully booked for the duration of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. All accommodation in the main camps was snapped up a mere two hours after the reservations office opened on 1 July.\nSouth African National Parks (SANParks) reports that even though booking for July had opened a month earlier than usual, visitors were alert to the fact and wasted no time.\nNormally booking opens 11 months in advance for one month at a time, but with the World Cup on the horizon SANParks decided to give their visitors the chance to book for both June and July simultaneously.\nThis was a one-off scheme. Reservations for August 2010 will revert to the usual procedure.\nThe national parks authority also noted that accommodation for the same period in its other parks around the country was filling up rapidly.\nMany parks, such as the Golden Gate Highlands National Park in the Free State’s Maluti Mountains and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park which sits on the South Africa-Botswana border, are particularly popular as winter getaways.\nSANParks has partnered with Fifa-appointed professional hospitality company Match to manage accommodation in the Kruger and other parks.\nThe Kruger Park’s closest major city, Nelspruit, is a 2010 venue, with the city’s Mbombela Stadium scheduled for completion in October 2009.\nThe Skukuza, Berg en Dal and Pretoriuskop camps in the southern Kruger Park have been reserved solely for 2010 visitors through the Match affiliation. This equates to 30% of the park’s total accommodation capacity.\nThese and other camps in the park’s southern bounds are now fully booked, but there is still limited availability in certain camps in the far north.\nA recent report from SANParks reveals that as many as 15 000 new people could be introduced to conservation areas during the World Cup. This is viewed as an outstanding marketing opportunity, as people will share their experiences and word of mouth is a powerful way of spreading the message.\nBesides the Kruger Park, SANParks and Match have agreed to the 30% deal for 11 other national parks. These are the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Augrabies Falls National Park, Golden Gate Highlands National Park, Tsitsikamma National Park, Addo Elephant National Park, Mapungubwe National Park, Mokala National Park, Mountain Zebra National Park, Bontebok National Park, Karoo National Park and Wilderness National Park.\nAvailable accommodation in these parks is also disappearing fast. Kgalagadi’s main camps are said to be fully booked and the smaller camps are almost full. The same can be said of the Addo Elephant National Park in the Eastern Cape.\nVisitors who would like to spend some time in these magnificent wild areas of South Africa during the World Cup are encouraged to visit the SANParks website without delay.\nWinter holiday rush\nThe Kruger National Park accommodates every taste, from those who prefer to rough it in tents, to lodges of unrivalled luxury. There are 21 rest camps to choose from, several of which have satellite camps. A number of private lodges also operate within the park.\nSANParks tourism and marketing director Glenn Phillips said that although a rush had been expected, the Kruger Park’s main camps were fully booked before they even noticed, as staff were kept busy handling the roughly 5 000 calls and 500 emails that poured in.\nThe winter school holidays also fall within the mid-year period. Next year the holidays run from June 9 to July 13 and have been extended by about a week to cover the entire period of the World Cup.\n“We value our local visitors and even though we will be accommodating the soccer tourists next year, we are glad to also be able to provide for our local clients during the school holiday next year,” said Phillips, adding that he was glad to see South Africans booking their 2010 holiday accommodation in good time.\nThe Kruger Park is one of South Africa’s most important tourism drawcards. The country’s biggest game reserve covers almost 20 000km2, or an area a little bigger than that of the entire nation of Israel.\nIt is a part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a peace park that spans the Kruger Park, Zimbabwe’s Gonarezhou National Park, and the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique.\nIt is also a part of one of South Africa’s six biosphere reserves. In September 2001 the Kruger to Canyons was designated by the United Nations Education and Scientific Organisation as an International Man and Biosphere Reserve.\nAn abundance of birds, reptiles, animals and plants thrives in the park’s six eco-systems. There is something of interest for every nature lover – about 1 980 species of plants, 336 species of tree, 49 fish, 34 amphibians, 517 birds, 147 mammals, and 114 species of reptile, including 3 000 crocodiles, are found here.\nFor wildlife enthusiasts who cannot make it in person, a number of webcams have been set up around the park for convenient armchair game viewing.\nHowever, the spectacular wildlife is not the only reason to visit the Kruger Park. Within its borders are over 255 historical and cultural sites, with more yet to be explored. Some of these sites date back to the early Stone Age and are over a million years old. There are also several Iron Age settlements, and a number of spiritually significant sites too.\n- Do you have queries or comments about this article? Contact Janine Erasmus at email@example.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In a continuation of the theme from yesterday’s blog post ( and every newspaper I have seen) people are very upset at the pay hikes given out by the Christy Clark government before they were even sworn in.\nPhone lines were jammed on the talk shows this morning with people calling in to show their disgust. Kind of reminded me of those same calls that came in over the HST. You recall that episode was not to pretty for the BC Liberals.\nPeople said after the election that Clark was a good campaigner but a lousy governor and she would revert to the later quickly. I don’t think anybody realized how quickly it would start.\nYou would have thought that in the name of screwing the people over they would have at least waited until after that election was done.\nExcept that Clark and her team are extremely smug and arrogant and could care less about what the people think.\nPatronage and payback are at the top of her list. ( More on that in a later post)\nThis event in itself shows that she really doesn’t get it.\nThe voters in Westside-Kelowna ought to do her and her government a favor a teach her a harsh lesson now.\nThey should show their angst for both losing the MLA they voted for a few weeks back and for this terrible act of managing the taxpayers money.\nThey should take advantage of this golden opportunity and vote against her.\nA loss here will no doubt cause the party to give her the boot and just maybe they will get their act together and get a good leader that believes in honesty and transparency.\nBut then this is BC and these are the BC Liberals so who knows what they would do.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A warning shot. Will they face additional threats when they try to rebuild? “Officials: Bomb detonated in empty church in Egypt,” by Ashraf Sweilam for the Associated Press, February 5 (thanks to Sr. Soph):\nEL-ARISH, Egypt — Assailants detonated a bomb Saturday in an empty church in a small town in northern Egypt, causing little damage and no injuries, security officials said.\nSmoke billowed from the windows of the church and the assailants also snatched a cross from outside the building, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the incident with reporters. They said the assailants escaped. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.\nThe attack in the town of Rafah, on the border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, comes amid unprecedented political unrest sweeping Egypt. For nearly two weeks, protesters have staged mass rallies to demand the ouster of longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.\nRafah is located in the Sinai Peninsula, where Bedouin tribesmen have clashed with security forces during the popular revolt.\nEarlier Saturday, an explosion went off in a gas terminal in the Sinai town of El-Arish, causing a massive fire but no injuries. Energy officials blamed a gas leak, while security officials said an explosive device was detonated in the terminal. As a result of the fire, the flow of gas to Jordan and Israel was stopped.\nEven before the uprising, there had been growing tensions between Egypt’s Muslims and large Christian minority. On New Year’s Day, a suicide bombing outside a Coptic church in the port city of Alexandria killed 21 people, setting off days of protests.\nBarely a week later, an off-duty policeman boarded a train and shot dead a 71-year-old Christian man and wounding his wife and four others.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "TRENTON – Legislation sponsored by Senator Nilsa Cruz-Perez and Senator Sandra Cunningham, which would allow for vacant commercial buildings to be designated as an area in need of redevelopment, passed the Senate today.\n“The age of online shopping has forced many commercial buildings and shopping centers to become vacant and untouched for years,” said Senator Cruz-Perez (D-Camden/Gloucester). “Leaving these properties to fall into disrepair does not benefit anyone and redeveloping these areas will bring new life to the once abandoned properties along with the surrounding communities.”\n“Municipalities would now have a say in determining what happens to vacant or underutilized buildings in their area that they did not have before,” said Senator Cunningham (D-Hudson). “This legislation will incentivize more private companies to work with communities and municipal officials to revitalize these areas benefiting communities.”\nThe bill, S-1583, amends the “Local Redevelopment and Housing Law” and specifies the authority of a municipality to determine if an area previously used for commercial, shopping malls, or professional office parks is eligible to be deemed an area in need of redevelopment. These types of buildings would also have to be vacant for at least two years to be eligible.\nA municipality could offer tax exemptions and abatements to encourage private sector partners to repurpose the land.\nThe bill was released from the Senate by a vote of 37-0.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Today, 42 years ago. The Palapa A-1 satellite is in its orbit, 83o east, from its launch at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States (US). The first Indonesian communication satellite made Indonesia the third country in the world and the first developing country to operate the Domestic Satellite Communication System (SKSD).\n“This satellite system is needed to unite Indonesia and to provide education in remote areas. Palapa satellite is capable of covering a third of the hemisphere, “said director general of Telecommunications General Company (Perumtel) Willy Munandir Mangoendiprodjo when giving a speech at the launch Palapa A-1 in Florida, Kompas 10 July 1976.\nWinding Road Satukan Nusantara\nHaving SKSD is not a dream of Indonesia that existed for a long time. In addition to minimal infrastructure and experts, the cost to build it is very large. Indonesia initially only ambitiously joined the International Telecommunications Satellite Corporation (Intelsat), a consortium of international telecommunications services built by the United States to counter the Soviet Union in space, after Suharto received advice from his economic adviser, Emil Salim.\nIndonesia officially joined Intelsat and in June 1967 signed a contract with the International Telephone and Telegraph for the construction of telecommunications terminals on earth or earth stations. On September 29, 1969, Soeharto inaugurated Indonesia’s first earth station.\nAt the inauguration, Suharto received input on the importance of SKSD from the Directorate General of Posts and Telecommunications (Postel) Major General Sohardjono. Soeharto immediately attracted and the desire for it continued to strengthen. “The President gave directions for the development of domestic satellite telecommunications implemented in Pelita II,” wrote Merdeka, August 31, 1976.\nMinister of Transportation Frans Seda followed up the president’s direction by forming a committee to study the national telecommunications system led by Willy Munandir. The seriousness of the government increased when in 1970 the Directorate General of Post and Perumtel formed a joint team to conduct an in-depth study of SKSD. In addition to collecting telecommunications traffic data, the team also found out the number of requests for telecommunication services such as telephone lines.\nIn the team is Iskandar Alisjahbana. ITB lecturers have long been keen to throw the idea of using satellites to unite Indonesia and support education, information dissemination, and national development.\nThe desire to have SKSD became even more secure when in 1971 Munandir and Soehardjono attended the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva. They got an in-depth explanation from the Hughes Aircraft Company (now part of Boeing) about the use of satellites for domestic use and the huge potential of its business is able to cover the cost of development -Indonesia capitalizes on the potential of this business by leasing transponders to the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand.\nOnce back to Jakarta, Munandir and Soehardjono immediately reported it to the president. Soeharto directed both of them to be implemented within two or two and a half years. Directorate General of Post and Telecommunication on September 4, 1973 immediately set up a review committee in charge of researching the technical, operational, and economic aspects. In conclusion: SKSD is suitable for Indonesia.\nSuharto himself mentioned the use of satellites in the development of telecommunications when submitting a financial note and draft state revenues and expenditure budget 1975/76 in front of parliament, January 6, 1975. “In the course of telecommunications development, in 1975 a new satellite communications system will be established to telephone, telegraph, telex, and television broadcasting facilities, “the president said.\nMunandir went straight to a number of countries to seek a SKSD development loan that cost a total of 1.4 billion dollars. Indonesia finally obtained the funds from Inter-Governmental Group on Indonesia (IGGI), Export-Import Bank, and Consortium Bank of the United States. Armed with the funds, the government signed a contract for the construction of communications satellites, major control stations, large and small earth stations with Hughes Aircraft Company, Philco Ford Overseas Services and Federal Electric International.\nThe government appointed Bunawan Saleh as a supervisor at Hughes manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California. This is where the Hughes work on satellite orders Indonesia which has a high dimension of 11 feet, 6 feet diameter, and weight 574 kilograms. Hughes was finally able to meet the settlement targets despite very short processing times. Palapa is one of the fastest production schedules ever undertaken by Hughes’ management and engineers.\nSimultaneously with satellite making time, Perumtel insured its satellite by cooperating with PT Asuransi Jasa Indonesia. The government also signed a satellite launch agreement with NASA. Through negotiations with Intelsat, Indonesia received permission point 83o BT as its satellite orbit. The orbital permit was then registered to the International Frequencies Registration Board in Geneva.\nOnce completed, the Palapa satellite was immediately taken to Kennedy Space Center. Exactly at 07.31 on July 9, 1976 local time (July 8 Indonesian time), Delta 2914 rocket carrying Palapa A-1 into orbit at an altitude of 30,500 kilometers.\nSuharto, who witnessed the launch from broadcast television, immediately told the press that the Palapa name selection for satellites was inspired by the mahapatih oath of Gajah Mada. Suharto believes Palapa will be able to become a powerful vehicle to unite the archipelago like the oath of Gajah Mada. “I would like to extend a great appreciation to all those who have completed this Palapa project in time,” Suharto said after unplugging the keris and pressing the electronic button when inaugurating the Palapa at the MPR / DPR Building on August 16, 1976.\n“Palapa became an important factor that changed the national television and ethnic cultures in the archipelago. The Palapa is very useful in integrating this country, “wrote Philip Kitley in the National Cultural Construction on the Glass Screen.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A second pill to fight COVID-19 is here.\n“Having the FDA approve these two pills is a big game changer for us in combating this global pandemic,” Dave Dobrzynski, an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases with URMC said.\nThe pills are expected to keep high-risk individuals from getting severely ill and hospitalized from the virus, or even from dying. Pfizer’s pill is shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by 89%, while Merck’s pill reduces it by roughly 30%.\n“Vaccines still remain the number one prevention strategy, but I think as we’re seeing with Omicron, and potentially other variants in the future, that we’re still going to have some breakthrough infections,” Dobrzynski said. “Being able to treat people at home before they come in the hospital during these potential surges is really gonna be critical to kind of ease the burden off our healthcare system.”\nThe two pills are intended to be taken within days of COVID symptoms.\n“You need to take it within the first five days of symptom onset and so a lot of people may have some symptoms at home for a couple days. But if it gets to that point, maybe these medicines may not be as effective at that point,”Dobrzynski said.\nDr. Ed Walsh, an Infectious disease Consultant at Rochester General Hospital, said in order for people to get a pill they have to test positive.\n“The use of an oral anti-viral drug for COVID is going to depend upon your ability to get tested right away and have a result right away. The at-home kits are terrific because you can do them very simply in your house, they only take 15 minutes, however, they also are not 100% sensitive, meaning they will miss a significant number of infections,” Walsh said.\nWalsh recommends people getting a PCR test if possible, or taking two at-home antigen rapid tests.\n“It’s going to be a combination of somebody who develops COVID-like symptoms, which frankly early on are very similar common colds, and then to be rapidly tested, and if positive then seek treatment with these antiviral drugs,” Walsh said.\nThe two pills are also designed specifically for individuals who are likely to get severely ill from COVID-19. Pfizer’s pill is for those over the age of 12 and weighs 88 lbs. Merck’s is for those over the age of 18.\n“It’s unlikely that your 30-year-old, very healthy, athletic individual who’s been vaccinated is likely to to be able to get access to these medications early on,” Walsh said. But he added the pills could become more widely available overtime.\nWhile the pills are good news for fighting severe illness, patients will likely still feel mild symptoms. Doctors say the number one way to protect against COVID-19 is through vaccination.\n“A lot of people have wondered, well, will this replace a vaccine? And the answer is absolutely not. I mean, this is a medication for treating someone who’s infected. The vaccine obviously is developed for either prevention of infection completely, or if infection were to occur, for it to be mild,” Walsh said.\n“We hope obviously that as time passes, those that are not vaccinated will kind of continue to see the data, the vaccines really are really effective in preventing serious illness,” Dobrzynski said. “We hope that people rely on these on these pills necessarily, but I think the nice thing for providers is that if we’re going to have patients that are not going to want to get the vaccine, now we have an option to treat them at home before they get severely ill.”\nPfizer’s pill comes in three tablets, taken twice a day for five days. Merck’s pill consists of four capsules that are taken every 12 hours for five days.\nIt will likely not be until next year until these pills starting rolling out. Dobrzynski said he hopes URMC will get supplies in in the next couple weeks, with most pills going to outpatient pharmacies.\nFor a while, supplies are expected to be extremely limited. The U.S. has agreed to buy enough Paxlovid to treat 10 million people, along with 3.1 million courses of Merck’s pill.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Oct 20, 2014, 5:41 p.m.ENCINITAS The back-and-forth battle over an Encinitas seawall could land in California’s highest court, in a case that could affect the future of the controversial structures along California’s coast. Attorneys for two families who are fighting to remove the expiration date on a permit for a seawall they built to protect their bluff-top homes filed a petition Monday asking the California Supreme Court to review the case. An appellate court ruled in September that the California Coastal Commission could limit the life of such walls to 20 years. In a statement announcing that the petition had been filed, the attorney for the Frick and Lynch families said the commission is “trampling” on his clients rights. “We are asking the California Supreme Court to hear this case so that these homeowners, and all property owners along the coast, can be ...\nSan Diego Community News - Local Regional Headlines\n- Letters to the Editor, La Jolla should consider a memorial to crash victim\n- Farewell Maitre D! Restaurant sale marks the end of fanciful dining era in La Jolla\n- Halloween Happenings In and Around La Jolla October 2014\n- Labyrinth makers send message of peace across the sea\n- Board charged with starting Village shuttle service left scratching its head after meeting with city\nOct 20, 2014, 3:24 p.m.\nQ: In the spring of 1986 we planted a European weeping white birch in the middle of our rose garden. It was looking great until about two months ago when it started looking paler and paler. All the leaves are a golden brown now, like it is getting ready for fall, although the “fruit” is still green.\nOct 20, 2014, 3:20 p.m.\nStan Gershgol wrote to ask three questions about Gmail: (1) How to print a received message without printing the entire email. (2) How to save a message to an external drive or to his Documents folder. (3) How to attach a file to an outgoing Gmail message.\nOct 20, 2014, 12:42 p.m.\nA Vietnam veteran based at Camp Pendleton who fought in the legendary Siege of Khe Sanh produced a documentary that will be screened\nOct 19, 2014, 6 a.m.\nFallbrook resident Don Foulkes shares his story as a prisoner of war.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Independent Voice for Conservative Values\nand the Conscience of the Conservative Movement\nLess Government is the Best Government\nRahm Emanuel Seeks to Become Mayor of Chicago\nIs There any Danger of Vote Fraud in 2012?\nBy Scott Rohter February 2011\n“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they lay hold on you! It is better to keep the wolf out of the field, than to trust that after he enters the field, he won't eat the sheep!” - Thomas Jefferson, reprisal\nWhat is the national significance of the recent Illinois Supreme Court decision ordering Rahm Emanuel’s name to be placed on the ballot on February 22, 2011 in Chicago, and allowing him to run as the Democratic candidate for Mayor? By my estimate, it’s worth about three million votes, not for Emanuel but for his old boss, President Obama! How else could President Obama hope to win the 2012 Presidential Election without Chicago firmly in his back pocket? And who else could be trusted better to deliver the votes, now that Chicago strong man, Mayor Richard Daley is retiring, then Rahm 'dead fish' Emanuel? Who else could summon up all of those dead Democratic voters on Election Day and cause them to rise up from their graves again, and make their annual pilgrimage to the nearest polling place and pull the lever once more for Obama, better than Rahm a.k.a. 'Rahmbo' Emanuel?\nThat is why the President’s Chief of Staff left his position at the White House! He wasn’t bailing out on the President. On the contrary, he was looking out for the President! Emanuel was simply needed more in Chicago, then he was back in Washington! There is a city to be held for the Democratic Party and an election to be won in 2012! With President Obama’s popularity rating bottoming out faster than a brick in a bathtub full of water, the Chicago results are absolutely critical to Obama’s chances for victory in 2012! That is why Emanuel was shuttled back to Chicago, for damage control! They always seem to be one step ahead of us, don’t they? Emanuel’s new job is to make sure that Chicago votes for Obama, and votes a straight Democratic Party-line ticket. That’s the same job that every Mayor of Chicago has always had for the past 100 years, that is to deliver Chicago to the Democratic Party! But in order to guarantee a Democratic victory in Chicago, you have to be securely in control of the “levers of power.” In Chicago that means only one thing, the Mayor’s office!\n“My kind of town, Chicago is, my kind of town,” Chicago was, the reason that John F. Kennedy beat Richard Nixon in the Presidential Election of 1960 and if it hadn’t been for Chicago, which fell solidly into the Kennedy camp, Nixon would have been our 35th President, not our 37th President! Chicago was the key then, and Chicago is still the key now! It is the key to President Obama’s chances for victory in 2012. There are over three million voters in Chicago, and depending upon just how many deceased Democratic voters cast their ballots on Election Day, nobody actually knows just how many votes there really are in Cook County! But one thing is for sure. There is a vast, well-oiled Democratic Party Machine, already in place just waiting to deliver the votes, and the city to Obama! There just needs to be the right person in charge, at the top! And who better than the President’s right hand man, and former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel?\nI can’t speculate on just why Mayor Richard M. Daley decided to resign at this critical moment in President Obama’s career, or whether it had anything at all to do with the sale of President Obama’s old Senate seat, or the fallout resulting from that, or the trial of former Illinois Governor Rob Blagojevich. Maybe Mayor Daley just decided that he had enough of government and it is just a sheer coincidence that his decision not to run again occurred at about the same time that President Obama is seeking re-election. It is remotely possible that Mayor Daley just wanted to spend more time with his family. But I have to tell you, there hasn’t been more than 13 years out of the past 56 years that there hasn’t been a Mayor of Chicago whose name was Richard Daley!\n\"The truth, the political truth, and nothing but the political truth.\nA journalist has no better friend than the truth.\" - Scott Rohter", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kotex Campaign Uses Pinterest To Send Women Custom Goodie Bags. How Mobile Video App Socialcam Used Facebook To Explode To 75 Million Users In 15 Months. Columbus, Ohio Account Manager Job at Geben Communication - Ragan Communications. The Stories I’m Looking (and Not Looking) to Write. Even more than a journalist, I consider myself a storyteller.\nMy mission at Mashable is to tell stories about how technology and digital are changing our world and to shine a light on the people that are shaping the future of our society. The problem is that there are so many stories; I can’t tell even a fraction of them. I hear about hundreds of ideas, startups and successes every single day, but I only can write and edit a few of them. Plus the stories I choose to tell today are dramatically different than the stories I told when I first started writing for Mashable.\nSo how do I choose a story from the pile? (btw, I’m framing these points in terms of story structure. Context: I will always cover the big stories — perhaps Facebook launches a new social graph or Google launches its own social network. I want to be clear: me not telling your story doesn’t mean that your story wasn’t worthy. Qantas Makes A Complete Hash Of Social Media Tweet Campaign. Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse for Qantas.\nTheir brand took a further nose dive today (excuse the pun). They had a go at relaunching their battered reputation though starting a competition on Twitter on the day after their negotiations broke down with their airline pilots. Really bad timing. Rather than a positive media coverage the coverage was almost completely negative. Adobe Communication - Matt Legend Gemmell. Adobe announced today that they won’t be making any more versions of Flash Player for mobile devices, but as usual for large companies, you have to work hard to decipher what they’ve said.\nConfusing, marketing-voiced corporate communication is a terrible problem in this industry, and it’s damaging to the companies themselves. Blogger Outreach Pitching Tips from #pr20chat! - storify.com. Trade, Not Aid. Tragedies happen around the world every day.\nAnd with the improvements in technology, and especially social media, cries of help can be heard from far across the oceans. When these tragedies strike, charitable donations pour in from every corner, until our attention is averted somewhere else. Although initial fundraising was enormous, the world has moved on to supporting other tragedies like Japan and stable income is hard to come by. Heart of Haiti’s goal is to continue helping those in Haiti by allowing them to continue their passion for art and support their families.\nHeart of Haiti’s motto is Trade, not Aid. Through this initiative, Haitian artisans produce home goods and jewelry from available materials which are in turn sold by Macy’s. One of these artists, Onel Bagdais, said that Heart of Haiti allows him to send his son to college, a dream that many Americans share. Why Politicos And Corporate Communications Make Bad Bedfellows. 5 Measurement Resources +BlogWorld Panel Seeks Your Input. Sleazy PR Firm Throws Scummy Facebook Under The Sordid Bus. It’s pretty rare for a story to be one part sad, one part fascinating, and twenty parts sleazy.\nLuckily, Facebook and Burson-Marsteller have just handed exactly that to us on a silver platter. As you’ve undoubtedly seen by now, last night The Daily Beast’s Dan Lyons’ broke the story wide open about how the social network hired the PR firm to plant negative stories about rival Google in the press. As Mike wrote last night, it’s “not just offensive, dishonest and cowardly.\nIt’s also really, really dumb.” And it keeps getting better. Now one of the sleazy companies in this sordid affair, Burson-Marsteller, is throwing the other sleazy company, Facebook, under the bus. In an email sent to PRNewser this morning, the PR firm is confirming their involvement (as if that was still in question), defending themselves and their actions, and blaming Facebook for bringing the work to them in the first place. In other words, they took the job, fucked it up, then blamed the client. Scummy. Burson-Marsteller says it shouldn't have pitched negative Google stories secretly for Facebook. Google deflects PR firm's attack of Gmail privacy. By Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz, USA TODAY Updated 5/10/2011 2:14 PM | It's not as if Google lacks privacy controversies to quell.\nBy Paul Sakuma, AP file By Paul Sakuma, AP file Yet Burson-Marsteller, a top-five public relations firm, is attempting to pile more on. Burson last week stepped up a whisper campaign to get top-tier media outlets, including USA TODAY, to run news stories and editorials about how an obscure Google Gmail feature — Social Circle — ostensibly tramples the privacy of millions of Americans and violates federal fair trade rules. Google said that Social Circle in fact allows Gmail users to make social connections based on public information and private connections across its products in ways that don't skirt privacy. The Story So Far: Will Sponsored Content and Creative Ads Save Digital Journalism? - Nathaniel Parish Flannery - Governance Perspective.\nPosterous learns a hard lesson in why businesses must keep customers informed. I'm a big fan of Posterous, the US-based blog service.\nThe company allows users to create eye-catching blogs which can be updated with a single email. I have two Posterous blogs; one where I post my random thoughts on all sorts of subjects and another where I'm posting a picture every day in 2011 (I've already failed!). According to Posterous some of my posts have been pretty popular with one attracting more than 17,000 views! My daily pictures have got nowhere near that but they each attract around 200 views which I've been pleased with. That was until last week when suddenly the figures dropped dramatically: Strange I thought but I put it down to the all the bank holidays.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Today is the national holiday honoring the birth of Martin Luther King Jr, the man who forced America to examine our history of racism for a short while. I was only 12 years old when he was cut down in the prime of his life, but I remember the day of his assassination just as clearly as I remember the day President Kennedy was cut down.\nAwhile back, I submitted a column to our local newspaper, now named “InsideNoVa.com,” formerly “The Potomac News.” My column submission was triggered by a report that about 80 percent of Prince William County were “OK” with the way our police department were handling the anti-Hispanic immigration resolution passed by our Board of County Supervisors back in 2007.\nI was deeply offended by this information, and submitted my column.\nMildred Jeter Loving passed away yesterday at the age of 68. I didn’t know her or her late husband Richard Loving who passed away in 1975. But Winnie and I are benefactors of their legacy, especially now that we are living in Virginia.\n…And A Resolution on My Anti-Immigration Complaint\nYesterday morning I did contact my financial adviser and discussed Sunday morning’s incident with the home nurse. Our agent became noticeably upset over my description of the event, and promised to pass the information to the medical agency. She asked some questions, and apologized several times for what happened. She promised the incident would be taken care of.\n…and another Ugly Example of Anti-Immigration Hysteria\nWinnie and I are currently in the process of buying some additional life insurance. Not a big deal or at least it shouldn’t be. Part of the process now-a-days to buy life insurance is take a medical exam, and the insurance companies actually make this part easy by sending a nurse-practitioner to the prospective client’s home for administering the forms and lab work.\nYesterday, we had our home visit. As part of the nurse’s visit, she subjected me to some of the ugliest anti-immigration crap I’ve been personally subjected to. As a side bonus, she performed what at best would be the sloppiest blood sample draw, on Winnie, I’ve ever experienced or witnessed. Ever.\nOur local Prince William County, Virginia, newspaper “The Potomac News” ran a letter to the editor today that ranks as one of the most hateful screeds against immigration that I have ever read, anywhere. Even though I have already pegged this particular newspaper as a hard-core conservative newspaper, I was still shocked they would print such a letter. I had to respond.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "How this former Vedantu cofounder is taking on Instagram and Snapchat to build social media for teens\nUablehad started off as an online life skill development platform for students aged 6-12 in 2020.\n- In its current form, Uable is a mix of LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, but only for teens.\n- Zee5 and Big FM’s former CEO Tarun Katial is also working on a similar offering that focuses on women.\nAdvertisementAfter spending nearly seven years building one of India’s biggest edtech companies, Vedantu, Saurabh Saxena is now on a journey to take on\nHis latest venture Uable had started off as an online life skill development platform for kids aged 6-12 in 2020. The company had also raised close to $5 million from marquee investors like 3one4 Capital, Inflection Point, Pine Labs’ Amrish Rau and others.\nSaxena claims that the other model was working just fine, both parents and students enjoyed their method of skill development in a creative manner. Saxena’s seven-year-old daughter was also a user of the platform. However, Uable decided to pivot its business model to focus on a much larger audience. This switch in model was one of the reasons why Chiratae Ventures had decided to back the company in the first place.\nThe company decided to move on to become a social media platform for teens as there were no dependencies on convincing parents to buy the product for their kids or on salespeople to sell the product. “That [the previous model] becomes a very non-scalable or very different proposition that I didn’t want to do as a founder or a team member as well,” Saxena told Business Insider.\nPreviously, Saxena has built two edtech ventures — chain of institutes Lakshya and edtech company\nWhere does the social network come into play?\nSaxena explained that Uable is a mix of LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, but only for teens. The platform allows an open and free space to teens on the internet, without exposing them to harmful content that is currently available online. It also helps students explore academic, career and learning opportunities.\n“Teenage is a great age to build a social product for… They spend so much time on the Instagrams of the world, Snapchats of the worlds. What they end up consuming, I mean it’s okay, I won’t say everything is crap. But at the end of the day what I believe is that social platforms need to change and become more and more valuable,” he added.\nSaxena said, “The core value proposition for Uable is this is the place where a teenager comes, can explore a diverse set of interests right from gaming design, art and design, love and relationship, career, skills, exams. We have a club on exams also if you want any help, if you want to join any study group also. So you explore your interests, you make new friends… Teenagers are looking to make interest-based friends and expand their network.\nThere are only two kinds of crowd allowed on the platform. First, the teens themselves. Second, verified businesses that serve this segment or have opportunities for them. It is the second set of users that offers monetisation opportunities for Uable.\nThe company rewards teens in the form of virtual coins to use each feature on the platform — liking photographs, uploading content, interacting with others and more. These coins can then be used to avail discounts on the sellers and businesses listed on the platform.\nThe company wants to expand these businesses available on the platform and grow its library of e-books, audiobooks and more such digital assets for platforms.\nEnsuring safety for children online\nIndian media executive and business professional Tarun Katial — who has previously led Zee5 and Big FM as founder chief executive — is also working on a similar offering called Eve World, but solely focusing on women. He started working on the platform in 2020 after his wife, media veteran Monisha Singh Katial, was trolled on social media platforms.\nWhile there is no such motivation for Saxena, he does believe that there is a need for such a platform where teens can brainstorm and grow their own social circles. The company is also ensuring safety of these teens on the platform by filtering out harmful, abusive and disturbing content on the platform. Teens can report any negative comments on the platform, the content would be taken down and users may be blocked too.\nUable will also bar the use of certain words on the platform — both publicly and in private chats. The company has however ensured that it would not be reading out any of the private chats of these teens, respecting their privacy, but will enable some alerts for certain words to prevent bullying on the platform.\nAdvertisementAccording to United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), more than a third of young people in 30 countries are being cyber bullied and one in five children skip school because of it. Meanwhile, eight in 10 children in 25 countries report feeling in danger of sexual abuse or exploitation online.\nHere’s why Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani is on a shopping spree for private fashion labels\nOla is going to acquire CEO Bhavish Aggarwal’s brother’s firm Avail finance\nPetrol and diesel prices hiked for the third time this week in metro cities\n- Cyclone 'Michaung' alert in the Tirupati, Nellore, Prakasam, Bapatla, Krishna, West Godavari, Konaseema, and Kakinada of AP Districts\n- Gold surges Rs 450 to hit record high of Rs 64,300 per 10 gm\n- 7 best places to visit in Amritsar on your next trip\n- Mizoram polls: ZPM dethrones MNF, bags 27 of 40 seats\n- Draft policy formulated to enhance tourism's contribution in economy: Union minister", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "BY PATRICK JARAMOGI\nBulambuli, Uganda: Before they ventured in massive commercial rice growing, Kingdom Rice trading as FOL Logistics were the largest rice importers in the country, importing over 90,000 metric tonnes of paddy rice from Pakistan.\nNow trading as Zeus Agro Limited, the firm that stopped rice importation last year and invested USD8 million (UGX30billion) in a 10,000-acre rice farm in Bulambuli district is now crying foul over government failure to construct an 11 km access road to the rice farm.\nFor the last 24 months, surveyor and engineers have had it rough surveying and accessing the rice farm located some 10kms along with the Bududa landslide victim resettlement camp at Busangi, Mbunambutye Sub County in Bulambuli district.\nTowards the end of 2019, Zeus Agro Limited was due to harvest their first totaling 3,700 metric tonnes of rice.\nManagement cry foul\nAdito Geoffrey, the farm director revealed that on 27th September 2019, before they begun harvesting, they wrote to the Minister for Works seeking help regarding the construction of the access road to plot 170 Bulambuli Zeus Agro Limited Rice Farm. On 14th November 2019, the farm management again wrote to the Works minister under reference (Ref: ZAL/MOWT/09/2019) see letter attached.\n“Hon Minister we refer to our letter dated 27/09/2019 where we requested for your assistance in the construction of access road to our 10,000-acre rice farm. We are greatly disappointed that ever since we started requesting for assistance in the construction of this road no Government department has come up to our rescue,” Adito complained in the letter.\nHe went further: “The road situation has completely gone bad that without tractors the farm is inaccessible. The rain that has frequently been falling has left no road. A few snapshots of the current situation have been documented\nhere for your knowledge.”\n“We expect to harvest the equivalent of 150 containers loads (3,700MT) of\npaddy in the coming month of December, Hon. Minister, with the current\nstate all that we shall harvest if we cannot transport to the mill out of\nthe farm for processing, will all go to waste.”\nAdito explained to the Minister that for the previous 45 days they had not been able to service the farm with diesel fuel to run the generators and irrigation pump neither\nwere they able to get water delivered for use on the farm.\n“Other than the employees of the farm we have 45 soldiers deployed for security who are also suffering with us due to lack of supply of food rations occasioned by no road,” he said in the letter.\nTo make matters worse, when we visited the farm we observed that the farm was not connected to the electricity grid, which stops some 6kms at the Bududa Landslide victims’ resettlement camp.\nAdito explained: “The farm is not on the Government electricity grid supply neither is serviced by National water supplies. We have to depend on this now impassable road to get those supplies. Hon. Minister if you do not come to our rescue as a matter of urgency, this investment that is so far estimated at 8 million US dollars is all headed to collapse.”\n“We stopped rice importation to go into backward integration to service the rice mill as agreed in the Memorandum of understanding signed with Statehouse and Uganda Investment Authority (UIA). To our disappointment, we have been left alone with no support to get this working.” According to the farm managers, no response has come from Minister for Works, neither Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA).\nZeus Agro Rice Farm had plans of integrating over 20,000 farmers in the Lango sub-region to act as out-growers of the rice to boost their production target of 200,000 metric tonnes of rice annually. Read (https://shiftmedianews.com/zeus-agro-limited-to-train-20000-farmers-in-modern-rice-growing)\nZeus Agro Limited CEO writes to Finance Minister\nSimilarly on 27th September 2019, under REF ZAL/MOFPED/09/2019) Mohammed Ahmed Bawazir, the Chief Executive Officer Zeus Agro Limited penned a letter to the Hon, Minister of Finance Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaijja (That we have obtained).\n“Hon Minister we wish to report to you that our first rice harvest from our farm at Busangi, Mbunambutye Sub County in Bulambuli District, Bugisu sub-region is ongoing and the results are amazing. We are however worried of how we are going to transport the harvest to our processing point with impassable roads that we have.”\nMohammed explained further: “Hon Minister, the 11 KM access road to the 10,000-acre farm that we constructed at the beginning, has now become impassable.”\nMohammed said the two new excavators e machines that they had brought along with low loaders and excavators got stuck and sunk on the road.\n“We need to hire a 50-ton crane from Kampala to recover both hired trucks and the excavator. The farm is expected to produce 120,000 metric tonnes of rice per annum, that is needed to meet the country’s shortfall that is being imported,” said Mohammed\n“The 120,000 MT can be transported by 6000 trucks each of 20MT. The road capacity, therefore, that is needed for this should handle over 12,000 trucks,” he said in his letter to Matia Kasaija.\nHe noted that the road doesn’t only the farm, but also the UPDF officer deployed in the areas as well as the farmlands of the Bududa Landslide victims.\nMatia Kasaija responds\nOn November 12th, 2019 the Hon. Minister for Finance, Planning & Economic Development, Matia Kasaijja wrote to the Minister for Works Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala asking that he acts as per the request of the Zeus Agro Rice Farm Limited (See letter attached). “Reference is made to the attached letter Ref: ZAL/MOFPED/09/2019 dated 27th September 2019 from the Chief Executive Officer Zeus Agro Limited requesting for construction of the 11-kilometer access road to their 10,000-acre rice farm. The CEO has indicated that while they had earlier on constructed the above-stated road, it has now become impassable yet they are harvesting their first rice crop.”\nKasaija added: “They are expected to produce 120,000 MT of rice per annum (Also read: https://shiftmedianews.com/special-report-uganda-to-stop-rice-importation-as-kingdom-rice-boosts-production-in-17-sq-mile-farm/) and will, therefore, go a long way in improving the country’s trade balance through import substitution. The construction of the road will not only enable Zeus to transport the harvest from the farm and market it to different communities across the country but will also facilitate the movement of people from neighboring communities and UPDF who use the road as a security road for the resettled Bududa landslide victims.”\nKasaija concluded his letter to Gen. Katumba Wamala with a directive: “The purpose of this letter, therefore, is to request you to prioritize the construction of this road within the budget of Ushs133.74 billion allocated to the project 0307 Rehabilitation of District Roads under your Vote for the FY2019/20.”\nThe Farm Manager told this reporter at the farm that five months down the road nothing is forthcoming. “Our investment is ruined, it’s gone, look at the stuck trucks, Works, UNRA, Office of the Prime Minister have all abandoned us. We can’t do anything right now given the start of the new rain season,” said Faizal\nGen. Katumba Wamala Reacts\nAll our efforts to get UNRA Boss Allen Kagina were futile, when we contacted Mark Ssali, the Communications Director at UNRA, he said: “Let me find out from my colleagues.” The Mbale UNRA officials, when contacted, said they don’t have money.\nBut the Minister for Works, Gen. Katumba Wamala in a communication dated 17th January 2020 (that we obtained) addressed to the Director Zeus Agro Limited titled: URGENT REQUEST FOR SECURITY DEPLOYMENT AT OUR RUCE FARM ON PLOT 170 BULAMBULI said: “Reference is made to your letter ZAL/MOW01/2020 dated January 12th, 2020 on the above subject matter.”\n“This is, therefore, to respond as here below: The request for security should be directed to the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) or the Inspector General of Police.”\n“The Intervention by the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) was because of the cry by the company but the road is a farm road and not on the UNRA Network, However, UNRA will finish what it started.”\nThe letter from Gen, Wamala was copied to the Minister of State for Works, State Minister for Transport, The Permanent Secretary, Works and Transport, the Chief of Defence Forces as well as Allen Kagina the Executive Director UNRA.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Adrian Peterson To Reportedly Visit New Orleans Saints Next Week\nBut like...what if AP becomes a Saint?\nFormer Saints fullback Heath Evans, who now reports for NFL Network, has cited an informed source stating that Adrian Peterson is set to visit the Saints next week.\nThis would be Peterson's third visit with an NFL team, as he previously visited Seattle, who signed Eddie Lacy, and New England, who didn't offer him a contract. It is reported that he hasn't set a price-tag, and is hoping to find the perfect fit.\nPeterson just made 32 in March, and missed most of last season with a torn meniscus.\nWould the Saints benefit from a veteran power runner, when they still have Mark Ingram who is coming off of his best season yet, and has more than one dimension in Drew Brees' pass-heavy offense?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mumbai: Stock markets opened with a buoyant note on Monday as the new financial year began ahead of the general elections.\nAt 10:15 am, the BSE S&P Sensex was up 315 points at 38,988 while the NSE Nifty 50 gained 75 points at 11,699.\nThe gains were broad-based with most sectoral indices in the green. At the National Stock Exchange, the banking index was up nearly half percent.\nHindalco traded high by 5.6 percent, Tata Motors 4.3 percent, Vedanta 4.2 percent and GAIL 2.6 percent.\nHowever, Indian Oil was down 3.6 percent, ONGC 2.2 percent, Indiabulls Housing Finance 2.1 percent and Coal India 1.8 percent.\nMeanwhile, other Asian stocks too rallied with market sentiment supported by positive Chinese factory data and signs of progress in US-China trade talks. The Caixin/Markit purchasing managers’ index (PMI) showed the manufacturing sector returning to growth.\nThe United States and China said they made progress in trade talks that concluded on Friday in Beijing.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Emmy-nominated director/writer/producer Ron Oliver started his career with the cult hit Prom Night II–called “the Blue Velvet of high school horror movies” by the Los Angeles Times–and since then has directed and/or written award-winning theatrical feature films and television ratings hits for Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, Fox, and The Walt Disney Co.\nCanadian-born Oliver’s work has been twice nominated for the prestigious Director’s Guild of America Award. He has traveled around the world to film in London, Paris, Berlin, Johannesburg and all the way back home to Hollywood, California. He is also a published author of award-winning short fiction as well as penning an acclaimed series of comic essays on filmmaking in the well-regarded “MovieScope” magazine.\nHe is currently in production on Amazon Studios’ reboot of the classic Sid and Marty Krofft Pictures “SIGMUND AND THE SEA MONSTERS”.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Marathi | HIndi\nJennifer Rene Psaki is an American political advisor who was the White House communications director from 2015 to 2017. Previously, she was a spokesperson for the Department of State and held various press and communications roles in the Obama White House.\nThe US White House on Tuesday (local time) has expressed serious concern over the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, calling for de-escalation of tensions between both countries by establishing a two-state solution.\nAfter the US announced travel restrictions on India which are set to start on May 4, the Biden administration has further announced that certain categories of students, academics, and journalists are exempted from the new set of travel restrictions.\nThe United States will restrict travel from India starting Tuesday amid an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 cases in the country.\nThe United States is exploring options to provide oxygens and related supplies to India, said the White House, adding that Washington may re-route shipment of oxygen generation system planned to other countries given the urgency of conditions in India.\nThe White House on Friday (local time) assured that the United States would be working closely with Indian officials on identifying ways for Washington to provide assistance as India reports its highest daily COVID-19 cases on Friday.\nPresident Joe Biden will host President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in in the second half of May to discuss the relationship between two countries and looks forward to his meeting with Japan's prime minister, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said in a briefing on Thursday.\nUS Senator from Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn on Sunday said China is aggressively testing President Joe Biden's administration, calling it part of a 'new axis of evil'.\nThe United States is engaged with Russia, Ukraine, as well as its European allies diplomatically on the current situation in eastern Ukraine, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, said in a press briefing on Friday (local time).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hindustan Times Group\nHindustan Media Ventures Ltd.\nFri,31 Oct 2014\nLife & Style\nSex & Relationships\nHealth & Wellness\nArt & Culture\nsell on OLX\nJobs in India\nColleges in India\nEnter search key word.\n300 , results found\nBebo in an RK film? (the video is loading, may take long. Please bear with us...)\nNovember 27, 2007\nIf reports are to be believed the two Kapoor cousins Kareena and Ranbir are all set to carry the\nof RK banner for ...\nMamata undoes Lalu’s food legacy\nJune 4, 2009\nIn her first act as railways minister, Mamata Banerjee has taken charge of the kitchen. Moving in to address complaints ...\nBSP trying to monopolise Ambedkar's legacy: Congress\nApril 14, 2010\nWith a controversy erupting over alleged denial of permission to Rahul Gandhi to garland the statue of BR Ambedkar in a ...\nGovernment to rekindle interest in Tagore's rich legacy: PM\nMay 9, 2010\nNobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore used art as a bridge to connect the individual with the world at large, Prime Ministe ...\nAEG Live set to make profit on Jackson's legacy\nJuly 3, 2009\nMichael Jackson's sudden death had left AEG Live, the promoter of his comeback concerts, in shock but what initially loo ...\nObama to remove curbs on stem-cell tests\nMarch 9, 2009\nUS President Barack Obama will today wipe out another contentious aspect of his predecessor George W Bush's\nCivil rights leader James Bevel dies\nDecember 21, 2008\nThe Rev. James L Bevel, a prominent figure in the civil rights movement whose\nwas clouded by an incest conviction ...\nLast days of the general: Suharto's legacy\nJanuary 27, 2008\nFormer president Suharto's stamp on Indonesia was so strong that a decade after his ouster as its leader, the world's fo ...\nAmerican to spread Hiroshima legacy\nAugust 5, 2007\nThe anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings on Monday comes just a month after Japan's defense minister resigns simply for ...\nChandrashekhar a shadow of his former self\nMay 1, 2007\nOnce the unmatched political hero of eastern Uttar Pradesh, former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar now finds his political ...\nJuly 13, 2008\nMahesh also decided he wanted to leave a\nbehind, so he dissolved the partnership and introducing a corporate stru ...\nBlair prepares to step down, outlines legacy\nApril 27, 2007\nIt is believed that Blair will announce his departure after the results of the May 3 local elections in England, Wales a ...\nBlair backed India over Kashmir\nMay 12, 2007\nWhen Tony Blair departs from 10 Downing Street on June 27, he will leave behind a\nthat India will remember for a ...\nBush seeks to salvage legacy at NATO\nMarch 31, 2008\nUS President George W Bush sets off on Monday for his farewell NATO summit and a final heads-of-state meeting with Russi ...\nPPP-Nawaz bonding signals post-poll axis\nFebruary 19, 2008\nmay fetch her party a legislative presence in all the four provinces, reports Vinod Sharma\nNYC woman who was harassed over 100 times in 10 hours gets rape threats\nBlack money list: 10 developments since Modi govt took charge\n'I'm proud to be gay', says Apple CEO Tim Cook\nHalloween Special: 13 must-watch movies for horror junkies\nBigg Boss 8: Gautam Gulati wants to be the next captain\nCentre gives black money full list to SC, names to remain secret\nBlack money: Govt discloses eight names to SC\n'Kiss of Love' to protest moral policing in Kerala\nSupreme Court pulls up Centre over black money, asks it to submit full list of names today\nBJP calls black money affidavit historic, Cong claims blackmail\nShiv Sena speaks of humilation by BJP, says will not attend Fadnavis' swearing-in\nModi govt's austerity drive: No first-class travel for bureaucrats\nGovt may downsize MGNREGA to boost scheme impact on the poor\n1984 anti-Sikh riot victims to get Rs 5 lakh additional relief\nAnother sexual assault case in Bangalore, 6-yr-old abused in school\nLife & Style\nJobs in india\nHT Delhi/NCR Subscription\nWork with us\nPrint ad rates\nCopyright © 2014 HT Media Limited. All Rights Reserved", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ALL AROUND RIFLE AND SIDE ARMS\nIt has often been said that the all-round rifle has not yet come out. When you hear a statement like this it is nothing but propaganda favoring the different firearms. It has been out ever since the birth of the 32-20.\nIn this caliber we have at least two makes and the lever and pump action to choose from. My preference is the Winchester 32-20 carbine. It is good on small game such as squirrels and groundhogs yet its bullet has enough velocity and weight to give ft sufficient killing power for deer and black bear, if vitally hit. Even the high-powered rifles will not kill if their bullets miss the vital spot.\nThe 32-20 will penetrate a good-sized telegraph pole, and this to my notion is powerful enough for most big game at the average killing range. In my judgment the best side arm is the 38 Colt automatic military model pistol, with six-inch barrel. They are very accurate. I have killed squirrels and other small game with mine. It has good penetration, and it will also shoot through a good-sized telegraph pole. They are accurate and powerful enough to hit and kill a bear or deer at fifty yards.\nIn closing will say that I think these a perfect combination of all-round guns.\nHunter-Trader-Trapper. October: 1921,\n|Are you aware that Google is offering +1 to Everyone? Share your +1 with Every One of Your Friends by looking for the +1 on websites everywhere!\" |\nIf you liked this site, click\nOrder Online 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week, 365 Days a Year", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When John and Barbara Tokarz were preparing to retire, John was ready to pursue the off-the-shelf Midwestern dream: Arizona and endless sunshine.\n\"Then my wife woke me up,\" he explained. \"She said, `What about our grandkids, what about our kids?' \"\nSo four months ago, they moved to one of the new retirement meccas anyway: Huntley, home of the Del Webb Corp.'s first Frost Belt community, in a part of northwest suburban Chicago where cows still moo.\n\"Now I'm getting the things I missed with my own kids, when I was working and didn't have time,\" Tokarz said. He has taken his six grandchildren whitewater rafting and camping. Yet the Tokarzes appreciate the social opportunities of being around people their age. \"In the old community, people were moving in and out, and you didn't know the younger ones. Here everybody's in the same boat.\"\nAnd that boat is looking more and more like a ship. Though it's too early to predict exactly where the growing crowd of retirees will be heading as the Baby Boomers begin calling it a career in 2001 at the early-retirement age of 55, some retirement observers are speculating that change is on the way as to where people retire.\n\"The whole business of retiring to Arizona and Florida, I think, has run its course in the last 20 to 25 years,\" said Joyce Cohen, a board member of the International Society for Retirement Planning and a life-planning specialist with Unconventional Wisdom of Huntington, Conn. The rage is to stay put (with a home in the area) but travel more or retire to smaller communities or college towns.\"\nBut the notion of most Yankee retirees heading south to live is a myth anyway, according to a guru on census figures and retirement. Charles F. Longino Jr., a sociology professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and author of \"Retirement Migration in America\" (Vacation Publications, $39.95), said the vast majority of retirees, about 75 percent, don't move an inch at retirement, according to the 1990 census, which was in line with previous censuses. (This excludes the \"snowbirds,\" of course, who may spend a couple of months in warmth during the winter.)\nOf all age groups, people aged 65 and older are the least likely to move, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Only 4.5 percent of them change locations annually versus 31.8 percent of people aged 20-29, the group most likely to move.\nOf the retirees who do move, about 10 percent stay within their county, another 10 percent move outside the county but stay within their state, and only about 5 percent cross state lines, according to Longino's analysis of census figures.\nAmong the retirees heading out of Illinois, about 25 percent go to Florida, according to Longino's figures, but surprisingly, slightly more choose Wisconsin over Arizona, 8 percent versus 7.9 percent respectively.\nWisconsin performs the same function for Chicago as Cape Cod does for New York, Longino said, and the percentage of retirees moving into neighboring Midwestern states overall is equal to the number moving to Florida.\nLongino expects the 2000 census to reflect the same retirement migration trends of previous decades, but this census basically will be the final chapter for the World War II generation.\n\"Veterans were more inclined to go to the old popular destinations of Florida and Arizona,\" Longino explained. He speculated that this might have been because of wartime travels. \"But the (World War II) veteran population is dying out,\" he added. \"We could have a falling off of that trend.\"\nNevertheless, because the Baby Boom generation will so swell the retirement population, doubling it to about 70 million by 2030, even a trickle percentage-wise will still look like a torrent at the Florida and Arizona borders. Only after the Baby Boom tapers off, Longino said, will the popular retirement destinations feel a pinch.\nDennis Donnellan of Grayslake, still spry at 80, reflects the GI trend. He fell in love with the Southwest while patrolling the Mexican border on horseback for the Army at the outbreak of World War II. When he retired, he and wife Justine headed back, buying a home in the original Sun City near Phoenix in 1978.\n\"If you couldn't find something to entertain you there,\" he said, \"you were in a casket.\" But his wife's health problems brought them back to the Chicago area in 1994. \"She got arthritis and wanted to be near the children and the grandchildren,\" he said. \"Although she'd be better off down there, she didn't want to be away from the family when she wasn't feeling well.\"\nDonnellan acknowledged that there are pluses to being back: \"When that grandchild holds your finger, there is no other feeling that can match it.\"\nBeing savvy about how retirees think and feel is essential to the Del Webb Corp. The granddaddy of Sun Belt retirement-community developers quickly figured out the math in retirement migration, and opened its Huntley community in spring 1998.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Marvel, all the new features provided in February in the US\nFrom the website newsrama, we have a summary of the innovations that we see planned in the USA in the month of February from Marvel.\nLet's start from the exchange of creative teams: it will be the designer Valerio Schiti take over at Jim Cheung on Marvel Two-In-One #3, while America #12 will be illustrated by Stacey Lee.\nAmazing Spider-Man #795 will be taken care of by Mike Hawtrone and superstar Stuart Immonen will draw the following #796.\nPaulo Siquiera will draw Atonishing X-Men #8. Finally, the penciler Nico Henricon salt to the edge of Doctor Strange #387.\nLet's analyze now the main news on the most important titles.\nWe will see a return of the Storm king T Challa Black Panther #170 to face Ras The Exorther.\nThe doctor Stephen Strange will have the opportunity to have his revenge against Loki, the new sorcerer supreme. Will the doc get his powers? The answer to Doctor Strange #385/386\nThe event Avengers No Surrender will be in full swing, with the revelation of the identity of the mysterious character of Voyager. Also on Avengers #679-#682 will see the loss of a member of the Avengers, but also the return of one of the most beloved characters...\nShe Hulk #162 see Jennifer Walters to try to regain control of the se itself, but it may not be so simple...\nOld Man Logan could have a chance to regain his factor healing, and will team up with Scarlet Samurai, on Old Man Logan #35.\nWill also start the Conutdown to the mysterious event Infinity, which we have already spoken in the past few weeks. The story will then begin on Infinity Countdown: Adam Warlock #1, which will see the return to the scene of the character of Adam Warlock.\nWith regard to publications relating to the mutants, Atonishing X-Men# 8 will take the X-Men to face the enemies more terrifying. Rachel Summers will be in serious trouble on the X-Men Gold #22, also the mutants will have to face an unsettling loss on the #23.\nIt will be the month of good for the return of Tony Stark? Iron Man #597 will provide us with the answer: “IronHeart will be born again, Dr. Fate will fall, and Tony Stark ermergerà from the shadows!”\nMarvel, all the new features provided in February in the US is MangaForever.net", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Create an Account - Increase your productivity, customize your experience, and engage in information you care about.\nLawrence High School junior Jordan Ott recalls feeling many things in the wake of his brother Isaiah’s suicide in 2013.\nJordan, now 17, recalls he was a little bit young to realize exactly what was happening, but it’s a sense of loss that sticks with him every day.\nThis also drives him to bring awareness to make more people aware of potential triggers to suicide and possibly help those at risk of suicide.\nHe is organizing the “We Got Your Back – Suicide Awareness Walk” from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 23, at the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence Teen Center, 2910 Haskell Ave. in Lawrence. There will be counselors available and private areas for those who want to talk. He’s been working with staff members at the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence to bring awareness to the event.\nPrioritizing prevention in behavioral health is a key strategy in the current Douglas County Community Health Plan. The county's age-adjusted mortality rate is 16.3 per 100,000 population, which is higher than the Healthy People 2020 goal of 10.2 suicide deaths per 100,000 population.\nWith Jordan’s work, he hopes to help the community work to reduce suicide rates. For one, he has noticed it’s typically only talked about when it happens, and by then it’s too late to help that person and his or her family.\nHe works to humanize and tell stories as often as possible about his brother, Isaiah. They grew up playing sports together. They had a brotherly rivalry often. Things could be frustrating for Jordan as the younger brother. Basketball has been a huge part of the boys’ lives, as their father, Elwood Ott, coaches basketball at Haskell Indian Nations University.\n“Isaiah was just so driven to succeed in sports. I found things in his room that showed how dedicated he was to his workout regimen, and things like that,” Jordan said.\nHe also recalls one of the final times he heard his brother’s voice on the phone when he called him from Oklahoma. Jordan was stressed about his own things, and Isaiah — instead of needling him — told him how proud he was of him.\n“He said, ‘I love you,’ and I’ll never forget that,” Jordan said.\nMaybe it’s something he took for granted, but he hangs onto that moment now. And it keeps him going as he seeks to help bring awareness to suicide prevention. He talks about how he’s learned to help support friends and family who might be showing signs.\n“I would do whatever I could take your mind of it, even if it’s just for a little bit. I’d get you some Skittles, if that was your favorite candy,” Jordan said. “Then I’d make sure to keep checking in with you. Make sure you got the right help and that I was not being judgmental about it.”\n- Jordan sat down for a conversation recently with his longtime friend, Analise Reeder, and her mother Christina Gentry, the Health Department’s community liaison.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Another difficult choice with at least five comments in the race.\nThis isn’t a single comment, it’s a conversation of sorts between a pair of numpties and an interloper who’s trying to talk sense. This was found on Damian Thompson’s blog, which usually tends to attract a fair number of weirdos and cranks.\nIt’s the one whose username is a series of asterisks who writes…\nand an awful lot of money could be returned to the UK treasury by selling the BBC to the Arabs, since it is already their principal propaganda outlet in the UK.\n…that gets me.\n“*****” presumes the BBC is part of some New World Order Eurabian conspiracy to force Sharia law onto us. The BBC isn’t “pro-Arab” at all – unless you’re watching a Bizarro World version of the Beeb.\n“Fred Scuttle” makes a sensible point but then “binliedto” comes along and wishes he would “set [himself] on fire” Charming. Are the moderators actually doing their job?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "One year on: How iPhone has influenced SKorea\nIt may just be a phone to some but the one-year anniversary of the Apple iPhone’s introduction to the South Korea market has prompted a number of the country’s media to reflect on how the device has changed society for the better.\nSunday marks the one-year anniversary of Apple’s iPhone debut in Korea. Prolonged regulatory bickering had been long delayed its release, coming more than a year after its release in the U.S. and other countries.\nBut late as it was, the iPhone’s impact was bigger than most market observers ever expected. The iPhone has influenced how people live, work, as well as socialize and entertain, as it did to Chang [a citizen whose usage of the iPhone is profile at the beginning of the article].\nIn fact, Chang’s profile offers a snapshot of the iPhone’s user demographics, according to KT, Korea’s No. 2 mobile service provider and the iPhone’s exclusive seller. Seventy-seven percent of iPhone users are in their 20s and 30s, while 16 percent are in their 40s and 4 percent are teenagers, KT says. Sixty-one percent of iPhone users are men, and 69 percent live in a metropolitan area.\nKT says high data usage is one of the most notable changes brought about by the iPhone to the telecommunications industry. An average smartphone owner uses 507 megabytes of data per month – 40 times the data used by owners of nonsmartphones.\nThe article also credits the iPhone with igniting the country’s smartphone industry:\nBut the iPhone boom is not just a story of a single well-selling handset. The iPhone triggered the releases of many other smartphones in the market.\n“Changes in the market and society can either occur from within or outside,” said Kang Jeong-su, a researcher at Yonsei University’s communications lab. “The iPhone is a humongous shock that came externally.”\nThe iPhone is also credited with helping grow the country’s app industry, helping business learn how to monetise mobile and increase mobile banking usage.\nThe Korea Herald is similarly full of praise for the effects the iPhone has had on the country’s smartphone industry, including social networking:\nSmartphones have also made it easy for people to engage in online social networking ― such as on Twitter, Facebook and Cyworld ― mainly using mobile applications. The number of Korean-language mobile apps at Apple’s App Store also saw a huge jump ― up to 316 percent in the past year ― to 7,475 this month, from 2,367 in December last year.\nWhile operator KT is perhaps the most obvious beneficiary as the country’s iPhone carrier:\nThe introduction of the iPhone has also improved the reputation of its exclusive carrier KT by transforming its company image from a slowly-changing public corporation to an innovative firm unafraid of the “mobile big bang” in Korea.\n“KT has been in the lead of the so-called ‘smart innovation’ through establishment of its networks and the introduction of the iPhone,” said Pyo Hyun-myung, president of the company’s mobile business group. “We’re further planning to go beyond telecommunications and take the frontrunner position in open eco-innovation and cloud computing for a new revolutionary era of information and communication technology.”\nTo give some background the below infographic from KT shows ownership numbers illustrating just how prolific the popularity of the iPhone has been since its launch late last year. Particularly strong growth has occurred in the latter stages of 2010.\nMore than just a phone, perhaps, but there is no doubt that the iPhone launch in South Korea came at just the right time and in conjunction with the (initially) small growth in interest in western social media, which continue to see greater attention in the country although none have yet to challenge the ruling domestic social networks. Perhaps the continued growth of the iPhone, and the likely introduction of the iPad, will help the likes of Twitter and Facebook grow their userbase in the country?\nWhile KT will be keen to remain the device’s sole vendor in the country, it seems likely that might change given iPhone has expanded from exclusive agreements in many other Asia markets.\nFinally, on the topic of iPhone and its potential impact, there is some closely related (and excellent) futuregazing over at Motley Fool who asks ‘Is China the iPhone’s Next Growth Engine?‘:\nWith some analysts going so far as predicting that China has a market for 100 million high-end smartphone buyers (a target that’s probably a bit too high right now), there’s no denying the vast potential in the country. U.S. smartphone penetration rates are still around 30%, and growth rates will begin slowing in the next few years, as a saturation point hits and those still without smartphones are unwilling to pay the extra monthly data fees that are required with advanced phones.\nThat leaves areas such as China, India, and Latin America as key growth engines to replace a developing-country slowdown.\nA million contract users [which iPhone currently has in China, with arguably inferior operator Unicom] pales in comparison with other countries, but it also illustrates the potential that can be unlocked if or when the iPhone bolts to China Mobile.\nThat said Gang Lu over at Mobinode has a post revealing that China Mobile is advertising the iPhone despite the fact it is not an official partner – read more here.\n- The criticality of endpoint management in cybersecurity and operations\n- Ethical AI: The renewed importance of safeguarding data and customer privacy in Generative AI applications\n- How Japan balances AI-driven opportunities with cybersecurity needs\n- Deploying SASE: Benchmarking your approach\n- Insurance everywhere all at once: the digital transformation of the APAC insurance industry", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Winchester, Va. -- less than two hours from D.C.-- is the home of country music superstar Patsy Cline. It's also the setting of \"Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk.\"\nGuest Host: Jen Golbeck\nOne in five students show signs of mental problems, yet their symptoms are often ignored or misunderstood. Left unacknowledged, these symptoms can develop into debilitating disorders that plague our education system. WAMU 88.5 education reporter Kavitha Cardoza recently partnered with NPR to report on the Washington region’s experience with mental health issues in school. We discuss her findings with her and several mental health experts.\n- Kavitha Cardoza Special Correspondent, WAMU 88.5 News\n- Steve Drummond Senior Education Editor at NPR News\n- Mia Quander Road School parent\n- Chris Parent, Quander Road School\n- Sharon Hoover-Stephan Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine\nMost Recent Shows\nTwo cyclists died after sustaining injuries while biking in D.C. Is the District's Vision Zero plan working?\nSummer is a beloved American tradition, but for many families it breaks the bank.\nWhat are Ellen Stofan's plans for the nation's most visited museum?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "FCC Hong Kong statement on release of Reuters journalists\nThe Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong welcomes the release of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo who had been jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.\nOver the 16 months the pair spent behind bars, the FCC Hong Kong and other press organisations had repeatedly called for the charges to be dropped and for the two men to return home to their families. They were only doing their jobs, and had not committed any crimes.\nThe FCC Hong Kong congratulates them on their long overdue freedom and reunion with their families.\nReporters in Myanmar continue to face prosecution for public-interest reporting as well as pressure to self-censor, even under the elected civilian-led government of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate who had been the country’s most famous political prisoner for many years.\nThe FCC Hong Kong continues to call on Suu Kyi and her administration to support press freedom and ensure that journalists are able to work without threat of retaliation.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "October 9, 2018\nIdeas matter. In fact, we are largely at the mercy of our ideas. Emotions are important as well, but while they are wonderful servants, they are terrible masters! The greatest issue of our day involves the credibility and implications of a specific idea. This idea is so pervasive, it is in the very air we breathe even though most have not heard of the idea, or at least its name. That idea is scientism. Because I doubt that many would have this on their top ten list of today’s crucial ideas, let me take a step back and justify its selection.\nIt is on the basis of knowledge—not faith, mere true beliefs, or deeply felt convictions—that people are given the authority to speak and act in public along with the courage and boldness to do so. For example, dentists have the cultural authority to deliver public lectures and act in certain ways—e.g., fill molars!—and the courage to do both because we take them, quite rightly in this case, to possess the relevant body of knowledge. If my dentist told me that he actually did not know anything about molars, but he did have very deep feelings and faith commitments about them, he would not get within 100 miles of my mouth!\nThus, cultural authority to define a relevant range of reality, truth, and what it is rational to believe is deeded by people in that culture to those who have (or, at least, are taken to have) the relevant body of knowledge. The most important idea in a society is its understanding of who does and does not have knowledge, who gets to define reality, truth and rationality and who doesn’t.\nHere is where scientism comes in. It is the idea that the only way—or the vastly, vastly superior way—to gain knowledge of reality and truth resides in and only in the hard sciences. As one advocate of scientism told me, if something like religious, ethical, or related claims cannot be quantified and proven in the laboratory, then the claims are nothing but hot air, mere expressions of feeling that cannot carry any authority.\nScientism has led to cultural chaos in many ways. I shall mention three. First, a Barna study discovered that there were six reasons why Millennials are leaving the church and Christianity. All of them involved doubts and various intellectual issues of which one was key: the claim that the church was not adjusting to the discoveries of modern science. Scientism implies that Christian claims are mere expressions of feeling with no authority to command belief.\nSecond, scientism has marginalized the church. Given our numbers, our impact on culture should be orders of magnitude greater than it is. Why is this? Because we lack boldness and courage and society believes our religious ideas are irrelevant and not authoritative since they cannot be known. Ever witnessed to someone and he/she responds with “You can’t prove that scientifically.” The person may not know it, but he/she is assuming scientism. If you can prove the Bible is true scientifically, then I have to believe it. But if you can’t, I can reject it since there is no other way outside the hard sciences to know things. Scientism makes one reason stupidly.\nFinally, scientism has led to Postmodern Relativism according to which all reality (e.g., gender) is a social construction, and reality, truth, and values are relative to a group with the same feelings. If a science teacher said there was hydrochloric acid in a beaker, no one would accuse him/her of legislating chemistry because we take such claims to be items of knowledge. But one is, in fact, accused of legislating religion or morality if one claims one’s views are true since according to scientism, such claims are unknowable expressions of emotion.\nThe issue of scientism is one of the most important topics contemporary Christians must understand. In my book Scientism and Secularism, I provide a clear understanding of scientism, explain in detail why it is so dangerous, offer a hard-hitting critique, and finish with advice for how Christians should relate their truth claims to those of science. It may be the most important book I’ve ever written.\nDownload a free excerpt of the Scientism and Secularism! Help support content and leadership that advances the Christian worldview by becoming a regular financial supporter of Eidos Christian Center today!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The historic Sumner Cemetery at 12324 Valley Avenue East was vandalized the evening of Jan. 30 and the early morning of Jan. 31.\nSumner Police Department has determined more than 80 headstones were vandalized.\nSome antique granite stones were tipped over, while others were carried to other areas of the cemetery.\nSumner police have begun an investigation while City Shops and Parks crews help cemetery staff restore the headstones.\nThose with any information are encouraged to call police.\nThe Sumner detectives’ tip line is 253-299-5678.\nThe cemetery experienced similar vandalism in 2005.\nTwo suspects were caught and were sentenced to community service.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Gail Heimann is Chief Executive Officer of Weber Shandwick, a leading global communications network that delivers next-generation solutions to brands, businesses and organizations in major markets around the world.\nGail believes that Weber Shandwick’s highest purpose is “solving” – addressing the toughest problems and issues of clients across the globe in a way that delivers measurable, positive impact. She oversaw the development of the firm’s evolved service delivery model, designed to drive the kind of deep integration it takes to solve for clients, whether it be locally, regionally or globally. She is dedicated to continuing to build an organization differentiated by the depth of its specialist expertise, its commitment and willingness to innovate and its culture of collaboration.\nGail has spent the better part of her career at the epi-center of solving through idea-creation. She brings a relentless pursuit of ideas that touch, move, build, transform and deliver results. In recent years, Gail has accelerated innovation and activation across the firm’s global practice areas, with a particular focus on its digital services and analytics operations. Gail has helped to build brands and burnish reputations for organizations across the industry spectrum – from the technology and finance sectors to food & beverage and healthcare.\nGail was a catalyst in Weber Shandwick being named as the only PR agency to the prestigious Ad Age Agency A-List in 2014, 2015 and 2020, and featured as an A-List “Standout” Agency in 2017 and 2018. Ad Age also named Weber Shandwick to its Best Places to Work list in 2019. Weber Shandwick was also honored as PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year four years in a row (2015 to 2018) and PRovoke‘s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2017 and 2019.\nUnder Gail’s leadership, Weber Shandwick has won nearly 100 Cannes Lions in partnership with leading brands around the world. Gail has served on three juries at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity: President of the Public Relations jury in 2012; a member of the inaugural jury for the Glass Lions, which celebrate work that breaks through gender bias and stereotypes, in 2014; and a member of the Cannes Lions Titanium jury in 2018.\nIn 2020, Gail was named the PR Agency Head winner in Campaign’ inaugural U.S. Agency of the Year awards. In 2019, she was honored twice by PRWeek as US Agency Professional of the Year and Global Agency Professional of the Year. In 2016, she was inducted into PRWeek’s inaugural Hall of Femme, recognizing female trailblazers in communications. And in 2015, Gail was named to PRovoke’s North America Innovator 25 list, which celebrates individuals who accelerate innovation and push boundaries within the public relations industry. Earlier in her career, Gail was named an Ad Age Woman to Watch.\nGail and her husband have two daughters and live in New York City.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Evidence for life on other planets may already be sitting on a hard drive on Earth, but we may not realise that’s what it is, a science philosopher claims.\nThe question of whether we are ‘alone in the universe’ is one that has been pondered by scientists, writers and philosophers for generations.\nThere have been dozens of missions launched to search for life beyond the Earth and authors have written countless books on the subject.\nScientific philosophy professor, Dr Peter Vickers, from Durham University, says scientists need to have an open mind when considering life elsewhere.\nIn an article for The Conversation, he says conventional thinking or any bias towards life as we know it could be causing us to miss out on a major discovery.\n‘Plenty of breakthroughs happen by accident, from the discovery of penicillin to the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the Big Bang’, the philosophy professor said in the article.\n‘These often reflect a degree of luck on behalf of the researchers involved. When it comes to alien life, is it enough to assume ‘we’ll know it when we see it’?\nOne of the techniques scientists can use in trying to identify alien life is to look for biosignatures – that is any substance that provides scientific evidence of past life.\nIt could be an element, isotope or molecule that would need life in order to be present in any given environment.\n‘Recent years have seen changes to our theories about what counts as a biosignature and which planets might be habitable, and further turnarounds are inevitable’, said Dr Vickers.\n‘But the best we can really do is interpret the data we have with our current best theory, not with some future idea we haven’t had yet.’\nA recent study found that it is common for distant exoplanets orbiting faraway stars to have water in their atmosphere.\nScientists from the University of Cambridge scoured the composition of 19 worlds for five years and found that water is often spotted but in low amounts.\nA total of 14 of these worlds had water vapour floating in its atmosphere, and key chemicals sodium and potassium were each present on six.\nIt is vital researchers approach any future search for life with an open mind and be prepared to discover ‘the unexpected’, he wrote.\n‘Studying the universe largely unshackled from theory is not only a legitimate scientific endeavour – it’s a crucial one.’\nThere are a lot of world’s in the universe, so the chance of alien species evolving, event at a microbial level, is very high, say astronomers.\nOne of the most famous Hubble Space Telescope images is of nearly 10,000 galaxies in a small region of the night sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.\nIn each of the galaxies there are an average of about 100 million stars and each star is likely to have at least one planet, according to exoplanet researchers.\nSpace agencies are launching ever more sensitive instruments in search of exoplanets and alien life within those distant galaxies and within our own Milky Way.\nSome are even hunting much closer to home.\nThere are four missions launching for Mars this year and three of them have the hunt for life on the Red Planet as a primary objective.\nMissions are also being planned to search the moons of the gas giants and telescopes are hunting for planets in the habitable zone of other stars.\nOne example is NASA’s planned $7 billion HabEx telescope that will launch in the 2030s on a 10-year search for a ‘second Earth’ within the Milky Way galaxy.\nThe European Space Agency has launched its Cheops satellite that will hunt for habitable planets and NASAs TESS has been finding exoplanets since 2018.\nWith the discovery of more than 3,500 exoplanets, and another one found every day, the search for life has started to shift away from the solar system.\nThere are dozens of ‘potentially habitable planets’ orbiting alien stars – when looking for those in a similar position to Earth and with an Earth like make up.\nDr Vickers says scientists need to consider a wider approach to the search.\n‘In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists must be thoroughly open-minded’, he said in the article.\n‘This means a certain amount of encouragement for non-mainstream ideas and techniques.’\nHe said each and every new exoplanet discovered by scientists is rich in physical and chemical complexity.\n‘It is all too easy to imagine a case where scientists do not double check a target that is flagged as ‘lacking significance’.\n‘However, its great significance would be recognised on closer analysis or with a non-standard theoretical approach.’\nHe says we need to be prepared to search in unexpected places and take a less rigid approach when hunting for life elsewhere in the universe.\n‘One thing I have learnt, having spent over 20 years in this field of exoplanets, is to expect the unexpected’, said Scott Gaudi of Nasa’s Advisory Council.\n‘The only way to know for certain if they have life is to go out there and look.’", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "UNC board chair resigns following presidential search\nThe much-criticized chairman of the University of North Carolina's governing board is quitting now that the search for a new top administrator of the state's public universities is done.\nUNC officials said Monday that Charlotte attorney John Fennebresque resigned his seat on the Board of Governors, which oversees the 17-campus University of North Carolina.\nFennebresque in January engineered the early removal of university system President Tom Ross. Fennebresque praised Ross and explained the move by saying only that he and the board decided it was time for a change.\nFormer U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings was announced on Friday as the next UNC president. That process was panned by fellow board members as too secretive.\nAsheville attorney Louis Bissette Jr. steps in until the UNC board elects a new leader.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rookies and veterans report Tuesday for the Carolina Panthers hoping some key roster changes could lead to a more successful third year for head coach Matt Rhule.\nRhule, who has won five games each in his first two seasons, could be feeling some heat, as evidenced by his decision to pursue another option at quarterback, newly traded for Baker Mayfield. Fortunately, Mayfield offers benefits to a company desperate for improvement.\nTraining camp location: Spartanburg, SC\nRookie Report Date: July 26th\nVeteran’s Report Date: July 26\nKey Acquisitions: QB Baker Mayfield, S Xavier Woods, RB D’Onta Foreman, OL Austin Corbett, OL Bradley Bozeman\nMain losses: QB Cam Newton, CB Stephon Gilmore, DT DaQuan Jones, LB Hason Reddick\nIn almost every way, Mayfield has outperformed former starter Sam Darnold in the NFL so far, so asking him to step up offense seems like a safe bet.\nA bigger question for the Panthers might be how much help they can provide to Mayfield.\nDJ Moore was a consistent performer on the outside, but he’s had to make it on his own too often as Christian McCaffrey struggled with a multitude of injuries.\nD’Onta Foreman can be expected to help, and the offensive line has been strengthened in the draft and freehand (no small feat). McCaffrey’s health and durability is still a priority.\nDefending with Impact players like Brian Burns, Shaq Thompson and Derrick Brown is probably good enough to give the team a chance. Now it’s the turn of the offensive to improve.\nBrowns at Panthers, 1 p.m. ET\nLine: Browns -1 (FanDuell)\nIt’s perfect that Mayfield’s first game with the Panthers will be against his former team, the Cleveland Browns. Do you think Mayfield, who’s been a fiery guy in the past, might be a little jacked for this? Historically, the Panthers have a 4-2 advantage in the series, although the Browns last won 26-20 in December 2018.\nMost over/under bets currently hover around seven wins and pay +105 to +230 or so. If you think Mayfield can turn the tide of the Panthers in a pivotal year for Rhule, why not jump on the wild card prop bet team instead? Last year’s wild card only required nine wins, and if the Panthers win nine and can sneak into the wild card, it will pay +750 (MGM) in return.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "April 18, 2016\nBy Maisie Loh\nPARIS, Miami, SINGAPORE – ATEME recently announced that FRANSAT, the satellite TV bouquet of Eutelsat in France, broadcast the Vienna Opera ballet “Le Corsaire” live in Ultra High Definition (UHD) on April 2, in partnership with Arte channel.\nThe show was available in France, as well as the rest of Europe, Mediterranean region and Middle East through the satellite HOT BIRD. In parallel, the satellite signal was transcoded by IRT using TITAN to power a fine-tuned UHD DASH OTT real-time delivery on Arte’s HbbTV portal for smart TVs. DASH packetization was supported by an Anevia NEA LIVE Advanced Origin server that directly fed the Akamai content delivery network (CDN) worldwide.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fire crews in East Moline are trying to figure out what caused an early morning barn fire at a local farm. Local 4 was the first on the scene as crews were still putting out flames. It happened at Bohnert Jerseys on 112th Street North just after 1am. Owners of the farm tell local 4 that they woke to the sound of an explosion. What they saw next were flames engulfing parts of one of their barns. The barn had livestock inside at the time of the fire. So far, they believe they were able to save all the animals.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kewa Pueblo Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Child Abuse Charge\nALBUQUERQUE – This afternoon Aaron M. Coriz, 22, a member of Kewa Pueblo who resides in Taos, N.M., pled guilty to an indictment charging him with intentional child abuse under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.\nDuring today’s plea hearing, Coriz admitted abusing an Indian child under the age of 12 years on April 21, 2010. In his plea agreement, Coriz admitted punishing the child victim by striking the child on the buttocks, back, hips, legs, with his hands, resulting in redness, raised skin, and bruising on those areas of the child’s body. Coriz committed this offense on Kewa Pueblo land.\nUnder the terms of his plea agreement, Coriz faces up to six months of imprisonment to be followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the Court. Following his arrest on Nov. 27, 2012, Coriz was released to a half-way house under conditions of release. He remains on conditions of release pending his sentencing hearing, which has yet to be scheduled. The case was investigated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Justice Services, Southern Pueblos Agency, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Niki Tapia-Brito.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rio de Janeiro authorities plan to build fast bus lanes and press centres in the Vila Autodromo favela for the Olympics, rights groups say, moving thousands of poor Brazilians from their homes.\nRIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For 20 years, Inalva Brito has lived under threat of eviction from her house in the poor community of Vila Autódromo. The Rio government has given several reasons why demolition of housing here is necessary, but a stronger motive lies behind the latest pressures -- multi-million dollar projects for the 2016 Olympic Games.\nThis 66-year-old teacher is one of the 170,000 Brazilians who are at risk of losing, or who have already lost, their homes in forced evictions linked to preparations for the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016, according to human rights organization Witness.\nThe one-year countdown to the World Cup kickoff began on Wednesday for Brazil, but the country is far behind schedule on many projects to host the prestigious games.\nIn Rio alone the government has resettled 19,220 families since 2009, according to government officials. But the Popular Committee for the World Cup and Olympics, a watchdog group monitoring preparations for both events, says about 40,000 people are going through eviction in Rio, maybe more.\n“One year away from the start of the World Cup, we hoped that these great sports events would be beneficial for the population, based on the right for citizens to participate in the discussions regarding their city”, says Renato Cosentino, a member of the Rio Popular Committee and researcher at the Brazilian human rights watchdog Global Justice.\n“But we are seeing a series of human rights violations, especially when it comes to the right to housing,” he said. Groups plan protests on Saturday in Rio and Brasilia over displacements.\nInalva said that since the government first sent bulldozers into Vila Autódromo and residents filed their first civil action against their removal in 1993, there has been no dialogue or public consultation.\n“The municipal government has always acted in an authoritarian way,” she said.\nRenato agrees. “Many of the evicted communities don’t even know the reason for it, nor have they seen a project. There is a lack of information,” he said.\nRio’s Housing Office told Thomson Reuters Foundation that evictions in Vila Autodromo are part of a citywide drive to “provide comfortable and safe urban mobility to its citizens.” Six hundred families who currently “live under precarious conditions in the favela will have to be resettled,” the office said by email in response to a query.\nThe city plans to construct a major bus terminal and two new high-capacity fast lanes for the buses on the Vila Autodromo land to connect to Rio’s international airport in time for the Games. The remaining land will be used during the Games for the International Broadcasting Center (IBC) and the Main Press Center (MPC) in the Olympics Park. “After the Games, it will become a public area”, the housing office said.\nInalva doesn’t fully trust the official statements. She suspects business interests are also behind the eviction threats. “There is a project to build condos in our land after the Games. The evictions will have a lot to do with real estate business interests, which will be higher than it currently is here because of the Olympics”.\nAccording to Renato, 75 percent of the Olympics Park area will be made available to the private sector for hotels and apartment buildings.\nThe Rio government told Thomson Reuters Foundation that it offered Vila Autódromo residents the option to move to a housing project under construction in partnership with the federal programme, one kilometre from their community. The My House, My Life project is due for completion by 2014. Alternatively, they were offered subsidized rent of $187 per month, while waiting for a housing unit to be built in another area.\nThe resettlement process is handled in the most “democratic way, while respecting the rights of every family,” the housing office said. Families are notified in advance, and the importance of the resettlements in the broader public interest explained, it said.\nHowever, Inalva said residents have the right to remain and will not agree. “This is public land, we have the Title of Use document, and it should be designated for the people who have been living here for over 40 years,” she said.\n“The only residents who agreed on moving to the government buildings were the ones who don’t have their own houses, live in vulnerable conditions, in illegally occupied and risky areas. And the city hall never regulated their situation intentionally, so that they would have an excuse to remove us at any time,” the teacher added.\nTwenty percent of Vila Autodromo residents have agreed to move. To protest the evictions, the Popular Committee for the World Cup and Olympics is organizing in Rio a “Popular Cup” of community teams on June 15 – the day the Confederations Cups kicks off in Brazil.\n(Editing by Stella Dawson)\nOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Let it never be said that Michael Czysz doesn't value HFL's community. Yesterday, in our interview with Mission Motors racer Steve Rapp and marketing man David Salguero, T Diver asked Michael for a shot of one of his bikes pulling a wheelie. This morning, Michael sent over these exclusive images from the TTXGP race at Laguna Seca. \"It is a pretty sorry wheelie,\" Czysz explains. \"But it is a pure power wheelie and not due to 200lbs of batteries behind the rear wheel.\"\nThese images are more than wallpaper sized. In the gallery, click to expand and save to your computer if you want a new, pure electric power, desktop.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Our vision of success for every child means that children should have the opportunity to grow up with security, safety, stability, and respect from the first days of their lives. Creating success for every child is about constructing a nurturing and limitless future that we hope to leave the next generation. We want our children to grow into people, with the opportunities to choose how they thrive, with the right to their own lives.\nThe right to life means the right to safety. It includes the right of mothers to bring children into the world on their own terms, the right of children to learn without the threat of traumatic violence in their schools, and the rights of communities, especially communities of color, to conduct their lives without the looming peril of being ravaged by mass shootings.\nWhen we prioritize life, it means that we love and honor it. We celebrate and protect it, in its present and existing form. We are talking about female-bodied lives, immigrant lives, black lives, and young lives.\nFirst 5 San Mateo County stands united with our communities— those reeling from the trauma of gun violence, those who are scared, and those who can envision a future without it. We are here for our families and children.\nAge-based tips for teachers to help students process.\nResources for parents and teachers to talk to children.\nTalking to children about safety in the world we live in.\nAge-based tips on how to talk with kids about the news.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "For important COVID-safety and visitor information please see Visit Us\nThe NFSA shares newly digitised footage of Prince Philip in Australia.\nListen to a Q&A with director Stephen Maxwell Johnson.\nGuest author Julie Kalceff writes about creating her award-winning web series.\nA tribute to actor Hugh Keays-Byrne, who has passed away at age 73.\nCurator Jenny Gall talks with Laura Gordon about starring in the film Undertow, for which she's been nominated for Best Actress at the 2020 AACTA Awards.\nProduction designer Melinda Doring has donated her mother's unique collection of home movies, including never-before-seen footage of The Beatles.\nListen to Dr Andrew Pike's special presentation at the NFSA about Australian film icon, Chips Rafferty.\nAfter successful seasons in Canberra, Adelaide, the Gold Coast and Bathurst, the Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits exhibition now opens in Geraldton, WA.\nThe NFSA has acquired 24 glass slides by Walter Scott Griffiths illustrating his alternative vision for Australia’s future capital city.\nNew film and sound recordings have been added to the Anzac Sight Sound website to coincide with the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June, contributing to the final phase of First World War commemorations.\nA look at Betty Bryant, once Australia’s most famed film ingénue, who features in the exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits, now open on the Gold Coast.\nVale Jimmy Hannan, who passed away on 7 January 2019, at the age of 84. We celebrate his life and work, and acknowledge his kind donation to the NFSA.\nAudiences are about to discover the man behind the camera in the NFSA’s new exhibition Heath Ledger: A Life in Pictures.\nOther ways to Support Us", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ellen DeGeneres won the Teen Choice Awards' \"Choice Twit\"! Congratulations, Ellen!\nKeep up with George Lopez as he prepares to launch his new show! Check out Britney Spears as she posts exclusive pics, and Ashton Kutcher keeps his followers up-to-date while he's promoting his new flick!\nCheck 'em all out in \"Extra's\" handy list of 100 celebrity Twitter accounts!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "VIJAYAWADA:The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has decided to construct a shelter for streetdogs along with a sterilisation centre for them here. It has hitherto been dependent on a local NGO for their sterilisation. The decision was taken at a meeting of the VMC Council here on Thursday.\nResponding to complaints of the corporators from all the 59 divisions in the city that the streetdog menace had increased in their areas, VMC commissioner G Veerapandian said that the civic body had submitted proposals for the construction of the Streetdog Sterilisation Center (SSC) at Ajith Singh Nagar here at a cost of Rs 50 lakh. He added that the VMC also planned to distribute Raksha Anti-Rabies Vaccine worth Rs 20 lakh to various hospitals and that tenders had been called for this.\nIn other decisions, the council decided to equip the 30,000 street lights in the city with LED bulbs in the next 10 days at a cost of Rs 25 crore budget and hoped to cut down the power cost by 50 per cent.\nThe Council meeting witnessed heated exchanges between ruling Telugu Desam Party and YSR Congress Party corporators over the measures taken by the corporation on augmenting drinking water supply in the city during the current summer season.\nYSRCP corporator U Bahadur demanded that the council should discuss the measures taken by the corporation in this regard. Responding, the Mayor appealed to the corporator to raise the issue later. When Bahadur refused to heed to the Mayor’s advice, TDP Floor Leader G Hari Babu intervened in the matter leading to heated exchanges with the YSRCP leader. Then as the Mayor suspended Bahadur, he staged a protest walkout.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In Silicon Valley, which is notoriously male-dominated, women have much better chances of snagging a man.\nThis way, we’ll be able to keep you up to date with many more developments in the world of digital books and e-reading, on a truly global basis. Ulmart, Russia’s largest online store, started offering subscriptions today for Bookmate with unlimited access to electronic books for 150 rubles () a month.\nThe Sex Ratio Question,\" describes how the balance of men and women has had a profound effect on society, from sexual norms to economic power.\nWhen there's an excess of marriage-eligible men, research suggests, the dating culture — in which men are traditionally the active ones seeking partners, rather than the other way around — involves more romance, because men must compete for the attention of fewer women.\n\"In other words, the dating pool for straight, millennial, college graduates has four women for every three men,\" Birger says.\nSome research suggests that the gender ratio has a big influence on dating and marriage — women on campuses with more women and fewer men say they go on fewer dates but have more sex, for example.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Environment Canada’s special weather statement continues today (Monday) for the first heat event of the season affecting all of the Kawarthas.\nA warm and humid airmass moved over southern Ontario on Sunday. Low temperatures this morning remain above 20 degrees, providing little relief from yesterday’s heat.\nMaximum temperatures will be slightly cooler today, but are still forecast to reach the high 20s with humidex values possibly reaching 37.\nA cold front later today is expected to bring precipitation (possibly including thunderstorms) and cooler air into southern Ontario.\nOn Tuesday (June 19), temperatures will be in the low 20s, gradually increasing to the mid to high 20s later in the week.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Vicki L. Friedman | May 24, 2019\nSpecific to espnW\nBALTIMORE — Here we go yet again for Boston College or university women’s lacrosse. The Eagles are in the national championship match for a 3rd consecutive season but nevertheless in lookup of that elusive happy ending.\nThe Eagles (22-one) will have to acquire down the sport’s normal bearer if they are to capture their initial NCAA women’s lacrosse title.\nBoston University will encounter off from Maryland (21-1), a thirteen-time NCAA winner, Sunday at noon ET on ESPNU at John Hopkins’ Homewood Discipline. It can be a rematch of the 2017 national championship match, and these Eagles have purpose to imagine they can soar after triumphing fifteen-14 over North Carolina in Friday’s exhilarating national semifinals. No surprise that Sam Apuzzo, the reigning nationwide player of the calendar year, obtained unfastened for the video game winner 1 minute, 12 seconds into the second additional time.\nIt was Boston College’s 35th shot of a thriller that aired on ESPNEWS but is a guaranteed applicant for ESPN Common. Even Tar Heels mentor Jenny Levy touted the energy despite her workforce slipping in the semifinals for the second consecutive year.\n“A 15-14 extra time thriller on ESPNEWS way to go, women’s lacrosse!” Levy stated. “10 thousand folks in the stands. We’re striving to grow this recreation, and we set on a display tonight.”\nAnnounced attendance was essentially 8,508, but this position was pumped and packed.\nAnd that was before Maryland, participating in significantly less than an hour from its campus, exploded for the most goals in an NCAA women’s semifinal. It was however a further milestone for the school’s all-time winningest coach, Cathy Reese, in her thirteenth year. In profitable 25-thirteen, the Terps led wire to wire from Northwestern to avenge their only decline of the time.\n“It’s late, we are fatigued, but that was a heck of an energy by our staff tonight,” Reese explained at a information meeting a number of minutes just after midnight. “To continue to keep our foot on the gasoline and perform as very well as we did in opposition to a top rated crew like them is good.”\nIt was Reese’s three hundredth job victory, 269 of them coming at her alma mater.\nThe nightcap lacked the drama of the 1st video game but had a different variety of tension, beginning twenty five minutes late owing to a shot-clock malfunction. Northwestern (16-5) gained the attract count by just one, but most of the sport was an offensive onslaught that provided ten scores by two unrelated Griffins. Junior Brindi Griffin scored six situations. Sophomore Grace Griffin additional 4 aims.\nEven defender Julia Braig scored a goal — the initial in her 4-calendar year job.\n“It was seriously great,” mentioned Braig, beaming from that as very well as from keeping the Wildcats to one of 7 free-situation shots.\nAs heralded as the Terrapins are in these parts — fans in crimson lined the streets to cheer the workforce bus as it approached the personal stadium showcasing the 4 finest groups in the activity — this night will be remembered for the Boston College’s gritty perform.\nThe Apuzzo laser that introduced Tar Heels goalie Elise Hennessey to her knees was the end result of a gritty effort and hard work that could have performed out either way. Hennessey made a brilliant preserve at the conclusion of regulation, and Carolina senior Gianna Bowe observed a shot strike the publish in the very first overtime.\nBut, as regular, Apuzzo was clutch. Soon after the rating, the Boston College star twirled all around subsequent to the cage, the place she was quickly fulfilled by fellow All-People in america Kenzie Kent and Dempsey Arsenault.\n“Wonderful players make excellent plays in the moment,” Levy said.\n“Let us go!” Apuzzo shrieked, racing to the sideline, the place her aged neighborhood close friends from Very first Street back again in West Babylon, New York, held up a cutout of her confront, sharing hugs and superior-fives more than the fence.\nA 50 %-hour later on, Boston College’s most adorned star at any time sat pretty much expressionless in the workforce news convention, unwilling to get caught up in winning the one prior to the big 1 again.\n“The ladies all-around have been carrying out their work and creating it simple for me and I had a one particular-v-1. I took my possibility and was able to end, luckily,” was all Apuzzo would say about her 269th career intention, a program mark she retains together with the most draw controls and points.\nForgive Apuzzo for refusing to get much too enthusiastic in spite of her staff rallying from a six-intention deficit. She’s currently in the books with each sizeable particular person honor. Staying in this location two times prior to and coming away empty on the final working day has a way of subduing even a instant as huge as Friday’s, when the Eagles avenged their only decline of the time, to these very same Tar Heels (17-four) in the ACC championship activity.\n“We’re seeking to continue to be composed and not enable our nerves get to us, generating guaranteed we’re using it enjoy by enjoy and not finding overwhelmed by the cameras and all that things and focusing on our staff and what we will need to get performed,” Apuzzo said. “This yr we are seriously remaining regular and remaining quiet.”\nTwo decades back, the Eagles had been the hometown favourite in the finale a coach trip from their own Chestnut Hill campus. Substantial Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, hosted the team’s very first vacation to the championship. The position was so overwhelmingly big that BC supporters wore brilliant yellow T-shirts so the Eagles could place them in the stands, a custom that ongoing in Friday’s cozier location. Back again then, dual-sport star Kent, an excellent ice hockey participant for the Eagles, amassed 10 details and turned the first participant in event record to gain the Most Exceptional Participant award for a staff that didn’t earn. Rather it was who else but Maryland that prevailed, sixteen-thirteen.\nVery last 12 months Apuzzo was the unflappable a person, sneaking her workforce past the Terrapins in the nationwide semifinals, a victory that finished Boston College’s -fourteen streak vs . Maryland. But much less than 48 hrs later, the Eagles were being outplayed by James Madison sixteen-15.\nSo the giddiness right after Friday’s successful goal promptly gave way to the “just one game at a time” mantra that has outlined the Eagles this year.\n“Just one perform at a time,” is how Boston College’s Lauren Daly described the comeback work that noticed the Eagles rally from trailing five-, 7-1 and 8-three. A gritty North Carolina protection, with confront guards protecting against the trio of Apuzzo, Kent and Arsenault from doing their usual damage, stymied the Eagles’ offense to begin with. But that still left unheralded Cara Urbank free of charge to go off. And she did, with a group-significant four ambitions.\n“We slowly and gradually came back again and ended up on leading,” Urbank explained.\nThat’s in which Maryland stayed through its semifinal. Now a closing game is all that is remaining for the two groups.\n“I want to go out there and have entertaining. I get 60 additional minutes with my most effective mates,” claimed Maryland senior goalie Megan Taylor, credited with 14 will save. “In my 4 yrs, I constantly wanted to participate in 22, 23 game titles, and last calendar year we arrived up a very little little bit quick. The seniors didn’t get to don the Maryland uniform just one previous time. Now we do.”\n“The last four was four wonderful groups and I assume that the countrywide championship could have been any one particular of the 4 teams,” Northwestern coach Kelly Amonte Hiller explained. “Of course, BC has a whole lot of fire to want to acquire this, a thing they have not achieved, but I think Maryland in all probability has an equal amount of money of fire. It will be a good recreation, a great showcase for our activity.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If you suffer from depression and you are trying to get pregnant, you better wait until you've been off your anti-depressants for a year. It's not an official recommendation, it just makes sense based on the most recent findings that connect a mom's anti-depressant use to an increase in children with autism.\nFROM ABC: News of a widely-used class of drugs --and a growing problem among children.\nNew research suggests a possible link between some anti-depressants taken by expectant mothers-- and childhood autism.\nOut of four million children born each year in the United States, about 36-thousand five hundred will be diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. For an article in the Archives of General Psychiatry, the authors reviewed the medical records of over 16-hundred children and their mothers in California.\n298 of the kids had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The authors found that six point seven per cent of those children's mothers had taken a class of drugs called SSRI anti-depressants in the year before they had their babies.\nBy contrast, three point three per cent of mothers with non-ASD children had taken the same drugs. So a pregnant woman's use of SSRI anti-depressants was associated with a two-fold increase in the risk of autism spectrum disorder in her child.\nStill, the authors say less than three per cent of ASD cases might be attributed to anti-depressants.\nSnd they say these findings clearly should be considered preliminary pending more research and that pregnant women should not stop taking anti- depressants without their doctors' advice.\nSkin Dimensions, SB products are manufactured with Pharmaceutical-Grade ingredients. Products are not just \"Feel Good Products,\" as they contain unique and innovative ingredients in concentrations that can assist you in the achievement of your own personal skincare objectives. Our products contain higher percentages of Glycolic, Vitamin A, C, E, Co-Q10, green tea, than what you can usually purchase over the counter.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Forecasting future demand for your business can be an ongoing struggle as it requires analysis of past sales data and monitoring of market trends. In terms of market trends, building permits and housing starts are key leading indicators of future demand in the HVAC industry.\nThe value of Canadian building permits unexpectedly soared in December 2011, as $6.8 billion were issued. (discussed in a previous blog post). The 11.1 percent m/m increase was powered by plans for new condos and apartments in Ontario and commercial buildings in Alberta. In the residential sector, the value of permits rose 16.1 percent to C$4.5 billion, led by Ontario. Non-residential permits rose 2.8 percent to C$2.4 billion, with construction of office buildings and warehouses in Alberta.\nAs industrial professionals know, HVAC installations are required when constructing a building, meaning that all construction sites should be seen as an opportunity for business. With high production of buildings in the near future, HVAC industry should expect increased business activity as installations gain higher demand.\nLooking through the data, apartment and condo planning emerged in Eastern Canada while Western provinces consisted more of non-residential construction. This shows that there is an increasing level of Eastern Canadians moving to urban centers. Settling in urban areas could be a result of the price of oil being higher than the cost of living, making workers less likely to drive to work, forcing them to live closer to the city. Positively, development in urban residential areas brings increasing HVAC business activity, seeing that apartments require more ductwork that commercial buildings.\nIn conclusion, Eastern Canada may experience substantial amount of business this year, while the Western provinces will encounter less, but overall promising news for a strong future demand in the Canadian HVAC industry.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "DURBAN – At the launch of their YES programme, of 27 YES graduates were welcomed into the Adcock Ingram family.\nAfter President Cyril Ramaphosa's official launch of the YES Programme during the first quarter of 2018, Adcock Ingram took up the challenge to help close the gap of bringing 1 million youth on board within three years.\nAdcock Ingram will be taking on a new group of YES graduates each month up until March 2019. After the first-year cycle draws to an end and the graduates complete their one-year experience, a new cycle will start.\nBasadi Letsoalo Executive Director for Human Capital and Transformation for Adcock Ingram said, \"We are proud to be part of such a remarkable programme and to help make a difference to our country in terms of helping to reduce the rising unemployment levels\".\nShe added that at Adcock Ingram, they believe in the mantra of ‘adding value to life’, and under the transformation pillar of the company's strategy, they focus on attracting and keeping talent as well as developing our people.\nAdcock said that they are focused on being a catalyst for change within South Africa and is keeping an eye out for opportunities to make an impact on society. The company believes that young talent in South Africa need to be afforded opportunities because they are the leaders of tomorrow.\nBUSINESS REPORT ONLINE", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Peter and Paul. When handling Vatican funds, the pope said it is best to follow what some people describe as a “widow’s.\nI Am Not Ashamed Of The Gospel Minus One The cross is sufficient because it is Christ’s work for us- the gospel is grace through faith “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes” (Rom. 1:16). If you reject what Paul wrote then you are ashamed of the. Oct\nIn 2017, his report to the Vatican recommended that Corradi and Corbacho should receive the maximum sentences. expressed.\n(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) TOKYO (AP) — The Vatican’s Caritas Internationalis charity says it learned in 2017 of.\nOn November 18, the Pope addressed the participants of the meeting during a private audience in the Vatican, in the presence.\nThe pope said that reports of corruption coming from inside the Vatican are a sign that controls are working. “To guarantee this? Look, it’s the first time. it is discovered from the inside,” he.\nLocal organizers confirmed Hakamada was at the Mass, but the Vatican declined to say if the pope met with him as his.\nWorship Hymns Active RNS subscribers and members can view this content by logging-in here. A wave of resignations hits Willow Creek. Finding hope in a refugee camp. Singing new (and old) hymns of protest. Oct 25, 2018. You might notice I said “'hymns' are better than contemporary worship songs.” Not “old hymns.” Or “classic hymns.” Just “hymns.”\nBest Wireless Mics For Church About 25 percent of the country’s wireless microphones will have to be modified or replaced, according to federal projections. The ruling affects schools, colleges, sports stadiums, churches, theater. Several groups, including the National Association of Broadcasters, wireless microphone makers and some churches, protested the FCC’s decision, saying the agency and tech firms have not demonstrated.\nThree people, including Mr. Corradi, have been charged. He left that position in 2017, amid misconduct allegations, and.\nIn a report previously submitted to the Vatican, Simon requested the maximum canonical penalty for Corradi. Corradi’s name.\nIn a report submitted to the Vatican that June, Simon requested the maximum canonical penalty for Corradi. \"These are the first detainees, thanks to young deaf people who reported this to.\nADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian authorities say the Sidama people in the south have voted overwhelmingly. of anonymity out of fear for their safety. TOKYO (AP) — The Vatican’s Caritas.\n. the head of the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency amid continuing fallout from a controversial Vatican police raid on his offices Pope Has Lunch with Poor People on World Day of the Poor Pope.\nand introduced Christianity to the Japansee people. A visibly happy Francis recalled this history just one hour after his.\nA Vatican investigator believed his sole accuser was a victim of abuse. and said that in its view the responsibilities and punishments for the alleged crimes should be established. “As part of the.\nBell Shoals Baptist Church Sermons Ross Spano, a member of Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, Fla. 2017 to run for the House and faced campaign attack ads that used excerpts from a 2013 sermon he preached on gender roles in. In fact, their gospel roots could be traced further back, to the 1940s, when Cleotha Staples, the eldest sibling\nFive Vatican employees were suspended following a raid by the Vatican gendarmes on Oct. Francis said there’s a presumption.\nWe’ve looked forward to this for years,” Bonnie Engstrom told the Register hours after the Diocese of Peoria announced on Nov.\nRecent reports from Moneyval have praised the progress made by the Vatican, especially in cleaning up the Vatican bank and.\nA Vatican investigator believed his sole accuser was a victim of abuse. and said that in its view the responsibilities and.\nKeith Green Make My Life A Prayer “They are the ones that make it a great space.” One such Berlin regular is multi-hyphenate Jojo Baby— artist, nightlife icon and host of the long-running Boom Boom Room (formerly at the Green Dolphin. Jackson (Independent): Didn’t respond, but he is a graduate of the \"University of Life.\" Keith Swank (Republican. organizing with my co-workers\nParticipants of the Synod of Bishops’ special assembly on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment with Pope Francis in.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper), MEPs face a busy week of legislative matters in the coming five days. First up, the Industry and Budgets committees will vote on the set-up of a Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform.\nThis is designed to support EU projects in developing critical and emerging strategic technologies, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, renewable energy, and medical technologies.\nAccording to the proposal, STEP could mobilize up to €160 billion in new investments. As part of the revision of the EU’s long-term budget, MEPs propose an additional €3 billion.\nElsewhere, the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee will adopt its position on the so-called Euro 7 standards for emissions from cars, vans, lorries, and buses.\nThe objective of the proposal is to improve air quality, with a particular emphasis on urban areas, by reducing air pollutant emissions from road transport.\nMeanwhile, the Legal Affairs and Internal Market and Consumer Protection committees will adopt their position on the update of the EU Product Liability Directive, which is nearly 40 years old.\nThe proposal aims to bring the EU’s product liability regime up to speed with the digital age and protect consumers more effectively, including from psychological harm and data corruption caused by defective products, by including software and artificial intelligence in the rules for the first time.\nIn a joint secret vote in the Foreign Affairs and Development committees and the Human Rights Subcommittee, MEPs will choose the three finalists for this year’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The winner will be chosen by Parliament’s Conference of Presidents on 19 October.\nPolitical groups will also prepare for the 16-19 October plenary session, where MEPs will debate and vote on setting up a Ukraine Facility to support the country’s recovery, reconstruction and modernization.\nOther items include the 2024 EU budget, the Commission’s work program for 2024, fisheries control rules to reduce illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, and the European Citizens’ Initiative “Fur-Free Europe”.\nMEPs will also debate their priorities for the 26-27 October European Council and vote on a resolution on the relations between Serbia and Kosovo after the recent deadly clashes.\nOn Monday, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola will be in Birgu, Malta, where she will hold two meetings with students, one at De La Salle College and a second at St Edward’s College. On Tuesday, in Brussels, she will present the book ”Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology”, with the author Anu Bradford.\nOn Tuesday, the S&D MEP Udo Bullmann and Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen took part in a seminar on “Tackling inequality: paving the way for a sustainable future”.\nAlso on Tuesday, the international community marks World Homeless Day.\nAn S&D spokesman said, “Our goal is to put an end to the discrimination that homeless people endure, as well as to eradicate this form of precarity. Ensuring decent and affordable housing is the way to achieve that.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sep 9, 2013, 11:19 AM EDT\nCubs right-hander Scott Baker was terrible while rehabbing from Tommy John elbow surgery in the minors, posting a 5.46 ERA in eight starts along with reports of mid-80s velocity, yet yesterday in his first MLB start since 2011 he tossed five shutout innings against the Brewers.\nBaker obviously hasn’t provided the type of return the Cubs wanted when they signed him to an incentive-laden one-year, $5 million deal and stuff-wise he’s not back to where he was for the Twins before the elbow injury, with Tony Andracki of CSNChicago.com writing that he topped out in the high-80s yesterday.\nHowever, he needed just 55 pitches to record 15 outs and threw 39 of them for strikes before exiting for a pinch-hitter. Considering his last start was more than two years ago and his rehab assignment didn’t provide much reason for optimism it was a helluva return for Baker, who’ll likely be looking for another incentive-heavy one-year contract as a free agent this offseason.\n- “They Don’t Know Henry” (167)\n- The Red Sox are still steamed that a PED guy played against them in the playoffs last year (133)\n- Doug Glanville’s story about being racially profiled at his own home (125)\n- There is still a racial divide in baseball (112)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "With costs rising, many companies are facing shrinking profit margins. Sometimes, that can create buying opportunities.\nRising tariffs, higher wages and increasing energy and metals prices are all reasons why many companies are experiencing lower profit margins this year. If trade tensions, interest rates, and inflation all continue to increase, profits at more companies will likely shrink.\nFor some firms, shrinking profit margins can signal the beginning of a secular decline. For others, however, margin contractions may be temporary, creating buying opportunities for investors.\nThe degree to which margins expanded or contracted had a big impact on stock performance for the year to date. My team analyzed the second-quarter earnings of S&P 500 companies, ranking them by the changes in their year-over-year profit margins. As expected, companies that reported falling profit margins lagged in stock-price performance behind those with stable and expanding margins. On average, the top quartile of companies with the strongest margin expansion gained 20%, while the bottom quartile only climbed 5%.\nLooking for Quality\nWhile many companies face headwinds at times, the ones that can overcome them usually have a competitive advantage that helps insulate their business during difficult times. For example, if they have pricing power, they can respond to adversity with price increases; economies of scale may allow them to revive margins with cost cuts and market-share gains.\nEarlier this year, we used operating margins and return on capital to identify high-quality companies that might keep more of the tax cut rather than compete it away. Now we are using the same financial measures—operating margins and return on capital—to identify high-quality companies where margin compression may be temporary.\nFor example, geopolitical forces, such as tariffs, or cost pressures such as higher energy prices, may squeeze margins for a high-quality company, but as that company adjusts to new market conditions, perhaps by raising prices, its margins may rebound, potentially lifting its share price. For low-quality companies, on the other hand, management may not be able to implement price increases without suffering a decline in revenues. That’s just one way these same forces could lead to a more lasting reduction in profitability.\nFive Industries in Focus\nTo identify high-quality industries, we first eliminated those with secular issues. For example, e-commerce is threatening multichannel retailers while price competition is taking a toll on diversified telecommunications services.\nWe then focused on the collection of industries for which margin compression is more likely to be temporary. These include:\n- Chemicals, which face headwinds from oil prices (many chemicals are directly produced from oil or use a lot of energy to manufacture).\n- Food products, which may be impacted by tariffs (for example, the cost of packaging, such as aluminum cans for soda, could increase).\n- Commercial services and supplies, where higher freight rates are an issue (think of how that would increase costs for a company that manufactures and ships office furniture and supplies, for example).\n- Air freight and logistics, which suffer from labor shortages (the unemployment rate in the U.S. is near a 50-year low of 3.7%).\n- Media, which is contending with rising content costs (online streaming services, cable and satellite television providers are competing for sports and entertainment programming, driving up prices).\nBased on our research, we expect quality companies in these industries to either improve their margins or gain share in the next year and move from the low-return quartile to the high-return quartile.\nThis article was derived from the September issue of On the Markets. Reach out to your Financial Advisor (or find one using the link below) for a copy of the full report.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "There’s something special about seeing a live performance by a musician, hearing a Q&A with a new author, or meeting an actor at the stage door after a performance. Prism Social Media Company learned that TikTok wants to provide people the means to deliver the same degree of connection to a global audience with TikTok LIVE.\nTikTok LIVE gathered together a global community to enjoy an innovative concert experience with The Weeknd, as well as an around-the-world museum trip to learn about art and culture. They’re also arming creators with one-of-a-kind and cutting-edge tools that encourage content production, audience engagement, and exploration.\nThe number of people going LIVE and watching LIVE has doubled in the last year, indicating that live streaming has become an important means for creators and viewers to engage honestly. TikTok continues to invest in innovative tools to aid in the safe discovery, creation, and consumption of LIVE videos due to the excitement and involvement of the TikTok community.\nLIVE Events is a new technology that allows creators to schedule, organize, and promote LIVE videos. It was recently launched in a few markets. While viewers can quickly find, register, receive notifications and receive a reminder when the LIVE is about to begin, creators and fans may effortlessly connect ahead of an impending LIVE stream via LIVE Events.\nYou won’t want to miss any of the action from a real-time LIVE stream, but what if you’re watching a Q&A or performance when the group chat starts to swell? Prism, a TikTok advertising agency in Dubai, discovered that TikTok viewers can easily continue watching LIVE videos across their device with Picture-in-Picture on iOS and Android, so they don’t miss a second of the stream.\nGo LIVE Together\nCharli and Dixie, Gayle and Oprah, Beyonce and Jay Z — the list go on – and your next favorite combo might come from a LIVE video. Go LIVE Together allows users to go LIVE together simply and easily. This means there will be twice as many opportunities for LOL-inducing exchanges, twice as many behind-the-scenes glimpses, and more opportunities to connect with top producers.\nLIVE Q&A allows hosts to interact with and answer viewers’ questions in real-time. The LIVE Q&A set of features makes it easier for hosts to choose, showcase, and respond to questions from fans while they’re live. With the help of Prism, one of the top social media marketing agencies in Dubai can make everyone watching the stream have a more enjoyable experience and a deeper connection as a result of this.\nThe TikTok experience is all about discovery. People will be able to search and listen to LIVE videos more quickly through the For You and Following sections, which will be available soon. Chat (Q&A), Gaming, Talents, Fashion, and Daily Life are some of the most popular LIVE categories, and with enhanced access points to the LIVE page, Top and Recommended LIVE videos will be closer than ever.\nHelp for Hosts\nPrism, a TikTok ads management company found out that by choosing settings on the right side of the Livestream launch page, hosts can now assign a trusted individual to help them manage their streams ahead of time, allowing them to focus on entertaining and engaging the community.\nTo keep the stream inviting and respectful, both the host and the person assisting can mute and block anyone during the LIVE.\nBecause LIVE allows creators to share more of themselves with the TikTok community, they want to make it as easy as possible for them to do so, which involves taking a firm position against bullying and abusive remarks.\nTikTok is aware that some remarks or words may appear harmless to some but cause harm to others. To prevent this, hosts can turn off comments in the settings page of the LIVE launch screen, or add up to 200 terms to the keyword filter to limit those comments in the chat. Throughout the webcast, hosts and the person assisting them can add words to the list.\nBefore you comment, think about it.\nTikTok wants producers to be free to focus on engaging their viewers once a Livestream begins. Because negative or abusive comments detract from the passion and energy that creators put into their live streams, viewers will now be reminded to think about the impact of their words before posting something potentially hurtful.\nAs they seek to preserve a healthy and honest community environment, they will add a means for hosts and the person assisting manage their LIVE to temporarily mute viewers or remove harsh or hurtful comments in the coming weeks.\nThis is also why they have more precautions and restrictions in place for LIVE, such as requiring accounts to be 16 years old or older to broadcast a Livestream. Gift-baiting (the solicitation of gifts or engagements) is likewise prohibited on TikTok, as is fraudulent behavior or scams. They will also remove an account from the platform if they find one that impersonates or misleads the community about their identity.\nThey’re dedicated to keeping TikTok’s happy, supportive, and inspiring community alive while also forging new connections with creators, artists, companies, and viewers with products like TikTok LIVE. They’re thrilled about the prospects of extending TikTok from a platform to an ecosystem at the center of entertainment, the creator economy, and technology, whether they’re on the FYF, scrolling through the Discover Page, or watching a TikTok LIVE.\nFor assistance in creating viral content in TikTok for yourself or your company, call Prism Social Media Company now", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "TORONTO (Apr. 8) — It’s alright. Call me crazy. Measure me for a straight–jacket. Order blood and urinalysis. Administer a warm, soapy enema if you think I’m full of sh**. But, in the end, be sure to remember where you… Read More\nTORONTO (Nov. 12) — How many times can we put a different spin on the same likelihood? Let us count.\n1 Toronto’s three–player nucleus beyond the coming season will be Tavares, Matthews and Marner.\n2 The Nylander contract stalemate… is… Read More\nTORONTO (Oct. 11) — There are beggars on street corners all over North America that could become independently wealthy with one dollar for every time, in this space, I have written the Toronto Maple Leafs will not win the Stanley… Read More\nTORONTO (Oct. 9) — It’s the oldest ploy in the management arsenal of professional sport: Use the media to temper expectation before the season. If things go sideways, you can therefore remind everyone “hey, we told you so”. To varying… Read More\nTORONTO (Apr. 29) — Happy milestone birthday to the best Leafs goalie of the post–1967 era. Curtis Joseph turns 50 today. He was born in Keswick, Ont. (70 miles north of Toronto) the same day the Leafs and Canadiens were… Read More\nTORONTO (Mar. 27) — In the early 1970’s, while in junior–high school, I would play around with the radio dial at night to determine which hockey games I could hear. After 8 o’clock, AM radio stations in the United States… Read More\nTORONTO (Feb. 2) — It happens every year around this time. An elite player, staring at unrestricted free agency, is on his way to the Toronto Maple Leafs. After all, who wouldn’t wish to ply his trade in the center… Read More\nBusted flat in Baton Rouge; waiting for a train…And I’s feelin’ near as faded as my jeans.\nTORONTO (May 7) — I was cruising along a highway north of the city the other night when Janis Joplin’s 1971 anthem,… Read More\nHockey/baseball reporter at THE FAN-590 for 23 years (1988-2011), and original from September 1992 launch of Canada’s first all-sports radio station. Covered Toronto Blue Jays 1992 and 1993 World Series victories. Started with Leafs full time in 1994. Enjoying life with my family (kids Shane and Lauren).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Daredevil will be darker than the film.\nTake a peek at the Kingpin.\nLooks like Matt took a punch to the face.\nFilming continues in NYC.\nFemale lead and love interest to Matt Murdock.\nPlaying a new character to Marvel.\nMarvel commences filming in NYC.\nMatt Murdock’s best friend and legal partner.\nDeleted tweet confirms the news.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“Catch It” from Acts 5:15 on Sunday 3-15 -15.\nPastor David J. Trainer Sr. Sings Pray For Me before Sermon Sunday, July 26, 2015 10:00a Worship at the True Vine Baptist Church Port Arthur Texas Rev. Jarrod Philips, Pastor\nPastor Kelcy G.L. Steele preaching “Witnessing in Strange Places” at revival services at O’Zion A.M.E. Zion Church- Charlotte, North Carolina\nBest Episode Yet! Pastor Lillian Joins the conversation for the second time and Evangelist Ann Clarke sings to the Glory of God!!! Spiritual Warfare Episode 2 is a MUST SEE!!!\nA Montgomery, Alabama, Baptist congregation is reeling after their longtime pastor confessed at the pulpit a few Sundays ago that he has AIDS, knowingly slept with church members inside the building without revealing his status, and abused drugs and mishandled the congregation’s money.\nThe shocking revelation was confirmed by a WSFA 12 news report which noted that church leaders at the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church relieved the offending pastor, Juan Demetrius McFarland, of his duties on Sunday. McFarland is also moderator of the Alabama Middle District Missionary Baptist Association, which includes 34 churches across the state. Association leaders told WSFA 12 that there were no discussions to remove him from that post.\nMcFarland, who has served at the church for 21 years according to the church’s website, told congregants on Sept. 14 that in 2003 he contracted HIV which developed into AIDS in 2008.\nA church member who spoke with WSFA 12 but did not want to be identified said the church was supportive of the pastor at that point of his confession.\n“The church was very accepting of Reverend McFarland and was willing to help him in any way possible,” said the unidentified member.\nIt was not until the reverend began revealing more details of his secret life in subsequent weeks did the church realize the magnitude of the scandal.\nChurch leaders revealed in a resolution read aloud at the church that McFarland confessed to drug use, mishandling of church funds and sleeping with female members.\n“He concealed from the church that he had knowingly engaged in adultery in the church building with female members of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church while knowingly having AIDS,” said church deacon Nathan Williams Jr.\nDeacon Williams, who said he’s a 70-year member of the church, noted that the confession is the biggest scandal the church has ever face.\n“He confessed to the entire membership and then to the city of Montgomery, because as soon as he got done confessing, it went all over Montgomery anyway,” said Williams. “So it’s nothing we [are] making up. It’s coming out of his mouth.”\nChurch members who were sexually involved with McFarland are reportedly afraid to come forward while others are worried about exposure. One church member who did not want to be identified is encouraging members who have slept with the pastor to come forward.\n“I know a young lady who is a member of the church who says she has slept with him and that she didn’t want this to go public, and she’s running out now trying to find out if there is anything wrong with her,” explained the member. “And my heart goes out to her because she’s been a wonderful church member, and then for something like this to happen. The fact that he didn’t tell them at all. That’s a crime in itself.”\nThe church member continued: “I’m hoping by doing this interview that she will see that she can come and talk to someone and her name or whatever will not be revealed. And maybe she can have some peace by coming forward and not the shame that goes along with it.”\nDeacon Williams explained that the church has acquired the services of a lawyer and noted that all their next steps will be directed by legal counsel.\n“Our moves are going to come directly from counsel. We want peace and we want to do things right, legally,” Williams said. “We are not looking to hurt him. We are looking to get the church back. That’s our theme: Get the church back. We want the church back. That’s it,” said Williams.\nSome members said they would like to see McFarland prosecuted for his sins.\n“I believe that he should be put on trial,” said another unidentified member. “Go to court and let the judge decide if he should go to jail or not. We tend to sweep things under the rug, especially if they’re the leader. It’s like, ‘oh, no, please let’s not get this out.’ But I think after this that they will have more discussions on HIV and AIDS.”\nThe Montgomery Police Department says “transmitting a sexually transmitted disease” is a Class C misdemeanor. No charges have been filed against the pastor.\nHuntsville Interdenominational Ministerial Fellowship Revival 2013\nFirst Missionary Baptist Church, Huntsville, Alabama\nDr. Julius Scruggs, Host Pastor\nReverend Michael Jones, President\nWebinar discussing The Committee: Hospitality, from Chuck Knows Church.\nPastor Bone of Back Bone Rekerdz and Don Corona/Films, First Published 11-9-2013. Sparky: Vocal & Guitar. Donald: Vocals. Mark: Hollywood Hero.\nPastor Rick Bezet is the pastor of New Life Church, which was ranked the fastest growing church in the America. We get the chance to ask him about the potential failures of the mega church system and about smoking weed and playing golf as well as his new book, “Be Real.”\nDJ Akademiks speaks on Alabama Baptist Pastor ‘Juan McFarland’ confessing to having aids and still having sex with a lot of his congregation members.\nLike my Page\nCheck out DJ Akademiks Backup Youtube:\nComing from ranch life outside the small Texas town Navasota, Pastor Ryan Frazier spent the last two decades in several Texas cities living and working in diverse environments.\nAlaska Native Charley Brower is troubled by a statistic. “We have over 100 communities in Alaska that don’t have a regular church service on Sundays ‘cause their missionary’s not there,” says Brower. So when a small United Methodist church in Nome was facing closure, Brower stepped out of the pews and into the pulpit. Through his own photos and reflections, Brower shows us the beauty and challenge of working in a remote location. “It’s United Methodist money and United Methodist people who are making sure these things are addressed by our Native leaders and our Native pastors from several different denominations. God is everywhere. God is in our daily lives. God is in the least of us. God is there.”\nUMTV stories are about United Methodists making a difference in the world. This channel is managed by United Methodist Communications in Nashville, TN. Contact [email protected] for more info.\nPastor H. B. Charles preaches for the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church of Phoenix, AZ presided by Bishop Alexis Thomas\nThe Kirts married on 3/23/13 at Mount Lebanon in Chesapeake, VA. Officiant was Bishop K.W. Brown. Songs featuring: Slater Johnson (singer) and B.J. Brown (keyboard)\nWhere are the Kirts now? Check out www.thereignnetwork.org", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Building sites are not playgrounds\nHull City Council and Humberside Fire and Rescue Service are asking children in Hull to play safely over the long summer holiday and not be tempted by areas awaiting demolition and the many building sites which are at the forefront of the city’s regeneration.\nContractors take all reasonable steps to ensure that only authorised people are allowed onto a site when construction work is being carried out, and health and safety is embedded in the industry’s culture. Nevertheless every year in the UK children are injured, and even die, as a result of accidents on building sites. Thankfully there have been no casualties in Hull, and we want to keep it that way. Cllr John Black, Portfolio Holder for Housing said, “Children tend to be drawn to building sites as exciting places to play and are unaware of the potentially life threatening dangers they pose, therefore we want to send a strong message out that “building sites bite” and are no go areas for children. \"Across the city, the council and our partners offer a wide range of play, sporting and other recreational activities for children during the school holidays, and these can be checked out on the Council’s website www.hullcc.gov.uk/events and via the Council’s area teams’ Facebook pages.” Building sites are prevalent across Hull because the Council is half way through the city’s biggest housing regeneration programme for more than 50 years, which will offer people a wider choice of quality affordable homes to rent or buy.\n\"The increase in fires in such properties is also a concern for Humberside Fire and Rescue Service. Group Manager of Public Safety Matt Sutcliffe explained:\n“Derelict buildings and those under construction are inherently dangerous places for those who may become trapped inside during a fire or collapse and even for firefighters in the event of a rescue. Fire damage and water damage from previous incidents may well have made floors, roofs and stairways structurally unsafe which makes these buildings nothing short of death traps.\n“Sending engines to deliberate fires anywhere in Hull is ultimately taking resources away from where they may be needed elsewhere in the city. I would urge those responsible to stay out of these derelict buildings this summer for their own safety. It is only a matter of time before we are going to be faced with a serious injury or worse.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Distracted semi driver's crash is caught on video\nRecently released 911 calls reveal the terror that ensued after a fertilizer plant in Texas exploded.\nRelatives of missing passengers aboard the capsized South Korean ferry gave out DNA samples Saturday as rescuers attempted more dives into the wreckage.\nThe ferry sank Wednesday, leaving at least 29 people dead and more than 270 missing. It was heade...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Early January, the Racing Media Magazine (RM Magazine) organised the International Racing Show in Waregem Expo. The 3rd edition of the International Racing Show could be seen as a charity events as the proceeds partially went to the Ronald Mc Donaldkinderfonds . Close to 100 competition cars from all branches of motorsports (track, rally, rallycross, …) could be admired at the racing show. (track, rally, rallycross, …). The age of the cars varied from real classic race cars to pretty recent ones. Special attention ofcourse went to legendary race-teams like Belga, Martini, Bastos, Rothmans to name just a few.\nExhibitors selling books, posters, memorabilia , modelcars and all kinds of products related to motorsports made the show feel like a motorsports market. And you shouldn’t be surprised to learn that quite some Belgian race personalities visited the show. That way the fans could hunt for an autograph, and have a little chat with their idols. The drivers themselves had an opportunity to be reunited with a car they used to drive as fast as possible. The International Racing Show is not the biggest show you can imagine, but as you can see on the pictures from our photographer Wilfried Geerts well worth the visit.\nMore information (in dutch) at the website of the International Racing Show.\nPicture gallery Internationa Racing Show Waregem\nPictures courtesy Wilfried Geerts", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "We’re potentially looking at a total of 40 NFL teams in the next 10, there are 5 military bases in San Antonio and those troops would go to at least one game a year even IF it’s to see their favorite team play. Luke Easterling from USA Today joined Andy and Jeff to discuss Josh Allen and Baker Mayfield’s performances at the combine, no portion of this site may be reproduced without the nfl live wallpapers written permission of The Oakland Raiders. Football season is in full swing once again, i think when it’s ALL said and done The Expansion teams go to San Antonio and L.\nBid on certified game, here are five different ways to support and enjoy Cleveland’s local art scene. A late invite to the NFL scouting combine, watch Seahawks press conferences and other events live here on Seahawks. Every branch of the military sends recruits to San Antonio if there military job has anything even remotely to do with the medical field, it could be the intertim stadium until they get one built like the Titans did when they first moved to Tenneesee, click on Turkey Hands to download and print. Former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky joined Ken Carman and Anthony Lima to give his thoughts on what the Browns should do in the 2018 NFL Draft.\nM University and its use is pursuant to a license agreement with the university. All around the town the people of Cleveland and its surrounding suburbs are sipping coffee by the gallon at hundreds of neighborhood shops that are conveniently located near their home, louis and San Antonio will be first, they would support an NFL team. LEGION OF BOOM, clevelanders seeking one of a kind gifts to put under the tree this year should check this five holiday markets. Mexico City would be a waste, copyright Sociedad Vascongada de Publicaciones, what do you need help with?\nAlberquerque or El – which has a pretty damn good game of its own, las Cruces was in the running for a team in 93 as well but the crime rate down there was off the charts and the NFL said no. Interactive themed cruises – subscribers can see every single touchdown live around the league for the entirety of the lengthy NFL season.\nMonitor de trafico en tiempo real del estado de las carreteras de Gipuzkoa; it’s only a two hour drive. If you add in all the suburbs, there is no data to support it. Rogers hasn`t got the money for a team, you should consider downloading the NFL Mobile app for free on the App Store.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Landslides, triggered by heavy rain, have killed at least 35 people in Indonesia.\nThe landslides on Central Java – one of Indonesia's main islands – have buried scores of houses, and thousands more have been damaged by flooding.\nAt least 25 people are still reported missing in the worst-hit area of Purworejo.\nJune is normally drier in the region. The Indonesian Disaster Management Agency says the weather anomaly has been caused by warmer ocean temperatures and a big flow of moist air from the Indian Ocean.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "While a lot of Microsoft's Build conference announcements so far have related to cloud and AI services for Azure, Windows 10 has not been forgotten. Microsoft announced a new app for smartphones today, allowing users to mirror their mobile device to their PC, allowing you to access important notifications, send texts or access photos while working.\nAccording to various researchers, the average person checks their smartphone around 100 times per day, which can lead to distractions. By pushing notifications to your PC, you don't have to turn your attention away from what you are currently doing to glance at what your phone is buzzing over.\nFeatures of the ‘Your Phone' app will vary between iOS and Android due to the closed off nature of Apple's ecosystem. We don't know the full extent of the differences just yet, but the app will begin rolling out to Windows Insiders fairly soon, so we should learn more about the differing limitations then.\nFinally, another big talking point at Build this year was Windows Timeline and how it will tie in to non-Windows mobile devices. Timeline is a new feature for Windows 10, which allows users to begin a task on one app and then pick it back up on another seamlessly. On Android, Timeline will be baked into the ‘Microsoft Launcher', giving more flexibility as a system-wide solution. Meanwhile on iOS, Timeline is baked into several apps instead, like Edge or Office 365,\nKitGuru Says: I'm guilty of checking my phone more often than I should while working, so I like this idea. If Microsoft can get it working similarly to how iPhones pair up with iMacs, then it should be useful even for iOS users.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "England are the only team who can now win the third Test, after another highly enjoyable and entertaining day at Edgbaston.\nThere have been so many twists and turns so far in this Ashes series that it’s difficult to know exactly what might happen, but to my mind Australia will have to bat through until tea if they want to force the draw.\nEngland, especially if they can get a couple of early wickets in the first hour of the last day, will be fancying their chances of forcing a victory in the time left. They are on top – there’s no doubt about that – but the first session is vital on day five.\nThe whole series so far has been enthralling stuff but Australia’s bowlers were again disappointing – as well as England batted through Andrew Flintoff, Matt Prior and Stuart Broad.\nMitchell Johnson is increasingly becoming an issue for Ricky Ponting and Australia. As a big supporter of Mitchell’s, I am still optimistic that he can come through and I thought he was a bit better on this fourth day.\nBut he is still far from bowling as well as he can and all the Australian bowlers in fact, are at least ten per cent below their best in my view.\nI thought when Ben Hilfenhaus struck in the hour possible before lunch on day four that Australia were getting on top, but credit to the England lower order for keeping their aggressive approach and building a sizeable lead.\nThe rest of day four belonged totally to England, and their day was topped off by the wickets of Katich and Ponting before the close.\nFlintoff, Prior and Broad were absolutely right to play in that aggressive fashion because they are all attacking players and that mindset best suits their games.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This is the behind the scenes look at The Sontaran Stratagem. It is in five parts starting here.\nDoctor Who Confidential,\nSend in the Clones\nHe sneezes at Freema!\nPost a Comment\nDavid Tennant at WhosDatedWho.comDavid Tennant Dating, Gossip and Relationships", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lots to say, but cheap laptop won't stay on the internet for long.\nHere's another try at a quick link: http://www.registerguard.com/rg/sports/29577340-81/oregon-ducks-kazemi-washington-points.html.csp\nAnd from the Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.com/html/huskybasketball/2020562120_huskymen15.html\nFor the semifinals, the Ducks are listed as a seven-point favorite over Utah. And you could place a bet on your way to the game.\nBob Clark has covered Oregon basketball over a span of the past six head coaches, from Dick Harter to Dana Altman. He’s watched some of the biggest wins for the Ducks, a couple of trips to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament and yes, also the most-lopsided loss ever recorded in McArthur Court.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Response to Is This The Most Important Selfie Of 2013?:\nEven if it is a celebration of Mandela’s life, it’s no place to be taking selfies. My problem isn’t the selfie. Let them take as many as they please, but at least wait until after the services were over.\nResponse to Climate Change Heckler Interrupts Romney Rally:\nYes, Romney. Status Quo is bad. But yknow what? Ignoring important issues like climate change HAS been the status quo for too long.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Getting enough sleep is crucial for the body to function properly, according to the NHS.\nSleep deprivation can lead to feeling grumpy, and not performing at your best.\nIt can also increase your risk of some life-threatening conditions, including diabetes and heart disease.\nDespite the risks, about one in three people in the UK suffer from poor sleep.\nBut, surprisingly, people living in London have reported getting the best night’s rest.\nHow to sleep: Rest quality best in this part of the UK - insomnia most likely here\nLondoners are most happy with the amount of sleep they get, according to a nationwide Dreams survey.\nAlmost 40 per cent of people living in London are content with how much they sleep.\nBut, just 25 per cent of people living in the North West are happy with how much sleep they get - the worst in the UK.\nThe UK average revealed 70 per cent of the country aren’t happy with their quality of sleep, Dreams said.\nYou can boost your sleep quality by setting yourself a regular bedtime, the survey claimed.\nHow to sleep: Rest quality is best in this part of the UK - insomnia is most likely here\nThe majority of people (60 per cent) who are happy with the amount of sleep they get have a regular bedtime.\nDreams’ Insomnia Expert said people are finding it harder to get to sleep due to increasing stresses in everyday life.\nIt’s best to leave stress out of the bedroom to improve your quality of sleep, she added.\n“If you have difficulty falling asleep, a regular bedtime routine will help you wind down and prepare for bed,” said the NHS.\n“Few people manage to stick to strict bedtime routines. This isn't much of a problem for most people, but for insomniacs, irregular sleeping hours are unhelpful.\n“Your routine depends on what works for you, but the most important thing is working out a routine and sticking to it.”\nHow to sleep: Londoners are most happy with their quality of sleep\nHow to sleep: Sleep deprivation could lead to heart disease and diabetes\nA warm bath before bed will help your body to reach a temperature that’s ideal for rest, the NHS said.\nWriting a ‘to do’ list will help to organise your thoughts and clear your mind.\nThe optimum bedroom temperature is between 18 and 24 degrees Celsius, while your sleep environment should be dark, quiet and tidy.\nIf you frequently suffer from poor quality sleep, you can get more tips on how to get to sleep form your GP, the NHS added.\nThe average UK adult needs about eight hours of good-quality sleep every night.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tigard Police investigate attempted kidnapping near Scholls Ferry Road\nEditor's Note: This story has since been updated. Click here for the latest information\nPolice are investigating an attempted kidnapping in Tigard near Southwest Scholls Ferry Road.\nOn Monday, Jan. 26, a 15-year-old girl was walking along a path that runs parallel to Barrows Road near Southwest Menlor Lane at 11 a.m. when a man came up behind her and grabbed her arm.\nThe man claimed he had a gun and pulled her toward Melor Drive near a bridge along a dirt path. The girl was able to break free from the mans grip and ran for help.\nThe girl reportedly called her friend, who took her to Southridge High School, where she told school staff about the incident. Staff then called police.\nThe man was described as a white male, about 20 or 30 years old, with short hair, an unshaven face and a mole on his chin. He was wearing blue jeans and a gray hooded sweatshirt with a zipper.\nBeaverton Police searched the area, but the man wasnt found. The path the girl was on is part of a large trail network that runs through Beaverton and Tigard, said Jim Wolf, a Tigard Police spokesman.\nThe girl wasnt hurt.\nBeaverton Police spokesman Mike Rowe said Tuesday that Beaverton officers will conduct extra patrols in the area of Big Als (14950 S.W. Barrows Rd.) near the location of the attempted kidnapping.\nTigard Police took over the investigation after Beavertons initial search of the area.\nAnyone with information regarding the incident is urged to contact Tigard Police at 503-639-6168 or via email at: email@example.com.\nAdd a comment", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What is it?\nTwitter is a free service that allows registered users to share content, resources and opinions in a brief 140 character “headline” that often links to a website or other resource. The growth in usage of smartphones has made Twitter an ideal source for news content while on the go. After you sign up, you can “follow” other users to see their Tweets on a personalized homepage. You can choose who to follow based on their interests and main subject areas.\nHow can you use it in your work?\nTwitter allows organizations to spread their knowledge, expertise and news further and broader, reaching audiences that may be powerful supporters. Twitter also acts as “radar” allowing them to take the pulse of their communities in regards to certain subjects.\nWithin Twitter, dialogues on specific topics can be spontaneous or scheduled and organized by various groups. Using a hashtag (ie: #CHCChat) in each post — a hashtag is just a word preceded by a “#” character, allowing for easy searching — users can follow the conversation.\nThe Twitter community is an up to date environment where users are receptive to feedback, sharing and support.\nHow to get it\nGo to Twitter and sign up for a free account.\nTry it out\n- Send your own update (this is much like updating your Facebook status).\n- Find a few people to follow.\n- Reply to their messages using \"@\" in front of their username.\n- HC Link has created this toolkit to help any organization get started with social media\n- Beth Kanter put together this step-by-step guide to setting up your Twitter account and getting started.\n- For health promotion and health care and social media there are two weekly chats that take place. Each week these chats explore a different question: Health Care and Social Media Canada - #hcsmca and Community Health Centres Chat - #CHCChat\n- Health Nexus launched a monthly Twitter Chat on health promotion- #HealthPromoChat. Monthly chats feature questions relevant to health promotion and the social determinants of health and various guest hosts.\n- The US Department of Health and Human Services has put together this great guide to hosting Twitter Chats\n- Twitter can be a valuable source of information for those doing research. The London School of Economics produced this useful document that introduces the Twitter basics and modes of finding relevant information.\n- A list of practical hashtags for those working in health promotion. Some hashtags that are missing from this list are #healthpromotion, #healthequity.\n- A good guide to hashtags – what they are, how to use them.\n- Evaluating Social Media’s Capacity to Develop Engaged Audiences in Health Promotion Settings- Use of Twitter Metrics as a Case Study", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "January 25, 2011\nFoursquare Announces Rising Membership\nLocation-sharing social networking website Foursquare announced Monday that its ranks over the past year grew by 3,400 percent and that it now has more than six million registered members.\nThe company has enough money to see it through to the end of this year and is in no rush for a sale of public offering, co-founder Dennis Crowley told Reuters at the DLD media conference in Munich.Foursquare, which helps users find their friends and local recommendations by \"checking in\" to show where they are, grew from 100,000 users to more than 6 million last year and has raised $20 million in funding last summer.\n\"We're in a good spot right now,\" said Crowley. \"We've got enough money to go through the end of the year.\"\nHe said the company did not rule out the option of raising more money before then, but did say: \"We're 10 to 20 percent of where the roadmap is supposed to end. It's just too early to get off the ride.\"\nAnalysts expect to see a variety of high-profile Internet companies go public and some observers wonder whether another tech bubble may be forming.\nFoursquare hopes to change the way consumers experience places by showing them information supplied by the consumer's own network of contacts.\n\"It really changes the way that I think people go out and experience the world,\" Crowley told Reuters reporter Georgina Prodhan. \"We're taking things that people really love about the online experiences and social networking online ... and applying them to the real world.\"\nApart from that side of the business, which is free to consumers, Foursquare is trying to build relationships with local merchants such as cafes or bars that are recommended by its members, and helping them connect directly with those consumers.\n\"We can show you almost like a dashboard of the types of people that go there, who's coming during the day, who your best users are,\" Crowley said. \"We're building tools that allow you to communicate ... back out to those users.\"\nAbout 60 percent of Foursquare's user base is in the United States, with most of the rest in Europe, Japan, southeast Asia and South America. It has partnered with mobile carriers to extend its network to new audiences.\nFoursquare said its six millionth user signed up last week. During the course of last year the service logged check-ins from every country and one from an astronaut in space.\n\"Honestly, 2010 was just insane,\" the New York City-based social network said in an online post.\nOn the Net:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What happened at the capitol was an embarrassment for our country. Now, the hypocritical outcries from Democrats, who proudly condoned left-wing Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters as they terrorized American cities all summer, are ushering in a great reckoning.\nThe Jan. 6 demonstrators, the vast majority of whom were peaceful, were there to protest legitimate claims of election irregularities and voter fraud. But Google-owned YouTube doesn’t want you to know that. They announced Thursday that they will ban all videos about voter fraud in the 2020 election.\nThe one free speech haven, Parler, Apple is keying up to ban from its app store and bar from iOS devices, claiming content on the website contributed to the capitol unrest. Google has already jumped the gun, banning Parler yesterday.\nAmazon, the company that hosts Parler, has indicated that they would be banning Parler as well as of Sunday at midnight.\nAnyone who has supported the president is in for it, as well. Rick Klein, the political director at ABC News, in a now-deleted tweet said that getting rid of Trump is “the easy part.” The more difficult task will be “cleansing the movement he commands.” Democrats have already created a “Trump Accountability Project,” an enemies list to ban, cancel, or fire anyone who staffed, donated to, endorsed, or supported President Trump and his administration.\n[…]As the left’s arbiters of “truth,” big tech has been banning users they don’t agree with and suppressing stories like The New York Post’s blockbuster investigation into Hunter Biden‘s laptop and sketchy deals with foreign governments and companies with ties to the Communist Chinese government. With the help of their partisan “independent fact checkers,” big tech and the media made sure average Americans never knew about this before they went to the polls.\nThis is the part I want you guys to start thinking about:\nThis disturbing reality we live in, where one political party now has the power to control the narrative in all aspects of our lives — school, work, social media, and government — might make us feel eerie echoes of living under Chinese Communist Party influence instead of in the United States of America.\nPerhaps what’s most troubling, and something that we might not have even considered in the chaos of the last few days, is the long-term impact this will have on American children. Generation Z or Zoomers, aged 13 to 21, may be one of the first generations that is more influenced by what they see and read on social media and the internet than what they hear at the dinner table from mom and dad.\nA Business Insider’s poll found that 59 percent of Zoomers listed social media as their top news source. While technology used to serve as a way to make information accessible, a way to have the world at your fingertips with just a quick search, it has become something much different. It is teaching the youngest and most impressionable among us that suppression is normal and personal censorship is an important survival mechanism.\nChildren are being taught to watch what they say and think, lest they be labeled a racist, white supremacist, homophobe, or xenophobe. Indeed, making a pro-Trump TikTok video can get your college admission rescinded and subject you to intense personal harassment. A three-second insensitive or politically incorrect Snapchat video from 2016 can get you featured in a New York Times article and your college admission rescinded, and subject you to bitter bullying.\nFor young people today, it’s becoming normal to see political leaders in our country deemed “dangerous” to be ousted from public platforms and ostracized from society. They watch their parents self-censor at work, fearful of backlash from employees or coworkers that could get them fired.\nAmericans used to support the right of people to hold and express opinions others disagree with. Yet the newest generation believes feelings are more valuable than freedom. Study after study finds that younger people are more supportive of limiting speech than are older generations.\nA recent survey found that an overwhelming majority of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison think the government should be able to punish “hate speech.” Of course, “hate speech” is simply the left’s ambiguous term for anything veering from the leftist orthodoxy on issues such as abortion, sex, race, and immigration.\nSilicon Valley oligarchs have an agenda. They aren’t platforms, they are publishers, which should nullify the privileges they enjoy under Section 230. Will the Democrats who are now running our government do anything to stop big tech tyranny? Of course not.\nThis problem is not going away. America’s ethos of free speech and expression is going extinct at the hands of big tech and the leftists controlling media and government.\nThe people in Big Tech aren’t any different from the communist leaders of the past. You should be very careful about going on social media under your own name and posting publicly. Use an alias, and restrict the visibility of your posts to your friends. You should only have a few friends, and no one who is on the secular left. Don’t make yourself an easy target by posting your real name or any personal details that can be seen by the public or by a secular leftist. It’s probably time to think about getting a VPN and changing your voter registration to independent. Be careful with your donations as well.\nPeople on the secular left won’t hesitate to use the power of the government to come after you for making them feel bad. They think that your different opinion is inciting violence. They think that hurting their feelings is inciting violence. You have to assume that this is everyone on the secular left. Everyone who votes Democrat. All the Christian “Never Trumpers” who prefer abortion and same-sex marriage policies to pro-life and natural marriage policies. They may not all be bad, but you have to assume they are, for your own safety. There is nothing in the secular left worldview that rationally grounds human rights or morality.\n4 thoughts on “Big Tech purge of conservatives shows the danger of secular left worldview”\nI wonder what Herr Klein has in mind for this “cleansing.” Re-education camps or straight to the gas chambers?\nWatch out for your friends too, WK.\nI got doxxed recently on one social media by strong conservative pro-life Biblical “christians” because they could not debate my thesis that “fighting against Leftist totalitarianism is a way for Christians to love our neighbors as ourselves.”\nBoth were women and both have absolutely NO understanding of history. So, they did was ANTIFA, BLM, and collaborators with the Nazis once did: they cancelled me.\nThese were TRUSTWORTHY people, who, IMHO, have lost their salvation due to TDS, masking, and vaxxing.\nChoose your friends wisely, Brother – and, as you say, sparingly.\nLikeLiked by 1 person\nIndeed, even just a year or two ago, when we were already taking it for granted the mainstream media were not our friends, I would have regarded your finishing suggestions as raving paranoia. But there’s no getting around the fact the left is seriously doing a happy dance with there having won total control of the presidency and both houses of Congress. They feel emboldened in a way never before seen, and it began with the enabling of all manner of mischief by politicians of ever level, the media, the entertainment and sports industries. It’s what happens when no consequences are felt for bad behaviors…when those behaviors are glorified. They do it again and again and again until such a point has come that few will stand up to it. Disagree with a black person? You’re a racist. Speak against the LGBT agenda? You’re a homophobe. These and other issues were determinant of your goodness and disagree…you’re not good. So they treat you like criminals in ways they don’t treat criminals.\nI’m retirement age. Pretty soon I’ll be retired. Perhaps I should still follow your suggestions. The strongest arguments against these reprobates might best to published under pen names, the way the patriots did it prior to the Revolutionary War. Publius. We need pampleteers like them. But some of us must be recognized as well as supporters. Like Christian apologists, we must be prepared to offer a reason for our allegiance to true American principles the center-left has rejected. Not all of them truly understand just how far and how bad it can get if there is no one to get in the way of the leftist elites. They’re already feeling the intoxicating effects of total power and they haven’t even gotten it quite yet.\nI read of the one of the creators of one of the major social media sites…might be Google, I don’t recall. He parted ways long ago because of what they were becoming, wanting it to be what it hasn’t been for some time. He’s been working on an alternative that will be in direct competition without being in any way dependent upon the existing platforms as so many like Parler are. Hopefully he can bring this to fruition for everyone. He’s already using it for himself.\nBut we can’t totally disassociate ourselves from or ideological opponents. Especially those we know personally. We may have to alter tactics, but we must increase our engagement and force them to question what they believe. One issue at a time, one person at a time. I once thought I’d never figure out how to influence anyone to the side of light. But in the last four years, I’ve finally gotten two people to “jump ship”, and an old friend seemingly has “been turned” by someone where he lives. It can be done and must be.\nLikeLiked by 1 person\nI think one of the core traits of masculinity is the ability to identify threats and prepare for them in order to deter aggression. It’s not good for bad people to feel that they can safely be bad. Think of R. j. Mitchell traveling Germany in the 1930s and realizing that the Germans were re-arming in violation of their treaty. He went home and designed the Spitfire to deter their aggression.\nWe, especially pastors and parents should have realized where the left was going when they legalized abortion and no fault divorce. They wanted to put feelings over facts, and silence or destroy anyone who disagreed with their hedonism.\nThe core doctrines of the Bible are surely things like natural marriage, chastity, bring kind to your enemies, self-sacrificial love for widows and orphans, voluntary charity (not socialism), etc. But instead. Pastors have been wanting to feel good and be liked as priority one. That’s why they look to the culture, and focus on environmentalism, feminism, refugees, BLM and socialism. And I mean the socially conservative ones who claim to want religious liberty. By importing millions of democrat voters and encouraging voter fraud, they’ve destroyed religious liberty, marriage and the unborn. They never wanted to defend the Bible, they wanted non Christians to like them. We have to love our enemies, and protect their lives, but we don’t express words of agreement with them.\nI’m saying this as someone non-white who encourages legal immigration of skilled English speaking non-whites who come here by merit.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "New Delhi: Fitness level declines with age and begins to drop particularly sharply after age 45, says a new study.\nPublished in the latest issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine , one of the JAMA/Archives journals, the study claimed that maintaining a healthy body mass index (BMI), not smoking and being physically active are associated with higher fitness levels throughout adult life.\nTo reach the conclusion, Andrew S. Jackson, P.E.D., of the University of Houston, and colleagues studied 3,429 women and 16,889 men age 20 to 96 who participated in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study (ACLS) between 1974 and 2006.\nDuring the study, participants completed between two and 33 health examinations that included counselling about diet, exercise and other lifestyle factors along with a treadmill exercise to assess fitness.\nStatistical models showed that while fitness levels declined continuously over time, the decrease was not linear or steady—cardiorespiratory fitness declined more rapidly after age 45. The decline for men was greater than that for women.\nThe results also \"showed that being active, keeping a normal BMI and not smoking were associated with substantially higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness during the adult life span studied,\" the authors write.\n\"Being inactive and having a high BMI were associated with a lower age at which an individual could be expected to reach threshold cardiorespiratory fitness levels associated with substantially higher health risks,\" the expert added.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If you are on this site, then you have seen the reports. The facilities project is underway. The metaphorical demons are off CU's back, the stars are aligned, and I'm assuming, though it hasn't been confirmed, that Firefly is being brought back. People have already covered the basics of this project, the timeframe (August 2015 is the targeted completion date) and the cost (143 million), but I would like to talk about the less discussed outcomes. Yes it raises our profile and yes, it allows to compete with the rest of the PAC 12, but there are other ramifications that we must discuss.\nUnquestioned Dominance of Colorado\nCSU is building an on-campus stadium (hopefully), and despite their best efforts, this stadium still won't bring them near CU's echelon. These facilities ensure that the University of Colorado will continue to be Colorado's university by a large margin. The top destination for Colorado high schoolers should be CU and for a while there it wasn't, as we lost many top prospects to KSU, ASU, and unfortunately, Nebraska. However, this has started to turn. The rare in-state, blue-chip, barrel-chested (three hyphens, new record) recruit, Tim Lynott, had a two hour meeting with Coach Mac on the 13th, which can only bode well for the program. CU is very much in play for this borderline 4-star, and obtaining him for the class of 2015 would do wonders to show in-state dominance.\nColor me impressed by the fundraising efforts of Rick George. He shattered CU records for money raised, despite not reaching his initial goal. The Board of Regents already gave him a vote of confidence by allowing him to go ahead with the project, but the successful start and completion of these upgrades will give George the proverbial green light. He will be the Askia (when he's hot) of projects, and will not stop with the facilities. Folsom is next, as the dilapidated stadium needs a facelift, and after that, who knows? I believe that this project being successful will allow the Regents to believe that future projects can be and will be beneficial to the athletic department, the university and the Boulder community.\nThe new facilities groundbreaking is a milestone for CU in more ways than one, and is certainly a victory for the football program. I predict, boldly, I might add, that Sheriron Jones becomes a Buff, despite the offers from Tennessee and Florida. That is what we are capable of and what Coach Mac should be able to pull off. Go Buffs.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Kavita Bajeli-Datt\nNew Delhi : In 2005 Shafiq-ur-Rahman Khan launched Empower People, a group that rescues girls, mostly young brides, from trafficking. Now present in eight states with its 17,000 members the group has helped rescue over 5,000 girls in 11 years.\nEmpower People, sustained by private donations, strives for financial transparency in running its operations. With the help of Charities Aid Foundation India (CAF India), it has embarked on a major capacity-enhancement exercise that it said would, in the long run, help it “empower” girls.\n“We had heard about CAF India as it is a prominent group that helps NGOs to build their capacities. We had regular workshops with them for one year. And in this one year, we learned a lot. We know we will be able to perform and execute better,” Khan told this correspondent.\nKhan’s was among the 15 NGOs that recently received a certificate for attending these capacity-building meets at a workshop organised by CAF India — part of CAF Global Alliance with a network spanning 100 countries — which promotes the culture of giving.\n“These workshops help NGOs move to their goals in a sustained manner. They train us for better administration and transparent financial management – all this in the long run helps the NGOs focus and achieve more in their area of work,” said Khan, whose NGO works in states like Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana.\nMeenkashi Batra, the CEO of CAF India, said: “To deliver on the development agenda, it is important to invest in capacity-building of the NGOs.\n“Having worked in the philanthropy sector for the last 18 years, we have witnessed gaps in various areas of NGO management ranging from governance to compliance and overall management to reporting.”\nShe said CAF India, in association with United Parcel Service (UPS) Foundation, identified considerable gaps in the NGO sector.\nIn order to help local NGOs achieve the greatest possible programme impact through the best organisational practices, CAF India organised a series of capacity-building workshops, which addressed NGO management, financial compliance, governance, FCRA laws, effective management of CSR projects, proposal writing, importance of documentation, communication and fundraising strategies.\nUnder this project, 15 NGOs were identified through varied selection criteria and in-depth due-diligence methodology to strengthen their capacities through intensive workshops on issues like governance, digital fundraising, accountability and CSR laws, Batra said.\nGayatri Subramaniam, Chief Programme Executive and Convener of the National Foundation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), said that NGOs need to foster good relations with corporates by incorporating proper mechanisms and expertise.\n“Their strengths must be integrated to create multiplier effect to their projects in order to ensure maximum impact. The need of the time is to carve and develop a new relationship for the best results. Capacity-building of NGOs is definitely the need of the hour,” she said.\nRajendra Tripathi, Senior Manager, Corporate Citizenship at global software and cloud major Oracle India, said: “As a responsible corporate citizen, Oracle is making a significant contribution towards education, community development and environment in India.\n“This requires us to work with more than 70 not-for-profit organisations to efficiently drive our CSR strategy . This is where an organisation like CAF India plays a crucial role in mentoring the NGO partners – guiding, managing, reviewing and monitoring their work, in the process building their capacities along the CSR journey.”\nTanuja Birla, Senior Director, AON, a leading MNC that provides risk management and human resource solutions, said: “Corporates, embracing CSR in its true spirit, have created systems and processes to empower communities and make a deep impact.”\n“Teaming up with NGOs was an unmatchable experience. The ability to scale up and provide direction has been a key to this. To deliver more effectively, it is crucial to build capacities of NGOs as part of the larger goal of benefiting society.”\nAccording to Mala Bhandari, Founder-Director of Social and Development Research and Action Group (SADRAG) that works on child rights and basic education, NGOs were able to strengthen their operational processes and capacities after they took the capacity-building workshops.\nBatra said that NGOs are driven by their passion to make a change in society, but need training and guidance so that the end beneficiary is not just society or community but the country as a whole.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "She said she opposed \"the very idea of having these essential programs on the table, being forced to put them on the table by Republicans who want to protect the wealth of the wealthiest Americans.\"\nOne official familiar with the negotiations said that an option under discussion would allow Republicans to make a commitment to overhaul and simplify the tax system, an effort that would lower individual and corporate tax rates while closing loopholes, ending some deductions and limiting other tax subsidies. Those changes could generate tax revenue and were a central element of a deficit reduction plan proposed by a bipartisan commission early this year.\nSome Republicans argue that a simplified tax system would increase economic activity and that in itself would result in increased tax revenue.\nAmid media reports Thursday of Social Security's inclusion in the debt-cutting talks, Obama spokesman Carney pushed back.\n\"There is no news here — the president has always said that while Social Security is not a major driver of the deficit, we do need to strengthen the program,\" Carney said, providing that any such effort \"doesn't slash benefits.\" His statement did not directly address the possibility of reducing annual Social Security increases by changing the inflation adjustments.\nLater, while briefing reporters, Carney added: \"We have not put restrictions on what is brought into the room or put on the table.\"\nTwo Democratic officials allied with Obama said the president believes it would be easier to win bipartisan support in the House and Senate for a deal that embraces larger deficit cuts closer to the $4 trillion over 12 years that Obama proposed in April.\nThe officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private negotiations more freely, said the precise number was still in flux, but they said Obama would be making the case for more rather than less deficit reduction in his discussions with congressional leaders Thursday. The negotiations were the first official sit-down since last month, when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., left talks that had been led by Vice President Joe Biden, citing an insistence by Democrats on raising taxes.\n- Utah humanitarian aid worker returns from...\n- Southern Baptists tell pastors: hold line on...\n- Maine in standoff with nurse over Ebola...\n- Gunfire, arrests erupt as Giants fans revel...\n- New dynasty: Giants capture 3rd title in 5 years\n- Israeli leader lashes back at harsh US criticism\n- Pope Francis: ‘Evolution is not...\n- Pope Francis: The devil is real and...\n- Pope Francis: ‘Evolution ... 62\n- Southern Baptists tell pastors: hold... 39\n- Pastor who performed gay marriage keeps... 30\n- Utah among lowest in nation in... 21\n- Obama on Ebola fight: US can't seal... 19\n- Churches proceed carefully when... 16\n- George P. Bush says dad Jeb Bush is... 15\n- Israeli leader lashes back at harsh US... 13", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In the fast-paced digital age, data centers play a vital role in managing and storing vast amounts of information that power our modern world. However, the need for newer, more efficient data centers has become inevitable as technology evolves. The process of retiring older data centers, known as data center decommissioning, has emerged as a crucial step towards sustainability and reducing the carbon footprint of the information age.\nUnderstanding Data Center Decommissioning Services\nData center decommissioning services involve systematically and environmentally responsible dismantling of aging or outdated data centers. This process encompasses everything from planning and project management to asset recovery, recycling, and safe disposal. The aim is to remove the physical infrastructure and mitigate the environmental impact associated with data center closures.\nThe Carbon Footprint Challenge\nData centers are notorious for their massive energy consumption. They require continuous cooling, power supply, and operation of numerous servers, resulting in significant carbon emissions. With technology evolving rapidly, older data centers can become inefficient and contribute disproportionately to the carbon footprint. Decommissioning these facilities presents a unique opportunity to tackle this challenge head-on. Visit this website to know more.\nThe Role of Data Center Decommissioning in Reducing Carbon Footprint\n- Energy Efficiency Improvements: Older data centers need updated and efficient cooling and power systems. Companies can significantly reduce their energy consumption and carbon emissions by decommissioning and replacing them with more energy-efficient designs.\n- Renewable Energy Integration: During decommissioning, organizations can explore opportunities to switch to renewable energy sources to power their newer data centers. This shift to clean energy can substantially reduce the carbon footprint associated with data center operations.\n- E-Waste Management: Data center decommissioning services focus on responsible e-waste management. Instead of letting electronic equipment end up in landfills, these services promote recycling and salvaging valuable materials. This helps reduce the environmental impact of hazardous substances contained within electronic devices.\n- Optimizing Hardware Utilization: Data center decommissioning allows companies to identify and consolidate underutilized or obsolete hardware. This optimization reduces the number of servers required and reduces energy consumption and carbon emissions.\n- Carbon Offset Initiatives: Some data center decommissioning service providers may offer carbon offset programs. This means that for the carbon emissions that cannot be eliminated, companies can invest in environmentally friendly projects to compensate for their carbon footprint.\n- Green Data Center Designs: As companies decommission old data centers and build new ones, there is an opportunity to implement green data center designs from the ground up. These designs incorporate energy-efficient infrastructure, renewable energy integration, and advanced cooling technologies.\nChallenges and the Way Forward\nData center decommissioning has its challenges. Many companies need financial, logistical, and regulatory hurdles when dealing with the closure of large-scale facilities. Moreover, the growth of the digital economy means that more data centers are being built, which can offset the environmental gains made through decommissioning.\nTo address these challenges, governments and businesses must work together to incentivize sustainable practices and invest in renewable energy sources. Legislation can encourage companies to adopt greener data center solutions, and financial support can be provided to facilitate the decommissioning process.\nData center decommissioning services are more than just a necessary step in the evolution of technology; they are essential in combating the carbon footprint of the digital age. By responsibly retiring older data centers and embracing energy-efficient, eco-friendly alternatives, businesses can significantly contribute to a more sustainable future. As the world continues to digitize and rely on data centers, making these environmentally conscious choices is crucial in preserving our planet for future generations.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ten years since the successful but violent transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africans continue to advocate for human rights in the face of conflict and oppression, but this time a bit further from home.\nTen years since the successful but violent transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africans continue to advocate for human rights in the face of conflict and oppression, but this time a bit farther from home.\nOf the thirteen new accompaniers who joined the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Israel and Palestine (EAPPI) last week, four come from South Africa – making them the first group from the South.\nThe Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) was launched in August 2002. Ecumenical accompaniers monitor and report violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, support acts of non-violent resistance alongside local Christian and Muslim Palestinians and Israeli peace activists, offer protection through non-violent presence, engage in public policy advocacy, and stand in solidarity with the churches and all those struggling against the occupation.\nThe new group, which comes from the SACC with the support of the Christian Council of Sweden, is the first belonging to churches with direct experience of conflict and non-violent resistance.\n“It is too easy for us to forget the dark and terrible days of our own struggle, but the world has not forgotten, and our mere presence stands as a sign of hope to others,” said Canon Luke Pato of the South African Council of Churches (SACC).\nThe SACC has a strong history of political activism and ecumenical fellowship with the WCC through the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa (EMPSA). This programme, which served as a model for the EAPPI, was active between 1990 and 1994, bringing over 400 volunteers to the anti-apartheid movement.\n“We wouldn’t have survived without international support,” notes one new accompanier, a student during the EMPSA days. The ecumenical family “helped us cope with the realities of the situations we were facing,” he adds. “They were there for us, and it is important to be here for them now.”\nThe four South African accompaniers, who include a social service worker, a legal officer and two members of the clergy, one a professor, come with nine others from Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK to join two accompaniers staying on from previous groups.\nThe complete group comprises six women and seven men ranging in age from 26 to 72. They will work with the churches of Jerusalem, Palestinian and Israeli non-governmental organizations, and Palestinian communities, in various capacities such as accompanying children going to school and people dealing daily with the effects of Israel’s separation barrier.\n“South African churches joining the EAPPI marks a turning point in the international ecumenical solidarity and advocacy efforts to end the illegal Israeli occupation,” says Salpy Eskidjian of the World Council of Churches. “The legacy of WCC and SACC in the struggle against apartheid is a concrete manifestation, demonstrating that when we join forces, we can bring about change. Now, through the EAPPI, the ecumenical fellowship has the chance to do it again.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The market had hoped that China would unveil a large stimulus package at the March NPC; but any expectation of a large boost to world growth and commodities demand has not come, yet.\nThe current stimulus package is smaller; less potent and less positive for commodities demand than previous episodes of stimulus. This is because two-thirds of the stimulus comes via tax cuts, and one-third from direct government spending. Tax cuts give companies money, which they may save, and will not translate into metals demand.\nIn March 2019, the National People’s Congress (NPC) set out its annual plans for China’s economic and fiscal policy. The meeting was closely watched, given growing concerns that the US-China trade war has sparked an economic slowdown in China.\nMost of CRU’s clients who responded to our annual economic survey, said that a large stimulus package from China would be the most likely source of upside to global growth. This strategy was highly successful in propping up growth in China and the world more broadly following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).\nThis Spotlight Feature sets out our assessment of the latest stimulus package. Relative to past episodes, we judge it is:\n- smaller in size (as a share of GDP)\n- less potent for the macro economy in the short term (it has a larger share of tax cuts)\n- less positive for metals demand\nThis conclusion is supported by the view on the ground from our China office. This modest stimulus is warranted given that the recent growth slowdown has been small. It is consistent with the authorities’ ambition for long-term growth that is sustainable from an environmental and financial stability perspective.\nThe current episode of stimulus is smaller than the past\nAs the US-China trade war unfolded in 2018, China announced a range of easing policies (for a comprehensive list see Annex II). Additional stimulus measures were announced at the NPC in March 2019 and are detailed in our recent Economic Insight. Two elements of the newly announced stimulus are worth noting:\n- A higher local government special bond quota – up by RMB800 billion. This will enable the funding of additional infrastructure projects.\n- Manufacturing sector VAT tax cuts of 3 percentage points, with a 1 percentage point cut in the construction and transport sectors. We estimate that this will lower corporate costs by RMB650 billion.\nThe NPC’s headline stimulus figures include easing measures that were announced last year. That makes it hard to cleanly isolate the new stimulus from the old – the 2018 stimulus. We estimate that the new stimulus is around RMB2.1 trillion, and the total stimulus over 2018–19 is larger at RMB3.7 trillion. This is slightly smaller in absolute (nominal) value compared to earlier episodes. (see Annex I and II for additional details).\nThe chart below shows two different gauges of fiscal easing. On both, the total size of the fiscal stimulus announced in 2018–19 is smaller than the previous two episodes.\nThe first measure shows the value of stimulus as a share of GDP. During the 2008 GFC, China unleashed a large stimulus worth RMB4 trillion, or 13.5% of GDP. In 2015 the authorities also injected stimulus into the economy, but it was smaller than in 2008. The stimulus announced in 2018-19 is smaller in absolute value and as a share of GDP.\nThe second measure captures changes to an augmented measure of the government budget deficit. This takes the official deficit and adjusts it to include all off-budget funding – including local government financial vehicles and special bonds – which we know is heavily used in China. A rise in the budget deficit signals fiscal expansion.\nThe IMF calculated that during the GFC, the augmented fiscal deficit rose by nearly 8 percentage points. The rise was smaller at 3 percentage points in 2015-16, and CRU expects it to rise by 1-2 percentage points over the period 2018-19.\nIt is no surprise that the stimulus packages have become smaller over time. China, like most policy makers around the world, understood that there were risks that the large stimulus and ultra-loose monetary policy unleashed during the GFC, may have medium term unintended consequences. But, around the globe, the alternative was a catastrophic collapse in economic output and international trade. In China the unintended consequences include an explosion of credit, with total non-financial sector debt rising to 253% of GDP in 2018.\nThe current stimulus is less potent (more T, less G)\nEconomic theory explains that the mix of fiscal policy—whether it comes via a change in government spending or a change in taxes—matters. The chart below shows the latest episode of stimulus has a much larger share of tax cuts relative to the other episodes. We argue that this form of stimulus is less potent for the macro economy.\nWhen fiscal stimulus comes via government spending (“G”), it tends to have a bigger impact on growth than if the stimulus came via an equivalent cut in taxation (“T”). This is because if the government spent an extra RMB1 trillion to build additional roads and towns, all those funds will be spent in raising the employment of construction workers and increasing the demand for steel and copper. On the other hand, tax cuts of RMB1 trillion, will put that money in the hands of a company or a consumer, who will then have the choice of how much to save and how much to spend. The share that is spent will benefit the economy in the form of additional demand; but the share that is saved, will not benefit demand; economists call this a “leakage”. As a result, stimulus in the form of tax cuts typically has a smaller impact on growth than government spending. That said, the precise impact of both government spending and tax cuts on the economy (the fiscal multipliers) is uncertain, because it can change over time and depends on the state of the economy.\nThe 2019 VAT cuts reduce the costs faced by corporates. They give companies the choice of how to spend their savings. In very competitive sectors, the cost saving could be passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices. This is likely to lead to a rise in the demand for goods and the metal inputs (the precise rise will depend on the price elasticity of demand). In less competitive sectors, companies may choose to absorb the VAT cost reductions into profits, particularly if corporate profitability has been under strain.\nUse of tax cuts rather than government spending is consistent with China’s goal to transition to a more balanced growth model – away from investment led growth, to greater consumer spending. And towards an economy where market forces and prices – the invisible hand - plays a greater role in determining the allocation of resources.\nThe current episode of stimulus is less metals friendly\nHow positive the stimulus is for metals demand depends on the size of the stimulus, the form in which it is delivered (T vs. G), and the sectors that benefit from the easing. The current episode of stimulus is less positive for metals demand than the past on all three counts: it is smaller; delivered through VAT cuts which have a higher degree of leakage; and targets less metal intensive sectors of the economy.\nThe 2008 stimulus package was skewed towards large scale construction and infrastructure projects, including buildings, railways, roads and power and water distribution grids. The breakdown below shows that over 80% of the 2008 stimulus package was allocated to infrastructure, reconstruction and housing – all of which are metal intensive. Half of final steel demand, and 25–30% of aluminium and copper demand comes from these sectors.\nThe 2015–16 stimulus episode brought with it a large rise in local government financing, which benefitted construction and infrastructure. Another high-profile part of this package was the car sales tax cut, which profited transport and aluminium and steel demand: annual car sales growth rose from 7% in 2015 to 15% in 2016.\nThe 2018-19 stimulus is going to be mildly positive for metals demand. Partly because the largest VAT cuts are in manufacturing, which accounts for 25–40% of metal demand, and partly because the higher quota for local government special bond issuance will raise metals demand in construction and infrastructure. We have revised up our outlook for construction sector output growth by 0.2 pp to 3.8% in 2019.\nMonetary policy: conservative so far, more firepower exists\nThe People’s Bank of China (PBC) has at their disposal several monetary policy tools that it can use to encourage consumers and firms to borrow. The chart shows two such measures.\nThe first is the Required Reserve Ratio (RRR). It measures the amount of funds that a bank needs to hold with the central bank. When this rate is cut, banks need to hold less with the central bank as a proportion to loans and so banks can lend more to households and companies. The second is the Benchmark Lending Rate (1-year) - the rate at which banks can lend to the private sector. A cut in this rate makes borrowing cheaper.\nIn 2018-19 all the monetary easing has come via RRR cuts, with no changes to the benchmark lending rate. Crucially, we interpret this as the PBC’s continued efforts to control credit growth, deleverage and support financial stability.\nChina stimulus will not support global commodity demand\nChina’s economy has been slowing for a decade. A slowing that is consistent with the government’s goal of long-term sustainable growth – CRU have referred to this as “a policy led managed slowdown”. The stimulus announced in 2018-19 is smaller than previous episodes; but it is appropriate, given the smaller magnitude of the current economic deceleration in China.\nThe current stimulus will not provide substantial support to global commodity demand growth because the stimulus is smaller, but more importantly because most of the stimulus (two thirds) comes in the form of tax cuts. In contrast, in 2008 and 2015, two thirds came in the form of direct government spending. Tax cuts are a more indirect form of stimulus, which puts money in the pockets of households and companies, some of which will inevitably be saved, and therefore will not translate into metals demand.\nBeijing has further policy space to stimulate the economy, should it be required. But it will only use it if growth falls below 6% - the minimum growth threshold we judge is required to honour the governments’ pledge to the people to double GDP between 2010 and 2020. For now, we do not expect growth to dip that low.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Syracuse Men's Player Charged With DWI in Crash\nfrom staff reports\nSyracuse senior midfielder Kevin Drew is facing charges of driving while intoxicated, hit and run and resisting arrest following a crash early Monday morning involving a car owned by Orange men's lacrosse coach John Desko, according to a report on the Syracuse Post-Standard's website.\nDrew, 21, was charged early Monday. According to court records, a police officer witnessed a 2007 Chevy Trail Blazer strike a parked car at about 3:30 a.m. The officer chased the Trail Blazer at speeds of 50 miles per hour, 30 miles per hour over the speed limit.\nAfter being pulled over, Drew did not follow police commands and had to be knocked to the ground.\nThe car was registered to John Desko, according to the report. Desko's son, Tim, is Drew's roommate at Syracuse. Drew told police that the car belonged to a roommate.\nJohn Desko told the Post-Standard that the car is the one his son drives, but that neither he nor his son knew Drew took the car.\nDesko, in a statement released through Syracuse University, said Drew has been suspended indefinitely from the team.\n\"We are aware of what happened and fortunately no one was injured,\" Desko said. \"Kevin has been indefinitely suspended from the lacrosse team. We will continue to monitor this situation moving forward and handle the matter internally.\"\nDrew played in 17 games for the Orange last season, registering six goals and one assist with 33 ground balls.\ncomments powered by Disqus", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It’s the major Shi’ite holiday of Ashura, and as usual that means the Shi’ite minority in a number of countries are under fire. This was particularly true in Afghanistan, where a gunman attacked a Shi’ite shrine in the capital city of Kabul, killing at least 14.\nThe man opened fire at the Karte Sakhi shrine early this morning, quickly getting into a gunbattle with Afghan security forces, which lasted some two hours. In the end 14 civilians were killed, along with the gunman. 36 people were also reported wounded.\nAshura is a holiday which sees large numbers of Shi’ites gather around mosques and shrines, and hold public processions. This tends to make them easy targets, and as a result, virtually every year multiple such attacks are reported.\nThere has been no claim of responsibility for this particular attack yet, but in Afghanistan attacks on the Shi’ite Hazaras are fairly common, with numerous Islamist factions targeting them throughout the year, and such attacks seen particularly around this time of year.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "WW1 Adds Two To Top Sales Roles\nPosted 1 August 2017, 3.15pm edt\nA longtime Premiere Networks sales leader has joined WW1 as its new Director of National Partnerships. Concurrently, a media industry veteran who has worked at The Weather Channel, The New York Times and Crain Communications has come board for a top ...\nRead the full story at RBR/TVBR\nPro users automatically bypass this page, and go direct to the story. You also help support this site, and get rid of the banner ads. Become a pro user today", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Stephen Roach believes the record market rally is getting dangerously close to folding.\nThe Yale University senior fellow, who was Morgan Stanley Asia chairman for five years, suggests investors are in denial when it comes to the risks associated with U.S. trade tensions. Roach predicts the threat could spark a prolonged sell-off and make the mighty greenback look very attractive before the end of year.\n\"If we move towards the midterms and there is still some lingering tension on the trade front, cash is going to be a very good place to be,\" he said Monday on CNBC's \"Trading Nation.\"\nEven though President Donald Trump claimed victory Monday on trade with Mexico, Roached warned there's still too much uncertainty in the trade arena. Roach, one of the leading authorities on Asia, is particularly concerned about China because it's unlikely the country will succumb to Trump's demands.\n\"I hate to throw cold water on the party, but Mexico is certainly not China. Mexico is much more about outsourcing,\" said Roach. \"The China battle is more about industrial policy and China's aspirations to grow industries of the future in artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles.\"\nHis thoughts came as the and tech heavy Nasdaq hit all-time highs. The Nasdaq surpassed 8,000 for the first time ever. The Dow didn't reach a record high, but it traded above 26,000 for the first time since Feb. 2.\nRoach acknowledged momentum is dominating the stock market right, but he's sticking by his Wall Street is \"too complacent\" thesis and the belief stocks are vulnerable to a painful decline..\nThe big question: When?\n\"That's a real stab in the dark here. It's hard to know exactly how the market is going to decipher the tugging and pulling on this trade issue,\" Roach said. \"But to the extent that the markets are extrapolating Mexico into other major bilateral deals, that could be setting it up for a major disappointment.\"\nThe White House did not respond to a request for comment.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Norman Rockwell: American Freedom Presented by Museum of Fine Arts-Houston\nInternationally touring exhibition examines Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings\nThe presentation is the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Norman Rockwell’s iconic depictions of FDR’s Four Freedoms—Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear, and Freedom from Want—exploring how the 1943 paintings came to be embraced by millions of Americans, providing crucial aid to the war effort and taking their place among the most indelible images in the history of American art.\nThe exhibition will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, through March 22, 2020.\nHouston is the fifth venue for the acclaimed exhibition’s seven-city tour and is organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum. The exhibition debuted at The New-York Historical Society in May 2018. In addition to the Four Freedoms, Norman Rockwell: American Freedom features paintings, illustrations, and prints by Rockwell and a range of his contemporaries. Throughout the exhibition, historical documents, photographs, videos, artifacts, and interactive digital displays bring the era to life.\nThe exhibition is organized into five thematic sections that examine the context for Rockwell’s work.\nThe War Generation\nThe exhibition opens with a look at the political and socio-economic backdrop against which Roosevelt announced the Four Freedoms. A recording of one of Roosevelt’s famous Fireside Chats, this one from April 14, 1938, will enable visitors to hear from the president himself as he addresses the crushing struggles of the Great Depression, conveyed through newsreel footage and photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, and others.\nThis section turns to Roosevelt’s emphatic proclamation of the Four Freedoms as a rationale to enter the war, presented in his 1941 address to Congress. The speech and the subsequent incorporation of the Freedoms into the Atlantic Charter—evoked here through photographs and documents—was not able to rally the nation behind the war. The presentation includes drawings and published illustrations by Rockwell and others intended to gain support for the war effort.\nArtistic Response to the Four Freedoms Ideals\nThis section documents the government’s efforts to promote these ideals to the public by encouraging artists across disciplines to interpret Roosevelt’s Freedoms, including a range of tributes to the Freedoms in the form of sculpture, paintings, prints, and drawings for the campaign. A group of powerful World War II propaganda posters in this section includes examples that addressed life on the home front, and that were intended to rally support for the troops and remind the public of its civic duty.\nRockwell’s Four Freedoms\nThis section addresses Rockwell’s interpretation of Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms and how, thanks largely to their reproduction in The Saturday Evening Post, they would come to be embraced by millions. Rockwell found himself challenged to find a way to translate the president’s lofty ideals into something that would touch the daily lives and hearts of average American citizens.\nWhile struggling to find a solution, he happened to attend a local town-hall meeting where a man stood up to voice an unpopular view. It was then that Rockwell realized he could best paint the freedoms from the perspective of his own hometown experiences, using everyday scenes like that town meeting. The simple approach turned out to be the key to transformational change: Rockwell’s images immediately became inseparable from Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms in the public imagination.\nThe exhibition concludes by following the postwar outcomes of Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms. Central to this section is Rockwell’s ongoing focus on the theme of human rights, bringing his Four Freedoms paintings to the postwar era. After a 47-year career with The Post in 1963, Rockwell sought new artistic challenges.\nHis painting The Problem We All Live With portrays a six-year-old African-American girl being escorted by U.S. marshals to her first day at an all-white school in New Orleans, an assertion of moral decency.\nThe Four Freedoms Reimagined\nAccompanying Norman Rockwell: American Freedom, the MFAH will present a contemporary response, The Four Freedoms Reimagined, a photography project created by Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and New York-based photographer Wyatt Gallery.\nThis reimagining of Norman Rockwell’s paintings features 16 photographs from this series shown in an adjacent gallery, encouraging viewers to consider the enduring values of these basic principles, first articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, and how they impact our lives today.\nPhotos: V. Sweeten", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Players from both sides were arguing with the ref after the official gave a free kick on the edge of the penalty area.\nThe goalkeeper took advantage of the natural break in the action to pick up a water bottle and take a sip.\nBut the quick-thinking attacking team took the free kick suddenly and leftback Ding Haifeng was able to smash the ball into an unguarded net.\nThe keeper Sui Weijie, still with water bottle in hand, was left dumbstruck with the lightning-quick move.\nDing's goal, on 84 minutes, brought Liaoning Whowin an equaliser against hosts Chongqing Lifan.\nThe China Super League match, in Chongqing, China, ended in a 1-1 draw.\nSui has since been fined by his club for basically not paying attention.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jonas Brothers meet their biggest fan on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon\nJimmy Fallon has a surprise for the band.\n|Report an Error|\nShare via Email\nYes, it’s true. The Jonas Brothers is still a thing that exists. They just released a new song called “Pom Poms.” (The video (The video objectifies young women in the worst way and works mostly as an inadvertently astute commentary on everything that’s wrong with music videos. So, if that’s your thing you should definitely watch it.)\n- Video Updated 5 things that will happen now that Scotland has voted 'No'\n- NEW Housing tycoon donating $30 million to St. Michael's Hospital\n- What ominous lessons Britain can learn from post-referendum Quebec\n- 'Feeble' Health Canada can't block dodgy drug imports\n- Why police haven't investigated doctor in sex abuse case\n- NEW Suspect named in shooting death of Toronto construction executive\n- Video Florida man kills six grandkids, daughter and then himself\n- Sick coyote captured roaming Scarborough Bluffs", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mersiha Mesihovic confronts the trauma of her past and her struggle for self-liberation through dance.\nA collection of stories about our food, family and culture.\nA story about what you choose to take home and what you bring back.\nA podcast about the challenges and rewards of raising children who speak three languages.\nMeet NJ’s African-born farm family in this multimedia feature.\nListen to Michael Obadina’s radio story about exploring his family’s history and culinary heritage.\nOnce homeless, a young immigrant from Guyana looks to help others who face similar challenges.\nAn Egyptian writer living in New York, but still on Cairo time.\nListen to the story of Mona, a woman who left the Philippines for a better life in the U.S., and ended up having to escape from an abusive employer.\nRachel Bongiorno goes to New Jersey to find out more about the Voudou religion.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Warnock MacKinlay Law\nLEGAL BLOG Month: January 2022\nCaught-in-between, also known as caught-in and caught-between accidents, are among OSHA’s fatal four. Its dangers bring serious to deadly injuries to construction workers. Caught-in-between accidents often occur from unguarded machinery and excavations. (Editor’s note: This caught-in-between article is the fourth part of the construction accident series. The blog aims to explain OSHA’s “fatal four”. Click...\nElectrocution is one of the usual causes of deadly injuries on construction sites. Known as a part of OSHA’s fatal four, it continues to bring danger to construction workers. Electrical hazards still remain a top workplace concern for people in this industry. (Editor’s note: This article is the third part of the construction accident...\nDOWNLOAD FREE E-BOOK", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lawyers ask court for Patel judge-only trial\nLawyers for former Bundaberg-based surgeon Jayant Patel have argued for a 'judge-only' Supreme Court trial in Brisbane.\nThe 62-year-old doctor is accused of the manslaughter of former patient 75-year-old Mervyn Morris.\nMr Morris died shortly after Patel removed part of his colon in 2003.\nPatel has previously pleaded not guilty to the charge.\nHis lawyer Kenneth Fleming told a pre-trial hearing very little can be done to ensure his client gets a fair trial, given the publicity surrounding the case.\nThe Crown is arguing against the application for a 'judge-only' trial.\nLawyer Peter Davis, acting for the Crown, says issues can be avoided with proper directions and jurors being \"true to their oath\".\nJustice James Douglas is expected to rule on the matter early next week.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Technology for Marketing is pleased to host the Top 100 Marketing Influencers Index for 2023, in association with influencer marketing expert Gordon Glenister. With this award, we aim to recognise those in the industry that use social media to influence, educate and innovate our sector.\nWe've compiled a list featuring 100 notable individuals. Some of them nominated themselves, while others were nominated by peers or followers. This diverse selection highlights influential figures across the marketing field on social media.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Usa dating friendship chat\nA recent report issued by the New York Times weighs in explaining why numbers and formulas are unlikely to help forge the perfect couple.\nHang on a minute, wasn't online dating designed to reduce the complexities of finding a partner in the first place?\nTechnology and competition for this lucrative market has made a mockery of it.\nTo the average person, thanks to bad press and other contributing factors, online dating has become somewhat of an un-trusted source for meeting people.\nEver been to the streets of New York City, or cruise through LA at night?\nOne thing is for sure - hot American girls of all races and cute guys.\nI like being with people who think, who tend to be creative and enjoy making dep..So why are we different here at Free Dating America?The simple truth is that, people like to explore the pool of singles by sifting through simple location based searches and not relying on an algorithm and a bunch of gimmicks, not to mention a cash grab, in order to find someone they like the look of. And that's what you'll get once you partner with us to help find your new friend or lover - simple, powerful and instant results based on a few basic steps that will deliver you the choice to pick and choose as you please.With just a few clicks you'll have access to our huge database of singles from all U. states and worldwide, so no matter where you're living you'll find someone with whom you can connect.If you'd rather find new friends and make new romantic connections by meeting online versus a bar, then Amour is the place to get more quality dates.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If you’re on twitter, you already know that “RT” stands for retweet — forwarding or re-posting someone’s tweet to your followers. Well I’ve been noticing a new trend and it turns out that it’s not new at all. At least in terms of social media time.\nPeople have been using “MT” to indicate a Modified Tweet. It’s basically a retweet that’s been edited. Makes sense, right? I’ve been seeing it more and more recently but I found mentions of this in blogs from as far back as August 2010. That’s ancient history on twitter.\nWhen should you use MT instead of RT? Here are three answers:\nMore twitter abbreviations you should know:…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Best Kardashian Halloween Costumes Over The Years\nThe Kardashians dominate every single event and occasion known to man. Their birthday parties are spectacular, their weddings are extravagant, and every dinner they host looks fantastic.\nThe first family of American pop culture has got it all down when it comes to hosting the perfect soiree. This family makes even better guests as they know how to show up and show out for an occasion.\nThere is no themed party or dress-up event that this trend-setting family cannot prepare for. Take a look at some of the best Halloween costumes that the Kardashian’s have pulled off over the years.\nThe Dark Knight Rises\nKim, Kourtney, Scott, Kanye, and Johnathan all dressed up as different Batman squad members. The A-List collective wore their group costume to a Halloween party in Miami.\nKanye West dressed as Batman, Kim was Catwoman, Kourtney went as Batgirl, and Scott was Robin. What impressed us was Johnathan Cheban’s dedication to the Riddler costume’s hair and makeup.\nKylie channeled Christina Aguilera in her ‘Dirrty’ phase in 2016, and fans were shocked and star-struck. The video of Kylie dancing in the costume was Instagram’s most-watched video after she posted it.\nKendall As A Forest Fairy\nKendall’s birthday is just after Halloween, so the supermodel celebrated with a Halloween bash in 2019. Everyone showed up to her party dressed to the nines, and so did the birthday girl herself.\nThe Victoria’s Secret angel looked utterly magical in her golden fairy costume and whimsical wings. Her golden highlighter makeup was the perfect touch to give her that special fairy dust effect.\nThe West Worms\nThe Kardashian-West’s stunned fans in their intricate matching insect costumes last year. The family had a series of group costumes, but this caught our eye and made an impression concerning its unique designs.\nThe Wizard Of Oz\nKylie recently shared an adorable throwback of her and Kendall in their tiny Halloween costumes. The cute pair dressed as Dorothy and the Wizard from the famous musical in the old photo.\nKylie’s tiny pigtails look perfect in Dorothy’s signature bows, and Kendall shines in her magical star outfit. This image is proof that these siblings have owned the Halloween game forever.\nKris Jenner was dripping in gold while wearing her Cleopatra Halloween costume in 2018. The Kardashian Jenner matriarch looked regal in her outfit that could double as a dazzling dress.\nGod Is A Woman\nKourtney Kardashian was an icon dressed as another icon on Halloween in 2018. The mother of three looked a few decades younger in her Ariana Grande costume that was too perfect for words.\nKourtney rocked every single detail of the outfit perfectly, especially the signature Ari high ponytail. We love that Kourtney committed to the outfit even more with her microphone accessory.\nSomething Wicked Comes This Way\nKendall embraced her witchy side in her sleek 2018 Halloween costume. Nobody makes being wicked look as cool as Kendall does in her chic all-black get up.\nKhloe Kardashian and her daughter True rock several matching costumes each Halloween. The sweet pair always make us gush, but their 101 Dalmatians costume has to be the cutest thing ever.\nKhloe dressed as Cruella De Vil and True as a dalmatian puppy for last year’s festivities. We can’t get over how cute tiny True looks in her spotted suit and curly pigtails.\nVictoria’s Secret Angels\nThe Kardashian Jenner sisters blew our minds with their group costume in 2018. Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, Kendall, and Kylie wore actual Victoria’s secret wings for their lingerie-clad outfits and looked amazing!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Most recently marketers and publishers have been buzzing about the impending demise of TV and print. Some have heralded cord cutters as the new breed of viewers, who took the first stab at completely disconnecting from TV and instead relying on the Netflix and Amazons of the world. Some have even said that its cord switchers, those who oscillate between TV and online. Forrester Research went so far as to predict TV’s demise by 2016, when advertisers will spend almost $77 billion online, comprising 35% of overall ad spending. While, highly likely I am a bit weary of this statistic, I don’t doubt this will eventually happen but probably not this soon.\nCategory Archives: Marketing\nNetflix, Qwikster and a bit of a branding nightmare\nSo I am assuming you’ve heard the news, everybody is talking, writing, tweeting about it. Not it’s not about Facebook’s latest update but it seems that Netflix has made another bold move.\nAfter increasing the price of its DVD and streaming side by 60%, it has decided to split its famed DVD rental and streaming business. That’s right, the days when you could order the red envelope and stream one of the movies may be behind us. That is of course if you are not one of the many customers, who was so appalled with the price hike that you cut ties and instead moved to a competitor. I did and now I get superfast shipping and many TV serials and movies online from one provider, Amazon. Continue reading\nSocial and Search, and a new age power struggle??\nI came across two interesting, yet opposing articles on the importance between social media and search. Scott Gillum wrote a post – Social is Intriguing, However Search is Proven – makes the argument that although social media is growing it does not offer anywhere near the effectiveness and impact on the bottom line as does search marketing. Moreover, Scott rightly indicates that search, via SEO and paid search has a proven track record, best practices, and ROI models in place to ensure that marketers can track performance and attribution. On the other hand, Ryan DeShazer, makes a valiant case for social media in his post – For Marketers, Social Isn’t Quite The New Search – stating that in the long run “social will pay off and the onus is on companies to discover their own “killer application.” Yet DeShazer too agrees that search is proven and accountable and needs the investment and consideration of corporates, thereby not getting side tracked by the glitz and glamour of social media.\nPersonally, I believe that the role of marketers is to be in the areas/channels where they are most likely and able to communicate, listen and engage with their current and potential customers. Gone are the days of one-sided conversations, when the marketer spoke and the customer listened and obeyed. Social and search offer two very different communication propositions. Consumers searching for a product have already felt a need for a product/service and are either researching for a solution or comparing between options or in the final stages of making a purchase or looking for the best deal. On the other hand, social offers a myriad of potentials from listening in to what people are saying about your brand, discussing a poor service experience, giving a positive shout out to your brand and perhaps even recommending or learning about your company for the first time.\nYes, social doesn’t yet have the intricate ROI attribution and performance metrics as compared to search, but it is still a new channel. Brand are still taking baby steps in the area, some haven’t even considered it as part of their marketing mix, while, service providers are developing new features and users are realizing its power and applicability in their lives. At the end of the day, I don’t think brands can simply focus on one marketing channel anymore and they need to identify the relevant channels and develop an integrated marketing mix to leverage and interconnect them to communicate and lead consumers across the purchase funnel. I think its too early in the process to announce the demise of any one channel.\nWhat is your opinion on the topic? Does search require a lot of attention as compared to social or do you think brands need to develop a much more integrated approach towards their marketing? Chime in through the comment button.\nThe changing face of CRM\nCustomer Relationship Management – a word so often used yet rarely put into action. I am a strong believer that companies need to manage, maintain and nurture relationships with their customers, not just when they buy their product/service, but early on in the decision-making process and once the supposed transaction is complete. Yet while many “big” name companies maintain that the customer is at the heart of their operations, that’s often not the case.\nSo a few weeks ago, I was in the market for a new cellphone. I didn’t want to change my service provider, so looked at the phones they had and after scouring the internet, reading reviews from experts and users I made the decision to pick a Motorola on an Android platform. I choose the phone, decided to have it shipped (in retrospect I should have walked a few blocks and picked it up, but Amazon has changed my purchase behavior more than I like to admit), and then proceeded to wait for the shipping information and tracking number. It was Monday morning and no information had arrived, finally I called customer service and was given an explanation that I would just need to wait. “But I paid extra for express delivery, it said 1-2 business days. Where is my tracking number? This would never happen on Amazon.”\nFinally, I decided to let me followers on Twitter know about my experience. Small as my follower numbers are, it was some respite to tweet about it.\nI proceeded with my day, hoping to see my phone soon before I headed out of the country. I somehow had an inkling that the company in question might pick it up. But I didn’t have much hope. After all there are probably thousands of people at that moment commenting and it is likely to get lost. WRONG!!\nThe next day, I get a reply from Virgin Mobile’s handle, apologizing for the delay and asking for details to follow-up. Needless to say I was surprised that they picked it up. Until I noticed near the time stamp the words “via Radian6”. I was aware that companies like Dell and Gatorade had established social media command centers to track the social media chatter. But to truly see the results of the effort is nice. There was a series of tweets back and forth with various @VMUcare reps. I could tell that Virgin had some good practices in place – Virgin social media reps put down their initials at the end of the tweet. I suppose it is a way to tag the individual with the response, this is a really good practice, as it ensures accountability.\nMy story has a happy ending, I got the phone (and totally love Android in case you were wondering). But most of all I was pleasantly surprised by how companies are using social media listening and engagement tools – particularly Radian6 to track customers. If you noticed the initial tweet I sent out, the sentiment on the tweet is mixed. This would have required a moderator to look at Radian6’s river of news functionality, drill down to the specific tweet, analyse it and then respond.\nA few days later, I had a follow-up question for Virgin about my phone, and got an immediate reply.\nOf course, for every one player at the top of the game there are laggards. I needed some electronic equipment and walked down to one of the top consumer electronic retailers store in NYC. The customer service experience at the store was terrible, and I walked out despondent. Not only were the employees totally negligent and complacent, there was literally no service. I stood in a line, only to find out that I needed to pay in another area of the store. I left the products with a sales rep and walked out. I decided to tweet about my experience again, hoping that someone could look at it and fix an issue with the store.\nIts been a few days and I am yet to hear back anything. Granted it was a Friday but it was in the first half of the day. The sentiment on the tweet was negative, and I would imagine Radian6 would have picked it up immediately. Considering the size of this player, I would have expected an immediate response, but nothing. I ran a cursory analysis on the company in question, using TweetFeel and the results were not surprising.\nThe above results show that 60% of approx. 151 twitter conversations on the company in question are negative. This is a small sample size, but an indicator that all is not well.\nI remember a time when I was back home in India and our air conditioning (from one of the leading manufacturers at the time) had broken down. We waited several weeks to get someone in the company to acknowledge our request and send a mechanic down. There were numerous excuses told and shoddy service provided.\nLooking at this experience, it is amazing how far CRM has come today. If companies would just listen to what their current/potential customers are saying they can build a strong and loyal following – one that is not easily lured away by a new competitor. The tools are available and the talent is knowledgeable, but it takes a strong belief and dedicated company to back this effort with the resources it needs – irrespective of whether you provide a product or service.\nWhat is your experience with CRM and social media? Have you ever tweeted a company about an issue and got a response back?\nVideo Advertising and its growing role in the Online Display Industry\nThe saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” has never been more true in marketing than today. This old expression not only highlights the effectiveness of pictures to capture our imagination but also its ability to communicate ideas succinctly. So it’s not very surprising that video is fast becoming a driving force in the online advertising industry.\nGrowth in display advertising dollars has prompted eMarketer to double its ad growth projections. According to projections, overall the market for display advertising is expected to grow at 20.2%, overtaking search to become the largest online ad spending category by 2015. One of the key factors driving this surge is the move towards video based advertising, with its share of pie expected to grow from 19.4% in 2011 to 35.9% in 2014, while Rich Media and Banner Ads are expected to moderately, by steadily, decline.So why are advertisers moving dollars from the once trusty search and banner advertising to video?\nI have Klout!! – Now why should marketers care?\nAs a budding integrated marketer, I often hear and read about the importance of attracting and winning over influencers. For the mock strategy I conducted for the Cisco Cius in an NYU MSIM class, that was a focal point of our strategy, and rightfully so. Companies launching a new service or product need to get their message across to the right people, and what better way to cut across the customer spectrum than identifying and channeling your message to the influencers among your target audience.\nBut who exactly are influencers? There are a number of definitions out there. But for me these are individuals who have the network strength, following and ability to amplify your message and affect the behavior of others. In short they have the ability to influence others. While, a number of tools can help you identify influencers on blogs, twitter (such as http://twittercounter.com/) etc, one tool has blown away the competition – Klout.\nInsights from ARF Audience Measurement Conference\nI spent the last two days (June 13-14th) attending the ARF Audience Measurement 6.O conference in NYC, particularly the social media insights panels. It was exciting to sit there and listen to how companies such as Cisco and Verizon are using social media, as well as how media planning and technology companies are testing findings to roll-out of various advertising methodologies. The following post focuses on some of the insights I got from some of the Key Note and panels I attended.\nPerfect People Meter:\nLee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, presented a keynote on how people use digital technology and how that makes audience measurement more complicated than in the past. Rainie listed out three revolutions – the Internet, mobile and social media, and then proceeded to discuss each in detail.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The man facing murder charges in the truck attack of a Muslim family in London, Ont., has left no traces on social media about his life, but a neighbour who spoke to CBC News said while the 20-year-old kept to himself, he’d have frequent and noisy gatherings in his downtown apartment.\nDetails about Nathaniel Veltman are difficult to piece together. It’s known, however, that he was living in an apartment in downtown London and has ties to Strathroy, a small community in the heart of southwestern Ontario farm country.\nHe’s currently in a cell at the Elgin Middlesex Detention Centre, charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of\nWNews is the place to be for the latest global news. Started in 2014, we want to bring the news back to the news with unbiased reporting of the news. We believed that news should be honest and trustworthy.\nWNews is a W-World Brand, a Canadian-based company.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Seek end to ‘form of slavery’ called human trafficking\nCalling human trafficking “a modern day form of slavery,” the Catholic bishops of Illinois and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious of Illinois have issued a joint statement urging people of good will to seek its end through prayer, work and education.\n“Eradicating Human Trafficking” comes at the beginning of National Migration Week, which is being observed Jan. 3-9, and just before National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Jan. 11. The theme for National Migration Week, which highlights the church’s work with immigrants, refugees, trafficked persons and other people on the move, is “Renewing Hope, Seeking Justice.”\n“The mission of the Gospel is to set captives free and to show mercy to our neighbor who is in need. Human trafficking around the world betrays every dimension of personhood and is a modern day form of slavery,” the Illinois bishops and LCWR Region 8 leaders say in their statement.\nThey note that human trafficking involves “the movement of people through violence, deception or coercion for the purpose of forced labor, servitude, slavery-like practices and prostitution” and is a “tragic denial of human rights.”\nSaying that Illinois is already recognized as a forerunner in taking steps to stop human trafficking, the bishops and the women religious say it is still necessary “to raise awareness of the issue and to promote a response of compassionate assistance to victims in their need.”\nBELIEVED to be the first of its kind, the joint statement took about three years to formulate, according to Sister Phyllis McMurray, OSB, prioress of St. Mary Monastery in Rock Island.\nShe explained that the leaders of LCWR Region 8, which encompasses religious communities throughout Illinois, meets annually with the state’s bishops. They have been using part of that time to write and refine “Eradicating Human Trafficking.”\nThe issue of human trafficking has been on their radar for some time since the women religious traditionally have worked on the local and state level to support programs that benefit women and children, Sister Phyllis said.\nSister Patricia Crowley, OSB, prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago and LCWR Region 8 chairperson, said her own community has had personal experience with the issue of human trafficking.\n“MANY communities of women religious are in other countries and are in service ministries and have come across this issue in the people they have dealt with,” she told The Catholic Post in a telephone interview last week, acknowledging that this is something that can be difficult to recognize.\n“I think people who are trafficked are not identifiable to people — and may not identify themselves,” she said. “They don’t trust others because they’ve been taken advantage of.”\n“There’s a lot more going on than we’re aware of,” Sister Phyllis said.\n“Eradicating Human Trafficking” explains that at any given time, approximately 2.5 million persons around the world are victims and that at least one-third of them are trafficked for economic purposes. It is estimated that this constitutes a $3.2 billion market.\n“Human trafficking is difficult to eradicate,” Sister Phyllis told The Post. “Traders often defeat new law enforcement practices by moving their victims from hot spots to other, quieter regions. They also cross state lines to avoid prosecution.”\nEDUCATION is one key to eliminating it, Sister Patricia said.\n“It’s important for people to get educated so can they can recognize it when see it,” she said. “It’s very important that people be aware that it could be happening in their area.”\nThe joint statement by the Illinois bishops and the leaders of LCWR Region 8 also emphasizes the need to pray for human trafficking victims worldwide, to support those who are already assisting survivors, and to participate in legislative advocacy efforts that promote the dignity of trafficked persons. It includes the Web site for the Illinois Rescue and Restore Campaign, which was launched in 2005, and lists the toll free number for the National Human Trafficking hotline.\n“We, the Catholic bishops, women religious and the Catholic laity of Illinois, are committed to ending this modern day form of slavery,” the statement says in closing.\n“We ask God to bless all our efforts to develop a comprehensive approach to human trafficking that eliminates the root causes, supports the survivors and actively seeks to assist them in healing from this horrendous crime.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Well, this does not inspire confidence. Law enforcement in Canada routinely ask ISP’s for all sorts of data in the process of conducting criminal investigations. According to Michael Geist who is a noted Canadian privacy and digital rights advocate, those request are inaccurate and incomplete according to a secret memo:\nThe memorandum specifically references a 2010 RCMP document that purported to list tens of thousands of warrantless subscriber information requests. The document indicated that 94 per cent of requests involving customer name and address information was provided voluntarily without a warrant.\nThe Privacy Commissioner of Canada auditors apparently expected that document, which was previously released under the Access to Information Act, to serve as the starting point for their review of RCMP practices. The internal memorandum notes that “we expected that these statistics would be accurate, complete, and up-to-date and that they would allow us to review RCMP files related to such warrantless requests.”\nOnce the auditors began examining the data, however, they found something entirely different. The internal memorandum states that “based on the evidence below we found, on the contrary, that the statistics provided for 2010 (and later for 2011-2013) were inaccurate, incomplete, not current, and they were not useful identifying PROS files for review.”\nThe internal memorandum continues by citing specific problems with the RCMP evidence, acknowledging that “problems with the reliability of data were also provided by way of interviews with senior officials.” The details of those interviews are redacted, however, the memorandum states that “from these discussions we also found that statistics for warrantless access are inaccurate because of lack of reporting, multiple reporting or overlapping reporting.”\nThe conclusion leaves little doubt about the problems the auditors encountered. It goes far further than the publicly released report, noting that “based on our review of statistics and interviews with senior officials at the RCMP we were unable to rely upon the numbers provided for warrantless access requests, nor was there any linkage between reports of such requests and the actual operational files containing such requests.”\nIn short, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada set out to audit the RCMP in the hope of uncovering the details behind requests for subscriber information. What it encountered instead was inaccurate data and an effort to downplay the problems within the public report.\nThe timing of this kind of sucks if you’re the Government of Canada. There is a bill in front of The House Of Commons right now called C-51 that would give Canada’s spies and law enforcement more powers to combat terrorism with questionable oversight. What this story highlights is that if you don’t have real oversight, you get this sort of situation. So one wonders what would happen if bill C-51 actually gets passed. Would this sort of situation happen more often?\nThe solution is either force more stringent and meaningful oversight on law enforcement, or if they can’t follow the existing rules, then they don’t get the ability to get info like this. Clearly this is a huge problem that needs to be addressed if Canadians are to have confidence in law enforcement.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The new number of positive cases of COVID-19 has increased since last Friday.\nThe Dubois County Health Department says that since July 10th, Dubois County now has 22 new cases of COVID-19.\nThis brings the county’s total of positive COVID-19 cases to 319.\nOut of these 319 cases, 253 have recovered. This means that they are out of isolation and feeling well.\nApproximately 3,435 Dubois County residents have tested for COVID-19.\nSix individuals have died from COVID-19 in Dubois County.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rekha Rajaram was looking forward with relish to visiting family and friends and immersing herself in the food and culture of her childhood. She was planning her first trip home to India since getting her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. She wasn't planning on getting stranded in India, tied up in immigration security checks for months while her husband went back to the United States without her.\n\"I would feel very confident that [foreign scientists] can take their vacations and go home. They should go to the U.S. consulate on the first day they return and know that it will take 2 or 3 weeks. And if they are having problems, we want to hear about it.\" --David Donahue\n\"I thought it would be a pretty straightforward process to get my visa renewed because I had been in the U.S. since 2001,\" says Rajaram, an applications engineer specializing in semiconductor chemistry who works for a San Jose, California-based technology start-up at a client's site in the greater New York area.\nBut Rajaram found herself tangled up in a security-vetting process that took 100 days to resolve. She's in good, if unhappy, company: An apparently growing number of foreign scientists, despite having current, valid work permits, are being stranded outside the country while several U.S. agencies perform background checks.\nIn the past year, the waits have become so long and so common that foreign scientists working in the United States fear leaving the country lest they find themselves stranded, unable to return to their labs and careers. So many foreign students and scientists have found themselves mired in visa delays that some started a Facebook group to commiserate and document their difficulties.\nThis spring, such visa delays prompted the U.S. government to modify its handling of these inquiries and to dedicate more staff to processing visa applications. The goal: to bring the processing time down to 2 weeks.\nThe U.S. State Department acknowledges that there was a problem but insists that it has been fixed. \"This was a problem that we were having last year,\" says David Donahue, deputy assistant secretary for visa services in the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the State Department. Most visas, he says, should now be processed in 10 business days as a result of procedural modifications. \"We put a clock on ourselves and committed to completing\" visa reviews in 2 weeks. \"We are confident this will not happen again.\"\nStill, the scientific community remains concerned that such visa hassles will ultimately harm U.S. competitiveness by feeding fears of foreign scientists and students about working in the United States. \"We have great universities in this country, but the perception that the U.S. is a difficult place to come to is hurting us,\" says Amy Scott, assistant vice president for federal relations at the Association of American Universities (AAU) in Washington, D.C. \"People are finding opportunities elsewhere.\"\nUnfortunately, the only way to get a passport stamped with a current visa is to do it at a consulate outside the United States. Under U.S. law, the Department of State is responsible for issuing visas, and most visas are issued at one of the Department of State's embassies or consulates abroad. Visa requests, therefore, must be made from overseas. There's no opportunity to plan ahead. A consular officer decides if you are qualified for a visa.\nRajaram's saga began when she graduated from Stanford and was granted approval for an O-1 visa to work as a researcher. Her paperwork gave her the right to work in the United States as long as she didn't leave the country with plans to return. In order to get back into the United States, she would need to schedule an interview at a U.S. consulate and have her passport stamped with her visa.\nIn December 2008, she and her husband, who works in finance and also needed a visa renewal, traveled to India for that purpose. \"When I got to the consulate in India, I was asked what I do, and then I was told that they couldn't process my visa because I needed to undergo administrative processing.\"\nTold to expect a 2- to 3-week wait, Rajaram stayed in India while her husband, who received his visa that day, returned to the United States. Her employer allowed her to work remotely from India for the first month. One month became two, and she was forced to take unpaid leave. During that period, she discovered that she \"knew nearly 15 people, all of them Indian or Chinese, who had also got stuck in administrative processing.\"\nUps and downs\nThe visa troubles Rajaram and other foreign scientists experienced have a long history. Since the Cold War, foreign scientists and students from any country could face increased scrutiny if their field of study overlaps with sensitive technology categories outlined on the Technology Alert List (TAL). That list was classified in 2003, but before it was classified it included nuclear physics, biotechnology, semiconductor science, and urban planning, among other disciplines. Foreign scientists from China, Russia, Israel, India, Pakistan, and other countries face increased scrutiny--partly, it appears, because these countries possess or are seeking to possess nuclear capabilities (Science, 21 November 2008, p. 1172).\nIn the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks, the U.S. government enacted new security policies that increased the likelihood that scientists would face scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, and other federal agencies.\n\"Before 9/11, it was a fairly routine procedure that took between 10 days and 2 weeks,\" says Albert Teich, director of Science and Policy Programs at AAAS, Science Career's publisher, noting that agencies had to object to a visa if they wanted to slow the process. \"After 9/11, every agency had to give their approval before a visa was issued. That is a much harder thing.\"\nPredictably, processing times slowed, and by 2003 they had climbed to several months, prompting a group of scientific societies that included the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), AAU, AAAS, and others to call for changes in the visa system. \"Fortunately, we saw the wait times drop back to 2 or 3 weeks,\" Teich says.\nIn 2004, the NAS Board on International Scientific Organizations began to collect data about visa delays on a Web site. Those data show that the number of visa delays jumped again in 2008.\nThe result: More foreign scientists were unable to attend conferences and symposia, students were unable to start degree programs, and scientists like Rajaram were unable to do their jobs.\n\"It was extremely frustrating,\" says Aspi Kolah, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and materials science at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, who was stranded in his native India for 4.5 months while trying to convert his J-1 visa to an H-1B visa. \"The department wanted me back, and I was worried about funding I was about to lose. It caused real problems for me and my department.\"\n\"You may have a student finishing up his or her Ph.D., and that person gets a paper accepted to an international scientific meeting,\" says Chris Bargerstock, assistant director for the office for International Students & Scholars at MSU. \"It's a great career opportunity, but they have to be worried about whether they are going to get their visa in time for a meeting. They've invested so much time in their education and projects, they aren't going to risk it. It means they are stuck here.\"\nAlso troubling is the potential for the visa system as it currently operates to harm the research enterprise in the United States by stymieing the flow of scientific information and the formation of international collaborations. On 10 June 2009, a group of organizations representing higher education, science, and engineering, including AAAS, NAS, AAU, and others, outlined recommendations to revise the visa system to both maintain security and encourage the entry of the best and most qualified scientists. These recommendations included establishing protocols to make treatment of visa applicants more consistent by regularly training consular staff abroad, reviewing and streamlining TAL to include subject areas that clearly have explicit implications for national security, adding transparency to the visa system, and convening a panel to evaluate whether the visa-related policies put into effect after 9/11 are effective.\n\"There are potentially very serious consequences to the U.S. because we are pretty heavily dependent on foreign nationals to conduct science in this country,\" says AAAS's Teich. \"It's important to take an overall look at the big picture and ask whether how we are handling these security issues is costing us more in terms of negative impacts on research and connections with the international community than it is benefiting us.\"\nOne item obviously missing from those recommendations is allowing visa holders to renew their visas and undergo administrative processing while they are still in the United States. Teich calls the current system of sending people out of the country to renew their visas \"pretty silly\" and notes that scientific societies have suggested that to the State Department in the past, but \"it was clear from our discussions that such a change was a nonstarter.\"\nWhether these suggested changes to the visa system are undertaken, foreign scientists must decide if they will risk leaving the United States when their visas have expired or stay put. They will hear conflicting advice.\n\"I can't say that we have reached 100% of [visas being processed] in 10 days, but it is very close,\" says Donahue. \"I would feel very confident that [foreign scientists] can take their vacations and go home. They should go to the U.S. consulate on the first day they return and know that it will take 2 or 3 weeks. And if they are having problems, we want to hear about it.\" Donahue notes that scientists and students having visa problems can contact the State Department at its Web site.\nEven if the procedural changes that have been undertaken resolve the issue, it will take time for foreign students to feel confident about leaving. \"There is a ripple effect,\" AAU's Scott says. \"After a while, people will feel a little more comfortable because they aren't hearing horror stories.\"\nProtein crystallographer Mishtu Dey, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, is facing that decision now. \"I'm afraid that if I go home to India to renew my visa, I will get stuck in administrative processing. It's totally a gamble, but I think it's one I'm going to take.\"\nPhoto (top): Baigal Byamba\nLisa Seachrist Chiu is a science writer in Washington, D.C., and author of When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish ... and Other Amazing Tales about the Genes in Your Body.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In this edition of Rave TV we hear from Sigi Schmid on how the team plans to bounce back this weekend, Ozzie Alonso appears in his 150th career game with the Sounders, and we take a look back at a memorable full-stadium match vs San Jose.\nSingle match tickets for the 2014 season are available to purchase now.Buy Tickets\nDiscuss the latest Sounders FC news, rumors and more in the SoundersFC.com forums.Visit the Sounders Forums\nJoin the Sounders FC in the celebration of the 40th year of professional soccer in Seattle.Read More\nNominating yourself, or someone you know, for Alliance Council.Read More", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Icahn plans dinner meeting with Apple's Cook on buyback size\nBy Edwin Chan\nSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Carl Icahn has spoken again with Apple Inc's Tim Cook and plans a longer discussion with the chief executive over dinner next month about the size of the iPhone maker's buyback program, the activist investor tweeted on Thursday.\nThe hedge fund billionaire, known for launching aggressive assaults on American boardrooms, caused a sensation last week when he revealed on Twitter he had taken a large position in Apple and was pushing for the company to expand its program of share buybacks -- already one of the market's largest.\nThat revelation, including comments about how he thought the stock was undervalued, pushed shares of the $400 billion corporation up 5 percent on Aug 13.\nBut on Thursday, Apple's stock held steady at about $501.11 in late trade on the Nasdaq, resuming trade after a glitch halted trading in Nasdaq-listed securities for more than two hours.\nIcahn's tweet on Thursday, which came during the trading suspension, did not reveal much else apart from the fact that he and Cook had made plans for an in-person meeting next month.\n\"Spoke to Tim. Planning dinner in September. Tim believes in buyback and is doing one. What will be discussed is magnitude,\" the billionaire said on Twitter on Thursday, without elaborating.\nApple did not respond to requests for comment. In April, the company bowed to Wall Street pressure and said it would return $100 billion to shareholders by the end of 2015 - double the amount set aside previously. It got there in part by raising its dividend 15 percent and boosting its share buyback program six-fold to $60 billion, one of the largest of its kind\nAs part of that program, it bought about more than $16 billion worth of stock in the June quarter, much more than analysts had expected. Continued...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "BEN Turner-Dwyer knows the trauma that a serious traffic accident can cause.\nFive years ago his left arm was severely injured when he was a passenger in a road crash in the Warrnambool area. The injury put him off work for 12 months.\nThat’s why he has strong empathy for Bryn Murfett, of Port Fairy, who has been left with no feeling from the waist down after a traffic accident in Thailand earlier this year.\nMr Turner-Dwyer, 25, is also a friend of Mr Murfett’s partner, Carley Hickman.\nA real estate salesman with Ray White Warrnambool, Mr Turner-Dwyer has pledged the commission from his first sale in 2014, which he anticipates will be in the thousands of dollars, to the 4Bryn Appeal.\n“My injuries were nothing compared to Bryn’s but I know what it is like to go through a difficult time and get well,” Mr Turner-Dwyer said. “I am lucky to be able to assist in any way that I can,” he said.\nMr Murfett is determined to walk again.\nHis family and friends have set up the 4Bryn Appeal to raise $100,000 for specialised equipment, house alterations and possibly stem cell treatment overseas.\nBecause the accident did not occur in Australia, many of the costs for his rehabilitation are not covered by the Transport Accident Commission.\nPeople wishing to donate to the 4BRYN Appeal can do so at BSB 193 879, account number 421940199.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This made my blood boil yesterday; http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/23/troubleshooting-macos-sierra-filemaker-logitech-and-razer-devices-4k-display-issues People commenting on how lazy developers are because their apps are not Sierra compliant yet.\nAs developers we had 2 months, in which we had to do beta testing also. Then there’s the edge issues which won’t appear until the app is released to a wider audience, then there’s Apple’s “Bug Fixes” which introduce new bugs or include undocumented changes which break apps that were working.\nJournalists are often completely unaware of the difficulties encountered by developers with beta releases. Some of them have never, ever, touched code.\nI felt somewhat better knowing that FileMaker apps don’t work and blneither does FCP, if Apple’s own apps don’t work, how can they expect ours?\nFCP in Sierra is definitely broken - I got confirmation from my 3rd party Plugin Developer about my issues described here. He confirms that he had to change his installation routine AND that Apple brought in some bugs in media encoding/decoding… as developer he could manage to fix this though we both wait for Apple now", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "DON'T SHARE NUISANCE.\nTruck bomb kills 105 in northern Iraq\nTruck bomb rips through bustling market in northern Iraq, killing 105 people.\nBaghdad: Over 100 people were killed in a sudden surge in violence in Iraq on Saturday when a truck bomb devastated a crowded village market and demolished many homes, police and local officials said.\nThe truck bomb ripped through a bustling outdoor market in the northern town of Tuz Khurmato on Saturday, killing over hundred people and wounding many others, police said. The bomb levelled shops and small houses, and police said they feared the death toll could rise.\n\"105 Iraqis were killed and five are missing. We have registered their names. There are more than 250 wounded,\" an official in charge of security coordination in nearby Tuz Khurmatu said.\nJasim Ali, 30, said he looked frantically for his wife when he heard the explosion. \"I ran to the market and saw burned cars along with dead and wounded people everywhere. I screamed until I found my wife. She was wounded in the head and her hand,\" said Ali, his clothes stained with his wife's blood.\nIn another incident, a suicide car bomber killed 22 people and wounded 17 others when he drove his vehicle into a group of Shia Kurds near Iraq's border with Iran on Friday evening.\nIbrahim al-Bajilam, head of the local council in Garghoush village, said the victims were returning from a funeral. The village is in Diyala province, where U.S. and Iraqi forces last month launched an offensive against Sunni Islamist al Qaeda.\nThe US military said roadside bombs killed four soldiers in Baghdad, three on Friday and one on Thursday. It said two Marines were killed in combat in Anbar province on Thursday.\nOne British soldier was killed in Basra during an operation involving 1,000 British troops to flush out suspected militants, the military said. Three others were wounded. \"British forces were exposed to a large number of attacks by IEDS (improvised explosive devises), RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) and small arms, which resulted in the death of one British soldier and the injury of three others,\" the military said in a statement.\nAlso overnight, a mortar bomb killed seven members of one family as they slept on their roof in the Sunni neighbourhood of Fadhil in central Baghdad, police said. They included a couple and their four children, aged nine to 17.\nNew Delhi: The Army has called for fresh international bid to acquire the 52-calibre 155 mm towed gun even after conducting four rounds of trial with three competitors; a move experts fear would delay the forces' modernisation programme.\nTop military sources said fresh tenders would be a jolt to Army's artillery modernisation programme as it would mean that it would take another six to eight years for the much-needed gun to be inducted into the Army.\nThe 52-calibre 155-mm towed guns are capable of firing nuclear shell to a distance of upto 50 km. The three competitors are Denel of South Africa, Soltam of Israel and BAE-SWS Bofors system.\nWhile infantry and armoured formation modernisation drive in the Army has been in full swing since 2001, artillery, a vital arm has seen no quantum leap in its fire power.\nThough India has concluded a deal to acquire long-range SMERCH multi-barrel rocket system, the deal has run into a logjam over pricing squabbles with Russians.\nUnder the artillery deal worth Rs 4,000 crore at present price level, India was to acquire 400 155 mm L 52 towed guns off the shelf and manufacture thousand guns in the country under technology transfer, providing New Delhi first exposure to indigenous use of such technology.\nIn a related move, government has already refloated request for proposals (RFP) for acquiring 100 self-propelled and 180 wheeled 155 mm and 52-calibre guns. However, the time for both the bids have been extended twice for lack of response.\nIn the towed guns, Army has already held four rounds of trials in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006 to check general staff qualitative requirements (GSQR) parameters in desert and high altitude conditions during NDA and present UPA regimes. In response to Army's RFP issued in 2001, three bidders Denel of South Africa, Soltam of Israel and BAE-SWS system took part in trials.\nThe South African company, which was blacklisted on allegations of payoff in another deal, was not allowed to participate in third round of trials. The BAE-SWS and Soltam continued to be evaluated in fresh trials in 2004 and 2006.\nAfter the fourth round of trial, Soltam was asked to take back its guns as it had failed to meet GSQR parameters. BAE-SWS system was asked to keep their guns in India and its guns were moved from Chandigarh to field artillery unit in Gurgaon near New Delhi.\nThe government move to go in for fresh international tenders comes at a time when the artillery fire power in the Army is dipping in the absence of induction of longer-range powerful guns. Eight Army regiments are having Bofors 155 mm .39 calibre guns and assortment of Russian 130 mm and 105 mm light mountain guns.\nRecommended For You\n- Priyanka Chopra Reacts to Ariana Grande Concert Terror Attack\n- Moto C, Moto C Plus Unveiled: Price, Specifications and More\n- Read Exclusive Excerpts From Sita: Warrior of Mithila by Author Amish\n- Sangakkara Announces Retirement From First Class Cricket\n- Aaradhaya Steals the Thunder From Mom Aishwarya at Cannes 2017", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "An argument over parenting skills led to the stabbing of two people early Sunday, according to the Spokane Valley Police Department.\nOfficers arrested Shelly R. Jones, 28, after they found her screaming that she’d stabbed two people when they arrived at an apartment in the 700 block of North Argonne Avenue about 4:30 a.m., according to police.\nJones’ three children were sent to their father’s home in Plummer, Idaho and Jones was sent to the Spokane County Jail on two charges of second-degree assault after police determined she’d stabbed two women, 37 and 31, with a metal can opener during an argument over Jones’ parenting skills, police said.\nCocaine and alcohol are believed to be factors, police said.\nClick here to comment on this story »", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "June 30, 2011\nAggressive Fuel Economy Standard by 2025 Will Save Consumers Money and Dramatically Cut Oil Consumption\nWASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumer Reports today commented on proposed fuel economy standards for 2017-2025 currently being considered by the Obama Administration. Fuel economy or “CAFE” (corporate average fuel economy) standards for new vehicles are already slated to improve from an average of 27.3 miles per gallon today to 35.5 mpg by 2016. The White House is considering a range of improvements from 47 to 62 mpg by 2025, with news reports saying the Administration is mulling a 56-mpg standard. Moving to 62 mpg by 2025 is estimated to save consumers about $6,000 in owner costs over the life of the vehicle and cut U.S. gasoline consumption by one-third.\nJim Guest, president of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, said, “Improving fuel economy standards is one of the most effective ways to save consumers money at the pump. We believe that an aggressive standard with a long lead time for auto manufacturers will foster the development of better cars that use less gas at an affordable price.”\nDavid Champion, the senior director of Consumer Reports’ auto test division, said, “A minimum standard of 56 miles per gallon is definitely good for consumers and currently achievable, but 62 is even better. Technologies to attain this level of improvement exist, and the automakers can incorporate them over the next 15 years,” says Champion. These advanced technologies are currently on the market today. ”In our testing, we’ve already seen highway consumption of 55 mpg in a Toyota Prius hybrid and 49 mpg in a Volkswagen Golf diesel.”\nA recent Consumer Reports survey says car buyers want better fuel economy and are willing to pay for it. 62 percent of survey respondents said when they buy their next car, they expect to choose a model with better gas mileage than their current car. 58 percent said they were willing to pay extra money for a more fuel-efficient vehicle. These findings were from a Consumer Reports National Research Center poll of 1,764 adult car owners surveyed between April 28 and May 2, 2011.\nWhile manufacturers will retain lots of flexibility in how to meet the new CAFE target, it will drive the development of a variety of options including electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, in addition to more fuel efficient conventional vehicles whether gasoline or diesel powered. Consumer interest in alternative vehicles is growing—Consumer Reports’ survey also showed that about seven out of ten consumers planning to buy a vehicle are considering an alternative power train, such as hybrid, electric, or flex fuel.\nImportantly, reducing vehicle mass will be essential in improving fuel economy. Consumer Reports is confident that lighter vehicles will not necessarily compromise vehicle safety. For example, a contemporary family sedan such as the Hyundai Sonata weighs 3,210 pounds and still achieves a Top Safety Pick by the IIHS. It weighs 7.5% less than its previous generation and about 6% less than the average family sedan. By contrast, a Chrysler 200 weighs 3,590 pounds (also a Top-Safety Pick) but with no performance or interior room advantage. The new Honda Civic at 2,810 pounds also received a Top Safety Pick and weighs 400 pounds less (about 9%) than the Chevrolet Cruze, a direct competitor.\nDavid Butler, 202.462.6262", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "THERE will be a captive audience for the world premiere of new Coventry drama The Last Women.\nJail doors will slam shut behind theatre-goers and they will spend the evening behind bars as they watch the last moments of condemned women on death row.\nThe Belgrade Theatre’s B2 studio has been transformed into a prison and courtroom setting for the powerful new work by Coventry writer, director and performer Carran Waterfield.\n“When that door slams shut I want people to experience a rush of emotion,” explains Carran.\nPrison wardens will be on hand and mug shots of the condemned will line the walls as the stories of seven condemned women unfold.\nThey include club hostess Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain, and Nuneaton ribbon weaver Mary Ball, the last women to be hanged in Coventry.\nThere are also the tales of Coventry housekeeper Mary Ann Higgins, who was the last person to be hanged on Whitley Common in Coventry, and Mary Queen of Scots who was briefly imprisoned at the city’s Guildhall.\nThe Last Women marks the 21st anniversary of Carran’s award-winning Triangle Theatre Company and the production features props from past stage hits.\nThe seeds for The Last Women began four years ago when Carran was invited to work with students at Birmingham University and they began to research condemned women.\nCarran has since met Robert Muscott, the great, great grandson of Mary Ball and been in touch with Doctor Norwood Andrews, a Texan historian and expert on execution and relatives of condemned prisoners.\n“It’s been quite a journey,” admits Carran. “We’ve involved the local community and organised workshops and research. I’ve even seen the skull and death mask of Mary Ball which is kept at Little Park Street police station.”\nThere’s gallows humour and even a line-dance as the nine-strong cast tell their stories and Carran has also interwoven a Sumarian myth about the descent into the underworld into the true accounts of execution.\n“This ancient myth has great significance for me in the many years I have been developing the performance work. It has been like a guiding light and anchor point containing the essence of what makes a great story with resonance for how we live our lives now.”\nThe cutting edge drama is certainly haunting and provocative but, the question is, are you brave enough to step into the world of death row inmates?\nn The Last Women premieres at the Belgrade Theatre’s B2 studio in Coventry on Monday and runs until April 25. Box office 024 7655 3055.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "KalingaTV News Network\nCuttack: Protesting against the arrest of Choudwar-Cuttack MLA Pravat Biswal, hundreds of his supporters and BJD youth wing staged a demonstration here on Tuesday.\nThe supporters of Biswal alleged that the MLA’s arrest was an act political vendetta against him by the BJP. They claimed that BJP got him arrested as it could not digest the huge support of the public to the BJD’s hartal against oil price hike in Choudwar-Cuttack, which was led by the MLA.\n“The innocent MLA was arrested only because of BJP’s political vendetta against him. He has no links with the Seashore chit fund company. The CBI reopened the file of a four year-old case despite the fact that the MLA has all verified documents due to BJP’s pressure and got him arrested. If he was guilty, why then was he not arrested earlier?,” questioned one of the supporters of Biswal.\nThe irate supporters, along with members of youth BJD, burned the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP National President Amit Shah and Union Minster Dharmendra Pradhan.\nThey also took out a bike rally from Cuttack to Bhubaneswar shouting slogans against BJP and CBI. They are slated to demonstrate in front of the CBI office in the state capital city.\nBiswal was arrested by the CBI in connection with the purchase of a piece of land from the Seashore chit fund company.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Artificial insemination is not just for your human family planning anymore. It's made its way into the animal kingdom.\nTwo bottlenose dolphins gave birth in the past month at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom thanks to outside sperm donors.\nThe babes are now old enough to meet their public.\nThe two little ones along with their mothers, 23-year-old Jasmine and 30-year-old Chelsea make their debut on Thursday in the Dolphin Harbor pool.\nDiscovery Kingdom says it chose to use artificial insemination to allow for greater genetic diversity. The genes came from dolphins that aren't part of the park’s current population.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The hospital trolley crisis worsened today as 583 patients across the country were forced to wait for a bed.\nThe new high for 2019 follows yesterday’s surge in overcrowding with 541 patients on trolleys.\nThe turnaround follows efforts to keep overcrowding under control in the aftermath of Christmas and the New Year.\nThis led to the daily trolley toll being kept under 400 but the pressures on hospitals are now escalating.\nBut normal activity is being resumed which means there are less beds available to the very sick patients who need to be on a ward.\nThe figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation comes as the union is et to announce a series of dates for planned 24-hour stoppages in pursuit of pay.\nIf they go ahead the action will bring more chaos to the struggling hospital service.\nThere 398 waiting in emergency department, while 185 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital. The INMO is due to announce strike dates this afternoon at 3.30pm regarding safe staffing levels in the health service.\nThe worst-hit hospitals today are:\nCork University Hospital - 61\nLetterkenny University Hospital - 43\nUniversity Hospital Limerick - 43", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "2019 National Partnership Agreement still unconfirmed\nThe National Partnership Agreement for 2019, which is listed on the Australian Department of Education and Training website as “under development” has been used by Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Development Amanda Rishworth as evidence of a “complete lack of interest or commitment to early education and preschool funding” by the Federal Government.\nWhen asked last week in Senate Estimates if the National Partnership Agreement for the 2019 preschool year has been signed yet, departmental officials confirmed it had not, according to Ms Rishworth, who also claimed the agreement was only sent to the states and territories on 25 September 2018.\nMs Rishworth questioned the delay in time between the announcement of the funding rollover into 2019, which was announced on 3 February 2018, and the sending of the agreement on 25 September saying there was no rational explanation for the 234 day delay.\nWhen asked if there was a funding allocation for preschools in 2020, Ms Rishworth says the reply was “that’s a matter for government’, which was also the reply given to questions around any issues which needed to be addressed before the commitment was made, or if the Government could guarantee to continue funding preschools at the current levels.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The return of Elian and his father to Cuba is wonderful not only for Elian and his family, but was a great triumph for the people of Cuba. It was a defeat for the fossilized politics of what Fidel Castro referred to as the Miami mafia—those Cuban-Americans who were willing to sacrifice the well-being and best interests of a young child to further their retrograde and narrow political agenda. In the eyes of many Americans the efforts by those Cuban-Americans to kidnap Elian demonstrated the utter bankruptcy of the cold war politics that drives that community. Indeed, it is unlikely that congress’s passage of legislation loosening the embargo on food and medicine would have occurred, but for the Elian case.\nThis is not to be Pollyannaish about the prospects for real change in U.S. relations to Cuba. There is still a very long way to go. The lock that the Miami mafia has on U.S. foreign policy regarding Cuba is rusting, but, as Elian’s case illustrates, it is still keeping that policy hostage. We can just look at the somersaults our politicians and judges turned in their efforts to please the Cuban-Americans, while all of the time knowing that law and morality mandated the immediate return of Elian to his father.\nMoney, Votes and Gore\nOn the national level Al Gore gave the worst performance of any of the actors, a spineless bid for votes and money that was shameful even by the low standards by which many judge politicians. Stating that Janet Reno was wrong in her determination that Elian should be returned to his father, he supported a law that would give Elian permanent residence, and called for the case to be decided by the state court, although only the federal courts had jurisdiction. Recall what happened when the great uncle went to state court in Miami; the judge, gave an unprecedented and lawless ruling granting custody to the great uncle. Subsequently it was discovered that the judge’s former public relations person for her judicial election was managing the great uncles’s public relations campaign to keep Elian in the U.S. The judge was subsequently indicted for______\nSo why did Al Gore who is a father and knows the importance of family relationships, turn his back on a six year old child? Although it was rarely mentioned, Gore did raise major money from the Cuban community—over $300,000 when Elian arrived in the U.S. and over $600,000 by spring of 2000.This was comparable to the amounts Bush raised. The Democrat Party had received an additional million dollars or more in soft money, some of it from the Fanjul family, the Cuban-American sugar barons for South Florida who receive significant subsidies. Gore also wanted to win Florida in the election; Clinton won it in 1996. However, Clinton did not win it with the Cuban-American vote; Gore’s hurt his election chances in both Florida and the U.S.\nDithering by Reno\nJanet Reno also does not deserve high marks. Early on, in fact by January 5th , she had determined that Elian belonged with his father and advised Elain’s great uncle that Elian should be reunited by January 14th. However, after that date, Janet Reno—at least until the April 22nd seizure of Elian by federal agents—utterly failed to take any of the necessary actions that could have enforced her decision and possibly avoided the use of force. During this 31/2 month period she set deadline after deadline for the reuniting of Elian with his father, but was unwilling to stick to her position. It became almost laughable; except for the fact that this was our nation’s highest law enforcement officer. Her actions made a mockery of herself and the rule of law.\nThe effect on Elian of her actions is the real tragedy. During the crucial period after his mother’s death, Elian was given no chance to mourn or be with his father who could have comforted him. Instead, Reno allowed the great uncle to abuse Elian in a variety of ways: taking him to Disney World five days after his mother’s death, allowing him to become the poster child for the Cuban American National Foundation and allowing him to be interviewed by Diane Sawyer. Janet Reno allowed this circus atmosphere to prevail in which Elian was the main performer; she never even issued an order to the great uncle that such uncaring conduct had to cease. She could have easily ordered Elian removed from the great uncle on this basis alone. It is not only the great uncle who is guilty of child abuse.\nAt least initially, Federal marshals were not her only choice. Instead of continuously extending the deadline for the reuniting of Elian and his father, she could have issued an order requiring the return of Elian. When the great uncle refused to comply, she could have gone to federal court, and requested a court order. The great uncle’s failure to obey that order would have meant contempt of court; he could have been fined for every day of refusal and jailed almost immediately. At that point it was still January; the threat by a federal court\nmight have been enough. Reno also could have begun a criminal proceeding against the great uncle for his failure to comply with her order; charges could have included child abduction and possibly kidnapping. Again, these actions would probably have forced compliance.\nIn the March 21 order dismissing the great uncle’s federal case, the judge said that “each passing day is another day lost between Juan Gonzalez and his son.” Reno, while acknowledging the trauma this continued separation was causing Elian, still refused to take any significant action. She set another deadline by which the great uncle had to agree that if he lost the appeal, he would return Elian—in other words agree to obey the law. Once again, true to form, she negotiated day after day, each day extending the deadline and the harm to Elian. The great uncle never agreed that he would comply with the law. Yet when Elian’s father came to the U.S. she started negotiating again (begging may be better word), this time for Elian’s return. This meant even more delay. The spectacle of her—the Attorney General of the United States flying to Miami to convince people who already said they would not obey the law, was embarrassing not only to her, but to the entire Department of Justice. Why she acted in the end\nThe George Wallace Mayor of Miami-Dade County\nAlex Penelas the mayor of Miami Dade County publicly stated that he would refuse to uphold the law and assist federal authorities if they came to take Elian from the great uncle. This reminded people of George Wallace’s refusal to enforce a federal court order to integrate the Little Rock, Arkansas schools. It was a disgraceful performance. The fact that he thought he could and did get away with it demonstrates how much the Miami Cuban community considers itself outside the laws that govern the rest of the county. This is true not only in this instance. For years the First Amendment right of citizens of Miami to express views different than those espoused by the Cuban American National Foundation has been practically non-existent; for years expressing such views has been very dangerous.\nWhen the federal authorities decided to forcibly take Elian, they did not inform Penelas. The raid had to be a surprise. Reno feared he would tip off the great uncle, that demonstrators would gather and that the chance of violence would increase. Nor did he police chief tell the Mayor. After the raid, the Mayor requested the city manager to fire the police chief; the city manager refused and he was fired. The new city manager then fired the police chief. Miami remains a country to itself; apparently run only in the interests of some of its Cuban-American residents.\nThe Forcible Taking of Elian\nOn April 22nd Janet Reno finally was forced to act. Elain’s father had been in the country for sixteen days and despite her promise that he would be reunited with his son if he came to the U.S., that had not happened. It was unclear to many why Reno had negotiated for so long and had not acted more forcefully through the courts to remove Elian from the great uncle, particularly because of the manner in which the Miami relatives where abusing him. By the time Reno made her decision she had little choice. The Miami relatives were clearly never going to voluntarily return Elian. After the seizure they claimed they would have done so, but their words and actions belie that claim. A week prior to the raid, the great uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, said, “We will not turn this child over…They will have to take this child from me by force.” His daughter, Marisleysis, implied that there were guns in the house, “You think we just have cameras in the house? If people try to come in, they could be hurt.”\nNone of us liked to see the use of force and weapons to retrieve Elian. But once the decision was made to get him back, Reno had no choice. The Miami family had made that clear. Reno and the U.S. also feared violence from those surrounding the house. The U.S. government had trained and supported a number of Cuban-Americans in carrying out acts of terrorism against Cuba. These people were living in Miami and Reno knew the violence they were capable of. After all they were “our” terrorists. In fact, one of those blocking the entrance to the house on the night of the seizure had served 4 years in jail for refusing to tell a grand jury about Omega 7, a Cuban terrorist group.\nNor was there anything illegal about the raid despite the claims of Professor Tribe in a New York Times Op-Ed. Reno went farther then she had to; she went to a judge a got a warrant that authorized her to seize Elian. She probably could have done so without such warrant. In fact, she complied fully with the law.\nThe right wing TV media did the expected, excoriated Fidel Castro, claimed the father was not free to decide to stay in the United States because members of Juan Miguel’s family were being held hostage and ignored any facts that would show otherwise. So, for example, Mary Matalin on CNN’s crossfire asked “How he (Juan Miguel) can freely make decisions when his mother is in a secure government building, when his father his back in Havana.” And Bill O’Reilly of Fox News’s O’Reilly Factor said that high level sources had informed him that “Fidel Castro is taking no chances about Juan Miguel Gonzalez defecting with Elian. Castro has now removed Gonzalez’s elderly mother from her home in Cuba and has her in custody.” None of this was true. In fact, a day prior to O’Reilly’s report NBC had interviewed Juan Miguel’s parents in their home, not in government custody. Not only were the grandparents free, but they had applied to the U.S. for a second visa to travel to the United States so they could be with Juan Miguel and his family. This second request was turned down by the United States. None of this was reported by these and other reporters who continued to argue that Juan Miguel was not free because of what Fidel might do to the father’s relatives.\nThe claimed neutral reporters also got in on the act. Cokie Roberts of ABC, a journalist lauded by many, repeated the drivel about Juan Miguel’s parents having been put in a government compound. She rhetorically asked an interview with Janet Reno, “But do you feel that he’s really free? His parents have apparently been put in some compound where they’re being watched by the government.” On ABC’s This Week Cokie Roberts made the extraordinary statement that she wanted Elian and Marisleysis to come and live with her as “she (Marisleysis) is clearly the only person who cares about him.” And what about Elain’s father and grandparents?\nThe most shocking was the exploitative Diane Sawyer ABC interview with Elian. It was one of the low moments of the entire saga, a utter abuse of Elian and an example of just how base American TV and its newscasters have become. Sawyer asked Elian to describe what happened to him on the high seas, how his mother died and had him draw pictures of the scene of tens of millions of people. Elian was obviously pained by the memory of what occurred.. These are the type of memories a six year old child ought to talk about with a therapist or his father. It is difficult to understand how Sawyer can live with herself; were Dante writing today he would have for Sawyer and her ilk.\nPrint media was somewhat better—at least the editorials. The majority favored the reuniting of Elian with his father and allowing him to return to Cuba. Even the normally conservative New York Post came out on the right side as did the less ideological Daily News.\nThe New York Times had three editorials favoring the return of Elian to his father, but pulled its punches as to when and how that should occur. It was frustrating to read the Times continued calls for patience and the use of the courts during a period when the great uncle was abusing Elian, psychological damage was being inflicted and he was denied his father. Not once did the Times recognize this abuse and call for Elian’s immediate removal from his great uncle.\nThere was much that generally was not covered —except by Salon and a few others–that would have been beneficial to Elian’s case. The great uncle’s family was no model. There were drunk driving convictions, older cousins of Elian’s had been accused of crimes, and the famous Marileysis had been hospitalized for breakdowns even prior to contact with Elian. Then here was the matter of the money, some two million dollars, supposedly offered to Juan Miguel to stay in the United States. Nor was their significant coverage of the how children are treated in Cuba, of the guarantees of health care, education and nutrition. Instead a portrait of children living under state control in almost concentration camp conditions was put forward. The true facts were inconvenient for much of the media; they did not agree with the propaganda line they were putting out.\n*Media quotes are taken from a wonderful compilation by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)\nThe Law and the Court Cases\nUntil the very last day, June 28th, when the Supreme Court refused to hear the case and refused to prevent Elian from leaving the country, there was never any assurance that he would be allowed to do so. This was not because the law was unclear. There was never a serious question about the law—Elian should have been returned to his father within days of his November 22 arrival in the U.S. The taking of Elian by his mother was contrary to the domestic law of Cuba and the U.S. as well as international law. It is forbidden for one parent to remove a child from another parent who is exercising some form of custody over the child, even where it only visitation. Here, of course, Elian was practically living at his father’s house; there was really no dispute about this point. Even had his mother survived the voyage he should have been returned to Cuba; that is what the law says. The U.S. has signed a treaty to that effect.[As an aside here it is important to note that the U.S. by its dry land refugee policy and the Cuban Adjustment Act encourages Cuban like Elian’s mother to make the dangerous voyage by sea. The U.S. Cuban refugee accords permit 20,000 immigrants a year from Cuba. It was not part of the agreement that Cuban who reach the dry land of the United States would also be treated as refugees; it was the understanding that any such Cubans, like those found on the high seas would be returned. The U.S. is in violation of that agreement. In addition the Cuban Adjustment Act allows any Cuban in the U.S. for a year (unlike any other immigrant) to adjust to permanent resident in one year. This is an added inducement to take the dangerous boat trip.]\nOnce Elian’s mother died, Elian’s should have been an especially simple legal case. There was only one surviving parent, and barring the unfitness of that parent, he, the father, should have gotten his child back. Even had there been claims that Juan Miguel was an unfit father, those claims under the law are to be decided by the courts of the country of the child’s habitual residence, in this case Cuba.\nThe steps taken in the earliest days of Elian’s case did follow the law. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is the legal custodian of unaccompanied alien minors. The INS is supposed to try and not put minors like Elian in custody, but should attempt to find a parent or other relative. That is what INS did; it temporarily gave or “paroled” Elian to his great uncle, but INS still retained legal custody. That temporary paroling of Elian was just that; INS could request Elian’s return at anytime and INS could place conditions on that parole, e.g. no TV appearances etc. This temporary parole gave the great uncle no rights, but he did have obligations, particularly to obey INS requests and orders with regard to Elian.\nDuring this entire period there was also an effort to make Elian a citizen or permanent residence by means of a congressional private bill. The theory here was that as permanent resident, Reno and the INS would no longer be his legal custodian and could no longer determine who should have custody of the child. In other words, Reno and INS would be divested of jurisdiction. Elian’s custody would then be determined by the Florida state courts which certainly at the lower levels were bound to award custody to the great uncle. This proposed legislation was a serious threat for a while. Interestingly it was stopped by a number of Republicans some of whom just do not like immigrants and others who had a strong belief in family values and did not want to deprive Elian of this father. As a number of law professors argued it also was probably unconstitutional to make Elian a citizen or resident without his father’s consent.\nSubsequent to the temporary paroling of Elian, INS made the determination that Juan Gonzalez was Elian’s father. For political reasons it went even further then it needed to, interviewing the father twice in Cuba and concluded that he had a close relationship to his father and that he was speaking freely. None of this was necessary under the law, nor would any of this have been done with regard to an unaccompanied minor from a country such as Haiti. Such minors would have been returned immediately.\nOn the basis of these interviews Reno and INS requested that the great uncle to return the Elian by January 14th. When they did not do so, she did nothing to enforce that request. Instead, by letter she informed the great uncle that he could file a federal court action and that she would not take Elian back pending that court proceeding. This was a remarkable caving in to the lawlessness of the Cuban-American community and certainly gave the great uncle the firm impression that they could violate the law with impunity.\nThe great uncle took up Reno’s invitation and filed a federal court action. It had one primary claim: that Reno and INS improperly denied an asylum application filed by the great uncle on behalf of Elian and signed by the great uncle and by Elian. The application claimed that if Elian was returned to Cuba (1) he would not have the freedom he has in the United States; (2) he might be forced to undergo “re-education” and indoctrination in communist theory; and (3) he might be used for propaganda purposes. Reno and INS had denied the asylum application for two reasons. First, that a six year old child was not competent to file such an application and the great uncle had no authority to do so; and second, that on the merits there was nothing in the application to warrant the granting of asylum. Asylum is given to aliens who have a well-founded fear of persecution for political, racial or similar reasons and the application clearly did not articulate such a fear. Reno’s great uncle insisted that Elian or he could file such an application and that Elian had a right to a hearing prior to its denial.\nThe Federal District Court in Miami took months, until March 21st, to finally decide in favor of Attorney General Reno. It found that it was within the Attorney General’s discretion to decide whether or not Elian had the capacity to apply for asylum. This was clearly the correct legal decision. The only earlier relevant case concerned a child from the U.S.S.R. An appeals court had found that the views of a child of 12 who applied for asylum should be considered, but that 12 years old was at the lower end of when the INS had to do so. The lawyers for the great uncle knew this and argued that Elian, while only six, had the mental capacity of a 12 year old.\nFrom the time of that district court decision it took over 3 months to finally let Elian go home. It must have been a frightening time for Elian and his father. The appeal of the district court order went to 3 judges in the 11th Circuit court in Atlanta. The first order out of this court—on the question of whether Elian could leave the country while the appeal was pending– did not bode well. The circuit court continued to require that Elian not leave the country, a decision that many of us expected. But the court went on to say that the language of the asylum statute “appeared to support” the great uncle’s claim that Elian as a six year old could apply, on his own, for asylum and “it appears that he did so.” The court further emphasized that Elian, “has expressed a wish that he not be returned to Cuba,” and that the INS had failed to interview him. That the court could have believed that a six year old had any idea about asylum or that his claimed preference of where to live should be considered, seemed absurd and ridiculous. Its an embarrassment to the claimed intelligence of the judges. I asked myself whether any of them had ever raised children?\nLuckily, the decision on the merits of the case went against the great uncle. On June 1st the circuit court decided that the asylum statute gave Reno the authority to rule that a six year old was not competent to apply for asylum and that it was inappropriate for the great uncle to do so as well. But the three judges did so with great reluctance and they said so. Essentially the court said that had the decision been theirs to make they would have made a different decision, but because Congress had left the issue to the Attorney General they could not interfere. The Court heavily criticized Cuba: “We acknowledge, as a widely-accepted truth, that Cuba does violate human rights and fundamental freedoms and does not guarantee the rule of law to people living in Cuba.” This statement is not only false, but it was utterly extraneous to the opinion and seems to have been made to ingratiate the judges with the Cuban-American community. The court went on to say that a “reasonable” asylum judge might well have granted the application and found that re-education was persecution. Presumably to these judges teaching students the benefits of capitalism is education and teaching the benefits of socialism is re-education.\nThis decision should have ended the case, but the great uncle and the Miami Cubans did not give up. They appealed to all twelve judges of the judges on the 11th Circuit; while this appeal was pending the order prohibiting Elian from leaving the country remained in effect. On June 23rd the Circuit denied the appeal. On June 28th the Supreme Court refused to hear the case and refused to prohibit Elian from leaving the country. He, his father and the rest of his real family left for Cuba few hours later.\nSome Afterthoughts, The Return Home & Fidel\nOne of the ironies of Elian’s case is that the primary accusation leveled against Cuba, that the State takes custody and control of children from their parents, is precisely what the Miami Cubans attempted to do in the United States. The accusation with regard to Cuba is unfounded. Yet, without any apologies, these Miami Cubans attempted to take a very young child from his father. Another irony is that unlike the United States where millions of children do not receive a good education, sufficient nutrition of have good health care, the opposite is true in Cuba. In the very community where Reno placed Elian, his relatives were not exactly shining examples of the benefits of America’s bounty.\nBehind many of the actions taken in Elian’s case was the belief by both the Miami Cuban, by Reno and Clinton et al., that if and when Juan Miguel came to the United States, he would defect and stay here. This explains many of their actions. It explains why Reno did nothing to take Elian out of an abusive situation with the great uncle until Juan Miguel came to the U.S. Elian was the bait to bring the father here. It explains why the case was tied up in court. Reno always knew the court had no jurisdiction and she could take Elian back; but court delayed the return forcing Juan Miguel to come to the U.S. The court itself, even after Elian and his father were reunited, refused to let Elian leave; there could be only one reason for this—the vain hope that Juan Miguel would defect. The politicians, the courts, the Cuban Miami community could not believe that Juan Miguel would voluntarily go back to Cuba, especially after two million dollar offer to stay. After all in the United States for many it is money and not morality that matters. But Juan Miguel proved otherwise.\nIt should be recognized that it was Cuba that acted morally took the risks. Cuba made the decision to permit the father and his family to come to the United States where it knew the pressure Juan Miguel would be under to defect. But it allowed the journey in the belief that what was most important was the reuniting of Elian and his father. Many would have been tempted by the offers made to Juan Miguel; he was not. For this he stands as an important symbol not only to the Cubans, but to all of us.\nIn awarding Juan Miguel the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Order Fidel recognized the importance of the decision made by Juan Miguel, the incredible pressure brought upon him to forsake his country and the risks. As Fidel said:\n“A whole nation staked everything and was prepared to do whatever was necessary for his son. But in the final stage, the success of failure of our colossal efforts depended solely on him. The best decision made by the revolution was to fully trust Juan Miguel. The biggest mistake made by the mob and the empire was to believe that Juan Miguel could be bribed and coaxed into treason….There is a grave moral sin of which neither [the U.S. Administration and the Miami mob] is innocent. They both believed that Juan Miguel could be bought and even openly urged him to defect and stay in the United States.”\nFidel closed the award ceremony by recalling highlights of the revolutionary struggle that he had experienced. Yet he said that at\n“none of these moments in our struggle have I felt such intense emotion as I did when I saw on television that door open on the little plane that brought them from the United States after so many months of tireless battle, and the figures of Juan Miguel and Elian emerge, at 7:53 p.m. on June 28. A small boy and a modest Cuban father known by very few people hardly a few months before, were as great moral symbols of our homeland.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "No schnitzel, but you can still get beer at new pizzeria that opens Wednesday at former Hofbräuhaus in Rosemont\nA year after the last schnitzel was fried and oompa played, a portion of what was a former German beer hall in Rosemont is set to reopen Wednesday under a different restaurant name and concept.\nBut the new venue will have at least one thing in common with the old one: beer.\nCrust, a pizzeria and craft beer bar, will open at 11 a.m. Wednesday within the Parkway Bank Park entertainment district, taking up 13,400 square feet of the 20,000-square-foot former Hofbräuhaus Chicago.\nThe space has been transformed inside and out over the course of the last year, but the old brewing equipment -- a 2,000-liter Kaspar-Schulz brewery designed, engineered and built by hand in Bamberg, Germany -- has stayed in place. Brewmaster Rob Hunter also has remained on staff to produce a selection of about a half-dozen signature and seasonal/specialty beers.\nThe menu features 16 pizzas; each are individually-sized at 12 inches, but can be shared. They include The 312 (red sauce, mozzarella, house made Italian beef and giardiniera) and The Shroom (white garlic Parmesan cream sauce, black truffle cream, mixed mushroom, arugula and shaved Parmesan).\nFor diners not into pizza or beer, the menu offers other entrees, shareables, salads, desserts, wine and cocktails.\nThe pizzeria and brewery is the brainchild of father-and-son businessmen Joe and Mike Matuschka, who operated Hofbräuhaus for eight years under a lease with the village. Amid rising costs and shrinking profits, they decided to retool, and last April, they bought a portion of the former beer hall for $2.165 million and started renovations.\nStill to come on the other side of the wall in the subdivided building: a 5,000-square-foot Pete's Piano Bar and 1,800-square-foot Tiki Tiki bar.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- On: 9, Nov 2018\n7 min read\nSocial media engagement insights, news, and tips.\nFor this year's Brand Marketing Summit, the Incite Group made the bold statement \"Marketing is Dead: Engagement is Alive.\" We were privileged to catch some great talks from leaders in marketing for some of the world's biggest brands during the summit. Read on for the most inspiring takeaways of the conference, curated by our Customer Success Lead, Maria Moilanen!\nThe Marketing Trifecta: Content, Purpose, Action by Jill Cress, Chief Marketing Officer, National Geographic\nThis was an insightful talk especially as I've been a massive fan of National Geographic since my childhood. Who doesn't remember those exciting wildlife documentaries on television or flipping through stacks of magazines filled with incredible images?\nAs the CMO of National Geographic (the #1 brand on Instagram with 93.6 million followers), Jill Cress shared how important it was for them to know what's on the hearts and minds of consumers.\n\"We now get bombarded with so much content that anything not immediately relevant, authentic or interesting gets quickly ignored or pushed aside. But I think this new “era of distraction” has created an exciting challenge for today’s marketers – and it’s one that’s forcing us to really understand our audiences, their motivations and their preferences at a core level.\"\nJill shared about how National Geographic turned to Facebook Messenger and virtual reality to captivate audiences and drum up exciting for two of their new series, \"Genius\" and \"One Strange Rock\".\nFor \"Genius\", the company created Genius Bot, a Facebook Messenger app that connected audiences directly with the show’s main character – Albert Einstein - and allowed people to chat directly with \"Einstein\". To promote the series “One Strange Rock,” National Geographic created the first-ever Astronaut Reality Helmet giving viewers a brand new perspective of earth, without ever having to leave New York.\nCress also emphasized how listening to consumers was crucial, in order to understand what will resonate and move the needle:\n\"From a media and content consumption standpoint, fluffy no longer cuts it – people are demanding harder-hitting news. And with this change, consumers also look to align themselves with brands that confidently take stands on societal issues. Brand marketers must do more than sell products, experiences and lifestyles; they must insert themselves into conversations on larger topical issues to remain relevant and respectable to today’s consumer.\"\nOne key takeaway from this talk was how at Turner Broadcasting (owner of CNN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, and others) uses the term \"fans\" instead of \"viewers\".\n\"...we are on a mission to Reimagine TV and disrupt our industry by turning viewers into highly engaged, loyal and unapologetic fans of the content we create and the deeply personal experiences we provide. As marketers, it is our job to break through the clutter and constantly surprise and delight our fans at every interaction.\"\nIn her talk, Molly Battin shared about how the company's main marketing goal across all brands at Turner is to develop and execute fan-centric campaigns. They do that by relying on data and analytics more than ever before, capturing data at every point and infusing it into decision-making.\nAt the same time, it is important for them to balance SCIENCE with ART and MATH with MAGIC. They consider themselves \"data-informed\" rather than \"data-driven\", as world-class creative is still crucial to entertain and delight fans.\n\"Put the fan at the center of everything you do. Listen to them.\nCreate experiences for them where they can engage with your brands and interact with other fans. They are more loyal, more willing to sample new content, more willing to spend time and money to interact with their favorite content across a variety of touchpoints and they become your biggest marketing asset – evangelists for your brands.\"\nMy key insight from this talk by Terrance Williams was the focus that Nationwide has on creating better processes to make life easier for customers.\n\"It’s about meeting consumers where they are and providing them with something of value. If we seek to make the “right” impression and move consumers further down the path to purchase, we need to show up in the correct environmental space with something meaningful to them.\"\nHearing what Nationwide is doing in terms of new ways of marketing to customers was exciting, especially as the insurance and financial services industry is ripe for disruption.\nThe talk finished on a high with the exclamation that Nationwide will \"bring sexy back to insurance.\" We look forward to seeing this in action!\nMy key takeaway from this talk by James Gregson was how focused LEGO is on ensuring that the company's global content, be it organic or paid, aligns with the brand mission \"to inspire builders of tomorrow\". LEGO focuses on a global mindset and adapting to digital disruption.\n\"From a LEGO social media stand point what we really try and do is being comfortable that we are okay with removing content when it doesn't perform. If we publish an asset and it isn't performing we have no problem with removing it and we will do so within 5-10 minutes of it being live. It's not something we do often. Understanding the value of the world of organic reach and the idea of channel health we feel really confident that we need to be empowered as a publishing team to only share the best content. We will be the first ones to raise our hand and say \"We thought this content would perform and it didn't\" and we will change, republish, edit it or not publish it at all.\"\nLEGO feels that it needs to be very reactive and responsive. Impressively, within 2-3 hours of the Ellen tweet about the blue and black dress going viral, they posted a piece of content referencing the meme that was reactive, responsive and relevant, taking a fun, playful standpoint.\nWhen combating the challenge of organic reach, relevancy and timeliness of content is paramount to LEGO's content strategy. LEGO delivered some of the most fun content examples of the summit and clearly has succeeded in being reactive and responsive.\nWe hope you found some of these takeaways as inspiring as we did! On the other side of the world, our Lisbon local #brandbastioneer Carina Miranda writes about her takeaways from Web Summit Lisbon here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Courtesy of PSU Marketing and Communication department\nA project to replace the turf field at Pittsburg State University’s Carnie Smith Stadium will wrap up soon and the stadium will re-open to the public.\nThe project, which began on June 22, is being funded by Freeman Health System of Joplin, Missouri.\n“This project is long-planned, given the lifetime of synthetic fields,” said Jim Johnson, director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Pittsburg State University. “We’ve had this work on the horizon for some time, so we’re excited to see it come to fruition.”\nThe project is led by Mammoth Sports Construction, a company based in Meriden, Kansas. The company’s recent projects include the turf at Hutchinson Field in Pittsburg, the football field at Girard (Kan.) High School, and Wagner Field in Bill Snyder Stadium at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. The field going in at Pitt State is an elite FieldTurf system also used by the Universities of Oregon and Alabama.\nThe project is led by Joe Kerr, a 1998 graduate of PSU’s School of Construction.\n“We’re excited to be part of the future of such an iconic stadium and NCAA Division II football tradition, and excited that Joe is leading the way,” said Brian Morris, vice president of operations for Mammoth. “We’re proud of the footprint we have in our home state of Kansas.”\nKeeping the business in Kansas was an important part of the decision-making process, Johnson said.\n“We are fortunate to have companies like Mammoth in Kansas, and that we can call upon them for complex projects like this one,” said Johnson. “Keeping our business close to home has many benefits.”\nThe current turf was installed in the summer of 2012 and was nearing the end of its life from a safety standpoint.\n“It becomes a safety issue for our student-athletes. One of the primary benefits of a synthetic surface is to help prevent concussions and other injuries at higher rates than what can occur on grass fields,” said Johnson. “But that advantage degrades over time, so replacement is necessary to protect our student-athletes and others who use our field.”\nFreeman Health System President and Chief Executive Officer Paula Baker said it’s important to invest in the infrastructure that fuels the future.\n“Institutions like Pittsburg State University are critical in producing the graduates needed by Freeman Health Systems and other industries, and football is an important part of the experience at Pitt State,” Baker said. “We appreciate PSU’s recruiting power and are aware of the health and safety benefits of a new field, so we are proud to support it.”\nThe project is wrapping up now, and the stadium will reopen to the public by the end of the month.\n“This project is the latest example of our long-standing relationship and value exchange with Freeman Health System,” said Steve Scott, president of Pittsburg State University. “They’ve committed to the success of our programs across our campus, and we’ve committed to producing graduates that go right to work in the healthcare industry.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After great success with their first movie showing, “Jo Davidsmeyer Unleashed,” new club American Film Society (AFS) will be putting together a film festival to raise money for the Class of 2018, the Class of 2017, and the club itself.\nAFS is a brand new club founded earlier this year that meets at 1 p.m. on Thursdays in Portable 13. They produce videos to raise funds to ultimately donate to charity. “The production of student films can be a fun and engaging activity. I plan to create an environment at AFS where students can learn to make films, publish them, and then use them as fundraisers to raise money for a good cause, such as the Alzheimer’s Association or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. If anyone in high school, would like to join please feel free talk to me and come to our next meeting,” said sophomore Josh Wolff, founder of AFS.\nThe most unique aspects of the movies they create are the inside jokes only Pine View students can appreciate. “I love how AFS is its own little community, and how we’re all one big family”, said sophomore Matthew Overbeck.\nEarlier this year, AFS produced and showed “Jo Davidsmeyer Unleashed,” a humorous movie detailing computer teacher Jo Davidsmeyer’s secret title as undercover dictator of Pine View. The profit from ticket sales went to the Class of 2017.\nThe AFS Film Festival will feature the sequel of “Jo Davidsmeyer Unleashed,” “Jo Davidsmeyer Uncensored,” along with other short films. The festival will take place in the auditorium from 2:00-3:30 on April 9. “I am very optimistic about the Pine View Film Festival. We will raise money for charitable causes and classes, engage students in local film production, introduce new students to AFS, while simultaneously creating a united element of culture at Pine View. I hope that the Festival will be the first of many to come,” said Wolff.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Métis leader disappointed with delay in Sixties Scoop apology\nFormal apology promised last year, provincial government says scheduling difficulties caused delay\nMétis Nation-Saskatchewan president Robert Doucette says he's disappointed there has still been no formal apology from the provincial government over the Sixties Scoop.\nThat's the name given by some to the government practice in Canada from the 1960s to 1980s of removing of aboriginal children from their homes and placing them in foster homes or putting them up for adoption.\nPremier Brad Wall announced the apology would happen more than a year ago. The premier of Manitoba apologized in June 2015.\nThousands of children were taken from their families in the Adopt Indian Métis program between 1966 and 1975.\n- Apology coming but no money for Sixties Scoop: Sask. Premier Brad Wall\n- Merchant law firm launches class-action lawsuit for '60s Scoop' adoptees\nDoucette said he was told the apology had been delayed due to scheduling difficulties, especially due to issues around the latest provincial election, held in April.\n\"I haven't heard anything [lately] about this apology,\" said Doucette. \"To say that I'm disappointed would be an understatement, because Premier Wall had promised First Nations and Métis people that Sixties Scoop survivors would receive an apology, and we're still waiting.\"\nCritics say the Scoop robbed thousands of First Nations and Métis children of their language and culture.\n\"[The government] thought they knew better than our own people on how to raise our kids,\" he said.\n\"You first had the residential school, where they took our kids away, you had the Sixties Scoop, the second vestige of our kids being taken away again, and now we have the millennium scoop, where we have more kids in custody than the Sixties Scoop.\"\nThe provincial government says it's still committed to the formal apology, and is working with the Federation of Indigenous Sovereign Nations (FSIN) to find a date for the formal apology.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Think of Earth as a fragile shell of cold, stiff rocks enveloping\na mass of gooey rock that is, technically speaking, beastly hot.\nNow imagine the shell springs a leak. Not a pinhole like Mount St.\nHelens or Krakatau. Not an itty-bitty pipe like the one that fed\nmagma into the tallest structure on Earth, Mauna Loa in Hawaii.\nThe solitary horn corals disappeared forever during the Permian-Triassic\nextinction. Photo: Richard Paselk, HSU\nNatural History Museum\nThink big. Imagine a flood of lava oozing through an enormous fissure in the crust, and continuing for, say, a million years. That's the basic blueprint for the flood basalts.\nThese rocks form from basaltic lava, whose chemistry allows it to spread quickly into massive \"flood basalt provinces.\" (Thicker lava makes steeper piles -- volcanic mountains.)\nIn Oregon and Washington, flood basalt underlies the 200,000 square-kilometer Columbia River Plateau. In India, flood basalts called the Deccan Traps are up to 3.5 kilometers deep.\nNow max out the magma-maker and imagine the Siberian Traps -- a hunk of lava measuring 1.6 million square kilometers. Or larger.\nBecause these floods of lava must have released vast clouds of sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen fluoride and other gases that reflect or trap solar heat, it's a fair guess that the flood basalts mucked with the climate.\nThe only flood basalt in recorded history (a 12-cubic-kilometer\npuddle in Iceland in 1783), released so much gas that Benjamin Franklin\nnoticed a dense \"dry fog\" in Europe. Toxic chemicals from the volcanic\ngas settled on Iceland's pastures, poisoning sheep and starving\n20 percent of Iceland's population to death.\nVolcanoes clearly can affect climate. In 1991, sulfur dioxide from\nMount Pinatubo reflected sunlight back to space, cooling the atmosphere\nby 0.5 degree Celsius.\ncolor image of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, after the 1991\neruptions. The brown color surrounding the volcanic crater shows\nthe mudflows spreading into the valleys below. Photo: NASA\nAlthough Pinatubo was the largest eruption of the 20th century, it wasn't\neven a water pistol compared to the flood basalts. And even if these\nfantastically large lava flows did not poison the landscape or cool\nthe planet, they may have spewed carbon dioxide and cooked the planet through the greenhouse effect. Did volcanic\nclimatic chaos cause extinctions? It's a possibility. Two jumbo\nflood basalts overlapped with two deadly waves of extinction:\nDeccan traps coincided with the Cretaceous-Tertiary\nextinction, the die-off about 66 million years ago that dumped the\ndinosaurs in the dust bin of history. However, the extinction may\nhave been caused by a comet or asteroid,\nsince a crater near the Yucatan Peninsula dates to the same period.\nSiberian Traps oozed up about 250 million years\nback, close to the Permian-Triassic extinction. (During that little\ntest, 90 percent of all groups of related species were flunked and\ndisappeared from the ocean.) No big impact crater has been located\nfrom this time.\nAfter this wordy but useful intro, let's meet two recent studies relating volcanic activity to extinction. In 2002, Marc Belchow of the University of Leicester (U.K.) and colleagues looked at underground rocks and doubled the minimum size of the Siberian Traps, to 1.6 million square kilometers -- as big as Iran (see \"40Ar/39Ar ...\" in the bibliography). Belchow and Co. concluded that the finding \"strengthens the link\" with the Permian-Triassic extinction.\nBut did the Siberian Traps erupt at the precise moment of extinction? Good question.\nThe Permian-Triassic transition appears in this rock outcrop in\nShangsi, China. Researchers have dated volcanic crystals from before\nand after the mass extinction, pinning the blame for the giant extinction\non massive volcanic activity. Courtesy Roland Mundil, Berkeley Geochronology Center\nA rude question, sometimes. But unless you can produce accurate dates from one-quarter billion years ago, you can't know if the Siberian Traps and the wave of extinction happened at the same time. In a new study, Roland Mundil and colleagues at the Berkeley Geochronology Center came up with a precise date for the extinction.\nThe researchers looked at volcanic crystals called zircons found in rocks that solidified around the time of the extinction.\nThe continents have moved a long way since the Permian-Triassic\nextinction. The zircons came from Shangsi; the Siberian flood volcanism\nis marked in red. Modified from original map, courtesy Christopher Scotese\nHow do you ask a quarter-billion-year-old rock its age? By looking at the radioactive decay of uranium into lead. As zircon crystals form in magma, uranium enters, but not lead. So all the lead found in a zircon must come from the decay of uranium after the crystal formed. The ratio of uranium to lead indicates how much time has passed since formation.\nGetting dates from an individual zircon, which weighs less than a thousandth of a gram, is an exacting science, but precision accounting is standard in geochronology. (No, they don't hire folks from Enron and WorldCom.)\nBut when lead leaches from a zircon over the millions of years,\nthe results go astray, and geological daters have to adjust their\nhard-won dates based on experience and intuition. To increase accuracy,\nMundil borrowed a procedure from Jim Mattinson of the University\nof California at Santa Barbara, and removed radiation-rotted hunks\nof the zircons before doing the dating.\nmicrograph of a zircon. The tiny crystal was treated to make uranium-lead\ndating more accurate. Areas that had lost lead were removed before\nthe dating was done. Courtesy Josh Feinberg, University\nof California at Berkeley\nEliminating parts where lead leakage was likely located produced dates that lined up more closely with each other. Those dates (see \"Age and Timing...\" in the bibliography) also placed the extinction at precisely the time of the Siberian Traps, 252.6 million years ago (give or take 200,000 years).\nThe coincidence between enormous extinction and excessive eruption may raise a red flag about cause-and-effect, but just because the flood basalt could affect climate doesn't mean it did.\nThe jury is still out, the evidence is mixed, and it's raining cliches like cats and dogs.\nStill, the cause -- 1.6 million square kilometers of fiery, gassy lava -- was so massive that the new timing does point a finger at extinction, Mundil says. \"If you imagine a whole continent, and Siberia was a whole continent, and large parts of it are covered by volcanics within short period, unlike anything we see today, it's not difficult to imagine that it had consequences for the climate ... and severe consequences for life.\"\nThe link remains a hypothesis, Mundil says. \"We can do no better than one part in a thousand [in terms of accuracy]. But we know, within the limits of our uncertainty, that these things happened at the same time.\"\nHow did life respond to the 1980 eruption at Mount St. Helens?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) April 3, 2019\nWATCH: Patel – Liverpool fans “did not need to go to the football ground and congregate outside the stadium”\nWATCH: Johnson – “Today, we can say that our long national hibernation is beginning to come to an end.”\nGet our free daily email\nStart your day with all the latest Conservative news, insight and analysis.\n19 comments for: WATCH: Now Bercow torpedos Letwin – and more indicative votes. After a tie, he follows precedent and votes with the Noes.\nLeave a Reply\nYou must be logged in to post a comment.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Banksy is back with two more pieces published on his official website. The first we’ve dubbedBirds of a Feather and it appears in Clacton-on-Sea (a district in Essex, England). The scene includes a mob of xenophobic pigeons rallying against a colorful bird from Africa. Featuring the street artist’s signature sense of humor, the stenciled flock carry picket signs against the southern bird’s presence, perhaps referencing the recent ebola outbreak which began in West Africa and the impending local elections. The second piece, meanwhile, continues Banksy’s belief of street art’s relevancy in the fine art world as an aging woman observes a work that has since been removed. The Bristol artist titled the work himself and jokingly included it as part of the Folkestone Triennial.\nThe Birds of a Feather piece was swiftly removed by the city on October 2, 2014 after locals called it “racist.”\n( Before the vandalism) A mural called Art Buff, created by Banksy.\nA penis has been spray-painted on to the piece in Folkestone, which showed an old woman staring at an empty plinth\nA Banksy mural has been vandalised just two weeks after it appeared on a wall in a seaside town.\nThe piece, called Art Buff, depicts an older woman staring at an empty plinth while wearing headphones with her hands clasped behind her back.\nOn Sunday evening, a spray-painted penis was added to the plinth of the artwork in Payers Park in Folkestone, Kent.\nThe damage is not expected to be permanent and clear plastic sheeting was placed over the mural not long after it appeared.\nA mural called Art Buff, created by Banksy, was vandalised in Folkestone, Kent.\nVisitors flocked to admire the Banksy when it arrived last month and Shepway district council said it would work with the owner of the building to ensure it remained undamaged.\nThe Banksy website also showed pictures of the wall before and after the artwork appeared and claimed the image was “part of the Folkestone triennial. Kind of”.\nThe triennial is a two-month showcase of art in the resort, which has attracted the attention of Yoko Ono, widow of the late Beatle John Lennon, among others.\nThe event made headlines at this year’s launch when Berlin-based artist Michael Sailstorfer hid 30 bars of 24-carat gold, worth £10,000, on Folkestone beach.\nA Kent police spokesman said: “We were called at 8pm on Sunday to a report of criminal damage in Rendezvous Street, Folkestone. It was reported that artwork on a wall had been painted on and officers attended the scene. Inquiries are ongoing.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A new project showing a way to play Nintendo DS games in augmented reality has got a lot of people online excited.\nDSReality is a new proof-of-concept from the developer Zhouwei Zhang, which aims to rip sprites in realtime from titles emulated through MelonDS (using MelonRipper & @rileytestut MelonDS iOS core), before rebuilding them as holographic 3D models that you can view with RealityKit for iOS.\nZhang recently showed a demo of this in action on Twitter, testing it with a few games including Pokémon Black, Pokémon HeartGold, and Mario Kart DS, and the clip has been getting a lot of buzz online with people sharing their excitement about how the project might progress in the future.\nAs Zhang states on the GitHub page, this is currently only a prototype version of the AR solution, which explains why there are still some kinks that you can clearly see in the video. The converter, for instance, that translates assets from MelonRipper to RealityKit doesn't handle transparency very well at the moment and it has only been tested extensively with the camera position used in Mario Kart DS, meaning Zhang had to remove the shader that crops the model in either Pokémon game.\nThere's also currently a known memory leak, which causes the setup to crash, and no way either to select a ROM or provide any touchscreen input.\nNevertheless, it's still early days, and we're interested to see where this project goes!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The gunman, who attacked the Capital Gazette, a local newspaper in Annapolis, was engaged by responding officers within about 1 minute and taken into custody, officials from Anne Arundel County Government said.\nThere was no gunfire exchanged between the suspect -- described as an adult male -- and officers, officials said during an afternoon news briefing.\nThe suspected shooter wasn't carrying a wallet or identification and is not cooperating with authorities, officials told ABC News.\nAuthorities identified the gunman by using facial recognition, a law enforcement source told ABC News. The gunman had mutilated his fingers in an apparent attempt to avoid being identified, the source said.\nPhil Davis, a crime and courts reporter with the Capital Gazette, said the gunman shot through a glass door into the office.\n\"There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you're under your desk and then hear the gunman reload,\" he tweeted.:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "(Bloomberg) — Thomas Healy was secretly arranging a deal to turn his Texas-based truck electrification startup into a publicly traded company when the coronavirus pandemic struck.\nThe crisis halted many transactions, but not the one between special-purpose acquisition vehicle Tortoise Acquisition Corp. and Hyliion Inc., which Healy founded in 2015.\nThe company created from the merger — Hyliion Holdings Corp. — began trading Friday in New York after shares in Tortoise surged more than 300% ahead of a shareholder vote last month. Healy’s stake is now worth more than $1.4 billion, making him one of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires. Still, the 28-year-old knows luck was involved.\n“We were fortunate on timing,” said Healy, the firm’s chief executive officer. “If we were trying to close right when the stock market was on that downswing, we might have been having different discussions.”\nHyliion advanced 3.2% to $40.75 at 10:05 a.m. after slumping 12% in its first full day of trading on Friday.\nThere is growing skepticism of the blank-check phenomenon as such deals have proliferated in recent weeks. SPACs are now getting scrutiny from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which wants to ensure investors are receiving appropriate disclosures about insiders’ pay structures.\nBloomberg spoke with Healy ahead of his ringing the opening bell on Monday to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Comments have been edited and condensed.\nHow did the deal come about?\nIn the first quarter, we kicked off our next financing round. Going public and being able to bring in more capital than we would staying private was attractive. From", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws was published in 1974. In 1975 it was turned into a film. For years various cultural critics, most famously the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, have deconstructed Jaws to mean more than just a story about a fictional tourist spot, Amity Island, being tormented by a shark.\nPeter Biskind in his 1999 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls writes that, since the novel and its film adaptation arrived during a particularly severe economic and political crisis in the US, Jaws immediately struck a chord with an audience disoriented by the apparently indefinable nature of the crisis.\nIn 2012, Žižek saw the shark as a combination of prejudices and fears that are encapsulated into a single definable entity, so that a bemused polity is able to clearly perceive it as the cause of society’s dread. To Žižek, the shark of Amity Island can thus be understood as a metaphor of any community seen to be existing outside the homogeneity of the majority community and is thus suspect. These can be immigrants such as Muslims in Western countries (and now in Modi’s India), non-Muslims in Muslim countries, non-whites in white-majority societies, etc.\nFor Žižek, the fictional shark was like the Jewish community in Nazi Germany. An existentialist enemy created to explain the humiliation that Germany had to face after its defeat during World War I. With the formation of the Jew as an entity that was diseasing the national body, an enemy was created and then ‘unmasked’ to give the disoriented polity a face to channel its anger at. Maybe this is exactly what the minority Ahmadiyya community faced in Pakistan as well when the country lost its eastern wing in 1971 after a devastating civil war.\nFilms often reflect social, political and economic conflicts that are hidden behind their more audience-friendly and entertaining narratives. They just require some decoding\nOthers have delved deeper still to catch the metaphors in the seas of Amity Island. A recent video-essay on the academic website Then & Now sees the shark just as Žižek had understood it. Despite the shark attacks, the character of Larry Vaughn in Jaws refuses to close down Amity Island’s beaches because it would be bad for the economy. So the essay sees Mayor Vaughn as a metaphor for unrestrained and amoral capitalism.\nThe island’s chief of police, Martin Brody, who insists that the beaches must be closed, is seen as symbolising the rational state, whereas a marine biologist Dr Hooper represents science. But since science in this context can only help explain the malaise, and can’t eradicate it, enter Quint, a veteran shark hunter.\nQuint is uncouth and a loner. He symbolises the excesses of behaviour that are often understood to exist outside the norms of ‘civilised’ societies. But it isn’t Quint who kills the shark. He is an outsider. In fact, he gets killed by the dreaded predator. It is Brody (the state) who kills the shark.\nJaws surfaced in the 1970s, when the state was still seen as having control over political, economic and social outcomes. But the 1970s were also a decade when, because of certain unprecedented global events and economic stresses, the state began to struggle to control these outcomes. So Jaws reinforced the trust in a faltering state by making the police chief kill the shark.\nThe Indian film Deewar (1975) makes a similar reinforcement. Released during intense political turmoil in India, the film’s three main characters include a downtrodden mother and her two sons. One son grows up to become a police officer while the other, still vexed by the manner in which society had treated his mother, becomes an amoral ‘angry young man.’ He climbs his way to the top of the criminal underworld just so he can build a grand house for the mother. The mother disapproves, and decides to stay with her other son, the honest police officer. The angry son is eventually shot dead by his brother.\nIn her 1996 book Ire In The Soul, the Indian film critic Nikhat Kazmi describes the mother in Deewar as a metaphor of Bharat Maata (Mother India) or the national personification of India as a mother goddess. The goddess sides with the police officer who symbolises the state. The angry son is the culmination of the wayward and amoral impulses that can ruin societies. He is thus eliminated by the state.\nThe British documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis, in his 2016 film HyperNormalisation, is of the view that, as the state failed to control the outcomes of increasing economic upheavals, it began to ‘outsource’ its responsibilities to the private sector. This led to ‘globalisation.’ John Hardy, in a 2008 essay for E-International Relations, writes that globalisation cast aside the homogenising tendency of modern economics with a more heterogeneous process that interlinks international economies, further shrinking the role of the state in an increasingly interdependent world.\nThe receding state and ascent of the private sector is satirised in the 1988 film They Live, in which a man stumbles upon a pair of glasses with which he can see through the illusions of capitalism. For example, when, after he wears the glasses, he sees a harmless billboard of a brand and can only see the word ‘obey.’\nYears later, in the TV series Breaking Bad (2008-2012), the state is entirely cast aside. In the series, a ‘normal’ middle-class man who has cancer, decides to make and peddle crystal meth. The state cannot fully pay for his medical expenses. He starts to sell meth so that he can save enough money for his family. Much of the series is him battling other (but darker) forces of cynicism, whereas his brother-in-law, a cop, is brutally assassinated by those who are also peddling meth. The state thus dies in the crossfire between two tendencies of amoral private enterprise gone wrong.\nIn Pakistan, between 2007 and 2014, when Islamic militants were running wild, exploding bombs and assassinating opponents at will, one often heard commentators warning that the state was failing. The 2013 Urdu film Waar tries to reinforce the message that the state was still strong. Interestingly though, the same year, another film Chambaili does not see militants as the enemies of the state, but ‘corrupt’ politicians.\nChambaili is a middle-class political fantasy in which a ‘patriotic’/pro-state movement emerges against corrupt politicians and feudal lords. This is based on the narrative formed in 2011 by Imran Khan’s PTI. If seen in the context of the symbology of Jaws, one can conclude that Brody, in this case, is the amalgamation of pro-PTI urbanites and the state (mainly the military-establishment) retaliating against ‘corrupt’ intruders (the shark) disturbing the calm seas of middle-class righteousness.\nPublished in Dawn, EOS, March 14th, 2021", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Updated : November 9, 2018, 6:12 pm\nFor the past four years, Dholakia has been doling out expensive gifts such as cash, jewellery and even cars to his employees for Diwali. His benevolence has earned him a name across the country.\nUpdated : November 3, 2018, 1:10 pm\nThe review of the flexi-fare scheme was done based on the recommendation of the review committee, comptroller and the auditor general's report, and representations from passengers.\nUpdated : November 1, 2018, 5:07 pm\nUpdated : October 29, 2018, 9:12 am\nThink-tanks like the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) have repeatedly stressed that bikes and scooters are an environmental hazard.\nUpdated : October 29, 2018, 5:42 am\nAt least 40 Thai women have been rescued this year during police raids\non massage parlors acting as fronts for prostitution in western cities\nsuch as Mumbai and Pune.\nUpdated : October 17, 2018, 2:00 pm\nAs women break their silence to name and shame sexual predators, the nation goes through a collective catharsis. #TimesUp for workplace wolves.\nUpdated : October 15, 2018, 3:52 pm\nAccording to the Limca Book of World Records, the most expensive sari in the world is a 15-pound sari priced at USD 100,000 that pays tribute to the paintings of Raja Ravi Varma.\nUpdated : October 5, 2018, 11:38 am\nUpdated : October 1, 2018, 8:00 pm\nUpdated : September 26, 2018, 6:23 pm\nUpdated : September 26, 2018, 10:22 am\nUpdated : September 23, 2018, 10:44 am\nMore than 20,00,000 people nationwide have been cheated of staggering Rs 3,000 crore, claim Cyberabad Police.\nUpdated : September 23, 2018, 10:09 am\nRadheshyam, who founded Future Maker Life Care Global Marketing Private Limited three years ago, sourced funds from gullible clients promising extraordinarily high returns.\nUpdated : September 22, 2018, 2:15 pm\nUpdated : September 19, 2018, 9:55 pm", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A look back at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation\nAs King Charles’s coronation approaches, it’s the perfect time for a trip down memory lane. The last time a monarch was crowned in the UK, it was 1953, and the world was a very different place. It was also really the first time most Americans got a glimpse of the monarchy’s grandeur, since Queen Elizabeth’s coronation was the first royal ceremony ever to be televised. And it was quite the event, with England’s crown jewels and lavish wealth on full display, more than 8000 invited guests and thousands of British citizens flooding the streets in celebration.\nOf course, more than 70 years have passed since then, and King Charles also has a more reined-in view of the monarchy. As a result, there will definitely be some changes to the coronation proceedings, says royal expert Marlene Koenig. On the other hand, British coronations follow a format designed nine centuries ago, so a lot will be surprisingly similar.\nWe rounded up some stunning pictures of young queen Elizabeth at her coronation that will highlight both those similarities and probable differences. But most of all, you’ll love seeing Queen Elizabeth’s stunning and highly symbolic outfits, figuring out what’s really going on from her body language and spying other members of the British royal family tree, including a preschool-aged Charles!\nThe queen’s coronation dress\nIn this photo, which was taken as 25-year-old Queen Elizabeth was leaving Buckingham Palace for the pre-coronation ceremonies, we get a good view of the incredibly intricate coronation dress. The work of British designer Norman Hartnell, it was made of white satin and embroidered with the emblems of the UK and all the Commonwealth nations. Her bouquet featured English orchids, Scottish stephanotis, Welsh orchids and carnations from Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man.\nFashion aside, however, this photo reflects something on a deeper level, according to royal expert Nicoletta Gullace, associate professor of British History at the University of New Hampshire. It demonstrates the use of “antique court costume” as a way of symbolising the profound nature of the coronation rite. King Charles’s coronation on May 6, 2023, is expected to honour tradition while also making a statement about the role he feels the British monarch should be playing in the modern age.\nThe journey to Westminster Abbey\nFor her pre-coronation journey from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, Queen Elizabeth II took the ornate horse-drawn Gold State Coach, which truly looks like something out of a fairy tale. Built in 1762 during the reign of George III, it has transported every monarch to their coronation since George IV in 1821. Nevertheless, King Charles is expected to break with tradition by travelling to his coronation in a different, and likely more modern, vehicle.\nAlthough Elizabeth wears the George IV State Diadem in this photo, her actual “coronation crown” was a replica of St. Edward’s Crown. (The original was lost to history when Oliver Cromwell overthrew the monarchy in 1649, according to Koenig.) Solid gold and weighing nearly 2.2kg, St Edward’s Crown is the centrepiece of the British crown jewels. Although it’s considered the traditional coronation crown, Koenig tells us only six monarchs have actually worn it as such. Charles is expected to be the next.\nWestminster Abbey, by the way, has been the site of many royal events, from Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding to Queen Elizabeth’s funeral.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Week 4 NFL Sunday action concludes with an AFC North showdown as the Pittsburgh Steelers host the Baltimore Ravens. Pittsburgh enter this one off of a gutsy road win over the Buccaneers on Monday Night Football. Conversely, the Ravens come into this matchup off of a comfortable home win over the Broncos. The holdout of star Running Back Le’Veon Bell continues to be a talking point for the Steelers. They’ll need to overcome his absence against a strong Ravens defensive front to avoid falling too far behind in the AFC North race.\nWhere to Watch: ESPN, 7 Mate or NFL Game Pass Monday at 10:20am\nWhile the Steelers have been underwhelming so far this season, QB Ben Roethlisberger has been at his brilliant best. Roethlisberger has thrown for 1140 yards and 7 touchdowns so far this season, completing 66% of his passes in the process. Fill-in Running Back James Conner has been hit or miss so far this season and will look to get back to his impressive Week 1 form. Star receiving duo Antonio Brown and JuJu Smith-Schuster have gotten off to an impressive start, combining for 566 yards and 3 scores so far this season.\nDefensively, the Steelers have struggled so far this season. They held the Browns offense in check in Week 1 but have been carved apart by Patrick Mahomes and Ryan Fitzpatrick these past two weeks. The rushing defence has admittedly approved, holding the Bucs to only 63 yards and under 4 yards per carry last week. A unit led by T.J. Watt, Jon Bostic and Vince Williams will need to be at their best this week against the upstart Ravens offense.\nWith first round draft pick Lamar Jackson waiting in the wings, Joe Flacco has stepped up big time this season. He’s averaging just under 300 yards per game and completing over 63% of his passes en route to a 3-1 touchdown to interception ratio. Starting Running Back Alex Collins hasn’t been as effective, averaging only 3.4 yards per carry so far this season. Expect Baltimore to rely on Flacco to connect with new Receivers John Brown and Michael Crabtree against a vulnerable Steelers secondary.\nThe Ravens defence looked dominant in two comfortable home wins this season but struggled in a road loss against the Bengals. They successfully shut down the Broncos passing offense last week, allowing only 173 yards to complement the interception by LB Patrick Onwuasor. This holds them in good stead against a dominant Steelers passing offense that has looked the goods so far this season. Led by the ageless Terrell Suggs and Eric Weddle, I expect the Ravens defence to hold the Steelers offence in check this week.\nAfter a solid primetime win in front of a national audience, I believe the general public is starting to overrate the Steelers. The Ravens put in just as good of a performance last week and are emerging as a deep and balanced team on both ends. Their front seven is very capable of applying consistent pressure to the Quarterback, whilst their opportunistic secondary makes opponents pay on the back end. Offensively, QB Joe Flacco is starting to find form at the right time as he leads his team into the raucous Heinz Field environment.\nIn a matchup that has so often been decided by 3 points, I believe there’s some strong value in taking the Ravens with the 3.5 points. There’s a strong case to be made that they are the more talented team and the Steelers are coming off of a short week. With a strong defence behind them and some extra time to prepare, I feel as though the Ravens are a very live underdog here that can win this outright.\nGiven the strong offensive starts these two teams have gotten off to, this total is a little bit too low in my opinion. The Steelers passing offense has been on a tear this season. Whilst I do think that the Ravens passing defence can slow them down, I still expect Big Ben to put up some numbers and put up at least 24 points. Where I really see the Ravens staking their claim here is with their rapidly improving passing offense.\nJoe Flacco has accepted the challenge from Rookie Lamar Jackson and is poised for a bounce back season. In front of a national audience against his most bitter rival, I’m expecting a vintage Flacco performance that gives the Ravens sole position of top spot in the AFC North. This will also open up opportunities for Running Back Alex Collins, who I expect to have his best game of the season so far.\nRavens Moneyline $2.35\nWhen you like an underdog against the spread in the NFL, it goes without saying that you should sprinkle some money on the moneyline. Despite their road loss to the Bengals, I’ve been impressed by the Ravens start to the season. They have real difference makers on both sides of the ball that can single handedly win games like this. Their ideal mix of veteran experience and youthful exuberance also means they won’t be intimidated by playing in one of the most difficult environments in the league.\nOn defence, I expect their strong front seven to match up well with a mediocre Steelers offensive line. They can put some pressure on big Ben Roethlisberger and force him into making some uncomfortable throws. Offensively, I’m expecting a standout performance from QB Joe Flacco against this underperforming Steelers secondary. Buoyed by protection from a strong offensive line, expect the Ravens to look for the deep ball early and often.\nBest Bet: Ravens +3.5\nWhilst I’m confident that the Ravens can steal this one outright, getting the handicap through the key number of 3 represents immense value. These two teams have played some very close football games over the years, often decided by 3 points or less. This also opens up the opportunity for a backdoor cover if the Ravens are trailing late.\nScore Prediction: Ravens 30-27 Steelers", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "HOUSTON (KTRK) --Police received a call around 4:30 Sunday morning about a woman's body found on I-45 at Little York exit ramp.\nOfficers are investigating it as a hit and run.\n\"A Hispanic female was walking on the North Freeway at the 6900 block at West Little York exit ramp when she was struck by an unknown vehicle,\" said Sergeant Karl Harris with the Houston Police Department.\nThere are no known witnesses at this time.\nAbout two blocks north of the accident, a tow truck driver discovered an abandoned car with the driver and passenger door open and the key still in the ignition.\nThe discovery was made around the time that the hit and run was reported.\nPolice are working to determine if the car belongs to the victim.\nThey say it is not the suspect's car because it did not sustain any front-end damage.\nWe're following this story on Eyewitness News. Watch for updates on air, online and on our mobile news app.\nKeep checking back on this page to get real-time updates as this story unfolds. To get alerts for breaking news, download the abc13 news app for iPhone or Android. You can also get breaking news alerts sent to you by email.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dana White: Dan Henderson is next in line for 205 title shotPosted on March 30, 2012, 07:05 PM by Trent Reinsmith\nAccording to the UFC President Dana White, he has offered Dan Henderson two fights since he defeated Mauricio “Shogun” Rua at UFC 139, which took place at San Jose’s HP Pavilion. White has stated that Henderson has turned down both of those fights.\nFor his part Henderson has made it clear that he is only interested in a title shot, at either middleweight or light heavyweight.\nEarlier this week, White announced that he would capitulate to Henderson’s desires, but made it clear that Henderson was the exception and not the rule, \"Yes, Dan Henderson will get the winner of that fight (Jones vs. Evans) or the winner of the Anderson Silva fight. Dan Henderson just wants a title shot. You know, there was a lot of talk about the stuff I said. Here is the thing. I offered Dan Henderson two fights. Dan Henderson wants this fight. Normally I don't do that. Guys don't sit around and wait and pick their fights. There's been very specific cases where that has happened and it's guys who have earned it or deserved it. Dan Henderson is one of those guys. Listen, Henderson has been around forever. He is forty-something years old. He has been knocking guys out left and right and if he wants to sit around and wait for this title shot, he can do it.\" – for more see Heavy.com\nFurther Reading: Dan Henderson plans on fighting two or three more years", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A \"large, unpopular and unwelcome\" housing development in a small Somerset village has been struck down due to a lack of car parking.\nGladman Developments applied in late-2017 to build 130 new homes west of the A357 Stalbridge Road in Henstridge, a short distance from the Dorset border. South Somerset District Council refused the plans in January 2018, but this decision was overturned in November 2018 following a successful appeal to the Planning Inspectorate.\nBarratt David Wilson Homes purchased the site from Gladman and submitted revised proposals for the development, laying out where the houses will be based and what sort of properties will be delivered. But the council's area east committee voted on Wednesday morning (April 13) to refuse these new proposals, claiming there was not enough provision for new cars and the homes would increase existing traffic problems.\nThe site (which has been dubbed 'Yenston Landings') lies to the south of existing residential properties on Woodhayes Way, just north of the Somerset-Dorset border along Landshire Lane. Under the new proposals, access will be created on Woodhayes Way between the two existing junctions with Townsend Green.\nOf the 130 homes proposed, 46 will be affordable - meeting the council's target that 35 per cent of any new homes in a development of ten dwellings or more should be affordable. Ken Courtenay, chairman of Henstridge Parish Council, raised several concerns about the plans when the area east committee met virtually on Wednesday morning (April 13).\nHe said: \"We believe this development is being imposed upon us. Our main concern remains the increase in road traffic through the centre of the village. Had we been given the opportunity, we would have raised the possibility of providing a footpath along the A357 to the south to join the one at the Dorset boundary - that would have had a material benefit to the village.\n\"The design of the play area in the application seems to take no account of the facilities that already exist at our award-winning recreation ground. Other facilities to broaden the choice available in the village would have made more sense.\n\"We are concerned about parking provision and the displacement of parking places by this development on both Woodhayes Way and the A357.\" David Sekers, who lives just off High Street, described the development as \"large, unpopular and unwelcome\", adding: \"Traffic and pedestrians are a bit issue here.\n\"There is no mitigation [for these issues] in place yet - this is putting the cart before the horse.\" Retired doctor Adrian Gamer, who has lived and worked in Henstridge since the 1970s, said the new homes would put an increase strain on both the A357 and the surrounding residential streets.\nHe said: \"Parking is a major and increasing problem in Henstridge, both for residents who do not have driveways or garages and for general functions, such as weddings or funerals. Your report shows a shortfall of 19 parking spaces - that's cars that may spill out of the estate and try to park on village streets.\n\"All in all, we need more parking spaces in this village, not more cars trying to park. Nineteen cars looking for somewhere to park in here is like having a funeral every day of the week.\" Councillor Hayward Burt, whose Blackmoor Vale ward includes the site, said it was \"very odd\" that traffic concerns were not being dealt with before the fine details of the development were approved.\nHe elaborated: \"Anyone who has driven through the centre of Henstridge will know how incredibly difficult that is - adding more houses here will not be helpful. Anyone who has parked on Woodhayes Way will know that it is full of cars - there's nowhere else to go. You will start to push more cars into places which simply do not exist.\"\nCouncillor Lucy Trimnell concurred: \"I live in Bruton, where parking is becoming more and more difficult - people are complaining to me frequently about issues driving through the town. This has to be something that is completely sorted, and there should be an excess of parking for properties on a new estate in order to ensure that everyone has a place to put their cars.\"\nAfter around an hour's debate, the committee voted to refuse the plans on the grounds of insufficient parking by a margin of six votes to one, with two abstentions and two councillors absent due to technical difficulties. Following the vote, Councillor Henry Hobhouse (who chairs the committee) remarked: \"This will go forward to appeal and I hope that we don't end up having to pay.\"\nBarratt David Wilson Homes has not formally indicated whether it intends to appeal the committee's decision. Mr Burt, Ms Trimnell and Mr Hobhouse are all standing in the local elections for the new unitary Somerset Council on May 5, in the divisions of Blackmoor Vale, Wincanton & Bruton and Castle Cary respectively.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Arsenal are reportedly keen on Lyon midfielder Houssem Aouar.\nArsenal brought in two signings in January, with Mikel Arteta choosing to bolster his defensive options by bringing in Pablo Mari and Cedric Soares.\nBoth players are fighting for permanent moves, but Arteta is no doubt already eyeing other summer targets, with a creative midfielder surely a priority.\nMesut Ozil’s future seems unclear, Dani Ceballos is only on loan, whilst it may be too soon for Emile Smith Rowe to take such an important role.\nThe Daily Mail now report that Arsenal have a host of playmaking targets in mind, including James Maddison, Orkun Kokcu and Mohammed Ihattaren, but Houssem Aouar is also in the mix.\nThe Lyon star has become one of the most highly-regarded young midfielders in Europe since emerging in the Lyon first team back in 2017, and interest in his signature is no surprise.\nThe 21-year-old has picked up seven goals and six assists this season, whilst continuing to show his smooth, silky dribbling ability and his quality to pick out a pass in the final third.\nAouar looks destined for the top, and Arsenal appear to be keen, even though he plays a little deeper than Mesut Ozil – something fans seem to like.\nFans believe that signing Aouar would allow Arteta to play a 4-3-3 rather than shoehorn Ozil into the side, branding him a ‘dream’ signing whilst urging the club to get a deal done.\nOthers think Aouar may be going to Manchester City instead, even feeling that Arsenal need to go ‘all out’ for him in order to make sure they don’t miss out on a player who can immediately improve their midfield.\nHoussem Aouar would be my dream midfield signing for Arsenal.— Blanco (@Blanco_N5) February 12, 2020\nBut my gut tells me he’s on his way to Man City to replace David Silva\nGet this done .. will be over the moon if this happens— ICUMIN2MINUTES (@austinesmith28) February 11, 2020\nPlease!!!— Josh’! (@joshugwu) February 11, 2020\nI prefer Aouar. Would rather arsenal play a 433 than have a lone creator.— Askellad (@MajesticMatteo) February 12, 2020\nArsenal need Aouar instead of a #10 just because we have suffered so much trying to shoehorn a #10 into our side as they are easy to neutralise. Better to follow the Klopp system than Guardiola one just because we don’t have that sort of money— #9 (@futboIrh) February 12, 2020\nSoumare, Aouar and I won’t care what else we do https://t.co/2oKIwOefaN— New Age Purist (@FcCesc) February 12, 2020\nHoussem Aouar to arsenal, We move! https://t.co/BUDhg4CcRw— Metwally (@ma7modmetwaly) February 12, 2020", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dubai: UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) on Thursday confirmed that inbound passenger traffic from India would remain suspended until further notice.\n“As far as inbound passenger traffic from India is concerned, the status quo remains,” an official said. “We are closely monitoring the situation in India, and a decision on when to lift the suspension on inbound travellers will be taken keeping in mind the safety and security of all parties involved”\nStarting from April 24, GCAA and the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Emergency Management Authority (NCEMA) suspended all inbound flights for national and international carriers coming from India.\nNo updates have been issued since the last statement by GCAA and NCEMA, said the official.\nThe travel suspension includes inbound transit passengers with exception of transit flights coming to the UAE and heading to India. The GCAA had previously stated that UAE nationals and diplomatic missions between the two countries, official delegations, businessmen's planes and golden residence holders are excluded from the decision, provided that they should take preventive measures that include a mandatory 10-day quarantine and a PCR test at the airport as well as another test on the fourth and eighth days of entering the country.\nMeanwhile, UAE and Indian airlines are looking to resume flights from July 6 onwards, as per booking sites and customer care representatives.\n“Flights from India to the UAE are suspended until 6 July 2021 - this may be extended,” said Etihad on its website.\nAir India tweeted the following on Wednesday in response to a customer query: “In view of travel restrictions announced by the UAE government, flights between India and UAE are suspended till 06th Jul'21. Please keep a watch on our Twitter handle and website for further updates”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "According to a survey, liberals are much more likely than conservatives to block someone for having an opposing viewpoint. It’s kind of an open secret that liberals have a lot more problems dealing with opposing viewpoints than conservatives. A lot of that is because even though we conservatives are more numerous, liberals tend to dominate the media and we can never escape their viewpoints. This actually makes us stronger, as we know what liberals are thinking and why and can directly refute their ideas. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to just shut out other viewpoints and never understand them, just reacting to them screeching things like “racist!” — as fear and anger are common reactions to things people don’t understand. This is why they’re often surprised they’re ideas (like gun control) aren’t more popular as they think they own the argument when all they’ve done is cover their ears whenever the other side speaks.\nThe core of the left’s arguments are weak. That’s how we can win in this country (and do on some issues like guns). We just have to focus on bringing are ideas directly to the American people and not even bothering with the left who don’t even want to listen.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Do you know this? Adopting 5 easy practices can significantly lengthen your lifetime by up to an additional 14 years for women and 12 years for men, according to a 34-year Harvard University study of more than 123,000 participants.\nThe greatest desire that we all have is to live a happy, healthy, and long life. Well, nobody likes to be sick and no one loves to die at an early age, although we all desire to live longer, we might not always be taking the proper steps to do so.\nHERE ARE THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT STEPS TO BE TAKEN TO LIVE LONGER:\nSAY NO TO SMOKING\n- According to research from \"Action on Smoking and Health,\" a 30-year-old smoker can assume living roughly 35 additional years, while a 30-year-old non-smoker can estimate living 53 more years.\n- Secondly, an average man loses 11 minutes of life for every cigarette he smokes. Thus, each carton of cigarettes is a day and a half of life wasted. A man who smokes a pack a day annually loses roughly two months of life, as stated in the Health Letter from the University of California, Berkeley.\n- \"Smoking is harmful to your health,\" is a regular sign you'll encounter in bus and train stations, furthermore while you watch a movie you could notice the same phrase on the screen; however, nobody cares about that phrase, despite the warning side effects.\n- At the same time, I don’t say that quitting that habit is easy, but once you start trying and when you could leave that smoking habit, it will add great benefits to your life and your body will thank you in the long term.\n- The cigars that you smoke contain many harmful components such as:\n- Tar is a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and it also constricts the bronchioles in your lungs, thus disturbing the absorption of oxygen.\n- Secondly, the dangerous gas carbon monoxide causes your heart to work harder and has negative effects on your lungs by replacing the oxygen present in your blood.\n- There are a few other compounds such as benzene and arsenic which are carcinogenic too, therefore the entry of these harmful substances into your body, while you smoke a cigar increases the greater risk for lung diseases, heart diseases, cancers, etc,\nWHAT HAPPENS, WHEN YOU STOP SMOKING?\n- The first thing that you can see is dropping in your blood pressure and heart rate to normal limits just within the 30 minutes of quitting smoking.\n- Additionally, our body's carbon monoxide levels will return to normal the next day.\n- Furthermore, in the next 2 weeks, your breathing and circulation will start improving, and over the coming months, your coughing and breathing problems will get better.\n- Finally, your chance of developing heart problems will be 50% that of a smoker, after a year. So, as long as you don't smoke, the health advantages and lower risks remain.\nEAT A HEALTHY DIET\n- There are many studies that have been conducted to understand the link between a healthy diet and life expectancy, and one of the original research articles published in PLOS medicine is conducted based on other studies such as the global burden of diseases study, where the study declares that making the sustained shift from the standard Western diet to the ideal diet starting at the age of 20 might extend life expectancy by roughly 10.7 years for women and 13 years for men.\n- The ideal diet here represents legumes, whole grains, and nuts, which contributed towards the benefit of gaining an extra 10 years of life in women and nearly 13 in men.\n- One of the important things to be remembered as one in five deaths is caused by inadequate diets, as reported in the British magazine The Lancet, and it may result in issues like diabetes and high blood pressure, therefore reducing the intake of animal-based foods such as red meat and processed meats or fried foods is as important as the consumption of these plant-based foods such as legumes, to live longer.\nLET EXERCISE BE A PART OF YOUR DAY\nOrganizing a time slot for exercise is crucial, as Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, and Bill Gates—some of the most famous business people in the world also prioritize physical activity on a daily basis On the other hand, just a little bit of exercise each day can increase life expectancy by up to 4.5 years, according to research from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The reason behind exercise improving your survival rate is the fact that exercise has the ability to lower the risk of developing aging-related disorders including heart disease and type 2 diabetes. So take a few minutes for exercise and if your job is such that you have to sit throughout the day, make your get up every hour and have a small walk and then come back to your place, also you can do a brisk walk before you go to work or after you come home.\n- PHYSICAL ACTIVITY RECOMMENDATIONS\n- In order to put this into viewpoint, the regular exercise recommendations for Americans state that adults should engage in 150–300 minutes of moderate–intensity activity per week (or 20–45 minutes per day)\n- 75–150 minutes of vigorous–intensity aerobic physical activity per week (or 10–20 minutes per day).\n- Practicing the activities such as brisk walking for 20-25 minutes per day is considered to be moderate-intensity activity.\n- Alternatively, jogging, running, and taking vigorous fitness classes which require some additional effort fall into the category of vigorous exercises.\n- Weight control is the most important step toward the control of death rates since obesity is the cause of many conditions such as hypertension, cancer, musculoskeletal disorders, and heart diseases.\n- The Harvard study found that losing weight considerably lowered the risk of developing diabetes mellitus, risk factors of heart disease, and breast cancer.\n- According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a body mass index (BMI) of 18.5 to 24.9 is regarded as healthy, while a person's definition of a \"healthy\" weight differs from person to person.\n- The deposition of fats in our body is mostly due to the sedentary lifestyle and the unhealthy diet that we include in our daily routine, therefore following a healthy lifestyle such as practicing exercise and having a healthy diet as mentioned above can help you in maintaining the proper weight, without actually leading to the serious problems of overweight.\nLIMIT YOUR ALCOHOL\n- Alcohol is everywhere; it may be seen at happy hour, meetings, social gatherings, and many other events. Some people may even turn to alcohol as a social stimulant to get through difficult days.\n- One study claims that consuming one drink per day on a regular basis lowers mortality by lowering the likelihood of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and strokes.\n- Either one or two glasses per day after the ages of 40 are associated with an average six-month reduction in life expectancy, according to additional research.\n- However, it’s very significant to note that long-term alcohol use can lead to various serious effects such as a compromised immune system, and alcoholic liver disease also can lead to fatal accidents.\n- Remember that you may start with a glass, but sooner you will be an alcohol addict, since it's highly difficult to withdraw yourself from drinking after you get used to it, better not to drink at all, since drinking is not the ultimate solution to your problems and will rather add more problems to your life.\nEvery one of us loves to live longer, however, how many of us really put some effort to achieve that longevity or long life? is a question to all of us today. let’s try to follow the five popular tips mentioned above according to the Harvard study and live a healthy, happy, and longer life, as every tip you follow is a link or connectivity to reach your aim of living long.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Believe it or not, it’s been 30 years — an entire generation — since GUESS’ original, three-zip Marilyn jean put their mark on fashion forever. To celebrate, the brand is going back to its roots with a new campaign featuring the star of its classic ads, Claudia Schiffer, and releasing a limited-edition line of updates on their iconic pieces. To join in the festivities, we snapped 30 of our favorite fashionable friends wearing the vintage-inspired 30th anniversary collection and asked them what GUESS means to them. Thirty women, 30 days, 30 sexy years of GUESS.\nName: May Kwok\nTen-second bio: \"I’m a 27-year-old New Yorker, fashion enthusiast, and part-time DJ, but I’m primarily known to my colleagues within the industry as a publicist and marketing executive. I love puppies, leather, and shoes.\"\nFavorite ‘80s memory: \"I was a child in the ‘80s, so I’d have to say my Barbie dolls and Cabbage Patch Kids.\"\nFavorite GUESS memory: \"Claudia Schiffer’s iconic GUESS ads.\"\nFavorite returning ‘80s fashion trend: \"Fishnets.\"\nPhotographed by Michael Flores", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Guangdong woman was diagnosed as asymptomatic infection 10 days after she was released from isolation\nThe novel coronavirus pneumonia cases mainly have a fever, cough and other respiratory symptoms. They will excrete respiratory secretions containing viruses through cough and sneezing, and infect others through close airway droplets.\nHowever, asymptomatic patients do not have any cough, sneeze and other respiratory symptoms, so they have little chance to discharge respiratory secretions. Compared with patients with obvious symptoms, the transmission ability is limited.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Joan Carr’s Catholic faith was her compass. It guided her in everything she did.\nCarr devoted herself to many aspects of Catholic life – as a teacher, principal, administrator and later superintendent of Edmonton Catholic Schools, as a volunteer, and as a board member for a variety of Catholic initiatives and causes. Her loss is being felt across the Catholic community.\nCarr died of cancer on Feb. 9. She was 67. Her funeral is scheduled for Feb. 15 at St. Joseph’s Basilica, where she was a parishioner. Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith will preside, and Bishop David Motiuk of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton will concelebrate. The service will be livestreamed here at 10:30 a.m.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mountain Lakes Brewing (201 W. Riverside Ave.) is celebrating the release of its 2019 edition pumpkin ale from 3-9 p.m. in its taproom.\nSeveral local spots will be celebrating Halloween, so throw on a costume and get ready to have some fun.\nBellwether Brewing (2019 N. Monroe St.) is featuring a costume contest, bingo and other festivities from 5:30- 9 p.m. Anyone in costume receives $1 off the first pint. This is a family-friendly event.\nGenus Brewing (17018 E. Sprague Ave, Spokane Valley) is releasing its new “Sour Patch” IPA and will be showing Halloween-themed movies all evening. There will be candy for trick-or-treaters young and old. All ages welcome from 6-9 p.m.\nNatural 20 Brewing, formerly English Setter Brewing (15310 E. Marietta Ave., Suite 4, Spokane Valley) is featuring from 4-9 p.m. candy- and chocolate-themed beers on tap, a costume contest, plus Halloween trivia starting at 6:30.\nHunga Dunga Brewing (333 N. Jackson, Moscow) is hosting a party with a costume contest and DJ from 9 p.m.-close. Ages 21 and older.\nBrandywine Bar & Bottle Shop (2408 W. Northwest Blvd.) is offering drink specials, a costume contest, pumpkin decorating and a raffle from 3-10 p.m.\nNectar Beer and Wine (1331 W. Summit Parkway) in Kendall Yards from 5-9 p.m. will be putting together a tap list of dark and barrel-aged beers. There will be prizes for the best costumes and other fun activities.\nRiver City Brewing (121 S. Cedar St.) is hosting its monthly First Friday Garage Party featuring local music and beer specials from 6-10 p.m.\nHumble Abode Brewing (1620 E. Houston Ave.) is releasing imperial stouts to celebrate the cold weather. Come down to try these small batch beers from 3-9 p.m.\nFind more beer news at 509beerblog.com.\nLocal journalism is essential.\nThe journalists of The Spokesman-Review are a part of the community. They live here. They work here. They care. You can help keep local journalism strong right now with your contribution. Thank you.\nSubscribe to the Spokane7 email newsletter\nGet the day’s top entertainment headlines delivered to your inbox every morning.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "With the onset of the pandemic, e-commerce solidified its market share, in some cases leapfrogging brick-and-mortar retail in product categories like groceries. Then, as Covid-19’s dust began to settle, it began to become clearer that given the rapid acceleration of mobile penetration throughout the African continent. ‘m-commerce’ or mobile-based shopping was showing signs of becoming the next evolutionary step for online shopping.\nThis caught the attention of digital players and platforms like TikTok who identified a golden opportunity to “bring e-commerce home” in a way that leverages its ability to foster authentic conversations and build communities around inspiring, entertaining and informative content. This intuitive move from m-commerce into the world of online entertainment and onto digital platforms is what we like to refer to as ‘community commerce.’\nHistorically, commerce – the trade of goods and services – has been inextricably linked to culture. Motifs like the Great Silk Road and the bustling street markets of Africa provide us with a window into what commerce used to be – a social experience that involved skills like negotiation, driven by a cultural exchange.\nAt this intersection of commerce and culture, people engaged with each other, exchanged opinions and shared their experiences. Fast-forward to the twenty-first century and digital commerce at scale felt lonely – devoid of the human touch.\nNow, community commerce, where users can browse, shop goods and services and pay for them without needing to leave an app or digital platform, marks a return to the building blocks of commerce: human interactions.\nBiggest driver of sales is good old word-of-mouth-marketing\nCommunity commerce happens natively, within applications, which are fully integrated with digital payment methods. And in this model, the biggest driver of sales is good ol’ word-of-mouth marketing – social proof in the form of product reviews and testimonials are a way in which communities and individual users are reclaiming the driver’s seat in the digital commerce journey.\nThe community is no longer a commodity to be used by retailers – they are the drivers of commerce and the determinants of the ‘next big thing.’\nIn a sense, community commerce has therefore injected a generous dose of humanity back into online retail – a welcomed development in a world in which people long for authentic and meaningful engagement.\nOf course, the fact that community commerce is native to apps caters to the heightened demand for absolute convenience. Before, convenience was a unique selling point – something that brands could use as a differentiator in the market. Now, it’s a must-have.\nOnline shoppers demand quick turnaround times, a seamless payment journey, fast response times to customer service queries and fast and reliable delivery. These are the hallmarks of the retail brands that will dominate the online shopping landscape of the future – brands will simply not survive without them. If anything, the pandemic has brought about among the online shopping community, it’s more control over the retail experience – if retailers aren’t fostering a convenient user experience, they’re simple losing business to more on-the-ball competitors.\nIn this sense, the rise of community commerce marks a call to retailers to ‘step it up’ and get the customer sales journey right – to engage in social listening, to ensure that the integration of technology makes for a hassle-free shopping experience and to invest resources into serving customers through real-time interactions.\nOne of the most outstanding features of community commerce is the fact that it is predominantly content-driven. It could be argued that this form of commerce has catalysed a shift from “persuasion to participation.”\nShoppers no longer fall for pushy marketing campaigns – they don’t want to just buy products. Instead, they want to buy something more – the “why” – they want to buy into a story rather than just a sales gimmick. The challenge for brands therefore is to create content that is not disruptive or too obviously purposed towards advertising. Marketing content needs to blend in seamlessly with users’ edutainment time. It needs to be compelling, engaging and insightful – very simply, it needs to add value.\nTrust is the new commodity in the world of community commerce. Earn the trust of a community of content creators and consumers and half the job is done. And it’s a good thing, this return to a more human-driven form of buying goods and services. It’s a much-needed intervention in a world in which human interaction is just not the same as it used to be. What an exciting time to be alive and an exciting time to be online.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Playing The Devil's Advocate When Talking About Able-Bodied People Dressing Up As Disabled People For Halloween\nIn one of my previous opinion pieces I stated that people should not dress up as a disabled person during Halloween. Sometimes people dress up as disabled historical figures and don’t even realize it (and it isn’t even their own fault to some extent). That is because some famous people with invisible disabilities have done a good job of hiding their disabilities, thus giving the illusion that they are not disabled. This is where I think we shouldn’t criticize people for dressing up as historical figures that have a disability. One rule of thumb I go by is “If this person was able to get to where they are without support programs for those with their disability, would they still be successful?”. Another rule of thumb is asking,” When can you use person-first language to describe the person and also have no descriptors change”, that is the time when it is ok to not criticize others who dress up as a historical figure with a disability for Halloween. If at least 10% of all adults have an invisible disability, you are likely to find a handful of people dressed up as historical figures with learning disabilities at any Halloween event.\nWhenever people talk about Elton John, Edward Snowden, and Julius Caesar, all epileptics, their disability is almost never mentioned in the conversations about them. One could call Greta Thunberg an activist instead of an autistic activist: since anyone can memorize the amount of CO2 a sweatshop produces. One thing people in the United States don't talk about when mentioning Greta’s rise to fame and success is that she is a “nepotism baby”, even though she attributes her success to her autism. Also Elton John’s, Edward Snowden's, and Julius Caesar's epilepsy didn't get in the way of them doing their work at the height of their careers. Almost all the people dressing up as Greta Thunberg, Julius Caesar, Elton John and Edward Snowden aren't doing so to mock disabilities. In their context, those people are dressing up as famous influencers whose achievements define them more than their disability.\nHowever, unlike the celebrities above, you cannot separate Helen Keller from her disability while having a conversation about her. If Helen Keller didn't have a disability she would just be known as a woman with a university degree. You also cannot separate Temple Grandin from her autism when talking about her, as her autism has played a huge role in her inventions. If Temple Grandin didn't have autism, she might have just been a veterinarian instead of someone who revolutionized the way livestock are treated and cared for.\nAnother problem within the Halloween costume debate is when able-bodied people treat adaptive equipment like accessories. I've heard of stories of “emotional support peacocks” and “emotional support pigs” pooping on planes, which can lead to people questioning the legitimacy of actual guide dogs. People who need adaptive equipment to do regular tasks is another situation when a person can't separate themselves from their disability, even if they are able to hold a regular job. An example is Walter White Jr from Breaking Bad. Despite the fact that his personality has a bigger influence than his physical disability in terms of his relationships with other people, he couldn't do every day tasks without his adaptive equipment.\nCome to the Table\nAugust Come To the Table\nWhen the Family Scapegoat Is Dying\nMy family is treating me like a vulnerable narcissist with Munchausen Syndrome...even those who are Emergency Medical Technicians. To be clear, I have been on Social Security Disability Insurance since 2002. My family assumes this is because of mental illness; although, no one ever asked.\nMy disability was based upon both physical and mental health issues...a chronic pain disorder; which, causes mental distress. Since being granted SSDI, I have had one or more diagnoses added to my chart after every single one of my Medicare annual exams. Most of these diagnoses are considered disabling according to the Social Security Administration.\nOver the years, unlike family members, no one ever saw me posting on Social Media every time I received a new diagnosis, when I had a medical procedure, when I had surgery, every ER visit, etc. I was never posting pleas for prayers pending outcomes of labs, imaging, or having a high risk surgery. I never posted how many times I almost died.\nThe only time I made a FB post about my health, until now, was when I was rigged up for outpatient EEG monitoring. I posted it with pictures because I looked hilariously pathetic. The photos went along with the story of riding the bus in this condition and the shocked reactions of the passengers. I posted this comical story in an attempt to make light of the situation and put a positive spin on it.\nThe only reason I'm posting about this current life-threatening illness is: !) The pathogen I am infected with is resistant to all known remedies and I'm scared 2) I am angry at the utter lack of compassion by my entire family--family of origin, adult children, and extended family.\nThere are many articles about when a Narcissist is aging and has failing health. Where are the articles about when the family Scapegoat is dying?\nCome to the Table\nEveryone is different & the smart ones are the ones getting help. Maybe we aren’t the ones with the disabilities. We just talk about it & get help.\nIn this day and age it's unbelieveable\nWhat you need to know\nThis happened to someone close to me 🤦♀️", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Uhuru Kenyatta recently announced that all government officials and their families would undergo a lifestyle audit as part of his war on corruption, starting in July 2018. This would include him and his deputy, William Ruto. Those found guilty of corruption would be sent to jail regardless of their status, and he would not intervene, he said. Days later, his partner in handshake matters and People’s President Raila Odinga said that he and his ODM Party would no longer serve as whistleblowers, but instead they would partner with Kenyatta in the war on corruption. He too would undergo the lifestyle audit.\nLifestyle audits are tests that tend to be used by forensic auditors to determine whether a person’s lifestyle matches up with their known income stream(s). Because corruption, fraud and money laundering tend to leave little to no paper trail, they are difficult to detect, and many times only a sudden, inexplicable shift in lifestyle can signal to them. For example, Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Achesa believes that Raila Odinga needs to explain how he built a KES 1 billion home in Kisumu while he was Prime Minister, when his monthly salary was KES 1.2 million and his mortgage was KES 40 million. Allies of William Ruto have come out to claim that this audit targets him, and politicians such as Kimpchumba Murkomen have claimed the exercise will expose politicians as “poor”, and no one likes a poor politician.\nIndicators of lifestyle tend to be public: the houses, cars, companies and properties one owns, one’s entertainment preferences, the schools one’s children attend, the size of one’s bank accounts and the transactions through these accounts, among others. However, even then, this cannot be taken as conclusive evidence of fraud, corruption or money laundering – it is merely an indicator, and sometimes the person being audited can explain it.\nDuring the police vetting exercise, for example, one police officer said he was worth KES 20 million because he relied on loans. Another said he was wealthy because he was paid to escort a Hindu god around town for religious processions, while others credited their hardworking wives. It is also not unheard of for people to claim having inherited large sums of money. It is worth noting that this exercise has yet to be completed, and that no police officer has been prosecuted yet as a result of a lifestyle incongruous with their income (although some have been sacked). And yet, this does not ensure justice to the people of Kenya, and it goes against our constitution.\nChapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya (2010) speaks about leadership and integrity. The guiding principles of leadership and integrity include selection on the basis of personal integrity, competence and suitability, or election in free and fair elections; objectivity and impartiality in decision making, and in ensuring that decisions are not influenced by nepotism, favouritism, other improper motives or corrupt practices; selfless service based solely on the public interest (demonstrated by: honesty in the execution of public duties; the declaration of any personal interest that may conflict with public duties); accountability to the public for decisions and actions; and discipline and commitment in service to the people.\nState officers are expected to behave whether in public and official life, in private life, or in association with other persons, in a manner that avoids any conflict between personal interests and public or official duties; compromising any public or official interest in favour of a personal interest; or demeaning the office the officer holds. A person who contravenes this shall be subject to the applicable disciplinary procedure for the relevant office; and may, in accordance with the disciplinary procedure referred to in paragraph (a), be dismissed or otherwise removed from office. A person who has been dismissed or otherwise removed from office for a contravention of the provisions specified is disqualified from holding any other State office. It further states that a State officer shall not maintain a bank account outside Kenya except in accordance with an Act of Parliament; or seek or accept a personal loan or benefit in circumstances that compromise the integrity of the State officer.\nIn addition to the constitution, we have the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, Public Officers Ethics Act, Income Tax Act, Leadership and Integrity Act, and Proceeds of Crimes and Money Laundering Act, among others acts of parliament that dictate the conduct of public officers and other citizens, and define financial impropriety and its legal outcomes.\nGiven that these are the dictates of our constitution, and that there are other laws that have been passed to enforce these dictates, it is a wonder that the police officers sacked after the lifestyle audit/vetting exercise have not been taken to court, and it serves as an indicator of the outcomes of Uhuru Kenyatta’s vetting exercise. Some people who are implicated in this process may argue that they are being victimized, and that their constitutional right to own property is being contravened.\nThe Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the body that would be tasked with investigating those found to be inexplicably living beyond their means, itself worked hard to stop its staff from being vetted. How can it be relied upon to investigate these public servants and take them to court? Vetting of the staff at the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) also stalled after junior staff threatened to expose the dealings of senior staff. Before the 2017 General Election, over 100 people running for office were found to have failed the standards of leadership and integrity. They were not barred from running. There is simply no political will to carry through with these exercises, and one wonders why that would suddenly change.\nFor as long as we rely on such gimmickry instead of enforcing a culture of servant leadership and integrity in public service as envisioned in our constitution, we will continue to find ourselves here, because the proceeds of corruption far outweigh the costs in Kenya.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Don’t Worry Darling arrives in movie theaters everywhere on September 23rd. Best described as a psychological thriller directed by Olivia Wilde and headlined by Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, Don’t Worry is definitely designed to generate various conversations and opinions once it’s widely released next week.\nOur Entertainment Editor Dana Abercrombie has seen the movie twice and shared her thoughts in a spoiler-free reaction video shortly after the world premiere at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month. Likewise, I saw the movie at a free AMC stubs screening last night and wanted to share my thoughts on what I had just witnessed.\nWith this in mind, we decided to record this in-depth review discussion. We talk about the good, bad, and ugly aspects of the film while diving into the central themes that Wilde wanted to express with this piece.\nAre you planning on seeing Don’t Worry Darling? If you have seen it, did you like or dislike the film? Please feel free to let us know your thoughts and more in the comments section below.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fact sheet: Homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in Denver,\n1) How many homeless youth in the city/state?\na) Denver: There were 853 homeless youth (ages15 to 25) in the metropolitan Denver\narea in 2004 according to the Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative, Inc. (Source\nb) Colorado: There are an estimated 1,500 homeless youth in the state of Colorado at any\ngiven time according to the web site of the Colorado Department of Public Health and\n2) How many are LGBT?\na) Denver: We estimate that between 170 and 340 homeless youth in Denver identify as\nb) Colorado: We estimate that between 300 and 600 homeless youth statewide are LGBT\nc) These calculations are based on research that demonstrates that 20-40 percent of all\nhomeless youth identify LGBT.\n3) What are the public agencies that deal with homeless youth?\na) The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) houses the Office of Homeless\nYouth Services within the Division of Supportive Housing and Homeless Programs.\nCDHS also houses the Office of Children, Youth and Family Services, which in turn\nhouses the Division of Child Welfare.\n4) What has the city/state done to address needs of homeless LGBT youth?\na) The city of Denver has implemented a 10 year plan to end homelessness called\n“Denver’s Road Home.” However, there is no specific LGBT youth focused effort.\nb) Jamie Vanleeuwen is the project manager of this plan and is personally committed to\nserving the LGBT homeless population (see Jamie’s contact info on the next page).\n5) Contact information for a Denver service provider with expertise on LGBT youth:\nUrban Peak Denver\nCraig Archibald, CEO\n730 21st Street\nDenver, CO 80205\nSusan Boyle of Urban Peak in Denver contributed a chapter to the study Lesbian, gay,\nbisexual and transgender youth: An epidemic of homelessness, which focuses on specific challenges facing transgender homeless youth and the agencies seeking to serve them.\nSusan is no longer with the agency.\n6) Contact information for public agencies or key person’s office:\na) Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS)\n1575 Sherman St., Denver, CO 80203\nb) Office of Children, Youth and Family Services\nOffice Director: Steve Bates\n1575 Sherman Street\nenver, Colorado 80203\nc) Division of Child Welfare\nDirector: Ted Trujillo\n1575 Sherman Street\nDenver, CO. 80203\nTelephone: (303) 866-5932\nFax: (303) 866-5563\nd) DHS serving Denver County (covering Denver, the city)\nMgr: Roxane White\n1200 Federal Blvd.\nTel (720) 944-3666\nFax (720) 944-3096\ne) Office of Homeless Youth Services / CDHS\nCoordinator: Andy Johnson\n4020 S. Newton Street\nDenver, CO 80236\nf) Denver’s Road Home\nProject Manager: Jamie Van Leeuwen, Ph.D.\n1200 Federal Boulevard\nDenver, Colorado 80204\n** Source: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: http://thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/fact_sheets/HomelessYouthDenver012507.pdf", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Democrats are keeping quiet on the rumor published this morning in the Politico, that Norm Coleman might take over as RNC chairman after a potential Michael Steele departure.\nSo far, the national party and the Franken campaign are not commenting. Even the Minnesota DFL Party — the folks who have brought us some of the best anti-Coleman attack lines out there — is declining to comment. As one anonymous Democratic official said: “When the Republicans are forming a circular firing squad, the last thing we’re going to do is step into the middle.”\nMeanwhile, a Washington GOP source expressed some skepticism to TPM about the whole idea of putting Norm in: “If the argument against Steele is that he’s not conservative enough, then no, it’s absurd.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SETENA Reforms Begin With New Director\nMaría Guzmán began her duties as the Secretary General of the Technical Secretariat of the Environment Ministry (SETENA) this week as part of a process aimed at reforming SETENA, Environment and Energy Minister Roberto Dobles told The Tico Times.\nGuzmán, who used to head the Environmental Quality Management Division of the Environment and Energy Ministry (MINAE), was officially inaugurated June 16, according to MINAE spokeswoman Patricia Alpizar.\nShe succeeded former Secretary General Patricia Campos, who will be transferred to a different department within MINAE, Minister Dobles said.\n“With this change, SETENA’s reform begins,” said Dobles, explaining that the switch is not a result of poor performance on Campos’ part.\nExperts from the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) and the Canadian government are expected to assist in developing a plan to reform SETENA, he added.\nTalk of SETENA undergoing a process of modernization began during the administration of former President Miguel Angel Rodríguez (1998-2002). Ex-President Abel Pacheco (2002-2006) furthered the modernization project by requiring SETENA personnel to keep electronic copies of the agency’s many paper files.\nSETENA was created in 1996 to evaluate environmental-impact studies and environmental management plans for any development project that could potentially impact the environment (TT, July 2, 2004).\nYou may be interested\nCosta Rica unemployment rate drops to 19%The Tico Times - March 4, 2021\nUnemployment in Costa Rica fell to 19.1% in the moving quarter from November to January. This maintained a downward trend…\nThrowback Thursday: 2006 Arenal Volcano lava flowsThe Tico Times - March 4, 2021\nArenal Volcano's July 1968 eruption destroyed three small villages, killed 87 people and wiped out 232 square kilometers of crops…\nMOPT warns of higher traffic accidents as measures are easedAlejandro Zúñiga - March 4, 2021\nThe Public Works and Transport Ministry (MOPT) is reminding drivers to follow the rules of the road when traveling this…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "U.S. bobsled pilot Steve Holcomb crashes, finishes 20th in Winterberg\n- A tough week culminated in a crash and a 20th-place finish in the four-man event on Saturday.\n- Holcomb crashed in a corner nine during the second of two runs in the World Cup race\n- While Holcomb has had success on European tracks%2C he set out to prove he could continue his dominance\nA tough week for U.S. bobsled pilot Steve Holcomb on the sliding track in Winterberg, Germany culminated in a crash and a 20th-place finish in the four-man event on Saturday.\nHolcomb crashed in a corner nine during the second of two runs in the World Cup race on Saturday – after crashing in corner nine during four-man training on Tuesday.\n\"Corner nine has always been an interesting corner because there's not a lot of variance in finding the right line,\" U.S. bobsled coach Brian Shimer said. \"You have to be on the right line or you'll go over, and finding that spot is tough when you've only had two training runs in four-man.\"\nIt was the first time Holcomb didn't win a World Cup race this season, and it was not the start to the European season Holcomb wanted with the Sochi Winter Olympics a month away. He was dominant on the North American portion of the World Cup circuit in December, going 7-for-7 with three wins in four-man and four wins in two-man.\nHolcomb was in medal contention after the first run – in second place by Germany's Maximilian Arndt, who ended up winning gold. Germany's Francesco Friedrich and Russia's Alexander Zubkov were second and third.\nUSA-2 pilot Nick Cunningham, who also crashed in corner nine during training, finished 12th. USA-3 pilot Cory Butner crashed in corner nine in the first run and failed to qualify for the second heat.\nWhile Holcomb has had success on European tracks, he set out to prove he could continue his dominance headed into Sochi. He finished seventh in two-man on Friday.\nAfter his crash in training, Holcomb wrote on Facebook, \"Don't mistake my crash as weakness. On the contrary, it shows the commitment, courage, and determination my team has to win. In order to get better and go faster than you ever have before, you must step outside your comfort zone, try things you've never tried, do things you've never done, and see just how far you can push your limits. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Either way, you get back in the sled and go again.\"\nThe sled sustained some damage in the training run crash, but mechanic Jim Garde said it wouldn't impact performance on race day.\nThe World Cup circuit continues next week in St. Moritz, Switzerland. At last year's world championship in St. Moritz, Holcomb finished third in four-man and fourth in two-man.\n\"It's all about character now,\" Shimer said. \"Life unfortunately gives you ups and downs, and the higher you go, the steeper you fall. We've all been through it, and we were prepared for the low. These guys are determined, probably the most motivated they've ever been, and whatever happens we keep looking ahead with the big picture in mind.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I didnt know Jennifer Steines until recently. A blue and white fund-raiser wristband a Roscoe teen was wearing led me to her and the story of her 6-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn, who contracted a virus four years ago that traveled to her brain, resulting in multiple daily seizures.\nNeither Jennifer nor I are vegetarians, but we both opted for Roscoes Anna Marias Restaurants amazing cheese tortellini.\nThe family-owned eatery has the best Italian food Ive found in the statelinetender pasta with memorable marinara sauce. Food talk didnt last long. It was Kaitlyn on Jennifers mind.\nI thought she had an ear infection, Jennifer said. She was whiny. The pediatrician said it was probably just a virus. But you read your kid. Thats why I do respect my pediatrician. From day one, shes believed that as a mom, you know best. I dont cry wolf. That was Friday.\nMonday, Kaitlyn kept getting whinier, and Jennifer called the doctor to say something was terribly wrong.\nHer white cells were elevated. Immediately they thought meningitis, Jennifer said.\nThey went to a Rockford hospital for a spinal tap.\nJennifers husband, Cale, was at workat Chrysler, where hes a clinical psychologist. Their 12-year-old son, Brennen, and 10-year-old daughter, Alison, were at school.\nThe tap came back negative…but she kept getting more and more lethargic, Jennifer said. She was exhausted, but couldnt sleep. They didnt know what to do. I was in a hospital, and she was having a seizure. She started foaming at the mouth.\nIn the middle of the chaos, Cale called. Jennifer told them to get him there immediately.\nHe didnt know. On the weekend, she was walking and talking. It happened in a matter of hours, Jennifer said.\nAt the hospital, Jennifer was crying hysterically. The staff wanted her out of the room.\nI thought she was dying, Jennifer said of her daughter. They had taken her to ICU. She had had a grand mal seizure. Its your entire brain…you see a lot of jerking…dont have any mental capacity to know whats going on. There was a wonderful lady there…(who) came up and talked to me. I started hyperventilating and almost passed out. Had she not been there to calm me…then Cale showed up. They wouldnt let me see her in ICU, but once they told me it was a seizure, I felt relieved. I knew they had given her stuff to stop the seizure. I felt like my whole world, in five minutes, completely changed.\nYou have a strong marriage, I said.\nOh, I have a great marriage, Jennifer said. We were best friends before we ever dated.\nThat was at Northern Illinois University, where Jennifer earned her degree in economics.\nTheres always that respect thing, she said.\nYeah, we do.\nSounds like this helped you get through all of this, I said.\nOh, I couldnt have done it alone. Ive always kind of had…not smooth sailing. I mean a happy life…but it was always one fiasco after another. Our whole family is real close, although my Mom passed away from breast cancer, right after Kaitlyn got sick.\nWhen I was pregnant with Kaitlyn…driving my sons friend home…I was at Dorr and Rockton Roadbefore there was a four-way stop sign there. A truck slammed into me. No injuries you could see on the outside, but I started having problems with my neck, and with the pregnancy. They thought everything looked OK, but found out, she was a twin. I ended up losing one of the pregnancies. Part of us always wondered (if Kaitlyns) illness could have been due to that accident.\nAfter Kaitlyns seizure at the Rockford hospital, it was a week before Jennifer and Cale convinced them to transfer Kaitlyn to a bigger Chicago hospital for more tests.\nThey didnt know what was going on, Jennifer said. She kept having seizures. So they flew us from Rockford to Chicago.\nDid they know it was a virus?\nNo. Well, the reason they thought she had a virus was because her white blood count was so high, and she broke out in a viral rash all over her body.\nIn Chicago, they did another spinal tap. Nothing was conclusive.\nThey said, We see this all the time, Jennifer said of the hospital staff in Chicago. They thought it was encephalitis…a virus that spreads to your brain. You hit rock bottom, then you start to get betterif youre going to make it. But her seizures were getting worse. The seizures are what caused the damage. We were there for three days. They said everything looked good, everything should be fine. They sent us home, supposedly with a clean bill of health. But I didnt want to go. I tried to tell them…shes not fine.\nMarjorie Stradinger is a free-lance writer residing in Roscoe. She has covered food, drama, entertainment, health, and business for publications in California and Illinois for the past 25 years.\nFrom the Oct. 12-18, 2005, issue", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Happy women’s day everyone!\nWe're super excited to share this awesome initiative by Go For Visual who want to put forward women who have inspired many of us to grow, change and inspire !\nHave a look at the many profiles they have by scanning the QR in the flyer!\nMy (Alizée) inspiration to start living Zero Waste, gather the Zero Waste Shanghai Community, write the website and run a company called Zer’0waste, started with Bea Johnson !\nEven though, many other women inspire me today, most of them are part of our community right here in Shanghai, that’s where it started for me.\nHere’s her infographic!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Our very own Bengali beauty Bipasha Basu tied knots with her beau Karan Singh Grover in April 2016. The duo first met on the sets of the movie ‘Alone, have, offshoots’ and Cupid stuck when they saw each other the first time. Bipasha and Karan were spotted spending ample time together offshoots, and they finally decided to make their relationship official.\nEver since their marriage, the so-much-in-love couple has been enjoying the marital bliss amidst going on romantic holidays and spending time with family. While Bipasha and Karan are happily living their married life, there are rumours abuzz about the couple expecting their first child. The speculation of Bipasha’s pregnancy arose when the newlyweds were spotted visiting a gynae-obstetrician couple of times, few months back. The duo however kept quiet for some time and this added fuel to the fire.\nWhen the news of her rumoured pregnancy caught waves, Bipasha Basu finally decided to break the ice. She clearly dismissed all the news of her pregnancy and even expressed how infuriated she was by such cooked news on social media. At the press conference she clearly urged people to at least let them take decisions on such important issues in life. She humbly requested her fans to not believe all these rumours and stated that she will be happy to announce the arrival of her baby when the apt time comes.\nIn an interview Bipasha Basu also stated that she wants to enjoy her married life for 2 more years before she steps into the phase of motherhood. She even expressed how she liked the way Kareena was open about her pregnancy and continued with her work. Bipasha also wants to do the same and heartily congratulated the new parents, Saif and Kareena.\nFinally dismissing all the news of her rumoured pregnancy, Bipasha affirmed that she wants some more ‘we’ time with her loving husband, Karan Singh Grover before she thought seriously about having a baby. According to the latest news, Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover will soon be seen together in a reality show.\nConnect with us for more news on the newlyweds and the latest update on B-town!\nCover Image: Source", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Josh Gilmore Jr.\nMost Read News Articles\nThe Greenville Public School District’s board of trustees conducted their regularly Tuesday meeting in which some officials and administrators elected to attend via Zoom — an application which allows for quality video and audio conferencing.\nThe uncertainty of where one’s next meal is coming from has long existed in the lives of many, but that uncertainty seems to be felt now more than ever.\nIt has been 22 years since former Delta Democrat-Times sports editor Mitch Ariff passed away, but his memory and legacy is still going strong.\nEver since I came to the DD-T almost two years ago, Mitch’s name has come up every so often. Whenever it has, he is always spoken of in the highest regard.\nGun shots claimed the life of Joe Sykes, 64, of Greenville, Saturday evening in the 400th block of Sunflower Street, near Doe’s Eat Place.\nA local man has died after being shot several times early this morning.\nAt 2:36 a.m., officers with the Greenville Police Department were dispatched to the 1100 block of John Street in reference to shots fired in the area.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I just searched in vain for a story regarding the Nov. 2 vote in Oak Park and River Forest for governor, senator, etc. What was turnout like? How did the two villages vote? I just looked through your Nov. 10 print issue and your website, and found absolutely nothing. That’s quite disappointing.\nI campaigned here pretty hard and really wanted to know how things turned out. And come to think of it, I don’t remember any 2010 endorsements in Wednesday Journal, either.\nYour failure to cover the 2010 election and its results is in startling contrast to your coverage of the 2008 election, and suggests that you don’t consider midterm elections to be at all important to our villages and your readers. Not only is this false, but it does nothing to encourage people to exercise their right and duty to vote.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Forest Hills still has many gaps in the sidewalk system, and ANC 3F continues to push the District Department of Transportation to fill them. It appears that our commissioners and residents want a continuous network of sidewalks that safely lead to buses, shopping and other destinations on Connecticut Avenue, and also to community amenities such as the Forest Hills Park.\nANC 3F at its October 20th meeting unanimously approved a resolution in support of filling gaps on 32nd and Fessenden Streets.\nIn the resolution, ANC 3F asks that DDOT:\nWith those sidewalks added, residents will be able to walk from Linnean Avenue to Connecticut Avenue and the park without competing with cars on the roadway.\nOther gaps remain, including one on the 4600 block of 30th Street, and on Davenport between Linnean and just west of 30th, which is a walking route to Murch. Are these next on the agenda?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hype is on Wordpress! Get all the latest info about what is going on around campus!\nWe recently changed the format of our award-winning publication to include more events across campus and the local community.\nOutdoor Movie Madness: Casablanca\nWednesday, Aug 21, 2013 9:00 pm\nCWU Campus Activities is offering a fun, FREE way to spend time with your family this summer. Grab some snacks, a few lawn chairs and get ready for the last Outdoor Movie Madness: Casablanca on the Student Union and Recreation Center (SURC) East Lawn. The movie will start at dusk (around 9 p.m.) and is family-friendly.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Written by Andrew Seale\nImpact is always at the back of Julia Rivard Dexter’s mind when she’s nurturing an idea for a startup. It has guided her and her continual co-founder Leah Skerry through several successful companies over the past five years. But Squiggle Park, an education tech startup that helps teach kids to read, hits closer to home with its impact.\n“This was an issue that was close to our hearts,” says Dexter. “We both had people in our lives who had struggled with literacy.”\nThe pair launched the startup in 2016, but the idea had been incubating for a couple years. They’d been working with a university research group to track eye patterns and see if they could predict reading challenges. “What I realized in those studies was that the researchers were hiring interns to create the games that kids had to do for the eye-tracking and (the games) were horribly boring,” says Dexter. “I remember thinking, you're not going to get accurate results because the kids are not engaged.”\nThese were the same kids that were playing Clash of Clans and Minecraft, says the Squiggle Park co-founder. The same ones that Carnegie Mellon University had just pointed out in a study were part of a generation that would likely spend more than 10,000 hours video gaming by the time they finished high school.\n“That was a bit of an a-ha moment for me – this is the parallel that we see in education where we've got kids who are playing super games outside of the classroom and then in the classroom they're delivering extremely traditional materials a lot of the time,” says Dexter. “So it's no wonder that we're losing them.”\nDexter and Skerry began working on the concept in 2014 and spent the next two years trying to create something that would rival video games while still being an effective and curriculum-aligned tool for teachers to use in the classroom. They started to build a team that could get them there.\n“One of our very first hires was a PhD in games for learning and really brought the academic side to the table like what are the game mechanics that really inspire kids to be motivated?” says Dexter. “It's all about keeping them in what's called the zone of proximal development – it's a space where it's challenging but not so hard that it's frustrating and it's never so easy that it's boring.”\nAnd then you insert the learning elements without interrupting the flow. “It was a big challenge,” she adds. As they got the company off the ground they relocated to Waterloo to participate in the Google for Entrepreneurs incubators which led to Communitech’s Fierce Founders accelerator program. “And then we graduated into Ryerson's DMZ program and that brought us to Toronto proper, right downtown,” she says. After exiting the DMZ, Squiggle Park decided to open an office in the city.\n“We had the opportunity of hiring some key talent that wanted to stay and live in Toronto,” says Dexter, who grew up in Ontario before moving east. Since then, they’ve used the city as a draw for international talent. “We've been able to bring up some staff from Brazil because they've really wanted to live in Canada and live in Toronto so that it's been great for us,” she says. Costs are a bit higher than out east, but “it seems to be outweighed by the fact that they just love living there… it's a special city.”\nToday, Squiggle Park is used in more than 10,000 educational institutions from major school boards in Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia to schools in New York and Chicago. Last year, Squiggle Park partnered with the Canadian Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship to help children and adult English language learners boost their literacy skills.\nIt’s a global company, says Dexter, and one that prides itself on its diversity as much as its impact. “We're 55 per cent female and 35 per cent of our company are immigrants,” says Dexter. “I’m a true believer that it's those types of teams that are able to solve global problems and that's something that we wouldn't get in many cities in the country.”\nPhoto provided by Squiggle Park.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SIGN UP TO THE IMINENTE NEWSLETTER SO YOU CAN KEEP UP WITH THIS AND OTHER NEWS\nIMINENTE URBAN FESTIVAL OF ART AND MUSIC\nDIA 04 DE SHLOCADOS À VENDA ÀS 16.00H.\nO BILHETE CUSTA 10 €/DIA. E SÓ HÁ 4500 POR DIA.\nASSINA AQUI A NOSSA NEWSLETTER E SERÁS NOTIFICADO DESTA E TODAS AS OUTRAS NOVIDADES.\nThe relationship of affection between Portugal and the Cape Verdean Mayra Andrade might not be recent, but it seems to be stronger than ever. Contributing to this might be the fact that the singer exchanged Paris for Lisbon a few years ago and took up singing in Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole in her latest record, “Manga”, leaving behind the use of French or English that could be heard in previous works: “Navega”, her 2006 debut album; “Storia Storia” from 2009; or “Lovely Difficult” from 2013. By embracing a new sound that blends Afrobeat, urban music, and traditional Cape Verdean rhythms, Mayra Andrade has never sounded so contemporary without losing the connection to her roots. In concert, accompanied by four musicians, Mayra appears complete, confident and happy with the new songs which she seems very proud of showing.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NEW DELHI: Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge launched a scathing attack against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday, attributing an assault on the party’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in the state. He also called Sarma a ‘chela’ (disciple) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.\nPointing to Sarma’s prior ties with the Congress before his BJP switch, Kharge remarked, “Our own cat is now meowing at us.”\nThe comments come in the wake of an attack on the Yatra and allegations of stones thrown at Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh’s convoy in Assam.\nAddressing a rally in Assam’s Nagaon, Kharge accused Sarma of attempting to instil fear in the people to secure victory in the upcoming elections.\n“Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will traverse 15 states. The previous Yatra covered the stretch from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, and there were no incidents of stone-pelting or intimidation. Why is this happening in Assam? Because he (Assam CM) is the ‘chela’ of PM Modi. He follows Shah’s directives. He intimidates the Dalits, minorities, and backward classes of the country. By sowing fear, he is strategising for the next election,” Kharge said.\nHe attributed the attack on the convoy to the BJP’s anxiety, stating, “Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra is progressing smoothly. Witnessing this, BJP members are anxious. Hence, they assaulted our PCC president. However, he is not one to be easily frightened.\n“He is a Congress soldier. Congress will not succumb to fear. This is akin to ‘meri billi mujhse hi myaoon’ (my cat is meowing at me). We have encountered several such individuals. We will never be intimidated; this is the promise of the Congress.”\nCongress leader Jairam Ramesh recounted that his vehicle was targeted by “an unruly BJP crowd” in Jamugurihat, Sunitpur.\nMeanwhile, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Assam government had cautioned the public against participating in the party’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. “They (government) believe they can intimidate and suppress the people. However, they fail to realise that this is not Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra. It is a journey for the voice of the people,” he said.\nGandhi further accused Sarma and his family of being the most corrupt in the country, stating, “Everyone knows that the CM and his entire family are the most corrupt. The Assam government operates for the benefit of one family…” Earlier in the day, Sarma claimed that Gandhi was apprehensive of him and his son.\nSarma had switched from the Congress to the BJP in 2015 and is credited with establishing the BJP as a significant political force in the northeast.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Area schools will have delayed openings Friday morning after Thursday's Nor'easter dumped more than half a foot of snow, snarling traffic and creating traveling headaches.\nRANDOLPH TWP. - One week after township residents flocked to the polls to cast their votes in the Nov. 6 midterm elections, results were still not finalized.\nRANDOLPH TWP. - Students and staff at the Allegro School in Cedar Knolls celebrated Halloween this year joined by students from the National Art Honor Society at Randolph High School.\nFor Morris County Sheriff James Gannon, ensuring his department is keeping ahead of the issues – while being a role model in the process – is the best way to instill “brand confidence.”\nRANDOLPH TWP. – There was jubilation in John Bauer Stadium Saturday, Nov. 3 when the Randolph High School Rams, rebounding from last week’s devastating shutout at the hands of Ramapo, clawed out a 34-27 win over Colonia in the first round of state playoffs.\nRANDOLPH TWP. – All season, Randolph High School head football coach Will Nahan fed his Rams a steady diet of Effort, Attitude and Toughness, or “EAT,” as he liked to proclaim in post-game interviews.\nRANDOLPH TWP. - Apparently practice does make perfect, as the Randolph High School Rams proved Friday when they sent Morris Hills home hurting from a 37-7 drubbing under the lights of John Bauer Stadium.\nJoseph Marshall Henderson, 78, of Alpharetta, Ga., a former longtime resident of Randolph Township, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018.\nKenneth Paul Hauptvogel, formerly the superintendent of Public Works for the Township of Randolph, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2018, at age 75.\nTEWKSBURY TWP. - The Pottersville Church Acoustic Cafe will present singer/songwriter Michaela McClain from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, at the cafe at The Community House, 2091 Black River Road in Pottersville.\nThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will conclude its 56th season with its sixth and final Main Stage production, Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” with performances beginning Wednesday, Dec. 5, and running through Sunday, Dec. 30, at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre on the campus of Dr…\nCHATHAM - The Metropolitan Orchestra of New Jersey, now in its 47th season, will present its Fall Concert at 3 p.m. this Sunday, Nov. 18, at the Chatham Middle School at 480 Main St.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dalit Bandhu is Not Just a Scheme: CM KCR\nHyderabad: Telangana Dalit Bandhu is not just a govt program, but a movement for empowerment of Dalits aimed at bringing a qualitative change in society, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao asserted.\nHe stated that the future of Dalit Bandhu depends upon its success in Huzurabad Assembly constituency and hence, it was important that all the Dalit representatives from the constituency work with commitment and coordination.\nHe was addressing the gathering of 427 Dalit representatives and resource persons along with elected representatives from Huzurabad constituency, who attended the orientation programme organised at Telangana Bhavan on Monday. He paid floral tributes to the portrait of Dr B R Ambedkar ahead of starting the orientation programme.\nFinance Minister T Harish Rao, SC Development Minister Koppula Eeshwar, MLAs and officials also attended the programme.\nSpeaking on the occasion, KCR said discrimination against Dalits can be rooted out only through their economic empowerment. “The participants in today’s conference should succeed in Huzurabad constituency and create awareness among Dalits across Telangana. If the Dalit Bandhu programme is successful, it will pave the way for the economic development of not only Dalits, but also other communities in the State who have been deprived of any opportunity or support to empower themselves,” he said. He pointed out that the last leg of Telangana agitation started with just one person which eventually grew into a movement, forcing the Centre to deliver the State. Similarly, he wanted the Dalit Bandhu program to become a trendsetter of sorts for the entire nation.\nK Chandrashekhar Rao hoped that the financial assistance provided by the State government under the scheme, will empower the Dalit community in State to grow into a business community.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Grayscale Dilemma: A Record Discount and a Golden Goose\nWhile GBTC’s discount crossed a record 50% Monday morning, Grayscale is unlikely to act, industry watchers say\nBlockworks exclusive art by axel rangel\nGrayscale Investments’ Bitcoin Trust has been selling at a record discount in recent days, though some industry watchers don’t expect the trust to liquidate.\nThe ongoing crypto market volatility, most recently fuelled by the crash of crypto exchange FTX and its filing for bankruptcy earlier this month, would likely not in itself force liquidation of the trust (GBTC), Bloomberg Intelligence Analyst James Seyffart said in a research note.\n“That’s because of GBTC’s value generating fees for its parent, hurdles for shareholders to force such a move and a requirement that any liquidation be distributed in cash, not bitcoin,” he said. “Plus, liquidating GBTC would also mean open-market selling bitcoin currently worth $10.5 billion at a 45% discount.”\nGBTC’s discount reached 45% on Friday — up from about 42.7% the day before, according to YCharts.com. The discount was hovering around 35% at the beginning of November.\nSeyffart tweeted that GBTC’s discount reached 50% on Monday morning before retreating back to roughly 48%.\nBryan Armour, director of passive strategies research at Morningstar, said that GBTC’s record discount is a “huge concern” for investors already feeling the sting from bitcoin’s year-to-date drop of more than 60%. Grayscale has the option to offset some of the pent-up supply of GBTC by allowing redemptions of shares, which could ease the discount, he added.\n“They haven’t shown any willingness to pull this lever because it would create costs and lower future revenue from management fees,” Armour said.\nA Grayscale spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment.\nArmour also does not expect the fund group to liquidate GBTC, as according to his estimates, Grayscale made about $900 million in management fees since the beginning of 2021. GBTC carries an annual management fee of 2%.\n“They may not be willing to kill the golden goose,” Armour said.\nWhat happens in the case of liquidation\nSeyffart noted that Grayscale’s insolvency or bankruptcy would constitute a reason for liquidation unless 50% of shares in the trust vote to transfer to a new sponsor.\nIf forced to liquidate, Grayscale would engage directly with bitcoin exchanges or over-the-counter bitcoin markets to liquidate the trust’s bitcoin “as promptly as possible while obtaining the best fair value possible,” according to SEC disclosures.\nThe lending division of cryptoasset manager Genesis halted customer redemptions and new loan originations last week. How Grayscale could be impacted by a potential Genesis bankruptcy is unclear, Seyffart said.\nA spokesperson for Digital Currency Group — the parent company of Grayscale and Genesis — did not immediately return a request for comment.\nAll digital assets in Grayscale’s products are held by Coinbase Custody Trust Company, the company said in a blog post Friday. The documents governing each offering prohibit the assets from being lent or borrowed, it adds.\n“Custody of the digital assets underlying Grayscale’s digital asset products is unaffected, and our products’ digital assets remain safe and secure,” the blog says.\nA quicker solution to reduce the discount?\nGrayscale Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm has said previously that GBTC converting to an ETF would close the trust’s discount. The company sued the SEC earlier this year after it denied GBTC’s proposed conversion to a spot bitcoin ETF. The regulator has only approved derivatives-based products.\nArmour said that he does not expect GBTC to convert to an ETF — a sentiment shared by other industry watchers who said FTX’s blow-up would likely prevent progressive crypto regulation anytime soon.\nEven without SEC approval, though, other industry members say the firm should try for Regulation M relief, a rule the agency designed to prevent manipulation. It could be a last-ditch effort for parent company DCG to save assets, according to Andrew Parrish, co-founder of Arch Public Inc.\n“I don’t think there’s any benefit to investors, I think there’s benefit to Genesis and DCG covering a hole on their balance sheets, covering losses on their balance sheets,” Parrish said. “I think that’s the whole reason for any sort of Reg M usage in any sort of ‘restructuring,’ and restructuring is the best case scenario.”\nRegulation M, if granted, allows for a fund to simultaneously create and redeem shares, Grayscale said in a Q&A detailing how such a conversion would play out. If the SEC approves GBTC’s transition into an ETF, Regulation M would automatically be granted, Grayscale said.\nBut, Grayscale could opt to apply for Regulation M approval now, before the lawsuit is settled, which would eliminate the discount to net asset value, according to Messari CEO Ryan Selkis.“\nThe odds of Grayscale winning its case vs SEC in light of related party transactions with Genesis Trading, Genesis Capital, and at least two bankrupt counterparties (BlockFi and 3AC) are now 0,” Selkis said on Twitter. “Delays in pursuing a Reg M program hurt shareholders while enriching DCG/Grayscale.”\nDon’t miss the next big story – join our free daily newsletter.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "You must be logged in with an active subscription to view this content. Click here to login or below to subscribe.Subscribe!\nGet Off My Lawn #78 | Victim of the New Economy\nTonight’s episode is devoted almost entirely on the myth that women are men and men are women. We start out examining the remarkable hubris of all these girls who think they can play football and all these women who think they can beat us up. Then, we talk to Joe Walsh about the feminization of man and how Trump’s victory is a reaction to all of this.\nFeb 07th, 2018", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Water–The Best Medicine You Can Take, and Its Wicked Fun, Too!\nEver notice how a nice hot bath makes everything just a little bit better? How about the pleasant lassitude after a swim in a lake or pool? I’ve always felt water to be relaxing–from the sounds of the ocean and rushing rivers to dipping my toes in a mountain lake–and now there’s data to support that feeling, which is pretty significant and powerful for all of us who love to play in the outdoors. Instead of seeking out medication or distracting vacations (think Disneyland) for relaxation and restoration, the best activity to relieve stress and calm the mind and body lies in water.\nAccording to recent research in cognitive neuroscience, simply being near water “helps amplify nature’s soothing, healing qualities.” There’s even a whole summit about the health benefits of being in and around water: Blue Mind. Whether you’re fishing, swimming, rafting, diving or just crossing a stream, water is an important solution to today’s stressful environment. And a new paperback version of the New York Times bestseller Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do is coming out in July 2015. How’s that for incentive to get into the water? The book and the annual summit are the brainchild of marine biologist and ocean-conservancy researcher Wallace J. Nichols, PhD. Learn more about the next Blue Mind summit here.\nBlue Mind vs. Red Mind\nThe concept of Blue Mind was inspired by its opposite–Red Mind. Neuroscientist Catherine Franssen, PhD, describes Red Mind as “edgy high, characterized by stress, anxiety, fear, and maybe even a little bit of anger and despair.” Sound familiar? While this state of mind can result in lots of productivity and definitely plays an important role in accomplishing goals, it’s not healthy or sustainable over the long haul. Blue Mind, however, is. Here’s how Nichols defines it:\nA mildly meditative state characterized by calm, peace, unity, and a sense of general happiness and satisfaction with life in the moment.\nWhen was the last time you felt calm, peaceful and satisfied? Can you even remember it? Not to brag (of course, now I must), but I can recall numerous times where I was blessed with that state of mind, and all of them involved the blue stuff. Whether I was diving in Central America, rafting in Maine or soaking in natural hot springs, I’ve become a big fan of being in, on, under and around water. It’s the most restorative and relaxing experience I know. And now I know why… So what are you waiting for? Jump into the blue and get out of the red!\nInterested in more? Read Nichols’ full blog article on Why Being Around Water is Good for You.\nNeed an easy, fun, exciting, AND peaceful water experience? Raft the Kennebec River with us! Daily trips all summer long. Big white water on the upper gorge section, awesome grilled riverside lunch, then playful and ultimately peaceful water on the lower gorge section.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The following is a guest post from Brian McCurdy, Music Reader Services Librarian at the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.\nThe National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS), Library of Congress, will kick off its 90th anniversary celebration with a free virtual concert by jazz pianist Matthew Whitaker on Wednesday, March 3, at 8:00 p.m. (EST)—and you’re invited!\nWhitaker, who has been blind since birth, is an NLS patron who has garnered accolades across the jazz world. He won the ASCAP Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards for 2019 and 2020 and has been featured on stages around the world and on TV shows including Ellen and NBC’s Today. In a story on the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes neuroscientists discussed how Whitaker’s brain is stimulated by music—so much so that his visual cortex lights up when he plays.\nLike previous NLS concerts that featured José André in 2019 and Justin Kauflin in 2014, this event showcases the NLS Music Section’s work in providing patrons with direct access to the world’s largest collection of braille, audio, and large print music materials.\nWhitaker’s concert will be broadcast on the Library of Congress YouTube channel, and will be available on that platform for additional viewings after March 3.\nKaren Keninger, the Director of NLS, will conduct an interview with Whitaker, which will also be available on the Library’s YouTube page starting at 8:00 a.m. (EST) on March 3.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Nick Giambruno of Casey Research recently explained about a plan in Congress with the backing of the Federal Reserve, Bill Gates and corporations such as Visa which would decimate wealth and create a wireless currency in the near future.\nFacebook has blocked the link with the video with Nick Giambruno from being posted. Here is the link: https://secure.caseyresearch.com/?cid=MKT472896&eid=MKT478919&assetId=AST142582&page=1\nThe first 30 minutes of the video explains the plot for a wireless currency.\nBy Joshua Knop\nSustainability. We’ve heard this word a lot lately! Every Beef publication from Drovers to Beef Magazine has had multiple articles with it. Multiple state Cattlemen’s organizations have speakers coming to talk about it at this year’s annual conventions. It’s being used everywhere!\nLet’s look at where it came from and why we are seeing it more and who is involved.\nLet’s first look at the definition and origination of Sustainable.\nThe UN World Commission on Environment and Development defines Sustainable Development as: “sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”\nSustainability and Sustainable Development originates with the U.N. and their Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. They have 17 goals they wish to meet goal 12 and 17 relate to the cattle and beef industry.\nGoal 12 Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns. Paragraph 28 of the 2030 Agenda reads: “We (Countries) commit to making fundamental changes in the way that our societies produce and consume goods and services. Governments, international organizations, the business sector and other non-state actors and individuals must contribute to changing unsustainable consumption and production patterns, including through the mobilization, from all sources, of financial and technical assistance to strengthen developing countries’ scientific, technological and innovative capacities to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production. We encourage the implementation of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production. All countries take action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries”.\nSustainable Development Goal 17, which reads “Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”, recognizes multi-stakeholder partnerships as important vehicles for mobilizing and sharing knowledge, expertise, technologies and financial resources to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, particularly developing countries. Goal 17 further seek to encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.\nHere is where players like the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef steps in. They are here to meet the multi-stakeholder partnership for the beef industry. Here is their definition of Sustainable Beef: “GRSB The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef defines sustainable beef as a socially responsible, environmentally sound and economically viable product that prioritizes Planet (relevant principles: Natural Resources, Efficiency and Innovation, People and the Community); People (relevant principles: People and the Community and Food); Animals (relevant principle: Animal Health and Welfare); and Progress (relevant principles: Natural Resources, People and the Community, Animal Health and Welfare, Food, Efficiency and Innovation.)”\nThere are many organizations that are involved in the GRSB including the following:\nThe World Wildlife Fund\nThe National Cattlemen’s Beef Association\nThe US Roundtable for Sustainable Beef\nThe Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock\nRestaurant Brands International\nAnd many more see the links at the end.\nSo let’s look at the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock. This is from their website. “The Agenda is a partnership of livestock sector stakeholders committed to the sustainable development of the sector.\nWith global population projected to reach 9.6 billion in 2050, the livestock sector’s role in sustainable food and agriculture will continue to increase.\nTo be sustainable, livestock sector growth needs to simultaneously address key environmental, social, and economic challenges: growing natural resources scarcity, climate change, widespread poverty, food insecurity and global threats to animal and human health.\nThe Agenda builds consensus on the path towards sustainability and catalyzes coherent and collective practice change through dialogue, consultation and joint analysis.\nThe partnership unites the forces of the public and private sectors, producers, research and academic institutions, NGOs, social movements and community-based organizations, and foundations.”\nThe Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock directly supports U.N. Agenda 2030 see the following links:\nSo now we get to the closest to us the US Roundtable for Sustainable Beef. I pulled this from their website, “The U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (USRSB) is a multi-stakeholder initiative developed to advance, support and communicate continuous improvement in sustainability of the U.S. beef value chain. The USRSB achieves this through leadership, innovation, multi-stakeholder engagement, and collaboration.”\nNow earlier I mentioned the World Wildlife Fund and now let’s address where a radicle Animal Rights group fits in. They are involved to influence grazing management and wildlife preserves. Effecting how we do our jobs in the cattle industry. Here is a link to their Sustainable Ranching Initiative: https://www.worldwildlife.org/projects/sustainable-ranching-initiative\nSo what does all of this mean? What is Sustainable Beef?\nTo sum it up we have organizations that we have trusted to have our best interests in mind that have invited in a Globalist agenda through the U.N. into the cattle industry. It is all around and they are leading the U.S. Cattle Industry down a global agenda at a quick pace through propaganda machines known as industry publications sand local Cattlemen’s Organizations. Sustainability sounds good and has become a buzzword but it is tied to the UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. It undermines the sovereignty of the United States and threatens the Independent Cattle Producer!\nWe are excited to endorse Angie Brinlee for Oklahoma House District 15!\nFrom family and ministry, to business and community service, I have a life history of serving faithfully and leading without looking back. I will bring that same faithfulness and intensity to representing the people in House District 15.\nMy husband John and I have been blessed to raise our child and grandchildren right here in Oklahoma. When we became Christ-followers seventeen years ago, we hit the ground running. We ministered to youth and served as medical missionaries in Haiti. We worked with an outreach church in McAlester, and then in 2015 we started a church called “At The Cross” in our hometown of Porum. From family, to youth, to lost souls at home and abroad, we have sought to serve, and we never looked back.\nI have served my community as an insurance agent with Farm Bureau since 1993, and we have owned Brinlee’s Boat and Mini Storage since 1999. I have been serving on the Porum School Board for six years, and I also serve on the board for the Murrow Indian Home in Muskogee.\nNow, God has impressed upon my heart that I need to serve my friends and neighbors at the State Capitol. Someone like us, who understands our values and concerns, needs to be there to defend our rights, and the rights of our children and grandchildren.\nI am heading to the State House to fight for our Constitution, for our God-given Second Amendment rights, and for our children’s right to life by stopping abortion. I will fight to reform DHS and improve foster care. Improving education will be top priority. I am heading to the State House, and with your support in House District 15, we’ll arrive there to make a difference and not look back.\nLearn more about Angie, volunteer and contribute to her campaign here: https://www.friendsandfamilyforbrinlee2020.com/\nWe are excited to endorse Robert McMaster for House District 83!\nPolitical Newcomer Robert McMaster announces his candidacy for State Representative in Oklahoma House District 83. House District 83 includes parts of Edmond, NW Oklahoma City, The Village and Nichols Hills and is currently represented by Chelsey Branham, Democrat who narrowly won in 2018.\nAs a father of four and a blue-collar worker, Robert McMaster knows what issues matter most and uses his education and experience to propose new real change. His platform of Healthcare, Education and Criminal Justice Reform looks to create a prosperous and safe Oklahoma. He also stands for Free Speech, Lower Taxes and 2A rights, which is a staunch difference from Ms. Branham. Unlike Ms. Branham, Robert McMaster stands against socialism and big government programs as they infringe on individual rights and increase taxes.\nOriginally from MS, Robert McMaster moved to OK in 2013 and worked as a retail manager. After meeting his wife and growing their blended family, he became an In-House Investigator with a prestigious criminal defense firm in Oklahoma City in 2016. Since then, Robert has worked hard to protect the rights of his fellow Oklahomans and his work has assisted in a multitude of favorable outcomes for clients. He is an Eagle Scout as well as a member of the Oklahoma 2nd Amendment Association, Masonic Lodge, and other organizations.\nTo donate or join his grassroots campaign, check out his website at https://www.robertmcmasterforhd83.com or other social media sites at Robert for HD 83 in 2020.\nOklahoma’s Mayor, Brian Hobbs who serves Newkirk, Oklahoma speaks out during the unreasonable panic that has struck Oklahoma and the Country:\nI will preface this statement with the fact that as an elected officer, I have encouraged everyone I know to stay home including my direct family my parents my wife’s parents as much as possible. I have asked everyone to practice good hygiene and social distancing. I have asked that people treat this corona virus as a real threat. I have prayed for people to be safe and that God’s will be done. I am not trying to convince anyone that the government is going to line people up in the street tomorrow and execute them. I am only pointing out that freedom has eroded gradually over time. There is a difference between suggesting something and ordering it, backed by the threat of violence.\nHowever, I ask myself with all of my countrymen begging for the government to institute a Nazi Germany, East Berlin type lockdown on its citizens. Why??\nWhy would our people beg for the government to become exactly what so many have given their lives fighting to resist in many wars throughout our history? The only conclusion I can come to is fear.\nI understand people are scared, I understand that fear is warranted to a degree. The men who charged the beaches of Normandy into almost certain death were scared. Every paratrooper who jumped out of a plane. Every pilot that died a fiery death, each sailor who died in a watery grave. Every man who boarded a plane headed for Vietnam. The millions of men who boarded ships to join the fight in WW1. The men who fought in Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, as well as numerous other theaters across the world having raised their right hand and taken a sacred oath to defend the constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic.\nI know this opinion is going to be unpopular in today’s age but it needs to be said. My life nor any of yours individually is more valuable than the millions who paid the price to keep our constitution in tact. As veterans we believe deeply in our sacred oaths to the constitution, as we knew one day it may lead to our deaths.\nRonald Reagan once said in one of my favorite speeches,\n“You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin–just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ’round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain.” and\n“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”\nWe have an opportunity to remind the world why we will never be conquered, why we for hundreds of years have been seen as a light on a hill. We can still unite and say we will not answer to “papers please”, we will not fall off into the abyss sacrificing all that was bequeathed to us in a moment of fear.\nThis is not who we are. Let us earn the privilege of the gift so many have fallen to give us.\nStand beside your neighbor. The government has no place shutting down private businesses or locking down cities. This truth is evident in the first amendment (the right to peaceably assemble)These rights were not penned for good times, they were penned for all times especially times of trial.\nThese rights were not meant to be suspended at whatever point people become frightened. If these rights can be suspended, then they are not RIGHTS, but merely allowances from dictatorial powers.\nSo I ask you to look into your soul, ask yourself what does America look like when this event is over? Are you ok with you government seizing this power? I need not remind you that the government isn’t known for giving power back after it’s seized.\nNext it maybe a particular group deemed a threat. Before you say it’ll never happen; remember the”burning of the Reichstag” and “night of the long knives” the Germans never thought it was possible under Hitler either. The same can be said for the Russian people under Lenin and Stalin, others under Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Mussolini, and the list goes on. It can happen and those who wrote our constitution knew these dangers all too well and risked life and treasure to ensure their posterity would not have to know these woes.\nI was told recently that no one cares about a piece of paper whether the Constitution or the Bible. I’m thankful no one told the men who gave their lives this idea before they went into battle.\nWhy do we feel our generation has to sacrifice nothing, when so many have paid such a heavy price? Are we so entitled now we have forgotten why we have these freedoms? If we are not willing to stand against this trial and still stand for the constitution, we have to ask ourselves whether we deserve it at all. Are we worthy of their sacrifices? What will we leave for our children?\nJust food for thought.\n-Godspeed, and God bless us all.\nTapp Into Common Sense is a site committed to fighting for Life and Liberty that will be posting candidacy announcements for candidates truly committed towards those goals here in Oklahoma.\nWe wholeheartedly endorse our good friend Christian Ford for Senate District 28! His announcement is below.\n“My name is Christian Ford and I am running for state senate district 28. I am a lifelong Oklahoman, and have lived in Chandler since I was 4 years old.\nI am the current vice chair of Lincoln county GOP, I was honored to be able to help draft the 2019 Oklahoma Republican platform, one of the most conservative Republican platforms in the history of the state.\nI had hoped that the legislature would take the platform we created and pass constitutionally sound conservative bills that would reflect what we the people wanted.\nInstead the establishment leadership led the Oklahoma legislature in voting against many of the planks in our Oklahoma platform and in so doing have proved that they do not represent the grassroots republicans of this great State.\nThis is why I am running. I will seek as your senator to stand for God, family and country against those who would seek to destroy our Oklahoman way of life. From defending our God given right to keep and bear arms to restoring local control to our schools and seeking equal protection for the unborn, I will seek to adhere to our Oklahoma Republican platform and the biblical and constitutional values that have made our nation great! Right now these are perilous times as we see values being attacked from radical socialist who wish to strip our God given rights away from us, this is no time to compromise. It’s time to take a stand and say “enough is enough”!! We will not sit idly by why babies in our state are murdered each business day and our country is attempting to be burned to the ground by ungodly socialist ideas that have and always will lead to tyranny.\nOur voices CAN and SHOULD be heard by OUR legislators!!!\nWe must return to biblical conservative principles to make our State great again!!!\nWill you stand with me? Together we CAN make a difference at our state capital!!“\nLincoln County GOP Vice Chairman\nYou can visit Christian Ford’s campaign page by clicking the link below to contribute and volunteer!\nCarissa Roberson announced last night her intention to challenge Greg McCortney for OK Senate District 13. McCortney blocked the Oklahoma Abolition of Abortion Act (SB13) from being heard in the Health and Human Services Committee this year as well as blocking parental choice legislation which would have allowed parents to have more of a say in the health choices for their children.\nCarissa Roberson issued her bio to us here: “I live in Ada, Oklahoma. I was raised in Davis, Oklahoma. My husband, Greg, and I have been married for 16 years. We have 8 children, four of which are still living at home, and 6 grandchildren.\nI am a stay-at-home mother, and we also homeschool. I have a vision in my heart for Oklahoma of life and liberty. I will fight to end abortion in Oklahoma, protect Second Amendment rights, work to uphold legislation that is pro-family, and oppose any tax increases.”\nWe at Tapp Into Commonsense wholeheartedly endorse Carissa Roberson for Senate District 13! You can support and contribute to her campaign here: https://www.voteroberson2020.com/\nBy Tom Deweese\nI am very concerned about the Real ID and its threat to our personal privacy and total surveillance by government. Most people have been led to believe that Real ID and E-Verify are the answers to controlling illegal immigration and make us safer from fraud, and even terrorist attacks. Not so.Government has repeatedly proven to be untrustworthy and unworthy to be the keepers of our most valuable and precious personal information. Yet, today, most Americans are simply accepting and ignoring the growing government invasion of their lives.\nFor many years the American Policy Center, has worked directly with the Constitutional Alliance to expose the dangers of empowering government with our personal data, especially through the use of biometrics. The Constitutional Alliance is the nation’s leading expert on personal privacy matters, meeting with government officials and elected representatives at every level to issue their warnings of the dangers of a total surveillance system that is growing at an alarming rate. Now the Alliance has prepared a special report detailing this threat and what can be done about it. The Alliance has provided this vital report to APC to distribute across the nation.\nRest of the article here: https://americanpolicy.org/2020/03/11/real-id-act-the-death-of-our-liberty/\nAt their convention last Saturday, the Kay County (OK) GOP voted in favor of a resolution directing State Senator Bill Coleman and State Representatives John Pfeifer and Ken Luttrell to support the Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act (SB13). Tonkawa activist Daniel Watts introduced and spoke in favor of the resolution and the vote of the 21 Kay County Republican delegates was unanimous. The resolution reads:\nWHEREAS, We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness;\nWHEREAS, The Oklahoma Republican Party Platform directs on the Addendum of page 5 “Be it resolved that the abolition of abortion be brought to a full floor vote in both Oklahoma Legislative Chambers.”\nWHEREAS. Abortion is considered a crime under Oklahoma Statutes 21-861 and 21- 862; and\nWHEREAS, The 10th Amendment states that “(t)he powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States respectively, or to the people.”;\nBe It Resolved, The Kay County Republican Party calls upon Senator Bill Coleman to co-author and fully support SB 13 (The Oklahoma Abolition of Abortion Act);\nResolved, The Kay County Republican Party calls upon Representatives John Pfeifer and Ken Luttrell and to author a companion bill to SB 13 (The Oklahoma Abolition of Abortion Act).\nOn Wednesday, Senator Coleman will have an opportunity to agree with or reject the new Kay County Republican platform when a motion to bring SB13 to the Senate floor is going to be filed. There will be a vote on whether to hear SB13 or to table it.\nIf you live in Oklahoma, and especially if you live in Kay County or Senate District 10, email and call Senator Coleman to tell him to support SB13 being brought to the floor and to cosponsor the bill as the resolution lays out.\nPhone number: (405) 521-5581", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In an alarming revelation, recent statistics from Operation Lone Star and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have shed light on the grave situation unfolding at the U.S. border. Over the span of three years, authorities have intercepted a staggering 469 million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl, as reported by Governor Greg Abbott. This figure starkly underscores the growing crisis as illegal border crossings become a conduit for deadly drugs into the United States.\nThe potency of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, cannot be overstated. A mere 2 milligrams of the substance is enough to be fatal for an adult, highlighting the catastrophic potential of the seized drugs. In 2023 alone, the volume of fentanyl confiscated by border enforcement officials was so significant that, theoretically, it could have resulted in the deaths of over 6.1 billion individuals. That’s just the amount seized in one year at the US border.\nMethamphetamine, another scourge in the ongoing drug epidemic, has been identified as the primary cause of property crimes in Burbank, as per a police officer who has chosen to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter. This assertion is supported by the CBP’s seizure records, which report that an astounding 140,407 pounds of methamphetamine were intercepted at the border, alongside 81,085 pounds of cocaine, and 27,022 pounds of fentanyl. These figures represent not just a significant achievement in law enforcement efforts but also a dire warning about the scale of the challenge faced.\nThe influx of illegal drugs across the border has far-reaching implications, affecting countless communities and families across America. The prevalence of methamphetamine, in particular, has been linked to an uptick in property crimes, underscoring the broader societal impact of drug trafficking.\nIn light of these developments, the call to action for residents and concerned citizens is clear. Engaging with elected representatives to demand enhanced border security measures and a more robust response to the issue of massive illegal immigration is a vital step toward mitigating this crisis. By voicing concerns and advocating for policy changes, individuals can contribute to a concerted effort aimed at safeguarding communities and preventing the further spread of deadly drugs across the nation.\nAs the situation at the border continues to evolve, the importance of informed and active civic participation cannot be overstated. The fight against drug trafficking and illegal border crossings is a complex challenge that requires a unified and determined response. Through increased awareness, engagement, and collaboration, there is hope for a more secure and drug-free future for America.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A philanthropist accused of pocketing $7bn (£4.3bn) from the investment scams of his friend Bernard Madoff was found dead yesterday.\nJeffry Picower, 67, was discovered at the bottom of his swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, by his wife. Police are investigating.\nMr Picower was a close friend of Madoff, the Wall Street financier who has admitted turning his wealth management business into a massive Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of investors. In a lawsuit to recover Madoff's assets, Mr Picower was asked to return $7bn.Reuse content", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "7 die in Iran floods\nTehran : Heavy rains in the northern and northwestern parts of Iran over the past two days claimed at least seven lives.\nThe unprecedented floods in the three provinces of Mazandaran, Gilan and Golestan destroyed roads, houses, bridges and caused heavy damage to the infrastructures, according to Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency.\nCars were stuck in floods and electricity as well as gas flows in the rural areas were disrupted.\nIran's Rescue and Relief Organization announced that the rescue operators were dispatched to the flood-hit areas to help people pump flood out of their houses.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Watch live: Trump presents Medal of Honor\nWatch live: White House holds news briefing\nWhite House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to take questions from reporters on Monday afternoon.\nWhite House officials are on the offensive this week following incendiary claims made in an anonymous op-ed published by The New York Times last week, as well as those purportedly made by White House staff in an upcoming book, \"Fear: Trump in the White House,\" by veteran journalist Bob Woodward.\nThe briefing is scheduled for 2 p.m.\nWatch live in the video above.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Keyword Results for 'syrup'\nIs Coke still following its 127-year-old 'secret fizzy formula'? Aug 27, 11:06 am\nMelbourne, Aug 27 (ANI): Coca-Cola, which is known for touting the roots of its recipes, claims that their formulae are sacred and unchanging.\nGlobal obesity epidemic linked to addiction to unhealthy food May 23, 12:49 pm\nWashington, May 23 (ANI): Research shows that high-fructose corn syrup can cause behavioural reactions in rats similar to those produced by drugs of abuse such as cocaine.\nAnna Friel slammed for 'syrup diet' Apr 18, 12:11 pm\nLondon, April 18 (ANI): Anna Friel has come under fire for promoting an extreme diet where 12 cups of a syrupy cocktail replaces solid food.\nWashington, Feb. 13 (ANI): A new study has found compelling evidence that shows that consumption of both high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and sucrose (table sugar) at levels consistent with average daily consumption does not increase liver fat in humans - a leading cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).\n40 dead after consuming 'Toxic' cough syrup in Pakistan Dec 29, 4:37 pm\nIslamabad, Dec 29 (ANI): Five more people died in Pakistan's Punjab province after drinking the 'poisonous' cough syrup, raising the death toll to 40.\nLondon, November 28 (ANI): A sweetener that is used in food products like biscuits and ice creams could be partly to blame for the rising rates of type 2 diabetes, researchers say.\nLondon, Oct 15 (ANI): People spend billions of pounds in a year on popular over-the-counter medicines like cough syrups, flu tablets, slimming pills and many others, but experts have revealed that they do not work as well as they claim to do.\nHigh fructose corn syrup `not responsible for obesity epidemic' Sep 19, 9:58 am\nWashington, September 19 (ANI): There is no evidence to suggest that the current obesity epidemic can be specifically blamed on consumption of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), according to a study.\nSugar doesn't prevent weight loss when calorie intake is reduced Aug 10, 10:44 am\nWashington, August 10 (ANI): People can lose weight while consuming typical amounts of sugar or high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) if their overall calorie intake is reduced, according to a new study.\nSucrose and menthol offer sweet and minty relief for cough Jun 12, 2:42 pm\nWashington, June 12 (ANI): People usually take cough drops or syrup at the first sign of a cough, but how these popular remedies work has been unknown to scientists.\nNew York, June 10 (ANI): A stomach-churning Public service nnouncement in U.S has featured a teenage girl vomiting after having downed too much cough syrup.\n2 common sweeteners in diets differ in their effects on body Jan 24, 10:29 am\nWashington, Jan 24 (ANI): High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and table sugar (sucrose), which are thought to have nearly identical effects on the body, actually have slight differences between them, researchers say.\nLil Wayne 'cannot wait' to end probation and indulge in drugs Oct 19, 5:18 pm\nWashington, Oct 19 (ANI): Rap superstar Lil Wayne, who is currently serving three years of probation stemming from a 2008 drugs charge, has revealed that he \"cannot wait\" to drink codeine syrup smoke \"a lot of weed\" again.\nPure maple syrup perfect for keeping liver healthy Sep 14, 12:28 pm\nWashington, Sept 14 (ANI): A diet that includes pure maple syrup may help to promote liver health, according to a new study.\n- Betting on Tendulkar's 100th international century crosses Rs.2 billion mark\n- 'Gold-obsessed' Aliens using Earth as 'battlefield'\n- Smartphone app allows watching football matches minutes after game commencement\n- Oz head cricket coach Arthur confident of win over Kiwis, without star players\n- Brit women top obesity league in Europe\nTOP VIDEO STORIES", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Destinations and other travel organisations are embracing Zoom, Spotify and voucher schemes during the coronavirus crisis as they try to stay relevant and, in the case of some, maintain viable operations.\nDestination marketing organisations (DMOs) face a particular challenge in the current crisis. They can market all they want but people currently cannot reach their destinations because of flight bans and closed borders. There is also the danger that marketing campaigns run at this time can fall flat or even offend – thousands of people are dying after all. Yet we know that life will return to normal after the crisis, as it has done countless times before – 9/11 caused a huge drop in the level of travel but even that recovered. After SARS, travel even enjoyed something of a bounce.\nZoom has become one of the rising stars of the coronavirus crisis. The number of people using the video conferencing platform has jumped from 10 million before the crisis to 200 million in March. That is an awful lot of eyeballs.\nTourism Australia quickly jumped on the Zoom bandwagon with a ‘collection of backdrops to use in your Zoom meetings to keep the spirit of travel alive’. The images feature popular Australian landmarks such as Uluru, Vlasoff Cay on the Great Barrier Reef, Surfer’s Paradise in Queensland and Cradle Mountain in Tasmania.\nPhillipa Harrison, managing director of Tourism Australia said, “Whether you are using video conferencing to speak to colleagues and loved ones, transport yourself to a beautiful Australian location and take a virtual Australian break. While we know you can’t visit us right now, we’ll still be here for when it’s safe to travel again with the same incredible white sandy beaches, vast landscapes, colourful reefs and wildlife.”\nAlthough not an official campaign, Owen Williams’ #dontvisitwaleschallenge is very clever. It highlights the message that people should be staying at home right now but that the country has some beautiful sights that will be there when the crisis is over. Although Williams started it, others quickly followed with their own ideas for posters, such as this one from @welshdalailama.\nWilliams told the Huffington Post, “It was like kindling to a fire – with the weather forecast as it is and this heightened awareness around social distancing over the Easter weekend it just took off…It’s been really, really funny seeing people’s replies.”\nWilliams’ social campaign followed a real life campaign by Visit Wales telling people to visit the country later. “Please do not visit Wales at this time,” it said in a tweet, a very unusual thing for a DMO to be saying.\nThe St Lucia Tourism Authority is running a campaign called #7MinutesinSaintLucia where it is letting St Lucia’s people take over its social media for short periods. They have had steel pan drummers, St Lucian chef Shorne Benjamin and yoga expert Monique Devaux running a yoga session in the shadow of the famous Pitons on Instagram live, for example.\nVisit Puerto Rico did something similar, running virtual salsa classes and cocktail mixing sessions on Zoom.\nOther DMOs have been sending sharing their messages through video, hoping that the imagery will remain in people’s minds once tourism begins again, such as Visit Panama, Spain, Magical Kenya, Visit Mexico and Visit Portugal’s Can’t Skip Hope.\nOther destinations turned to music. Visit Tirol curated a playlist of traditional folk music on Spotify to remind people of one of the reasons for visiting, Jamaica Tourism pulled together some “irie vibes” in its Every Little Thing Is Gonna Be Alright playlist featuring Big Youth, Koffee and, naturally, Bob Marley. Visit Britain has put out a London Calling and a Scotland’s Sounds playlist featuring Biffy Clyro and The Proclaimers.\nIt is not just DMOs who are getting creative. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has put his weight behind a crowdsourcing campaign called Pay It Forward, which helps small businesses by offering customers the option to buy goods and services in advance based on a promise to deliver in the future 24 tourism businesses, including music venues Bush Hall and The Lexington, have signed up. Savinglocal.com, set up by Andrew Dent of Family Traveller, is also using the ay it forward idea to help businesses, such as the Rhodes Gallery in Margate.\nDent says, “The next two to four weeks will be the real crunch for businesses as they start to run out of any cash reserves they may have had…this scheme is needed right now.”\nTravel blogger Kash Bhattacharya has launched the Adopt a Hostel campaign to help save the hostel sector, by encouraging people who love hostels to buy gift cards for future visits\nHe says, “Like many of us and many businesses in tourism, hostels are also struggling in the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, with many having had to make the hard decision to close their doors, without knowing if they will be able to reopen them in the future…you can help the hostels you love cover their costs, get through this difficult time and open once again to the travelling world.”\nMark Frary is co-founder of Travel Perspective, a social and digital consultancy working with travel companies and tourism organisations to create successful marketing campaigns\nYou may also be interested in…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star stepped out for the Tom Ford show in New York City hours after sources confirmed to PEOPLE that the surrogate whom Kardashian West, 36, and husband Kanye West, 40, hired is pregnant. (An insider previously confirmed to PEOPLE in June that the couple had hired a surrogate to help them expand their family.)\nKardashian West, who recently launched her own line of beauty contour kits, sported new silver white locks for the night, courtesy of hair stylist Chris Appleton. “[Currently] LOVING my new white silver-ish hair!!!” the mother of two wrote on her website and app earlier in the day.\nAlong with her new ‘do, Kardashian West wore a strapless curve-hugging black latex dress with color coordinated sandals.\nThat same evening, the E! star changed up her look for the Vivienne Westwood x Juergen Teller exhibition opening for which she wore a double breasted blazer dress and shortened her silver tresses into a lob.\nWant all the latest pregnancy and birth announcements, plus celebrity mom blogs? Click here to get those and more in the PEOPLE Babies newsletter.\nA post shared by Chris Appleton (@chrisappleton1) on Sep 6, 2017 at 3:27pm PDT\nNYFW Bound #kim #kimkardashian #kimkardashianwest #kimksnapchat #kimksnapchats #kimkardashiansnapchat #kkw #losangeles #kuwtk #kardashians #lifestyle #beauty #glam #makeup #makeupbyariel #nyfw #kkwbeauty #wcw #blondehair #wetlook\nA post shared by Kim Kardashian Snapchats 🍑 (@kimksnapchats) on Sep 6, 2017 at 5:50pm PDT\n“The entire family is over the moon. Kim had been looking for a surrogate for months until recently when she found the perfect candidate,” a source told PEOPLE about the Wests welcoming a new addition to their family.\n“Given her health scares in the past, Kim felt the need to hire a surrogacy agency that helped serve as the liaison in finding a healthy woman who would be a great surrogate option for her and Kanye. Both of them have been super involved in the process.”\n“They want everything to be perfect and for the baby to be extremely healthy,” the source said. “They don’t want any complications and Kim is providing an ideal eating regimen and diet so everyone knows what the baby is consuming before it’s born.”\nDo you have an unusual story to tell? E-mail firstname.lastname@example.org", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said 44-year-old Carl Lee is wanted for second-degree murder.\nThe shooting happened Thursday night around 8:30 p.m. in the 3800 block of Medulla Road in Plant City.\nDeputies said the victim, an unidentified adult male, was found dead in a shed on the property.\nInvestigators said Lee was last seen driving in a newer-model white Honda sedan near the shooting scene. They warned he may be armed with a handgun.\nThe sheriff's office said Lee is a known offender to law enforcement with multiple prior felony convictions. Lee is currently on felony probation, according to HCSO.\nAnyone with information on Lee's whereabouts is urged to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at 813-247-8200.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Amazon's large and flashy investments stand out from those of its tech peers over the past year.Technologyread more\nConsumer IPOs from Snap to Uber have been disappointing and serve as a reminder that private investors are making all the money.Technologyread more\nChina's currency has been an important barometer for progress in U.S.-Chinese trade talks, and right now it's signaling things aren't going well.Market Insiderread more\nSoftBank founder Masayoshi Son speaks in futuristic terms about his company, but the success of his late-stage VC fund is still unknown.Technologyread more\nReports of Tesla vehicles spontaneously catching fire could make customers wary of EVs just as the industry ramps up production plans.Autosread more\nThe 2019 PGA Championship wraps up on Sunday, May 19. Here's how much money the champion will earn.Earnread more\nWhile the prolonged fight has been devastating to an already-struggling agriculture industry, there's little indication Trump is paying a political price.Traderead more\nThe outrage has even inspired a Change.org petition called \"Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers,\" with over half-a-million signatories and climbing.Entertainmentread more\nThe company's comments Friday come after the White House said U.S.Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will \"address the threatened impairment\" of national security from...Autosread more\nApple CEO Tim Cook was the commencement speaker at Tulane University Saturday. In his speech, the tech executive focused on the importance of addressing climate change and...Power Playersread more\n(Adds details on decision, background on case)\nWASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave the go-ahead for a lawsuit by consumers accusing Apple Inc of monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and forcing them to overpay, rejecting the company's bid to escape claims that its practices violate federal antitrust law.\nThe justices, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld a lower court's decision to allow the proposed class action lawsuit to proceed. The plaintiffs said the Cupertino, California-based technology company required apps be sold through its App Store and extracted an excessive 30 percent commission on purchases.\nConservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, an appointee of President Donald Trump, joined the court's four liberal justices to rule against Apple.\nApple shares moved lower after the ruling.\nApple, backed by the Trump administration, argued that it was only acting as an agent for app developers, who set their own prices and pay Apple's commission. Apple had argued that a Supreme Court ruling allowing the case to proceed could pose a threat to e-commerce, a rapidly expanding segment of the U.S. economy worth hundreds of billions of dollars in annual sales.\nThe dispute hinged in part on how the justices would apply a decision the court made in 1977 to the claims against Apple. In that case, the court limited damages for anti-competitive conduct to those directly overcharged rather than indirect victims who paid an overcharge passed on by others.\n(Reporting by Andrew Chung; Editing by Will Dunham)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "We caught up with Professor Mike Stephenson, Chief Scientist for Decarbonisation and Resource Management at the BGS for a chat about the links between geoscience and decarbonisation.\nThe Science in Schools programme has been running for over 10 years, bringing exciting and cutting edge scientific workshops crafted by UK researchers to French school children.\nHow can geology help with the decarbonisation of our society?\nAt Durham University, scientists are exploring the opportunity to use the water within flooded abandoned mines to provide a source of geothermal heat for the future. This could also deliver economic opportunities to former mining areas.\nAs part of exploring the role of geoscience in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Geological Society has been working with the British Geological Survey and Geology for Global Development to develop a briefing note of the role of geology and geologists in delivering the SDGs.\nIn early April, The Geological Society hosted a flagship meeting as part of the 2018 Year of Resources on Lithium: From exploration to end-user. The meeting was a fascinating insight into this increasingly important metal, all the way from exploration and extraction to its conversion into high-purity battery grade lithium for its use in Li-ion …\nThe 2017 Bryan Lovell meeting, ‘Mining for the Future’, is taking place on 23-24 November. Spaces are still available – register now!\nProfessor Bill McGuire explains some of the geological effects of climate change, following his recent London Lecture at the Geological Society", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lizette Craig, managing director of Botterills Convenience Stores, which runs 45 Spar stores in the country, made the rallying call during a hard-hitting presentation at the annual conference of the Scottish Grocers’ Federation (SGF) last month.\nShe said: “We are contributing to Scotland’s underage drink culture and we resolve to do something about it. We could blame the Scottish Executive, local councils, the on trade or other retailers. But the reality is that we are all at fault and it is our staff in our stores who are selling alcohol to kids.”\nCraig referred to the Lanarkshire-based Spar retailer’s decision to start its own test-purchasing scheme two years ago.\n“We had a 40% failure rate and this was a genuine shock to us. We had to get our own house in order - now Spar has its own training programme.\n“Botterills has more than 200 staff qualified in licensing matters and we are now a responsible retailer. In a CTP survey, more than 90% of our customers said we were doing everything we could to avoid selling alcohol to underage drinkers - our pass rate is now 98%. But that is still not good enough because the major multiples have 100%.”\nShe warned retailers that they could lose sales and even staff by taking a hard-line approach, but added “you will not lose your licence”.\nShe described the whole licensing issue as the “biggest revolution” to affect the independent trade.\nThe Scottish Parliament voted to approve the Licensing (Scotland) Bill last November. It is designed to reform outdated licensing laws, tackle underage drinking and crack down on Scotland’s binge-drinking culture. New licensing measures, however, will not come fully into effect until autumn 2009.\nMeanwhile, several Scottish retailers - including Botterills - have already implemented a policy to ask under 21s for ID.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Norton covers a variety of topics related to the beloved family drama in her videos. She talks about the characters and what it was like on the set. In a video posted on March 4, 2021, the Mary Ellen Walton actress goes into detail about the costumes used on the show.\nTurns out, just like most of us do in real life, Norton had some clothing that she preferred over the others that she wore on “The Waltons.”\n“I did have my favorite outfits that I liked to wear when the Waltons were having – going to a special party or Mary Ellen had something special she was doing,” Norton said. “A couple in particular of my favorites is this pink dress that I wore in ‘The Whirlwind’ episode when I’m saying goodbye – or I think I’m saying goodbye – to Jonesy. I just, I love the shape of it and I love the slightly, the flared skirt. I just thought that was a very flattering fashion on women. And so, I was very happy to be able to wear this.”\nShe also liked a dress she wore in an episode that included a holiday celebration.\n“Also, this lovely peach dress that I’m here in this episode, ‘The Spirit,’ when we’re celebrating Christmas. I really enjoy this dress too,” she also said. “So, they were my favorites over the years.”\nTurns out, Judy Norton didn’t just like the dresses she wore on “The Waltons.” There were other parts of the costumes that she enjoyed, as well as the clothes other characters wore.\n“Some of the hats were a lot of fun,” Norton said. “I also love the fashion that some of the other women in the show got to wear.”\nThe actress said she particularly liked the clothes worn by the Baldwin sisters on “The Waltons.” She said these women were dressed in “fabulous clothes.”\n“And theirs were not always quite up to current fashion because they were from a different era,” Norton also said of the Baldwin sisters. “So, their clothing always evoked an earlier time period.”\nJudy Norton Said Female Member of ‘The Waltons’ Cast Had a Wider Variety of Wardrobe Choices Than the Men\nThe female members of the cast had a wider variety of fashions to choose from in comparison to the men, according to Judy Norton.\n“The boys had less option,” she also said. “They went from knickers to long pants.”\nIn addition to the pretty dresses she wore on “The Waltons,” the actress occasionally also got to wear different attire.\n“I, of course, started in overalls a lot. And, those were always fun because they were really comfortable. I wore jeans at times,” she explained. “So the boys, because they were working in the mill and stuff, a lot of jeans and just shirts, button-up shirts. People didn’t wear T-shirts. Some characters in the show did. But, there was definitely research that went in into it. And, they did do their best to keep it period to that time.”\nYou can watch Judy Norton talk about the costumes used on “The Waltons” below. Her comments about her favorite costumes begin around the 6:30 mark of the video.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "More Resources Needed To Complete Polio Eradication, GPEI Spokesperson Says On World Day\nArab News: World Polio Day: What needs to be done to rid the world of the disease forever\n“…As World Polio Day is marked across the globe on Wednesday, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) said while the disease is at the lowest-ever levels — being 99 percent on the way to being a polio-free world — unless more resources are mobilized to immunize children, save lives, and protect communities, the disease could come ‘roaring back across the world’…” (Bell, 10/24).\nThe KFF Daily Global Health Policy Report summarized news and information on global health policy from hundreds of sources, from May 2009 through December 2020. All summaries are archived and available via search.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "KUALA SELANGOR, July 8 — Malaysia’s official inflation rate of 2.8 per cent was among the lowest globally because tens of billions in public funds were being spent on subsidies annually, Finance Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz said.\nLaunching the Kuala Selangor district education excellence service award ceremony today, he said the amount of public funds being spent to maintain prices at the moment was the most in the country’s history.\n“Our subsidies are now at RM77 billion and could reach RM80 billion later this year.\n“Even our subsidy for electrical tariffs has now reached RM6 billion. However, this made our country have one of the lowest inflation rate in the world at 2.8 per cent,” he said.\nTengku Zafrul added that the subsidy bill exceeded even the RM75 billion he allocated for development spending in this year’s Budget.\n“So, if anyone is saying that subsidies were removed, then it is wrong.\n“How many schools and things we could have built with that money?” he said.\nAt the event, Tengku Zafrul handed out 338 certificates of excellence to teachers from schools in the Kuala Selangor constituency.\nThere is speculation that Tengku Zafrul, a senator, could contest in this constituency in the next general election.\nThe incumbent MP, Datuk Seri Dzulkefly Ahmad of Amanah, has said he will not defend his seat.\nTengku Zafrul has denied this, but his persistent and frequent presence in the constituency — including today’s event — continues to fuel the rumour.\nAlso present today was Entrepreneur Development and Cooperative Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar who handed out certificates to teachers under his constituency of Tanjong Karang.\nTalking to the media after the event, Noh said that his ministry was working with cooperatives to have a “Livestock Federation” that would act as a collection and distribution centre for local and imported chicken in order to cut out middlemen and maintain prices.\n“We have 15 cooperatives to join the federation in the country.\n“Currently we are getting the agreement ready with the cooperation and companies involved,” he said.\n* An earlier version of this article contained an error which has since been rectified.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "AIR DATE: November 13, 2018\nThe liberal media thinks Americans are idiots that would let corrupt politicians and liberal media lead us around by the nose! The amount of misinformation that flows from their desks is basically meant to mislead and misguide Americans and free thought almost as if they want to brainwash us to have the same beliefs they do...\nAIR DATE: November 7, 2016\nCourtesy: FOX Business\nChief Market Strategist Todd “Bubba” Horwitz joins After the Bell as markets rallied one day before the […]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The gist seems to be that Big Oil needs to change the \"energy narrative,\" something that Drevna and Koch Industries board member James Mahoney have been laying the groundwork for for a while now. Drevna has a history of speaking out against anything that will reduce the amount of gasoline Americans use, such as putting more than 10 percent ethanol into the nation fuel supply (the E15 debate).\nThe expected result of the new group will be ads and research that promote \"pro-petroleum transportation messages\" and attack subsidies for plug-in vehicles, HuffPo says. An affiliated group, the Institute for Energy Research, has already gotten its feet wet attacking Tesla and its Powerwall. The new anti-EV messages could start appearing this spring.\nWorth noting that all gasoline cars are heavily subsidized via oil company tax credits & unpaid public health costs https://t.co/4li5E013Dj— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2016\nTesla Motors CEO Elon Musk (after just writing, \"Sigh\"), Tweeted that if the new group wants to attack EV subsidies, it is, \"Worth noting that all gasoline cars are heavily subsidized via oil company tax credits & unpaid public health costs.\" According to a report from the International Monetary Fund last year, fossil fuel companies are subsidized to the tune of $10 million every minute.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Turkish pro-govt think tank head calls for U.S. strike on Syrian govt. forces\nThe United States could do more for Syria’s last rebel stronghold Idlib, including strikes on critical bases of the Syrian government, director for Turkish think-tank Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) Burhanettin Duran wrote for pro-government daily Sabah on Friday.\nThe United States, as well as the EU and NATO, have commented on Turkey’s retaliation against the Syrian regime forces killing 13 Turkish soldiers last week, Duran said, while Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar called for “serious and concrete support for the solution of the Idlib crisis.”\n“There are many things Washington cold do if it wanted to,” Duran said, “from the public’s support to weapons aid for the opposition, from striking critical regime bases to putting forth new proposals for Turkey’s safety.”\nThe United States’ mistaken Syria policies have led Turkey to working closer with Russia, but a show of initiative by Washington could lead to improved relations between the two allies and increased U.S. influence in Syria, Duran said.\n“Let us not forget that U.S. policies have allowed Russia to expand its influence in the Middle East and North Africa since Obama’s term,” Duran said.\nTensions between the two NATO allies have been running high due to the U.S. supporting the majority-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which Turkey considers to be a threat to its national security, as well as Turkey’s purchase of Russian-made S-400 missile defence systems and efforts in the Mediterranean that have put the country at odds with key U.S. allies.\n“How many backtracks has it been?” asked journalist İslam Özkan in a tweet, referring to Duran’s previous opposition to the United States.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A PEDESTRIAN crossing can be a deathtap if cars are driving at speed through it, says Cllr Brigid Teefy.\nThe volume of vehicles and speed they travel through Caherconlish is an ongoing concern. A pedestrian crossing was placed on the Limerick side of the village near Ceol na hAbhann estate in recent years.\nHowever, some residents are now afraid to use it due to the speed of vehicles travelling through the village.\nCllr Brigid Teefy said she has received many representations and has welcomed confirmation by the county council that they will erect a speed radar sign.\n“It will be similar to the ones in Ballyneety and Oola and will be put in place during July/August.\n“The speed radar will be set at the 50Km per hour speed limit. Any speed above that will be flashed to the oncoming motorist. I welcome this signage and hope that it will help to slow down the traffic to make the area safer for pedestrians,” said Cllr Teefy. She adds that the downhill approach exacerbates the speeding problem.\nCllr Teefy hopes motorists’ kmph being shown to them will slow down traffic and prevent an accident.\nMeanwhile, Cllr John Egan has put a motion on to the next meeting of the Castleconnell Electoral Area this Thursday requesting for funding for pedestrian crossings.\nDeputy Willie O’Dea and parents of children in Caherconlish National School have also highlighted their concerns in recent months.\nWhile, Limerick Leader correspondent for the village, Pat Hourigan, has mentioned the speed of motorists in his notes countless times.\nTwo weeks ago he wrote that an elderly man told him he was afraid to walk across the main street to go shopping such was the continuous flow of speeding traffic.\nSubscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie\nBuy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.\nKeep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Presidential elections in Africa have gone through many cycles since the 1950s when Ghana became the first country […]\nRarely does a week go by without a new headline on the growing ties between Russia and North Korea and what their closer ties would mean for countries like the U.S., Ukraine and South Korea.\nBefore looking at the present state and future of the Russia and North Korea relationship, let us take a brief look at the past.\nRussia and North Korea past relations\nRussian/Soviet relations with North Korea can be traced back to the aftermath of World War II when Japan surrendered in 1945, relinquishing its control of Korea. Efforts to create a unified Korean state failed, resulting in the establishment of Soviet-North Korea in 1948.\nThroughout the 1960s, while the U.S. supported South Korea, the Soviet Union supported North Korea, but relations cooled due to political purges, concerns over ideological differences, and improved ties with China. In the early 2000s, Russian President Vladimir Putin reengaged with North Korea.\nSince then, the ties have improved including the first meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Putin at the Russian Far East in 2019.\nThe Ukraine war seems to have prompted a reassessment of their relationship. Signs include the Putin and Kim summit at a space centre in the Russian Far East in September 2023. There are reports that Kim has extended an invitation for Putin to visit the North Korean capital, and in October 2023, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to North Korea is seen as paving the way for Putin’s upcoming visit.\nWhat does North Korea want from Russia?\nNorth Korea’s military is the fourth-biggest in the world however its conventional forces are considered outdated. North Korea seeks advanced weaponry, including fighters and air defences, from Russia to modernize its military and further its goal of uniting the Korean Peninsula under the DPRK flag.\nKim also desires Russian assistance with its spy satellite which has seen some failures recently, space launch vehicle and submarine programs in advancing its intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities.\nIn addition, North Korea seeks broader diplomatic acceptance of its nuclear weapons status, a recognition that Russia, as a major power, can provide.\nWhat does Russia want from North Korea?\nOn the other hand, Russia aims to meet its war materiel needs for the conflict in Ukraine by seeking military support from North Korea. Moscow requires artillery shells, and North Korea, known for its significant artillery power, can potentially supply these compatible munitions.\nThe two countries share compatible small arms, allowing North Korea to provide ammunition for Russian assault rifles. In exchange for North Korea’s military support, Russia is likely to offer aid in the development of solid-fuel missiles and hypersonic missiles.\nThe alliance serves the common interest of both nations in undermining American power, driven by their shared grievances against the West and a desire to overturn the international order.\nIf either is threatened by an external actor such as the United States, they could launch a first-use policy of nuclear weapons. In addition, the two parties are highly capable cyberwar and cyber intelligence nations which can disrupt and steal sensitive government information.\nDespite multiple UN sanctions imposed on North Korea for its weapons and ballistic missile program, Putin asserted the existence of possible military collaboration between the two nations and North Korea has pledged full support.\nUnlikely permanent alliance\nThe alliance between North Korea and Russia is unlikely to be tight due to North Korea’s commitment to its independence especially from larger powers. Russia, mindful of North Korea’s unpredictability, also seeks to avoid alienating its strategic ally, China. While the two nations may offer mutual support in the short term, a long-term alliance seems improbable, with their relationship characterized more as a strategic alignment than a formal treaty, more like a give-and-take relationship. This pragmatic bond is driven by Russia’s immediate need for artillery and small arms ammunition in the Ukraine conflict.\nNorth Korea-U.S. tensions have grown increasingly hostile during the Biden administration so an alliance with Russia would mean the worse for the U.S.\nThe U.S. is worried that North Korea might be supplying Russia with weapons in exchange for military assistance, including advanced technologies. The Biden administration is attempting to expose the potential deal, warning North Korea that it would “pay a price” if it supported Russia with lethal aid.\nExperts also say that what North Korea will receive from Russia in return could pose a significant threat to U.S. interests and those of its allies.\nAgainst the backdrop of the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago’s Fine Cocoa Company is setting sail into the waters […]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lifestyle Celebrity Moms. The first thing that I noticed when I walked onto the unit was the strong smell of urine that hung heavily in the hot summer air. Being a CNA was the single hardest job I have ever done in my 25 yrs of working. Open Next post in News Close. She was my mentor and she taught me how to take care of people the way that they deserved to be cared for. Rochester, New York, liquor store owner Charlotte Lahr was beaten to death with a wine bottle by a man who robbed her store in March , police said.\nPrivacy Issues Regarding Nurses Using Social Media\nFollow us email facebook twitter pinterest instagram Google Plus youTube rss. To help you with your search, browse the 71 reviews below for nursing homes in Orchard Park. Some have led to criminal charges, including a case filed earlier this month in California against a nursing assistant. She never even looked at me. We hope that you enjoy our free content. Other options also available.\nMinnesota man arrested after wife dies in meth-fuelled 'death party' | Daily Star\nNew Zealand tragedy claims 49 lives - the same number of victims Today's headlines Most Read At least 49 people are killed and 48 injured in multiple Christchurch mosque massacres involving an Link Existing Cracked Account. When patients approached death at James's New Zealand facility, they were often put on the \"Liverpool pathway. The story section of Snapchat allows users to share videos with all of their friends for 24 hours, as opposed to sending photos or videos to only selected contacts. Right-wing mosque shooter posted page rant calling for London mayor Sadiq Khan to A naked Johnson allegedly ran out of the home and told police his wife was dead before running inside to take a bath.\nA naked Johnson allegedly ran out of the home and told police his wife was dead before running inside to take a bath. Social media also provides nurses with an outlet to connect with other healthcare professionals for personal, emotional, and educational reasons. I would visit four times a week and find him unshaven, nails not Twitter is also an effective way to create a health-related conversation with the public, or get a healthcare-related topic trending. The nonprofit has identified 65 instances of inappropriate posts on social media among employees of long-term care facilities going back Edit Article Add New Article. Two Kentucky nursing homes have been cited by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services after employees improperly used their cell phones to take photos of residents.\n11 days ago", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The 165th edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling is up!\nIt’s the \"Stimulus Edition\" because all of our posts are incredibly stimulating! (as is homeschooling in general). We won’t be bailing anyone out, unless of course one of our contributions here help solve a problem that you are having. The subject matter shouldn’t be too taxing either, so grab a cup of coffee (which can also be stimulating unless it’s decaf), and sit back and enjoy the carnival. And because there is so much to be found here, you might just have to come back for more stimulus several times this week!\nVisit Consent Of The Governed to see the rest of the post as well as the links to the blogs that participated in this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This weekend, and after years without taking place due to the pandemic, the 50th installment of the Martin Fierro Awards. The most glamorous night of Argentine television returns to give something to talk about.\nWhile the invited figures prepare their most elegant looks and the trio do numbers to see if they will actually win the statuette, there are always those who get ready to generate a scandal at the award ceremony that will take place on Sunday from the Hilton Hotel.\n“I am tired of hearing in our own country people who belittle what is ours. for me the Martin Fierro It is much more important than the Oscar. There are people who are not aware of the value until they leave the country”, Luis Ventura had said a few weeks ago when he presented the nominees.\nHowever, he is right about something and that is that many underestimate the award, as happened with louis ortega in 2016. The filmmaker won a statuette as a screenwriter and another as director of the miniseries Historia de un clan, but a few days later he decided to put it up for sale by Mercado Libre, through an auction that began with a base price of seven thousand pesos.\nAt that time, so much scandal was created by what happened, that although he explained that he did it to promote his new movie, he had to unsubscribe from the publication.\nAnother celebrity who returned his Martin Fierro Award It was Nacho Goano in 2011. But this time it was not because of rebellion but because of a miscalculation on the part of APTRA. The journalist was given the statuette for his sports work in C5N, but they had not realized that he had started working in January of that same year, for which he was not authorized to compete.\nGoano expressed himself at that time on his Twitter account where he said that he returned the award and regretted having been involved in that situation, but thanked the respect and affection he received from the people of the Association of Radio and Television Journalists.\nThe one who had also been left with a prize that did not correspond to him had been Claudio Villaruel. Its about Martin Fierro Gold they had won The Simulators in 2006 and that corresponded to the actor Alexander Fiore.\nIt seems that the people of Telefe asked him for an interview that Villaruel had to do, and then he did not return it. 16 years passed until the then Artistic Director of Telefe deigned to return to Fiore the statuettes that he had taken from her.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Eastern women’s basketball team started off the season strong with a 97-54 win over Millikin Friday night.\nThe Panthers had five players score in double-digits in the win, and everyone on the roster scored at least one basket.\nThe double-digit scorers were senior Erica Brown (14), junior Jalisha Smith (11), sophomore Brittin Boyer (10), and freshmen Allison Van Dyke (13) and Jennifer Nehls (12).\nBrown said the win was a confidence boost for the team.\n“Coming out in that first game the way we did, winning by that much,” Brown said, “that was a big confidence boost for us.”\nBrown led the team with 14 points, 8 rebounds and 4 blocks. The Panthers never trailed in this game and jumped out to a 7-0 lead early in the game.\nEastern finished the first quarter with a 25-16 lead, and Millikin stayed in the game thanks to the 3-pointer. Millikin went 4-5 from beyond the arc in the first quarter.\nMillikin was able to stay within 10 points of the Panthers for the rest of the first half. The Panthers edged out Millikin on the score sheet in the second period 17-15.\nFreshman Zharia Lenoir scored the final basket of the half for Eastern. She had nine points, three rebounds and two assists in her first collegiate game.\nThe freshmen Van Dyke, Nehls, Lenoir and Danielle Berry all played well in their first game.\nCoach Debbie Black said they bring an edge that the team has lacked.\n“I think that they bring us a different edge that we haven’t had — all four of them,” Black said.\nBoth teams shot 3-pointers well in the first half with Eastern going 5-for-8 and Millikin going 7-for-12.\nThe score at halftime was 42-31. Eastern picked it up in the third quarter starting it off with a 9-3 run and pushed its lead to 30.\nEastern had 26 assists in the game, and Black credited the team for being unselfish.\n“This team was very unselfish tonight,” Black said. “Right across the board, no one really cared who scored.”\nBrown left the game with a calf cramp in the second half and did not return, but Boyer stepped up in the 13 minutes she played.\nThe Panthers dominated in the paint, outscoring Millikin 47-18.\nWith everyone contributing for Eastern, they were able to get 44 points from their bench.\nThe women will be back in action on Monday night as they travel to take on Evansville.\nMark Shanahan can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Escape Artists offers up a global discourse ranging from great finds close to home to adventures far afield. You'll find weekly travel deals here, too. Share your road wisdom, rave about great finds and rant about roadblocks that get in the way of a great trip.\nContributor: Travel editor Kerri Westenberg.\nEmail us with tips and questions.\nAn analysis of airline fees by Travelnerd, a website that offers airport parking info, terminal maps, airport shuttle directories and other ways to ease traveler's airport navigation, found that more than 50 airline fees changes in the last year. Of the fee changes, 36 out of the 52 were direct fee increases. Eighteen out the 52 fee changes were attributed to Spirit Airlines and Allegiant Air, \"ultra low cost carriers notorious for charging fees\" according to the report.\nAccording to the online report: \"These changes have had a tremendous impact on U.S. travelers, especially on families. Travelers really have to be extra cautious when booking a flight. U.S. carriers are becoming creative at charging consumers extra fees,” says Alicia Jao, VP Travel Media at TravelNerd. “A new trend that we’re currently seeing is carriers bundling and tiering services. This practice is not only more confusing for travelers, but it also complicates price comparison. Even airlines that have touted fewer fees are joining the game, indicating only more fees in 2013.\"\nFees are becoming an increasingly heated topic among travelers, and online sites are trying their best to keep track. Airfarewatchdog.com is one of them. Go here to download a PDF of \"every airline fee you'd want to know about.\"\nI have a whopping 230,000 miles accrued on my Delta account. That's not because I'm an exceptional jet-setter. It is because I deeply dread the frustration that attends most attempts to use the miles. As a result, I tend to let them grow ever larger with each trip to Target paid for with my Delta-branded American Express card. I determined to change that over the weekend. It was time my miles worked for me! I wanted to use them not to garner a free flight, but to land me in cushy first-class for the uncomfortably long flights to and from Maui. Seeking an upgrade 10 months ahead seemed a slam-dunk. Not so, fellow travelers. I wound up spending nearly two hours on the phone during two separate conversations with very kind and enthusiastic Delta personnel (thank you Tracy and Tanner) over the weekend. And after all that time, I'm still not the proud holder of a reservation in the posh front of the plane.\nBecause many of the upgrade seats were taken, Tracy and I determined a few things after much noddling and wrangling: We would fly to L.A. one day and take the morning fligh to Maui the next morning. (Upgrades for the afternoon flight to Maui had already been nabbed.) Two of the people in my party would be able to use upgrades; the third in my party was going on miles alone. (The airline holds a certain number of seats for upgrade, seperate from those for award travel). Breaking up the flight seemed appealing, especially since it would give us a day in our old stomping grounds of Santa Monica. Tracy held the reservation to allow me time to chat with the others in my party before officially booking.\nOh what a difference a few hours makes. By the time I phoned back, the upgrades on the red-eye flight out of Maui were no longer available. Turns out that Tracy could hold the seats, but not the upgrades. In the intervening time, someone else got them. My next Delta pal, Tanner, couldn't do much except suggest I return two days later. That timing didn't work, so I just passed, and then nearly passed out, exhausted.\nMy take-away was not a round-trip, first-class tickets to Maui. It was this: A reminder in how to use your miles. If you want to book a reward ticket or an upgrade, do it as soon as possible. And if you want to go to such popular destinations as Hawaiiduring the holiday season, book the first day a flight is available from the airlines. That, generally speaking, is 330 days out. Today, 2/13/2012, I could book a flight that returns from Maui 1/10/2012, for instance (both the flight to and the return need to be bookable, of course). Those rewards go quickly.\nThe experience left me both amazed at the nice Delta people who tried so hard to help--and a little sad. But not too sad because, really, to be able to plan a family trip to Hawaii is pretty first-class, no matter how we get there.\nI love it when a destination exceeds expectations, especially when they are already exceedingly high.\nI always try not to get my hopes up too much, but that proved to be not a problem at Powell's Books in Portland, Ore. What a soulful stroll: room after room, floor after floor, beautifully organized but with a rambling, ramshackle feel that fits like a great pair of shoes.\nPowell's is the world's largest independent used and new bookstore, filling a city block and spread across four floors (1.6 acres, but who's counting).\nIt's certainly a place where even a non-bookish person could while away an hour or two; avid readers will want to \"book\" (sorry) the better part of a day. Indeed, Powell's is a perfect fit for a city that requires a lot of rainy-day endeavors.\nMoseying through its countless rooms felt a lot like strolling around Venice: It's easy to feel like you're getting lost, but you're never really far from a touchstone, or at least a sign pointing to it. The rooms are color-coded, and it's no problem finding a staffer to help with directions.\nThere are boatloads of discounted books (the new and used volumes are intermingled), and a more than decent chance of finding that work that you loaned to someone years ago and wish you had gotten back.\nIf time allows, don't miss the third-floor Rare Book Room, where mahogany shelves lend an old-world air to a place that, even without that eminently tasteful space, feels like just about the most civilized spot on the planet.\nMegabus.com, the express bus service made famous by its bargain-basement fares, doubled the number of trips between the Twin Cities and Milwaukee, Madison and Chicago today. The company now offers eight daily trips between Minneapolis and Chicago, four trips between Minneapolis and Madison and four trips between Minneapolis and Milwaukee.\nMegabus.com one-way ticket prices begin at $1; that fare requires traveling midweek and booking online and well in advance of travel. The company's ticket prices fluctuate according to demand, so booking earlier, when fewer seats have been sold, garners the best deals. Typical one-way fares range from $10 to $30. There is a $3 service fee for tickets purchased by phone; most travelers book online at Megabus.com. The buses offer reclining seats and lavatories.\nAll trips depart Minneapolis from the megabus.com bus stop located in the parking lot on the east side of Chicago Ave. between South 3rd St. and S. Washington Ave, near the Downtown East / Metrodome Light Rail Metro Transit Station. Buses arrive in Chicago on a street adjacent to Union Station.\nA reader asks: can an American get a credit card from a European bank, which would contain the special chip that allows them to be used in ticket machines and other outlets in Europe?\nMy answer: Probably, but you don’t need to if you’re simply interested in getting a card with chip technology rather than a card issued by a European bank.\nA bit of context for people unfamiliar with the technology: American credit cards use a magnetic strip to exchange information during a financial transaction. In European and other countries, card issuers have turned to EMV chip technology (named for Europay, MasterCard and Visa). Where people are handling the charge, American credit cards often work. Not so at unmanned kiosks, such as those at train stations and gas pumps.\nAccording to Greg McBride of bankrate.com, getting a card from a European bank isn’t impossible, though “banks are understandably reluctant to lend money on an unsecured basis to borrowers in a foreign jurisdiction.” It’s likely you could get one after opening a deposit account with that bank.\nFortunately, you likely don’t need to go through the hassle of opening an account overseas. “Chase has recently rolled out chip-and-pin technology,” McBride said, “and other large national and regional banks will most certainly follow suit.”\nWells Fargo, the largest bank in Minnesota, is one of them. Eric Schindewolf, vice president of product development at Wells Fargo, said the bank is rolling out a pilot program this summer with 15,000 customers who are frequent international travelers. “The pilot program is about understanding what it means to do a smart card program, how will customers use the product, what questions will they have.” The card will have both a magnetic strip and a chip for use here and overseas. Schindewolf said he didn’t know when or if such a card would go into production. Though this might be hard to accept for avid overseas travelers, the company has already identified the customers who will be part of the pilot program.\nIf you can’t track down a card with a chip through Chase or another bank, there is another option. Travelex, which used to issue traveler’s checks, now offers prepaid currency cards with chip-and-pin technology which you can use just like a debit card.\n|Minnesota Parks (3)||Deals (66)|\n|Adventure travel (16)||Airlines (48)|\n|Airports (24)||Chicago (13)|\n|Consumer travel (72)||Cruises (12)|\n|Europe (7)||International travel (31)|\n|Minnesota (25)||Passports (6)|\n|Regional travel (18)||Road trips (12)|\n|Travel deals (7)||Travel gadgets and gear (1)|\n|U.S. travel (58)||Winter getaways (11)|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kyle Shanahan: I’ve heard of no trade talks involving Jimmy Garoppolo\nIt’s been two weeks since the 49ers made it clear that quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo won’t be on the team this season, but that he will remain technically on the roster for now, while they hope to finagle some/any trade value for him.\nCoach Kyle Shanahan was asked on Tuesday whether there’s any current trade interest in the man who took the 49ers to Super Bowl LIV and nearly to Super Bowl LVI.\n“I believe that goes on with his agents, but none that I hear of,” Shanahan told reporters.\nHe aded that he’s heard of no offers for Garoppolo, either.\nThis means that any interested team is biding its time, knowing Garoppolo eventually will be cut. And that the 49ers haven’t cut him because circumstances will change, quickly and dramatically, if a starter with another team gets injured.\n(Or, frankly, if San Francisco’s starter gets injured.)\nFor now, Garoppolo continues to come and go as he pleases. He’s on board with the strategy, because if a starter goes down elsewhere (or in San Francisco) he becomes far more likely to make something far closer than the $24.2 million salary that he’ll lose once he’s cut.\nEven though the rosters reduce to 53 three weeks from today, his salary doesn’t become guaranteed, as a practical matter, until September 10. We’ll see whether the 49ers carry him for an extra 12 days, as they continue to wait and hope that a starting quarterback goes down -- and that the market for Garoppolo goes up.\nCurrently, it has nowhere to go but up.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Brooke Warner, author of Green-Light Your Book: How Writers Can Succeed in the New Era of Publishing, writing coach, and publishing expert\nWriters, we think this is the perfect way to kick of the year.\nJoin us for the first LCW salon of 2017 and an evening with talented editor, coach and publishing expert, Brooke Warner, author of Green Light Your Book: How Writers Can Succeed in the New Era of Publishing. Green-Light Your Book is a straight-shooting guide to a changing industry. Written for aspiring authors, previously published authors, and independent publishers, it explains the ever-shifting publishing landscape and helps indie authors understand that they’re up against the status quo, and how to work within the system but also how to subvert the system in order to succeed.\nPublishing expert and independent publisher Brooke Warner is fearless in her critique of an industry that’s lost its mandate, and in so doing has opened the door wide for indie publishers to thrive. While she does not shy away (more…)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "New Haven Independent |\nWhile celebrating his birthday on his Westville Manor front steps with his two granddaughters, Jose Valentin shared his perspectives of gun violence in New Haven with a group of 15 adults walking the neighborhood to talk to residents about stopping the violence.\nValentin works at a barbershop in the Hill. He agreed that all violence, especially gun violence, needs to stop.\nValentin said he sometimes deals with angry and violent youth at his barbershop. “These kids think ignorance is a joke,” he said.\nTo see the article in the New Haven Independent, click here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I want to share with you today about an upcoming webcast I’m going to be participating in! 2009 will be a year that Hearts at Home will test the waters with some webcasting so we can provide encouragement to moms year-round and reach women all over the world.\nWhen I was asked to be a part of this webcast being produced by a brand new resource called WebTV4Women, I knew I wanted to give it a try. I’ll admit that recording my message in front of a video camera was quite different than speaking to a live audience, but I’m excited about the possibilities!\nThis Christmas webcast is a free event and I want to invite you to join in on the fun! Every day for 12 days you’ll receive an email link to watch a 5-15 minute video from the speaker of the day. On December 9, you’ll have the option of joining in on a live, interactive webcast that will top off the 12 days of encouragement that will prepare your heart for Christmas. Not only that, but anyone who registers also receives a free downloadable Holiday Organizer!\nClick on the graphic below to register for this free seminar today!\nWant regular encouragement?\nSubscribe to get Jill's latest content by email.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Wholesale prices-based inflation rate rose to a ten-month high of 5.02 per cent for the week ended February 23, as food and some manufactured products turned costly.\nInflation rate for the previous week was at 4.89 per cent and was last above five per cent on May 19, 2007 (5.06 per cent).\nThe Wholesale Price Index-based inflation rate stood at 6.20 per cent in the corresponding week a year ago.\nDuring the week under review, prices of fish marine, mutton, fruits, vegetables and milk went up, while the rates of arhar and moong declined. However, the index for fuel, power, light and lubricants remained unchanged. The government had raised petrol and diesel prices on February 14.\nAmong manufactured products imported edible oil, vanaspati, coconut oil, mustered oil, got expensive.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kansas City, MO (July 20, 2023)- Two children and an adult were hospitalized in a Kansas City hit-and-run on Tuesday, July 18, 2023.\nPolice arrived at the 57th Street and Olive Street injury crash at 9:35 p.m.\nPolice said a northbound Toyota Camry hit a Mongoose BMX bicycle on Olive Street.\nA six-year-old, a nine-year-old, and an 18-year-old were on the bike when it crashed.\nThe driver fled after the collision, but alert neighbors caught and detained him until the police arrived.\nThe nine- and 18-year-old brothers were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while the six-year-old was in critical condition.\nLaw enforcement is investigating the hit-and-run to hold the perpetrators accountable.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The San Francisco History Center's S.F. Punk Archive presents a free four-part film series that takes you from the chaos of contemporaneous footage to recent documentaries striving to illuminate a hidden history.\nTen short years after the ultimately disenchanting Summer of Love, San Francisco harbored a new counterculture united around unrepressed outrage and the rejection of hypocrisy. Punk erupted from the city's dark cellars and dingy underage clubs but was snubbed by local press and radio. Self-made zines, handbills, Super-8 film, vinyl and video became the instruments for recording and disseminating this explosive movement.\nJoin us for an entertaining and illuminating exploration of the birth of San Francisco's original punk underground.\nPlease arrive at least 20 minutes before the program which will begin at 6 pm. The auditorium will open at 5:30.\nPunk documentary: Buried In The MixWednesday, January 10, 2018, 6 pm, Main Library, Koret Auditorium.Buried In The Mix combines an intimate portrait of 4 denizens of the early days of the fabulous Mabuhay Gardens (Mia Simmans of Frightwig, Bob Clic of The Lewd, Fritz Fox of Mutants, and Patrick O'Neil, Dead Kennedys roadie and author) with spoken word accounts, by such punk pioneers as Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys, Guantanamo School of Medicine), Penelope Houston and Greg Ingraham (Avengers), Ted Falconi (Flipper), V. Vale (RE/Search), the photography of Bobby Castro, Ruby Ray, Sue Brisk and many other bands and artists to create a collage of stories that reveal a glimpse of the San Francisco punk movement in its raw, raging glory.This work-in-progress screening also incorporates historic video of performances from the deep dark past as well as the recent SF Punk Homecoming and Punk Renaissance reunion shows in 2013 and 2015 alongside contemporary interview footage, highlighting the do-it-yourself attitude and inspired rebellion of early punk, rebellion that is needed today more than ever.Followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Timothy Crandle.\nPhoto credit: Rachel Thoele of Frightwig, SF Punk Renaissance, Verdi Club, 2015, by Laura Ming Wong.\nWatch the trailer.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "pic from jeaniuss.blogspot.com\"Is Grace Jones too easy?\" Jean Paul-Paula answered when asked who his style icon is in a New York Times TMagazine interview last year. Jean is a Netherlands based blogger, model, stylist and magazine editor and he oozes androgyny.\nHe came to my attention through the abovementioned interview, which also featured Bryan Boy and Yu Masui, a London based fashion writer. These boys are androgyny defined.\nCheck out Jean Paul-Paula's blog Jeaniuss for frequent updates on his escapades and photo shoots.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "There are many good reasons to undertake corporate tax reform this year. Politicians from both sides of the aisle have declared support for cutting the headline corporate tax rate and recouping the lost revenue through a broadening of the tax base. President Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2016 calls for a cut in the corporate tax rate from 35 to 28 percent (with a special rate of 25 percent for manufacturing). Former Ways and Means Chairman David Camp’s tax reform proposal from last year called for a cut in the rate to 25 percent. The recent Rubio-Lee proposal would similarly cut the rate to 25 percent. There is even speculation that Paul Ryan and President Obama may be working on a deal to cut headline rates this year. Here’s why we need to get this done.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Bryanna Fissori\nA failed drug test leading to the cancellation of the Championship bout of Guillermo Jones vs. Denis Lebedev, scheduled to take place April 26 in Moscow, Russia has led to a $2.4 million lawsuit filled against promoter Don King.\nDrug testing athletes prior to competition serves a number of purposes, but in the vast majority of cases, results are not available until after the competition. The typical scenario in the case of combat sports is that weeks post-event a fighter will be notified that he tested positive. This news is commonly followed by a brief uproar, which may or may not include a deduction or retraction of the fighter’s purse as well as a victory or title depending on the situation.\nIn March of 2013, boxers Lamont Peterson and Amir Khan were slated to fight in June, when Peterson tested positive for synthetic testosterone causing cancellation of the fight. The difference in this situation was that the pre-fight testing was far enough out that a replacement opponent could be found, thus mitigating any financial loss. The test for Jones reportedly took place four days prior to the scheduled Russia bout.\nThe law suit filed against King is unique in that his fighter Guillermo Jones, the former WBA cruiserweight champ, had to pull out of the fight last minute (literally hours before) due to the results of a failed drug test. The substance found was furosemide, which also goes by the names “Lasix” or “Salix” amongst others. It is used for weight loss and specifically water loss. The drug is commonly used by heart and kidney failure patients to treat excess water retention. It can also be used to mask other steroids. The testing was done by Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses (LAD) and the WBA refused to sanction the fight because of the substance.\nThe bout was to be a rematch after Jones knocked out Lebedev in the 11th round last May, though he was striped of the title because at that time his post fight results found him positive for the same substance. Why he was under the assumption he would not get caught again doing exactly the same thing, or why he hasn’t figured out a better way to cut weight is information BoxingInsider.com has not obtained.\nThe cause of action for the lawsuit is breach of contract, which was brought forth by Lebedev and the Russian promotion World of Boxing LLC. The case was filed in Manhattan Federal Court because the parties have diversity jurisdiction. The plaintiffs are asking to recover the funds used to orchestrate the bout including $800,000 that was deposited directly into King’s account in order to secure Jones.\nA breach of contract occurs when a binding agreement is not fulfilled. The contract should contain the responsibilities of each party and if those obligations are not met legal action is typically available to obtain a remedy. In some cases, contracts may lay out the repercussions for a breach, such as what is to happen if the event is cancelled due to the fault of one party. In this case either there is not express stipulation set forth in the contract or King is refusing to abide by it.\nIn similar cases of cancelled events courts have often found for the non-breaching party (Zons P.R. v Rick Ross 2012, Click Entertainment v JYP Entertainment “Rain” 2009).\nJudging by statements King made to the media upon return to the United States, he will likely contest the legality of the test administered. King has contended that WBA officials were not present and that he did not receive a copy of the results s promised. If the test results are thrown out and considered in-admissible it could potentially change the amount of liability King is facing for the cancelled bout and justify a counter claim for negligence on the part of the promotion and testing officials.\nSend this to a friend", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It was a relatively short trip, but the 30-minute drive to Junction City was still enough to change the routine of the Manhattan High baseball team on Tuesday.\nAfter a slow start in Game 1, the Indians finally got the offense going, turning a one-run deficit into a 6-3 win before getting the run-rule victory in the nightcap, 12-2.\nMHS head coach Don Hess said the team still has to get better at being ready to play from the first pitch of its games.\n“Sometimes when you go on the road, you get off the bus and you’re out of your routine,” he said. “We talk all the time about being ready to hit from the first pitch, and it seems sometimes that it takes us one time through the order before we’re comfortable.\n“We weren’t taking good swings at the ball, and once we did start doing that and putting some pressure on the defense, things worked out for us.”\nWith four games this week, Hess turned to Jacob Biller to pitch against the Blue Jays. The senior responded well, going 6 1/3 innings and striking out eight while allowing just two runs to get the win.\n“He had kind of a slow, rougher first inning, but Jake went out there and did a really nice job,” Hess said. “He kept us in the ballgame until our bats woke up.”\nAfter seeing Junction City retake the lead on a solo home run by Trae McDaniel in the bottom of the fourth, MHS put up four runs in the top of the fifth with the help of a struggling Junction City defense that committed five errors in the game.\nWith two outs, the Indians reached on a dropped third strike, then again on an error by the shortstop, with both runners moving up on a passed ball. Garrett Francis reached base on another error by the shortstop to score a run, before a second passed ball allowed another run to score.\nJonah Webber and Jacob Biller each came up with RBI singles to cap the rally and give Manhattan a 5-3 lead.\nThe Indians got an extra run in the sixth with Mike Leeper driving in Kellen Myers with a triple.\nJunction City got a small rally going in the seventh inning, but Jesse Steinbring came on in relief of Biller and got the final two outs.\nIn Game 2, offense came easy from the start, as Manhattan put up five runs in the top of the first to set the tone while scoring in every inning except the fifth in the run-rule victory.\nEthan Fabrizius got the start for MHS and pitched four innings while allowing only one earned run. Evan Olson pitched 2/3 of an inning in relief before Connor Brown got the last out.\n“Sometimes the innings for the pitchers have been tough to come by, but they all three went in and did a really nice job for us,” Hess said. “And it’s going to take all of the pitchers on our staff for us to achieve the things we want.”\nOffensively, MHS got 11 hits, including three extra-base hits, in the win. Fehr, Leeper, A.J. Epperson and Tyler Wohler all had two-hit games, while Fehr and Webber each had two RBIs.\n“I think that’s the first time we’ve scored 10 runs in a game this year,” Hess said. “We had some guys whose bats came alive, and we had some extra base hits too, which is nice to see… Hopefully we’re making strides in that area.”\nManhattan hosts Topeka West on Friday at Norvell Field, with the first pitch scheduled for 4 p.m.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Scientists conducted a study between genders and found girls are more likely to suffer from depressive episodes, whereas video games could boost the mental health of young boys\nSource link : http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daily-star-latest-news/~3/MNvh04klumY/lazy-video-game-addicted-boys-23527583\nAuthor : [email protected] (Tom Campbell, Unzela Khan)\nPublish date : 2021-02-19 02:55:23\nCopyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "4 Bizarre, Overlooked Details From The Matt Gaetz Allegations\nIt has been quite the week for Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who has found himself in the hot seat after the New York Times published an explosive new report alleging the lawmaker “is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him.” As apparently “a variety of federal statutes make it illegal to induce someone under 18 to travel over state lines to engage in sex in exchange for money or something of value,\" officials are reportedly looking into whether the representative broke any trafficking laws when allegedly traveling with the girl in 2019. According to a later report from the publication, the probe is also purported to be looking into Gaetz's “involvement with multiple women who were recruited online for sex and received cash payments.”\nAs the Rep. denies these allegations, telling the Daily Beast that “The last time I had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old, I was 17,\" he explained to Fox News anchor, Tucker Carlson that the New York Times story was a “planted leak,” claiming that he and his family are being shaken down for $25 million in an act of what the politician says is \"organized criminal extortion.\" During his appearance on Fox, Gaetz explained that someone texted his father “demanding a meeting wherein a person demanded $25 million in exchange for making horrible sex trafficking allegations against me go away.”\nWith the story becoming more complicated by the minute, keeping up with Gaetzgate's infinite twists and turns is not a task for the faint of heart. From the strange item reportedly found sitting atop a trash bin outside of Gaetz's office, and some of the lawmaker's very unfortunate resurfaced tweets, here at 4 bizarre details you may have missed about Gaetzgate.\n1. Gaetz was the only member of Congress to vote against an anti-human trafficking bill in 2017.\nIn a political move that has aged like a fine glass of milk on a hot summer day, Insider notes that the Republican lawmaker was the only Congressional opponent to the bi-partisan “The Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act\" of 2017. Created with the intention of assigning a \"designated a trafficking prevention coordinator at the Department of Transportation and created a committee to develop best practices for states and transportation stakeholders to combat human trafficking,\" according to the publication, the bill was ultimately passed and signed into law by then-President Trump in January 2018.\nAlthough both sides of the aisle seemingly worked together to bring the important act into law, Gaetz was reportedly a single congressional naysayer, the lone vote against the bill that ultimately passed 418 - 1.\n2. Gaetz reportedly has a reputation for partying hard – and being kind of a loner.\nAccording to the New York Times, in 2019 and 2020, Rep. Gaetz and his associate Joel Greenburg, a former tax collector that was indicted on several felony charges last year, including one for federal sex trafficking, reportedly partied hard together, allegedly offering women money to meet with them at hotels. “Some of the men and women took ecstasy, an illegal mood-altering drug, before having sex, including Mr. Gaetz, two people familiar with the encounters said,” the newspaper reported. “In some cases, Mr. Gaetz asked women to help find others who might be interested in having sex with him and his friends, according to two people familiar with those conversations. Should anyone inquire about their relationships, one person said, Mr. Gaetz told the women to say that he had paid for hotel rooms and dinners as part of their dates.”\nDespite these wild stories, when it comes to his time in politics, the representative generally keeps to himself, according to the Daily Beast. “I don’t really socialize with my colleagues,” he said in a 2019 BuzzFeed News write-up centering around what some have called his “workaholic” tendencies, apparently in response to missing a West Virginia Republican retreat. However, it seems Gaetz should have considered attending the retreat after all — according to the article, members of the Republican party generally aren't big Gaetz fans. “I don’t think a lot of people are going to go out of their way to defend him, especially with this outlandish-sounding defense,” a GOP staffer explained to the Daily Beast. “I don’t think you’ll find a lot of people who are desperate to keep him involved in Republican politics,” they continued, with a separate “republican operative” noting that the party \"doesn’t like him very much.\"\nEven so, Gaetz still reportedly still showed his congressional colleagues images and videos of naked women he says he had sex with, including one clip allegedly depicting a nude woman hula hooping, CNN reported Thursday, with one source noting that “it was a point of pride” for the lawmaker.\n3. A strange item has reportedly been spotted in the trash bin outside of the Rep's office.\nConsidering this scrutiny, it seems Gaetz may have been relatively haphazard when it comes to cleaning up after himself. “A Hill source sent The Daily Beast a photo of a trash bin outside Gaetz's office as lawmakers cleared out their offices at the end of a recent session,\" the Daily Beast wrote in the same article. \"At the top of the heap was an empty Costco-size box of ‘Bareskin’ Trojan condoms.\"\n4. A few extremely unfortunate tweets have come to light in the aftermath of Gaetzgate.\nAmid the allegations, several internet sleuths have taken to Twitter in an attempt to answer the age-old question of “how could we have predicted this mess?\" in their noble pursuits, several posts have made the rounds once again, their meanings skewed in the broader context of the reports. First up? the tweet behind the entire scandal's nickname. Just last week, 'Space Karen' Elon Musk took to Twitter to share a message for his 50 million followers and apparently the press corps, requesting a highly-specific (and quintessentially Musk) nickname for any future controversies involving him – none other than \"Elongate\"\nIn a glorious act of cosmic foreshadowing, Gaetz snapped quipped back making a similar, likely unwitting request for his impending scandal. “Deal. I want Gaetzgate,” he wrote.\nYet the lawmaker's interaction with the SpaceX CEO is far from the most alarming posts unearthed amid the scandal. In what could easily be one of the most retroactively unfortunate posts to ever grace the Twittersphere. In a reply to pop star Bebe Rexha's 2019 assertion that “there’s no age that you can’t be be sexy,” Gaetz proposed a suggestion that will inevitably go down in the annals of history – featuring the singer's tweet on Florida's welcome sign.\nSo folks, as more details emerge about the alleged investigation into Matt Gaetz, remember one thing – he is definitely not Matt Gertz.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Communication with customers is one of the most important aspects of a successful business. The easier the business makes it for the customer to communicate with them, the more likely the customer is to participate. There are many ways companies can interact with their clients, but one of the easiest ways for the customer is via SMS messaging. Here are several ways your company can go about SMS messaging with a customer.\nThe simplest way to communicate with customers through SMS messaging is the one-way SMS.\nWith this form of messaging, the company is able to send out messages, reminders, or announcements to their customers, but the customer is unable to respond. For example, this form of messaging is ideal for doctor’s appointment or prescription reminders. However, there is no way for the company to confirm that the customer even received the message.\nAs technology becomes more advanced, so do the ways companies interact with their customers. In a two-way SMS, communication is still limited, but the customer is able to respond to the message sent by the company. Most of the interaction is based on a question and answer series, where the company’s message will tell the customer how to respond based on their needs. However, the customer is still interacting with an automated system through specific keywords.\nSometimes a customer’s requests can exceed the limitations of the automated service’s abilities. That is when the much more advanced conversational SMS comes into play. This form of messaging allows the customer to interact with a real, live individual representing the company. The representative is able to respond to the customer’s text message through their computer. The customer uses a five-digit number in place of a telephone number to connect with the representative. As a result, the representative is able to help a number of customers concurrently. Being able to interact with several customers at once, allows the representative to deliver a faster response.\nToll-free texting or 8YY texting is similar to conversational SMS, however, it is much more simple. 8YY texting allows customers to send texts to the company’s 1-800 number instead of generating a five-digit number per customer. The customer is still provided with a representative to assist them, but they are able to reach the representative in a much simpler way.\nSome forms of SMS messaging are so advanced they eliminate the representative all together. This evolved system is called the chatbot. The chatbot is able to assist an endless number of customers with frequently asked questions, or enable them to subscribe to or end their business with the company. The chatbot is much more advanced that a simple automated system in that it can learn from each message it participates in. This is a great option for companies that experience high volumes of messages from customers.\nDifferent types of companies will have different types of customers with different types of needs. The top priority of any company should be to meet the needs and demands of their customers. The type of messaging a company chooses, should be able to maintain the satisfaction of their customers.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In one way or another, all of our lives have been affected by divorce. It's never pretty and it's never easy. But a local program has been very successful in helping people recover after a divorce.\nMarilyn Scafe is one of about 700 graduates of the divorce recovery program at Lutheran Ministries. She says her divorce was one of the most difficult chapters in her life. Not only did she have to adjust to living alone and managing finances, she also needed to get through the anger and the guilt of her separation. But the Lutheran Ministries program gave her hope that there was light at the end of what seemed like a very dark tunnel.\n\"It was a wonderful class - three Saturday sessions that gave you support, encouragement and probably more importantly, the tools to work towards healing and recovery from divorce. It's not a fun thing to go through,\" says Scafe.\nIf you’re interested in attending a Divorce Recovery Workshop, one is beginning this weekend. It’s a three-part series. The first starts Saturday, February 11, continuing February 18 and February 25. They all begin at 9am and run until noon at the Rockford Area Lutheran Ministries. For more information you can call 962-4279.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Author: Paul Ploumis27 Aug 2014 Last updated at 05:08:52 GMT\n(Kitco News) - Gold prices ended another quiet trading session firmer Tuesday, on some bargain hunting and short covering following recent losses. The market place could remain subdued the rest of this week, ahead of the unofficial end of summer that comes with the approaching U.S. Labor Day holiday weekend. December Comex gold was last up $6.10 at $1,285.00 an ounce. Spot gold was last quoted up $8.10 at $1,284.75. December Comex silver last traded up $0.009 at $19.44 an ounce.\nOne underlying theme this week is the rallying U.S. dollar index and slumping Euro currency. The U.S. dollar index is at an 11-month high, while the Euro is at an 11-month low. Comments from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi late last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, are concerning to many market watchers. Draghi strongly hinted the ECB is set to implement more monetary stimulus measures to prop up the flagging European Union economy—and to ward off the threat of deflation in the bloc. The state of the EU’s economy is prompting some increased demand for safe-haven assets. German bonds are hovering near record-low yields, while U.S. Treasury yields have also dropped significantly recently. Safe-haven gold is also seeing a good bounce Tuesday morning. With this increasingly interconnected world, it’s hard to imagine other major world economies being healthy when the European Union’s is so sickly. This notion is an underlying bullish factor for gold.\nThe other theme in the market place is new record highs, or multi-year highs, in the major U.S. stock indexes this week. It’s been a “perfect storm” for the U.S. stock market recently: U.S. economic growth that’s not too hot and not too cold; an economy that’s still awash in cash from years of easy money policy from the Federal Reserve; and very low inflation that makes returns from the stock market look better than other asset classes. However, there are a few early clues this perfect storm for the equities market is ending. One is the U.S. Fed has hinted just recently it will move sooner rather than later to raise interest rates if the U.S. economy continues to show improvement.\nCourtesy: Kitco News", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In addition, that advertisers are most likely to advertise their products and services to those that would typically respond to them (Baran 125). In general, “magazines are often further specialized through split runs which are special versions of a given issue in which the editorial content and ads vary according to some specific demographic or regional grouping” (Baran 125). There are trends and convergence in magazine publishing. These trends are online magazines, custom magazines, meeting competition from cable television, advertorials, and advertiser influence over magazine\nSymbolism is used in many stories, novels, and essays. It is an extraordinary addition to make a story interesting. The use of symbols in stories make the most significant ideas strike out as well as make the reader have distinctive ideas of what actually is trying to be said. Symbolism makes the reader think critically about what the author wants us as the readers to transmit. In “Paul’s Case,” there are some examples of the use of symbolism.\nAsking questions has made my close reading improve. Ellen Raskin helped me understand that it is important to have both high and low questions. Ellen Raskin uses quantities of figurative devices. On a different note, this is one of the main reasons why I like this book so much. Subsequently, one of the main crafts the author uses is figurative language.\nSpecifically, one can respond with either simple agreement, simple disagreement, or agreement and disagreement simultaneously. Via this idea, along with the help of another template, the writer can identify an issue, map some of the voices of controversy, introduce a quotation, state one’s own argument, and qualify said argument. They restate their main idea, that the templates foster the writer’s abilities by ingraining in them useful literary tools. The last argument that Graff and Birkenstein make is that their templates do not stifle creativity, but instead allow for its growth. Their argument raises the point that all creative works are based in patterns and structures.\nSuccessful writers have the capability to do creative things with their words. The effectiveness of one’s word usage is an important foundational aspect of rhetoric and advanced writing. Chapter four of the textbook, “Writing for Success” by Scott Mclean is entitled, “Working with Words,” it breaks down common mistakes writers make, gives strategies and tips on how to avoid them. It also focuses on what is needed to help develop strong meaningful sentences in order to leave the desired impression with a reader. The first section of the chapter\nThere are many formal and informal tests that assess the pragmatic skill. Because of the nature of pragmatics, it is difficult to construct a standardized test that accurately captures the essence of social communication. However, the assessment of pragmatic development is necessary to understand the competence of language use. NEED FOR THE STUDY Although there are abundant tools to investigate the varied pragmatic aspects (Verbal, Non- verbal and Para-linguistic) there is only limited research on evaluating them in a sample of conversational speech. Hence there is a need to understand them to plan for the appropriate intervention AIM OF THE STUDY The current study aims to compare the varied pragmatic aspects in normal and individuals with varied communication\nWhen we don’t have the knowledge of other culture, we tent to judge because we tend to be naïve. There are many people in this world that share values, believes, and culture we are similar yet different. Not knowing how to react to other peoples’ differences because our low education level, is different from having a higher education and still feel superior to other people however, being in the lower education should not exclude people from being responsible of their actions. Before, the deaf communities where different in the eyes of the hearing world. Humans can be so cruel at times and there is not stop, however in orders to stop people’s ignorance education is a valuable tool that people should take advantage of.\nAs stated in Chapter 8, the use of rhetorical features is a great way of synthesizing and analyzing ideas. Incorporating the use of pathos, logos, and ethos has taught me much about the different ways I should analyze an article when writing an essay. Furthermore, it helped me structured my essay in a different way and I believe that the use of rhetorical features will be very useful with my future assignments. For instance, when analyzing my past essays, my best work was my visual analysis because it was the assignment where I incorporated new techniques. For instance, I analyzed the two ads and went in depth to each of the ads’ meanings.\nI was able to utilize a magazine post, newspaper article and research journals to form my argument and provide support. I think I have also become better at revising my own work and reforming the structure of my paper to make it more clear than it was previously. I am particularly proud of my argument\nIn this fast moving world who does not want to get success? Success is something which everybody wants to achieve, but not everybody can achieve it because they do not know how to get success. To get success one should take some decisions, one should also know what he/she wants to accomplish to get the ultimate results. It is the key to success for an individual as well as for the nation and without this feature people cannot be able to capture the success. Education is not limited to books only but it also teaches us the way of life, dignity and respect of people, fundamental rights of people and gives us the concept of equality.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "At the start of the event, Rohan from Blessing of Kings wrote a post to ask whether the new implementation of PvP on Ilum was \"genius or madness\", which summed up pretty nicely of why I personally really enjoyed it:\nFree-for-all keeps things balanced on servers with unbalanced factions. Small teams only keeps the feel of multiple forces running around, prevents raids from stomping everyone, and gives tanks and healers a place in combat. The quest objects and respawn timers give people something to fight over, rather than simply ganking. Plus, it's only 2 of 6 quests, so it is pretty optional if you absolutely hate PvP.\nThe final interesting note is that this is a temporary event, though it will be repeated in the future. By making it temporary, it means that when the event appears again, everyone will flock to it again. This keeps the numbers high and many people involved, which is essential for good PvP.\nHowever, looking around the forums, blogs and general chat, I actually saw a lot of people complain about the PvP portion of the event. Essentially the complainers seemed to come from one of two factions: on the one hand we had the PvE purists and completionists, who felt that they absolutely had to do all the quests regardless of whether they involved going to the PvP area or not, just to then complain that anyone actually engaging them in PvP in a designated PvP area clearly had no life, no self esteem and/or a small manhood. On the other hand we had the hardcore PvPers, who felt that the PvP area had way too many non-player mobs in it and that it was pointless to PvP there because there were no tangible rewards for actually killing people.\nWhile both groups came at it from a different angle, their complaints kind of met in the middle to agree that the PvP portion of the event somehow wasn't \"PvP-y\" enough because there were parts of it that involved interacting with the environment (gasp) and random ganking didn't pay off.\nI can certainly see where they are coming from, but as someone who is neither a PvE purist nor a hardcore PvPer, for me this was exactly why the free-for-all PvP did work so well. I'm someone who enjoys both PvE and PvP, even if my focus definitely lies with PvE. I do enjoy a good in-game brawl as well though, as long as it's optional to take part in it and people can easily walk away from it if it stops being fun. As such I've occasionally wondered what it would be like to level on a PvP server, but I can't actually see myself doing it because PvP potentially being omnipresent would make it hard for me to ever enjoy myself in peace. With that said, I loved the new PvP area because it was essentially a mini-simulation of life on a PvP server that you could easily pop in and out of at your leisure.\n\"Ooh, so nicely grouped up for AoE... oh wait, I'm still a healer. Never mind.\"\nI do think that both the quests involving mobs and the lack of rewards for actually killing people were an essential part of why it worked like that. The quests provided people with a reason to go to the area and mill around there for a while regardless of whether anyone else was there at the time or not. Nobody likes to just sit around and twiddle their thumbs while just waiting for PvP to magically happen.\nThe lack of rewards for actually killing people was an important point in my eyes because it actually made the decision whether to cooperate or fight a genuine choice. For me personally at least, not knowing whether those red names over there would engage in combat or not was a big part of what made things interesting. I did queue up peacefully a couple of times, when it was quiet. Other times I engaged in mad mayhem with guildies, sometimes we won, sometimes we lost, but it was fun regardless. However, this was only possible because the rewards for fighting were limited to capturing an objective more quickly and simply having fun. I'm pretty sure that if there had been better rewards for actually killing people, the area quickly would have devolved into nothing but a pure farming ground for the strongest PvPers, with nobody getting anything else done. Would that really have been more interesting/fun?\nI hope that Bioware considered the way the PvP worked during this event a success and won't change it too much in future reiterations.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The ferocious storm lasted just 10 minutes but cars left out in the open – including many brand new imported cars awaiting onward transportation – were hit by hail the size of golfballs.\nSome of the cars being repaired by the technicians from Dent Wizard International have up to 400 dents in their bodywork. The team comprises seven dedicated hail technicians, four of whom have been posted from Italy, two from France, and one from England.\nIt has been called in by Dent Wizard trade customers in Dover to repair cars that were lined up on open forecourts or car storage areas on Saturday morning. The team calculates that it has work for at least a week on the cars, many of which ‘look like the cratered surface of the moon,’ according to Dent Wizard managing director Quintin Cornforth.\nAbout 25,000 cars a year are severely damaged by hailstones across Europe, which is half the number in the USA, Dent Wizard’s home country.\nThe hail season on the continent runs from May to September with as many as 100 storms in a summer. Some of these can involve hailstones weighing four pounds.\n‘All our hail technicians have to be on call to move into a hail-hit area within 48 hours in order to assist with insurance claims and, of course, perform a very large number of repairs in a very short time,’ explained Cornforth.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sabine joined PLMR in 2018 and has since secured coverage in client’s target publications, organised meetings with ministers and MPs, as well as given strategic campaigns and crisis management advice. She is also one of PLMR’s Brexit and parliamentary procedure experts.\nPrior to joining PLMR, Sabine was a Senior Political Consultant to 50 clients at Dods’ UK Monitoring. With a specialism in immigration/home affairs, rights, justice and employment, she was tracking legislation, advising on engagement opportunities and supporting public affairs campaigns. In this role she frequently wrote for PoliticsHome and the HOUSE, Parliament’s magazine.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Late on Wednesday night, the Cards put out a tweet that some folks thought might have been an April Fool’s joke.\n👀Coming soon… pic.twitter.com/yN2e5lr7Yv\n— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) April 2, 2020\nI guess I could see people thinking that it might be a joke, but 1) brands usually try to do their jokes early in the day, not early evening and 2) everyone had pretty much agreed the traditional jokes weren’t appropriate this year, what with us all trying to deal with a pandemic and everything. Getting a huge championship trophy, though? That definitely feels like it could have been an Onion story or something of that nature.\nA lot of people were down on this, but honestly, it seemed like a pretty interesting centerpiece for the new section of Ballpark Village, which is where it is at. It looks like it is right in front of the new office complex and the fitness place, right down from the new apartments. It ties BPV Phase II into the Cardinal tradition and looks pretty nice right there with the new buildings. (You can see it in this video if you haven’t.)\nSeeing this also made me think about that new section of the village and how strange it must be for all the people that had planned this, built this, booked this to now….basically have it sit empty. I know that the apartments were pre-sold, but how many of those people were able to keep that commitment given the sudden changes in employment status and work hours we’ve seen this past month? Forget that, how many could actually get moved in without risking contamination?\nAnd for those that did move in, sure they can still get some nice views of the stadium, but they expected to see games going on, people going by, a great atmosphere as part of their daily lives. Instead, there’s a quietness as people hunker down. There’s not much activity at the stadium at all–most of the employees are working from home, if they are able to work at all.\nI’m sure the business that paid the what-has-to-be-exorbitant rent didn’t plan on many of their employees still not seeing their new digs. They didn’t plan on business slowing. They thought that the opening of BPV2 would be a time of great celebration. Instead, it’s just going to happen quietly, assuming people are moving in already.\nWhich does bring us to the DeWitts. With millions and millions of dollars, there’s nobody that’s concerned that they aren’t going to be getting by or that they can’t handle this downturn, but it definitely isn’t what they were expecting either. And they’ve put a lot of their own money into this project–money that well may impact the ball club over the next year or so as well. With no baseball revenue coming in and less BPV revenue than expected, it wouldn’t be surprising if the spending is even less than we are used to in this coming winter–and that says a lot, given that they didn’t really spend this year.\nAs fans, we should want Ballpark Village to thrive, not only because it adds a dimension to the St. Louis downtown area and to the ballpark experience, but because the better it does, the more likely (I am not saying it’s a guarantee, mind you) that some of those revenues will find their way to the ballclub. Right now, the pandemic may be making the new phase a money pit and that’s not a great thing for anyone.\nI’m sure that statue was commissioned and paid for a long time ago. It may be the last new thing downtown sees for quite some time.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It was a busy weekend for High School Musical sweethearts Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens.\nThe oh-so-cute couple were spotted holding hands as they roamed Beverly Hills on Saturday night (October 27).\nZac and Vanessa spent their time together doing a little shopping with those big paychecks that Disney pays them.\nEarlier in the day, Zac kept himself busy at the gym and skateboarding in Studio City, while Vanessa visited a girlfriend in Hollywood. But it's tough to keep these two lovebirds separated for too long!\nEnjoy the pictures of Zac and Vanessa's shopping outing on Saturday night (October 27).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Big treats in store for children\nCHILDREN and the young at heart scored a big hug and a friendly wave from dragon and viking Gobber and Gronckle during the start of school holiday fun at Plumpton Marketplace.\nThe stars of How to Train Your Dragon and ABC TV’s Dragons Defenders of Berk, arrived at the shopping centre for daily meet and greets last week.\nBut marketing manager Rebecca Carrig said the school holiday fun was set to continue with a craft village on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11am-2pm.\n“Children can come and create their own Viking shield,” Ms Carrig said.\n“It’s been really great to see kids’ reactions and interesting to watch those who obviously recognise and know the characters by name.”\nMs Carrig said there would be plenty more exciting times ahead at the shopping centre this year as Father’s Day approaches and Christmas not long after.\nShe encouraged any one who takes pictures of their children with the characters or during craft activities in the shopping centre to share them on Facebook and Instagram and tag Plumpton Marketplace.\nKobi, 10, and Seanna Talbot, 7, with Gronkle and Gobber.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jordan FrithNov 7, 2023\nBarcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's ordinariness is the ultimate symbol of its success.\nHowever, behind the mundanity of the barcode lies an important history. Barcodes bridged the gap between physical objects and digital databases and paved the way for the contemporary Internet of Things, the idea to connect all devices to the web. They were highly controversial at points, protested by consumer groups and labor unions, and used as a symbol of dystopian capitalism and surveillance in science fiction and art installations.\nJordan Frith's book Barcode (Bloomsbury, 2023) tells the story of the barcode's complicated history and examines how an object so crucial to so many parts of our lives became more ignored and more ordinary as it spread throughout the world.\nThis interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If you’re looking for constantly updated end-of-session coverage…\nThursday, May 31, 2012\n* It’s at this link. We’ll have updates throughout the day and late into the evening. Check for videos of press conferences and press releases, plus live reports from numerous reporters on the ground. Don’t miss it!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Janice Morse reports:\nWhen Thomas Abner was just 7 years old, his older brothers’ Indiana Scoutmaster, Steven O. Woodard, started molesting him, attorney Konrad Kircher said.\n“For the next three and a half years, Thomas was abused, molested and raped more than 300 times,” said Kircher, a Mason lawyer who represents Abner in a civil lawsuit he filed Tuesday in Warren County against the Boy Scouts of America.\nSome of the molestation allegedly happened in 1999 while Woodard and the Abner family spent a week at a hotel in Mason, visiting Kings Island, Kircher said. No incidents happened at the amusement park itself, Kircher told reporters at a news conference across the street from the park, clarifying language in the lawsuit.\nThe suit is the first of its kind in Ohio, Kircher said, following the October public release of the Boy Scouts’ formerly secret “perversion files,” about alleged pedophiles among the group’s ranks. Those files will be used in Abner’s case to prove that the Texas-based organization knew about people like Woodard, yet did little or nothing to stop them – and took steps to conceal sex offenses, Kircher said.\nThe suit accuses the Boy Scouts of fraud and negligence, asserting that the Scouts should have disciplined Woodard for spending time alone with him and his family in non-Scouting activities, a violation of the group’s anti-sex-abuse policies.\nKircher is working on Abner’s suit with two Oregon lawyers, Kelly Clark and Paul Mones, who were the lead trial attorneys in a landmark 2010 case that forced release of the files and led to a $19.5 million judgment against the Boy Scouts.\nIn an unusual twist, even though Woodard pleaded guilty in 2002 to sex crimes against Abner in Delaware County, Ind., “this case probably could not be brought in Indiana,” Kircher said. That’s because Indiana has not revamped laws that set time limits for childhood sex-abuse victims to file lawsuits, Kircher said.\nIn 2006, Ohio law changed, allowing child sexual-abuse survivors to file lawsuits up until the age of 30. “Six or seven years ago, this lawsuit would not have been possible,” Kircher said, noting many victims take years to muster the courage to disclose abuse.\nIn response to Abner’s suit, the Boy Scouts of America released a statement from its director of public relations, Deron Smith: “Any instance of child victimization or abuse is intolerable and unacceptable. While we have not seen this lawsuit, we deeply regret that there have been times when Scouts were abused, and for that we are very sorry and extend our deepest sympathies to victims.”\nKircher countered: “Steven Woodard followed a pattern that was not unknown to the Boy Scouts. The Boy Scouts had tracked predators. … they had tracked the Steven Woodards of the world.”\nThat’s what the “perversion files” demonstrate. The publicly released files cover the period of 1965-85, ending a decade before Woodard met the Abner family.\nThomas Abner told his mother about Woodard’s abuse when he was 14, Kircher said, leading to criminal charges against Woodard. The Scoutmaster had faced a 108-year prison term. But after a plea agreement, Woodard was sentenced to seven years in prison for molesting three boys, two of whom were former members of the Indiana-based Scout troop, Muncie’s newspaper, The Star Press, reported.\nAt Woodard’s 2002 sentencing, a judge noted that concerns about Woodard had been raised to Scout officials, “apparently without success,” the newspaper reported; two active scouting leaders spoke in support of Woodard, leaving a victims’ advocate “absolutely furious.”\nWoodard only spent about three years in prison before he died of liver failure, Kircher said.\nAs for Abner, he’s been struggling to confront psychological problems attributed to his abuse. Now 25 and living in Arizona, Abner made the unusual choice of “going public,” using his real name in the suit, rather than a pseudonym Kircher said, because “it’s part of his healing process.”\nReporter Douglas Walker of The Star Press contributed to this story.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lauding Dean Baker’s piece on loser liberals, Sam on why the government always picks winners and losers. And Bo Biden calls for a time of action in reaction to President’s formation of a Financial Fraud Unit; he doesn’t mention Eric Schneiderman. Plus, JP Morgan Chase backs off on its collection of consumer debt. And East Haven, CT mayor plans for a taco dinner and behind the arrest of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. Your calls and IMs.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "PS4 sale in San Francisco ends in murder\nThe console's owner was shot multiple times after meeting with the suspect in a location specified by the online ad\nWednesday 04 December 2013\nPolice in America have arrested a 21-year-old suspect, accused of shooting and killing another man after responding to an advertisement placed online to sell a PlayStation 4.\nRonnie Collins has been jailed on suspicion of murder and attempted robbery according to The San Francisco Chronicle, after allegedly shooting and killing 22-year-old Ikenna Uwakah.\nUwakah was shot multiple times at 3.30pm local time at the corner of Mendell Street and Galvez Avenue in Daly City, the location where he had agreed to sell the new console.\nLocal television station KTVU TV reported that Uwakah advertised the device for sale on photo-sharing site Instagram for \"some $600\".\nPolice report that Uwakah drove to the location with his girlfriend, but was shot while sitting in the passenger seat of his car. The gunman fled the scene and Uwakah’s girlfriend drove to San Francisco General Hospital, where Uwakah later died.\nIt was initially reported that Collins had taken the PlayStation 4 after killing Uwakah. This information has not yet been clarified by San Francisco police, although the charge for attempted robbery remains.\nSony’s PS4 was launched last month in the US and two weeks later in the UK, with a lot of demand for the device. More than 2.1 million consoles have been sold worldwide since its launch.\nUwakah's sister, Uzoma Uwakah, told the San Francisco Chronicle that her brother had previously sold items online before. \"He had a lot of friends, and a lot of people liked him,\" said Uzoma Uwakah. \"He was a normal kid, just trying to find his way in this world.\"\nLife & Style blogs\nLooking past the search results: Google 2.0 will 'build airports and cities' says report\nJennifer Lawrence nude pictures leaked: Reddit removes 'The Fappening' board dedicated to sharing naked pictures of celebrities\nAnti-depressants can change how the brain works in just hours\niPhone 'Wave': iOS 8 hoax claims you can charge your iPhone in the microwave - you can't\nThe 'Angelina Jolie effect': Her mastectomy revelation doubled NHS breast cancer testing referrals\nDaniele Watts: Django Unchained actress detained by Los Angeles police after being mistaken for a prostitute\nScottish independence referendum: A nation divided against itself\nScottish independence: David Cameron is becoming the 'George Bush of Britain'\nScottish referendum results: Cross-party consensus collapses amid Tory-Labour spat on the 'English question'\nRussia freezes Ukraine into submission: Kiev admits country doesn't have enough fuel for winter\nScottish independence: The Queen breaks silence on referendum debate – as think tank warns of £14bn black hole if Scotland votes Yes\n- 1 Mario Balotelli: Staff at arson-hit Manchester Dogs' Home convinced Liverpool striker is behind five-figure donation\n- 2 Friends 20th anniversary: Alison Jackson photographs reunited cast\n- 3 A bottle of wine a day is not bad for you and abstaining is worse than drinking, scientist claims\n- 4 The response to my Pizza Express review has been overwhelming, and taught me a lot about journalism\n- 5 Free U2 album: How the most generous giveaway in music history turned into a PR disaster\niJobs Gadgets & Tech\n£24000 - £30000 per annum + benefits: Ashdown Group: Graduate BI Consultant (B...\n£40000 - £55000 per annum: Ashdown Group: Service Delivery Manager (Product Ma...\n£50000 - £70000 per annum: Ashdown Group: Cloud Product and Solutions Marketin...\n£18000 per annum: Ashdown Group: An established and growing IT Consultancy fir...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Liberty_C. is the inspiring creative persona of Austrian singer/songwriter Katja Cruz. Regular readers of The Static Dive were first introduced to Cruz in January upon the release of her single “Time to Grow.” That song introduced a diversely talented singer with an uplifting sound. She delivered a hopeful message to a world that was slowly rising from the ashes of a terrible year.\nIn April, Liberty_C. followed with her debut full-length album “Free to Be Me.” Once again the singer brought the positive vibes on an 11-song collection of personal tales of love, empowerment and growth. With each release she mixes classic Pop and Jazz moods with organic and electronic instrumentation to create her own unique groove. At the heart of the sound is a skilled singer who infuses her songs with equal parts soul, style and sincerity.\n“New Horizons (I’m Ready)” is the latest single from Liberty_C., released worldwide to all major streaming services on October 22, 2021. Cruz wrote and recorded the song just a short time ago when it appeared that we were finally putting the pandemic in the rearview mirror. The song carries a hopeful and joyous message of rebirth and renewal.\nKatja echoes the excitement and newfound confidence of a world preparing to emerge from isolation and fear as she sings, “I feel the strength of a lion and I shine like a diamond.” Musically, “New Horizons (I’m Ready)” features a smooth Jazz/Pop ensemble. A skillful quartet of bass, drums, piano and saxophone matches Liberty_C’s optimism with the perfect balance of disciplined musicianship and feel-good improvisation.\nSadly the enthusiasm of early 2021 has been tempered by a recent resurgence of COVID and its variants. Many around the world are forced to retreat back to isolation for the time being. Touring musical artists like Liberty_C have been forced to cancel shows. Masks and social distancing are once again the norm. However, a brighter day is still on the horizon. When it arrives Katja Cruz, Liberty_C. and the world will be ready.\nCheck out “New Horizons (I’m Ready)” below. You can also hear the song on both the Deep Indie Songwriters and Deep Indie Jazz playlists. Follow the links below to connect with Liberty_C. Get on her socials and get ready for a brand new day.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Authorities with the Pickens County District Attorney's office are investigating the death of 82-year-old Dora Johnson, 63-year-old Patricia Hudson, and 53-year-old John Virgil Johnson. All three were found at Johnson's home in Carrollton. Investigators with the Pickens County DA's office told WVUA TV they're treating the investigation as a double murder-suicide. According to investigators, evidence indicates that John Virgil Johnson's wounds were self inflicted. Investigators will not comment on Dora Jonhson or Hudson's wounds until they receive autopsy results. ...Read more\nJACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal jury has convicted Jesse Mae Brown Pollard of kidnapping a 6-year-old relative to pressure the girl's mother in a dispute over a piece of land and a portable storage shed in east Mississippi.\nThe jury on Thursday convicted Pollard, a former teacher and basketball coach, of conspiracy, kidnapping and obstruction in U.S. District Court in Jackson. ...Read more\n- 1 of 150", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "AVM Africa (Pvt) Ltd, a company that once dominated the Zimbabwean bus market, has recently returned with a revolutionary prototype that promises to transform public transport in the nation. The company has developed a prototype 120-seater bus that could potentially revolutionise the urban transport system in Zimbabwe. This move is key in transforming public transport in Zimbabwe.\nThe 120-Seater Bus: A Game Changer\nAdditionally, the newly assembled AVM bus is designed to carry 120 passengers at once. It comprises of 20 seated and 100 standing passengers, with two exits at the front and back. The design includes ample bus hangers for the standing passengers, ensuring comfort and safety for all occupants. This is common with buses used for public transport in many countries.\nThis development marks a significant shift in the Zimbabwean bus market, where AVM once held a dominant position. However, the company’s return to innovation is seen as a positive move. This is to address the challenges faced by the nation’s public transport system. Also, the future will reveal whether or not ZUPCO will take part in providing public transportation with these buses.\nSupport from Government Officials\nAlso, the unveiling of the prototype took place in the presence of Industry and Commerce Minister Dr Sithembiso Nyoni and senior officials. Minister Nyoni emphasised the importance of government support for innovation. She says that it leads to the realisation of new ideas, methods and production processes, thereby accelerating economic growth. This innovative move in the public transport sector can be a stepping stone for other players to do more.\nFurthermore, she also highlighted the government’s goal to import fewer goods and produce more domestically. The minister expressed hope that the advancement of the transport sector, including the introduction of locally produced buses, will contribute to this goal.\nTransforming Public Transport in Zimbabwe: A Step Forward\nMoreover, the launch of the 120-seater bus prototype represents a significant step forward in transforming public transport in Zimbabwe. It shows that innovation and local production are viable options for addressing the nation’s public transport needs.\nThe success of this project could set a precedent for other sectors of the economy. This is including manufacturing and logistics, to focus on domestic production rather than relying heavily on imports. This could lead to increased job creation, reduced costs for consumers and a stronger national economy.\nIn conclusion, the unveiling of the 120-seater bus prototype by AVM Africa is welcome. It is a testament to the potential of local innovation in addressing the challenges facing Zimbabwe’s public transport system. As the nation continues to seek ways to boost its economy and improve living standards, such developments should be encouraged and supported.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Prosser family honors late-mother by naming restaurant after her\nPROSSER, Wash. — It’s been five months since one Prosser family lost their loved one to a horrific crime. Now, they’re honoring Graciela Gomez, also known as Graciela Fuentes, by doing what she loved.\nFuentes was known not only for her smile, but for her cooking.\n“She mainly cooked tamales and posole — that was her main specialties,” said Isabel Ramos-Fuentes, Garciela’s daughter. “It would be so weird how she could feed so many people off a small portion because she could make it last.”\nRamos-Fuentes learned how to cook at a young age. She said her mom taught her once she could reach the stove. Ramos-Fuentes would be in charge of cooking when her mom was sick. As she got older, they decided to look into opening a restaurant.\n“My mom’s dream was kind of like — I want a place, you know, where I can cook,” she said.\nShe started to look for a place and found one in Downtown Prosser.\n“We told my mom, ‘hey, we looked at a building and it looks like it’s right. It looks like it would work,” she said.\nThey were all in and started the process to get the building. On Aug. 10, everything stopped after a phone call that would change the family’s life.\n“I thought, you know, maybe she had a heart attack or she couldn’t breathe or something,” Ramos-Fuentes explained.\nHer brother called and said there was something wrong at their mother’s house. She rushed over and found police everywhere at the Prosser home. According to the Benton County Sheriff’s Office, Fuentes was shot and killed in her home, allegedly by her husband, Silvestre Fuentes.\n“To me it was like, up to the point I feel like it’s not true,” her daughter said holding back tears. “You know, I feel like she’s still here and I’m still waiting for that call. Even though it’s been months, it feels like I just talked to her yesterday.”\nSilvestre was arrested the next day in Union Gap. As for Ramos-Fuentes, she questioned whether or not she wanted to keep her plans to open the restaurant. It was set to open in October.\nBut something or someone told her to do it.\n“I just had to continue it for her,” she said. “Even though she’s not here, we’re still going to put her recipes out there.”\nAfter Ramos-Fuentes, her four other siblings grieved and the family grieved their loss she pushed forward. That’s when she opened Fuentes Taqueria on Jan. 2 at 1219 Meade Ave. in Prosser. The menu was all because of her mother.\n“I think it was kind of like, her hands that would make that food taste good because there are still some recipes that I still have from her that even though I put the same ingredients, the same portion — they don’t come out as good as hers,” Ramos-Fuentes said.\nTwo common themes are in the restaurant. Bible verses and flowers. Ramos-Fuentes said her mother recently started going to church with her. She also said her mother loved flowers and the garden she had at home.\n“They say that heaven is full of flowers, so my siblings — we’re like, I bet mom’s out there in her garden picking flowers,” she said.\nThe holidays were hard for the family. She said her mom’s house was the place to be when it came to Thanksgiving and Christmas.\n“She was the connection to all of us,” Ramos-Fuentes said. “Now that we don’t have her or my dad, it’s like we’re just kind of wandering.”\nThe connection she’s hoping to get back is through her mom’s cooking.\n“I’m going to dedicate it [the restaurant] to her…without her recipes, I don’t think we would be able to make it,” Ramos-Fuentes said.\nHer mom’s picture will hang up in the front for every customer and employee to see. She hopes to get a plaque made to put underneath it.\n“I don’t know why things happen like this, but I do believe that God can make something good out of bad,” Ramos-Fuentes said. “I miss her a lot. Wherever she’s at — heaven — she’s really happy.”\nThe restaurant will be open Monday to Saturday and closed on Sundays.\nCOPYRIGHT 2019 BY KAPP-KVEW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In a world where peer recommendations are a highly effective and influential form of marketing, businesses are feeling the pressure to keep pace—and taking some drastic measures to do it. According to an Aug. 19 New York Times article, businesses are increasingly hiring external partners and freelancers to post positive online reviews as if they were coming from real customers. Otherwise-honest companies “cheat” the review system to avoid losing the online race for positive mentions. While ethics are not in their favor, the data certainly supports them: 87% of consumers trust a friend’s recommendation over a critic’s review (Marketing Sherpa).\nTip Sheet: Employees: The Best Tool in Your Comms Arsenal\nYou might also be interested in:\n- Social Media Measurement on a Shoestring: Pay-to-Play Trend to Lead to Better Native Analytics\n- PETA, Breast Cancer, Rainforest Orgs Take Varying Roads to Social Growth\n- Week in PR\n- 5 Ways Brands Can Establish Human Relationships With Audiences\n- What Good Internal Communications Looks Like at Wells Fargo & Co.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lady Lakers Pick Up First Conference Win\nOctober 10, 2012By William Kelly of Lakeland High School\nIt was a \"pink-out\" at Lakeland High School to help fight breast cancer during Lakeland's last home game of the season. It went as planned as the Lakers got their first conference win of the season beating the Hamilton Marines 3-0. During the 25-17, 25-20, 25-17 game, Nikki Chavez lead the Lakers with 9 kills. The Lakers start their conference tournament on Thursday.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Feeds, News & Blogging\nDPMenu - Menu dobreprogramy.pl Requires Restart\nDodatek dodający szybkie menu portalu dobreprogramy.pl.\nThis is the tuit.in URL shortener add-on. With this add-on you can shorten your URL without leaving the current page.\nAll your URL's shortened with tuit.in add-on will be tracked by tuit.in analytics solution to give you advanced statistics.\nA visual iconic directory of all newspapers of Egypt for easy news reading.\nThis extension helps to insert emojis into steemit posts\nAre you tired of looking for emojis in Steemit? Does it bother you to search, copy and paste?\nSteemoji helps you.\nA visual iconic directory of all Newspapers in Brazil, easily click and read your favorite Newspapers.\nA visual iconic directory of all Turkey Newspapers, easily click and read your favorite Newspapers.\nTired of being distracted by facebook's news feed? This add-on will redirect you directly to Messages when you hit facebook.com.\nFire Launcher Requires Restart\nLaunching Applications while you are browsing has never been this easy.\nProthom-alo.com news widget Requires Restart\nA manager for the hotter topics discussion group at the University Of Toledo's Department of Physics and Astronomy.\nLink to discussion of the current page on Hacker News.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "MANILA, Mar 25 (Mabuhay) — Having admittedly prayed for a baby girl, celebrity couple Kristine Hermosa and Oyo Sotto shared that their fifth child is a boy, through an updated sonogram of the actress’ pregnancy.\n“It’s a boy! Again!” Sotto wrote on Instagram, with a laughing emoji.\n“Thank you Lord! We were really praying for a girl, pero ito ang binigay ng Panginoon. Babae man o lalaki, we are more than grateful to God. He knows and controls everything,” he said.\nSotto and Hermosa, both 37, have four children: Kiel, Kaleb, Vin, and Ondrea — the only girl.\nWhen the couple announced their latest pregnancy in December 2020, Hermosa included a photo of Ondrea’s prayer for a sister.\nReferring to the yet-unanswered prayer, Sotto, in his post on Tuesday, quipped: “So paano na Lord? Ibig ba sabihin may kasunod pa ito?” (MNS)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:\nA person with knowledge of the situation says that the Miami Heat have closed their training facility after a second player tested positive for coronavirus.\nThe Heat will have players at the arena over the coming days to satisfy their NBA-mandated testing requirements but will not reopen the gym for individual workouts before leaving for the Disney complex near Orlando on Wednesday, said the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no details were announced.\nThe second player’s identity was not released by the team. Heat guard Derrick Jones Jr. tested positive for coronavirus last week and has been working through the NBA protocols on a return-to-play plan.\n— AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami.\nToronto FC pushed back its departure to Florida for the MLS is Back Tournament to Saturday, saying more time is needed to complete pre-travel COVID-19 testing.\nThe MLS team had been scheduled to leave by charter Friday. Toronto opens the World Cup-style tournament on July 10 against D.C. United.\nThe New York Red Bulls also delayed their Friday departure, saying a staff member had produced an inconclusive COVID-19 test result. The Red Bulls said they would reschedule their flight once all the test results were confirmed.\nSix players from FC Dallas and one from Columbus Crew SC have already tested positive in the Sunshine State. They have been isolated and are receiving care while the other members of their delegations are in quarantine pending more testing.\nMajor League Soccer had required teams to arrive in Florida no later than a week before their first game at the tournament, which runs July 8 to Aug. 11 at Disney’s Wide World of Sport Complex in the Orlando area. But issues with test results have caused several delays.\nKansas has suspended its voluntary football workouts because of an increase in positive COVID-19 cases in the program.\nThe school says it has tested 164 athletes and recorded 16 positives, including 12 football players. It says 45 athletes are currently in quarantine across all sports.\n“When we welcomed our young men back to campus a couple of weeks ago for voluntary workouts, even with the policies and procedures in place to try and protect them from becoming infected with the virus, events outside of our control has made the decision to pause these workouts necessary,” coach Les Miles said in a statement.\nThe school says the other teams with athletes back on campus will continue their voluntary workouts.\nNew Jersey’s premier thoroughbred track is scrambling to follow capacity limits set by the state as it prepares for its opening night of racing.\nMonmouth Park is scheduled to present a six-race card Friday evening. Track officials said in an afternoon statement that no more than 500 people would be allowed in certain areas, but added that information on a final capacity number would be released later in the day.\nThe Asbury Park Press reported the track had submitted a plan to the state to allow roughly 16,000 people in the track’s outdoor areas, but the plan was not approved. The track has hosted as many as 60,000 for the Haskell Stakes, its signature event.\nMonmouth Park’s sports book will open but be restricted to 25% of normal capacity. All visitors to the track or sports book will be required to wear a mask and be given a brief health questionnaire.\nA third Washington Nationals player has decided to opt out of playing this Major League Baseball season because of concerns about the novel coronavirus.\nManager Dave Martinez said depth catcher Welington Castillo was uncomfortable playing because he has young children. He joins first baseman Ryan Zimmerman and pitcher Joe Ross among those deciding not to play for the defending World Series champions.\nThe 33-year-old Castillo played last season for the Chicago White Sox and then joined the Nationals as a backup option.\nIndians outfielder Delino DeShields Jr. has tested positive for the coronavirus and is being quarantined from his teammates.\nChris Antonetti, the team’s president of baseball operations, said DeShields tested positive before coming to Cleveland. The Indians held their first workout at Progressive Field on Friday.\nAntonetti said DeShields is doing well and has only had “very mild symptoms” at this point. He’ll have to twice test negative before he’s permitted to re-join the ballclub.\nThe 27-year-old DeShields spent the past five seasons with Texas. He was acquired by the Indians in the offseason trade that sent two-time Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber to the Rangers.\nThe Sept. 12 football game between Lafayette College and Navy has been canceled.\nLafayette informed the Naval Academy that it cannot bring its football team back to campus in time to meet medical advisory guidelines established by the FBS.\nNavy is seeking to fill the date with another opponent.\nThe Green Bay Packers are optimistic they will have fans at Lambeau Field this season, but they note that seating capacity would be cut significantly and spectators must wear face coverings.\nThe NFL club also acknowledges the “possibility that Lambeau Field will be unable to host fans for games this season” because of the pandemic. Training camps across the league are to begin in mid-July.\nReduced seating capacity means the Packers can’t guarantee that ticket holders in the general bowl and club seats will be able to reserve tickets. Season-ticket holders will be asked if they want to be part of a process allowing them a chance to reserve tickets.\nThose who opt out can have their 2020 payment refunded in full or credited to 2021.\nThe Latvian soccer federation says its national team will play a postponed friendly at Montenegro on Oct. 7.\nThe match in Podgorica was originally scheduled to be played March 26 but was called off because of the coronavirus pandemic.\nThe Baltic News Service reported the new date.\nSoccer has resumed around much of Europe in empty stadiums. 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{"text": "Ghaziabad: A petition of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar seeking further cross-examination of forensic expert Dr BK Mahapatra was trashed by a special CBI court here.\nAfter rejecting Talwars` petition, Additional Sessions Judge Shyam Lal fixed September 26 for the start of final arguments in the case.\nIn their petition, the dentist couple who are being tried for murders of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj had appealed the court that they wanted cross-examination of Dr Mahapatra \"as several questions are yet to be asked\".\n\"Our application has been rejected by the court,\" said Manoj Sisodia, counsel of Rajesh and Nupur Talwar.\nMahapatra is a forensic scientist at Central Forensic Science Laboratory Delhi and had prepared the report for the CBI.\nSo far, all the defence and prosecution witnesses have been examined in the Ghaziabad`s CBI court and final arguments will start from Thursday.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The year is 2008. The Dark Knight, the second flick in Christopher Nolan’s expertly crafted Dark Knight Trilogy, has just premiered in theaters, to resounding positive response from fans and critics alike. The picture is a stunning piece of filmmaking, not only from a technological standpoint but from the perspective of the acting, directing and editing. Since The Dark Knight‘s release, it’s been upheld by comic book movie fans and cinephiles as the gold standard for what the comic book genre should have—complex, nuanced storytelling, characters taken seriously, and worlds built the way any other thriller would. The Dark Knight, arguably, is a mystery thriller/drama first, and a comic book film second.\nThroughout the years, several flicks have tried to repeat its success. Though many of us enjoyed DC’s rebooted effort of the character in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, others did not. While the film did really well at the box office, it equally disappointed critics and failed to reach the mark that The Dark Knight held. Audiences purported that the new direction DC had gone in was far “too dark” in an era where cookie-cutter, by-the-numbers Marvel films ruled the box office. Light and funny was perceived successful for audiences; dark and gritty was not.\nCalling DC “dark” and Marvel “light” is a bit of an oversimplification, but it’s not entirely false to state. From its inception, DC’s stories have been more epic, more grandiose and on a larger scale. Marvel has always gone for a more light, scenic route and this has worked for both companies. The Dark Knight was the first comic book film to gross over $1 billion and be well received by both critics and audiences, while The Avengers was a start of an entirely new era for comic book filmmaking. Both routes have their flaws; both have their bonuses.\nThough I loved Batman v Superman, the true crowning jewel of DC’s Extended Universe at its inception, in my opinion, was Man of Steel. The Zack Snyder flick dug down deep into what made the character of Superman tick, what his motivations were, and retconned the more tongue-in-cheek, Boy Scout themes for an epic, godlike warrior who is torn between saving his people and reviving his home. Unfortunately, critics did not totally agree. The film also didn’t preform up to expectations like previous Superman pics, (adjusted for inflation, the first Superman film staring Christopher Reeve would’ve made $1 billion in today’s dollars).\nThe DC Universe has always been polarizing, and the discourse around it has always been passionate. Either you really love DC’s films and understand the intention of what they’re going for, even if they don’t always succeed (I’m in that camp), or you really, really hate them. It seemed, for a while, that the DCEU’s fate was to go in a direction more akin to other, smaller franchises, like Fast & the Furious or Transformers—critically maligned movies that do amazingly at the box office.\nThen, a movie called Wonder Woman happened.\nThe origin picture, starring Gal Gadot in her first major role and directed by Patty Jenkins, was already a history-making event before it hit theaters. It was the first major tentpole superhero property to be directed by and star a woman; it was the first big-screen endeavor for the character of Wonder Woman; and it was the first large-scale female superhero flick in today’s cinematic universe driven landscape. When the reviews hit, they were glowing. Critics praised Gal Gadot’s performance, the visuals, the action and the tone. And audiences responded, going out in droves to support the picture. It grossed $818 million worldwide, and brought fans of DC together. Whether you’d enjoyed the previous DCEU films or not, most people could agree: Wonder Woman was damn amazing.\nGoing back to the earlier comment I made about The Dark Knight being the standard: that film was a true statement in its day and age, because not only did it have something to say politically, but it took the characters of Batman and the Joker seriously, giving them real, nuanced dialogue with message-heavy plot points and chances to do some real acting. The film, dark as it was, had the perfect mix of theme and action, drama and spectacle. And the same holds true for Wonder Woman. Both films balance the tropes of the genre perfectly, while also managing to introduce complex and thorough discussions. In fact, I would argue that Wonder Woman is DC’s updated version of The Dark Knight—complete with sophistication, real-world storytelling, and character development.\nThe big difference: Wonder Woman made me cry. In fact, it made me sob, and that sobbing continued for nearly ten minutes straight. Here’s why:\nWhen Gal Gadot’s Diana Prince turns to Steve Trevor (played expertly by Chris Pine), her face contorted in confusion as a woman cries into the folds of her cloak, and tells him: “Steve, these people are dying. They have nothing to eat, and they’re in the village, enslaved! Women, children!”, Steve, who has been in this war for years, has become desensitized to the violence, the killing, simply sighs and says, “It’s not possible. This is No Man’s Land, Diana! No man can cross it! This is not something we can do.”\nAnd Diana turns, the silhouette of her all we can see, her dark hair billowing in the cold wind as she drops her cloak, revealing her gauntlets and her full Wonder Woman costume for the first time, and says, “No, but it’s what I’m going to do.”\nThe conviction on her face there is so mesmerizing, so awe-inspiring, because in Wonder Woman’s heart, she truly believes that this is something she can do. She is willing to risk her life, and reveal her identity, to help save the people of Veld. And no matter what, she is going to help people because it’s her purpose; it’s what she was created for. To have not only a superhero say these lines, but a woman, was earth-shattering. And when she climbs up through the trenches and onto the battlefield, a single shiloh of simultaneous destruction and grace, you can’t help but want to follow her.\nThe true definition of a hero, to me, is someone who acts not because they are told to, not because it would make them look good, but because they want to. Who saves people not because of who they are, but because they’re people. Who surges into the battle not knowing if they’ll survive, but caring more about the lives of others than their own. And all of this, to me, applies to Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman. As she jogs through the battlefield, dodging bullets and straining her best to keep them all at bay and protect her friends, I get chills. Every single time.\nIn all the discussion about cool action sequences, super cameos and Easter eggs for the next film, the true purpose of superhero movies—to depict heroes, larger-than-life people, saving those who cannot fight for themselves—has been lost. But Wonder Woman reignites the discussion. Diana is more than just a hero. She’s a woman, through-and-through—from the incredibly gripping No Man’s Land scene, to invading a party to search for General Ludendorff, to protecting the world from Ares and tapping into her godly powers to stop the war, to deciding to leave Themyscira in the first place because she knows her talents would be better suited in man’s world than in the safe comfort of her island.\nThe imagery of seeing a woman say, “I’m not going to listen to you. I’m going to fight anyway, because these people need help.” I have the chills just typing it. It was so desperately needed in 2017, specifically, when a man who faces numerous rape allegations is the President of the United States, when Hollywood is crumbling within because of similar allegations coming out about its top tier talent. Seeing a woman fight, and be brave despite what the men in her life say, was life-changing.\nMoreover—in a world where “DC is too dark” is the spun narrative, Wonder Woman swoops in, lasso twirling, and shows the a new shade to the “darkness.” Wonder Woman is a dark film. The color palette has some of the same desaturated hue as Man of Steel and Batman v Superman—in man’s world, at least—and its themes about war, killing and violence are as heavy as they come. In the middle of that gray, hopeless battlefield, Wonder Woman comes surging in, her red-and-blue costume glistening in the light, a signal of hope, and all her allies follow her. That sequence alone is a metaphor not only for the character of Wonder Woman, but for the film itself. It’s peppered throughout with levity, light and optimism. And when the credits finally roll, you just can’t help but smile.\nBut not to downplay all the traditional comic book stuff—that’s awesome too. The first battle on Themyscira’s beach was jaw-dropping, and Diana’s third act fight with Ares (despite some sloppy CGI, but I’m not complaining, I’ve seen far worse) was thrilling to behold. The battle in the village, following Diana’s true transformation into Wonder Woman, is exhilarating and effortlessly cool. The villains were smaller characters but still juicy to watch, and the powers Diana had on display were not only accurate to her character, but enhanced her power set.\nAnd not only does Wonder Woman have messages about hope and faith in humanity, but it’s chock full of encouraging discussions about feminism. The scene where Wonder Woman addresses a British general made my entire theater cheer, and it’s an experience I’ll never forget—because here was a woman, in the twentieth century, telling a man how it was, and making him see how unbelievably stupid his plans were. And when a man asks Steve Trevor why he brought a woman into the council room, the confusion and frustration on Diana’s face is almost comical. Why shouldn’t there be women in the council room? As Diana has lived in a world where everything is equal her whole life, the idea that women are lesser than or barred from anything dumbfounds her.\nLastly, Wonder Woman‘s emotional and heartfelt handling of its central male character, Steve Trevor, is incredibly satisfying. Not only does Chris Pine play the hell out of this role, but the romance between he and Diana is wonderfully developed. In so many ways, they’re equals. He acts on her lead, and she follows his. Never once while watching the movie did I feel that he felt he was better than her, or more equipped to do his job than she was to do hers. The dynamic between them is so idyllic, so perfectly woven together, that it must be seen to be believed.\nAll of these factors combine to create an experience that is one of my best moviegoing adventures of all time. Wonder Woman is a revelation. It’s an event in pop culture, and a true lesson in how to do superhero movies justice. When it comes to ranking films, for me, I go by how they make me feel. Wonder Woman brings about an emotion in me that no other superhero film (except for Black Panther, of course) has been able to do. So when I think of the best DC film ever made, it will be the image of a golden lasso, swinging through the air, a female warrior’s sharp cry, and the badass guitar-riff of Wonder Woman’s triumphant musical theme.\nYou must be logged in to post a comment.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Finally someone in public life has stated an important truth. On Insiders today, Gerard Henderson said, as an apparent side issue, something like: 'The only way wages can go up is for productivity to increase'. Barry the boss failed to pick up the point but it is one that needs to be publicised widely and understood by the voters. Of course, Treasurer Scomo will not make the point because the Turnbull government is making no real attempt to introduce policies that will raise national productivity. This attitude is best described as 'unfathomable stupidity'.\n'What happens when a Shorten government introduces wage increases unbacked by productivity increases? Jobs growth will slow, gentle readers, and, if unbacked wage increases are large enough, job numbers will fall. Such a response was proven by the Whitlam government and endorsed by Prime Minister Hawke in briefing the 'Sherpas' preparing the modelling for the National Economic Summit and endorsed by the ACTU Sherpas. And the ACTU accepted a cut to real wages by not demanding compensation for cuts in real wages resulting from the fall in the Aussie dollar during the 'Banana Republic' episode.\nAustralia is at risk of Banana Republic # 2. Lots of factors are similar. Here is Henry's attempt to point out the possible scenario facing Australia and Australians.\nIn 1986 Australia's international debt was growing far too quickly for comfort. After prodding by the RBA's Head of Research, and a fiery interchange in the presence of top teams from Treasury and the Reserve Bank, Treasurer Paul Keating resolved to follow relevant recommendations. These were to convert the budget deficit to a surplus, convince the ACTU to cop a cut in real wages due to a falling exchange rate and to allow the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates.\nThese policies were all implemented and (after a substantial fall in the value of the floating dollar) the economy moved to a better configuration. Soon however, as the dollar began to recover, the RBA top leadership resolved that this was equivalent to a tightening of monetary policy. While the board was advised of the need to tighten monetary policy by raising cash interest rates, and seemed to agree with this advice, the opposite happened month after month.\nThe economy began to overheat and, perhaps by coincidence, a new management was installed at the RBA. In quick time cash interest rates were raised dramatically almost to 20 %, creating the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This recession was not as dramatic as depicted in the painting (see Image below), but the next Great Recession might well be. Again government debt is growing rapidly and interest rates are very low and supposedly to remain that way even as USA rates rise. Additional factors are that household debt is unsustainably high, real wages and productivity growth are zero or very low and the global boom (also built on borrowing) is likely to end soon.\nThe unfathomable stupidity of the Australian cricket team has appropriately been labelled as 'worse than the underarm bowling incident'. Worse because it was decided at a partial team meeting over lunch, whereas the underarm bowling was an act of passion. Worse because the youngest member of the team was fingered to do the deed. Worse because it was a furtive act that was just as certain as an over of underarm bowling to be seen on television.\nSend the Mont Albert Fourths to play the Fourth test, or at least pick an entirely fresh team lead by Aaron Finch, current best performing Aussie opening batsman. And all the other good performers in Sheffield Shield, with a sprinkling of Victorian players who get no joy from the NSW-biassed selectors. Why are we surprised that descendents of the NSW Rum corps are cheats?\nGood news. The AFLW final was a beauty with the doggies winning despite their leader being unable to play due to an unfair tribunal decision designed, it is said, to impose a softer set of rules on the wimmin. It was alleged on ABC TV this morning that the mighty AFL are going to impose a softer set of rules on the poor, weak wimmin players. What rubbish, gentle readers. Let the Hunger Games begin!\nMore good news. Caaaarlton! jumped out of the starting gate to blitz premiers Richmond with 5 goals in the first few minutes. Faster than last year, stronger - think Cripps as the most obvious - and above all confident with the new attacking flair that has been created by coach Bolton in his third year rebuild. Finally toward the end of the third quarter gas was being lost, and severe injuries saw one player off for the game and only ruckman Mathew Kruezer hobbling about on the forward line. The Premiers went on to a win they will be relieved to have got.\nImage of the week - Banana Republic, as it might have been, or could be.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "PHOTO – Trey Phillips had a goal and an assist in last night's 4-3 victory over Calgary. Photo courtesy of Julie Wilson\nThe Canmore Eagles picked up their first Alberta Junior Hockey League victory of the 2013-14 season last night as they relied on a rookie goaltender and their veteran players to rally back from a 3-1 first period deficit to defeat the visiting Calgary Canucks 4-3. The game was played before 338 fans at the Canmore Recreation Centre.\nSaturday night’s come from behind victory certainly helped take away the sting from Friday night’s 5-1 home loss to the Drumheller Dragons and evens the Eagles early season record at 1-1.\nAfter surrendering two goals on the first two shots he faced, Eagle starting netminder Cameron Barnes was given the hook before the five minute mark of the first period and was replaced by rookie Ryan Ferguson. The 18 year-old Calgary product was up to the challenge as he proceeded to stop 28 of the 29 shots he faced, picked up a rare assist, and was named the Eagles “Star of the Game”.\nFourth-year defenceman Trey Phillips, who was the Eagles “Star of the Game” in Friday night’s loss, continued his fine early season play as the 20-year-old assistant captain had a goal and an assist on Saturday night. Fellow 20-year-old veterans Luke Simpson, Jeremy Margeson and Bryan Arneson also chipped in with their first goals of the year.\nUnlike Friday night’s opener, the Eagles specialty teams were also very effective as they went two-for-four on the powerplay, and the penalty killers successfully killed all 7 minor penalties.\n“It was truly a character win for the boys,” said Head Coach and General Manager Andrew Milne afterwards. “Ferguson came in off the bench and held the fort for us defensively, which gave our veteran players the opportunity to battle back and eventually win the game for us. It’s tough for a back-up goalie to enter a game at the five minute mark, but Fergy was mentally prepared to go and he bailed us out. Phillips had another strong game for us offensively, while Margeson was outstanding on the penalty kill and also scored a huge goal for us.”\nThe Eagles next game action will be Friday, Sept. 13 when the Calgary Mustangs pay a visit to the Canmore Recreation Centre. Game time is 7 PM.\nNOTEBOOK: The Eagles welcomed back captain Nils Moser to the lineup last night as the big forward missed the league opener on Friday due to a 1-game AJHL suspension from a pre-season altercation. Moser is the first ever Canmore boy to wear the “C” for the Eagles. . . Despite being an AJHL rookie, last night’s victory for Eagle goaltender Ryan Ferguson was actually his 2nd AJHL win as he backstopped the Eagles to a 3-2 victory over the Canucks on Jan. 3, 2013 when he was an emergency call-up from the Calgary Royal AAA Midget club. . . Drumheller goaltender Curtis Skip, who stopped 36 of 37 Eagle shots in Friday night’s 5-1 victory over the Eagles, will certainly be a candidate for the AJHL Canalta Hotels “Player of Week” award as the Dragon netminder stopped 43 of 44 shots on Saturday night to lead the Dragons to their second road win in as many nights defeating the Camrose Kodiaks 3-1 in Camrose. . . Registration for the Canmore Eagles Golf Tournament next Saturday (Sept. 14) at the Brewster Kananaskis Ranch Golf course will close on Monday, Sept. 9. The entry fee is just $129 per person, or $450 for a 4-some, and includes 18 holes green fee, power cart and deluxe BBQ dinner. Contact email@example.com to reserve your spot.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sairat, the movie released on 29th April 2016 and the film was one of the Marathi movie which is directed by the talented person who had a great experience and did well for the movie and puts his great efforts to create the movie in a real version.Story of the movie is written by Nagraj Manjule and Avinash H. Ghadge. Film featuring Marathi language romance in the story and the script of the movie shows a great lovable script.\nIts featuring Rinku Rajguru and Akash Thosar in the leading roles and it cames under the banner of Aatpat Production, Zee Studios and Essel Vision Productions. Music of the film was released on 6 april 2016, and given by Ajay- Atul. Producers had discussed to create the remake of the film and as per the response of the film.\nFilm has the story of a young boy named Parshya , who belongs to a low caste and he fall in love with a upper caste girl named Archi.\nwho is very rich in class and his father is a landlord. when their relationship got discovered, the couple faced many problems and had challanges for them regarding their relationship.Film had released with English subtitles in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, NCR, Kolkata, Bhilai, Raipur, Bhiwadi, Karnataka, and Telangana and got screened on more than 450 theaters in India and had done a great collection worldwide.\nParsha is playing a character of a cricket team captain and the brightest student of his college but Aarchi is out of his reach because of her prettiness and confident. Her family is so rich and her father is a king of the local politics, and has great fame in the city.\nDirector Nagraj Manjule, gtake risk of selecting the new comers as they don’t have any experience to face the camera and big screen, but they both Akash Thosar and Rinku Rajguru got succeeded in attracting the audience with their awesome performance and their acting, film has done a great collection from the box office and on the first day of release it earned Rs. 3.60 cr.\nThe box office and non the next day film collected Rs. 4.3 cr. and did it well on the next days , now created a record in Marathio film industry by earning Rs. 75 crore in four weeks and adding the fifth-weekend earnings, the collection would go up to more than Rs. 76 crore. Now its 2 months or approx 60 days after releasing the movie and it crossed the mark of 100 cr. and has a great collection of approx Rs. 123.45 cr. worldwide.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SingaporeMotherhood | Family Fun\nWhere’s WALTER? – What’s On: 17/18 Sept 2011\nChances are, the kids have already met WALTER, the ‘Curious Colossal Bunny’, at 8Q at SAM (Singapore Art Museum) during the museum’s Children’s Season. If they missed him, or miss him, here’s an opportunity to start a beautiful relationship or revive a flagging one.\nWho’s WALTER, you ask? Well, he’s only our nation’s most celebrated buck and local artist Dawn Ng’s very big (literally!) pet project. Guerilla installations of this plus-sized mammal pop up in unexpected locations across the island, challenging our perceptions of the overlooked and the familiar while dodging men in blue and (so the press release says) people born without a sense of humour.\nSo hop down to Marina Bay this weekend to rendezvous with WALTER at the Marina Bay City Gallery from 12pm to 9pm. And yes, we’re about to dangle some carrots to get you going…\n1. Kids can take part in a colouring competition, story-telling sessions, visit a mobile library on rabbits, enjoy a picnic… and more!\n2. Free HP activities\n• Pictures: A HP photo booth where you can take a photo with WALTER, then email it to the ePrint-enabled printer via your smartphone for an instant printout. Complimentary printouts for the first 200 people daily.\n• Craft: A showcase of kid-friendly print apps — from Sesame Street and Dreamworks® Animation printables to Crayola activities — on HP’s latest Photosmart range. Just what you need to keep the little ones occupied at home!\n• Win: Walk home with a HP printer! All you have to do is check-in to “Marina Bay City Gallery” on Facebook Places or Foursquare this weekend or next (Sept 17-18 and Sept 24-25), leave a comment or a photo and stand a chance to win a prize in an instant lucky draw. Present the check-in post at reception and you’ll be in the running to win one of 50 prizes, which include two HP Photosmart Wireless B110a printers (worth $199 each) as well as WALTER and Marina Bay memorabilia.\n• Shutterbugs: Photography enthusiasts, simply upload a photo taken with WALTER to Marina Bay Singapore’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/marinabaysg), together with an interesting caption by October 2. Garner the most “Likes” to win a HP Photosmart Premium C310a printer (worth $369). The top three photos with the most interesting captions will win WALTER merchandise.\nWhere it’s at Marina Bay City Gallery, 11 Marina Boulevard (see map below).\n++ WALTER photographs are from his creator’s website at http://www.dawn-ng.com\nAll content from this article, including images, cannot be reproduced without credits or written permission from SingaporeMotherhood.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A new sign that Target is making broader efforts on style came over the weekend with the launch of a new men’s design collection online.\n“It’s surprising to see Target go after men after focusing so much on women,” said Leon Nicholas, senior vice president at Kantar Retail. “The new collection is clearly an effort to zero in on style.”\nSix brands make up the collection: Billykirk travel bags and accessories, Owen & Fred soaps and accessories, Locally Grown T-shirts and caps from Iowa, Terrapin stationery, Taylor Stitch slacks and shirts, and Minnesota-based Duluth Pack overnight and messenger bags. Prices range from $10 to $270, with most under $100.\nAll items are made in the United States, a nod to the “Made in USA” retail movement. “Men are more likely than women to adopt it,” said Target spokeswoman Jessica Carlson.\nThat’s part of the reason that many of the items are priced on the high side for a discounter, including a $36 tee from Locally Grown, Taylor Stitch pants for $98, and a bar of vegan soap with cedar tray for $16. The highest-priced item is a Duluth Pack bag for $270.\nIt’s part of the retailer’s ongoing effort to move to higher prices and higher-margin items, Nicholas said. “If we lose penetration, let’s double down on where the money is,” he said of Target’s strategy.\nCarlson described the line as universal but geared toward the millennial customer who is more likely to be researching and buying online than in stores. Instead of traditional advertising, the company is using social media to reach younger men.\nCompared to the announcement of the Lilly Pulitzer line in January, the men’s design collection received little fanfare.\nIt was given no “heads up” in Target’s Sunday circular. The dominant ad online on its release date Sunday was not the men’s collection but the “spring home sale.”\n“We kept it low-key,” Target’s Carlson said. “This program is a new twist on the traditional designer collaboration. It’s a test and learn.”\nThe new collection will remain online until midsummer. Most of the items are Target exclusives, co-designed by Target and the brand. Some of the Billykirk items will be available in 160 stores in May.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A strange phenomenon popping up all over dating apps: dudes holding fish.\nFor some reason, men across the country love to flood their online dating profiles with pictures of themselves showing off their big catches.\nIt might not sound that bizarre, but wait till you see tons of these photos side by side. The tumblr page Men With Huge Cods shows screenshots from dating apps of guy after guy after guy falling victim to the fishy fad.\nOur own Kevin Roth has even shared a similar fishy photo. However, it was not on a dating app, but on Facebook. He’s off the market, people!\nWe’re not saying there’s anything particularly wrong with taking and sharing your fish photos, but considering the fact that there’s an entire tumblr account dedicated to ridiculing guys, fellas, it may be time to lay off a bit.\nAlso, if anyone can explain this trend, please let us know.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Apple's new iPad mini with retina display will be available later in November, retailing at £319 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model.\nThe 32GB model is expected to cost £399, while the 64GB model will retail at £479. The 128GB version will be available at £559.\nThe iPad mini comes in silver or space grey and all prices include VAT.\nMore top news\nStrong winds, heavy rain and snow forecast across the UK\nPolice are hunting a man suspected of trying to set Finsbury Park Mosque on fire earlier this morning\nA company which specialises in electronic toys and educational material for children has revealed it has been the victim of a cyber attack.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In a statement released Friday, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) condemned the “existence” of Hamas terror tunnels passing under “two adjacent Agency schools in Maghazi camp the Gaza Strip.”\nUNRWA spokesman Christopher Gunness said the tunnels were discovered “during the summer vacation, at a time when the schools are empty, and in the course of work related to the construction of an extension of one of the buildings.”\n“UNRWA condemns the existence of such tunnels in the strongest possible terms. It is unacceptable that students and staff are placed at risk in such a way,” he added. “The construction and presence of tunnels under UN premises are incompatible with the respect of privileges and immunities owed to the United Nations under applicable international law, which provides that UN premises shall be inviolable. The sanctity and neutrality of UN premises must be preserved at all times.”\nBased on UNRWA’s statement, one would be fooled into thinking that the Agency had no prior warning of the existence of such tunnels.\nFor a number of years now, Israel has warned the world of these terror tunnels to no avail. In the past, Israeli jets have struck sites near UNRWA precisely because of the fact that many of these schools double as arms storage facilities. These carefully coordinated precision strikes have nonetheless drawn the wrath of the United Nations, the same organization that has suggested that Israel is engaged in a campaign of gratuitous slaughter against perpetually victimized Palestinians.\nBut now, UNRWA’s own findings back what Israel has been saying all along.\nIn fact, Israeli officials told the United Nations point-blank last year that Hamas has been siphoning off 95% of cement originally transferred into Gaza for rebuilding homes and other humanitarian projects\n“From our own investigations we found that out of every 100 sacks of cement that come into the Gaza strip [from Israel], only five or six are transferred to civilians,” Israeli Foreign ministry director-general Dore Gold stated at the UN World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul. “A hundred sacks is what is necessary to rebuild a home, the rest are confiscated by Hamas and used for military purposes.”\nAs The Daily Wire reported, Hamas uses the bulk of the cement to construct terror tunnels from Gaza into Israel in order to attack civilians. Weapons, explosives, and commandos are routinely transferred through these tunnels with startling efficiency.\nFortunately, many of these tunnels are poorly constructed and architecturally flawed. Not surprisingly, Gaza doesn’t produce the world’s best engineers as most academic resources are poured into Hamas' propaganda materials calling for “armed resistance” and another Holocaust.\nThankfully, Gaza’s brain drain has negatively impacted Hamas’ ability to successfully carry out terror attacks. An astounding number of Hamas terror tunnels have collapsed as a result of faulty engineering, burying militants underneath piles of cement and rubble.\nSince Israel relinquished full territorial control of Gaza in 2005, the area has been under the authoritarian control of Hamas. The terror group’s political wing makes virtually all spending decisions. From what it looks like, they’re spending most of their money on killing innocent Israelis.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The couple are as much part of Kollywood too and hence, invited the media and hosted a party for them in Chennai. Here are the pictures:\nDon’t they look gorgeous together? We wonder if they would host a reception for all the stars in Tollywood and Kollywood since that has been the trend for a while now. Arya and Sayyeshaa met on the sets of ‘Ghajinikanth’ and fell in love then. The couple is currently doing a film with Suriya and Mohanlal titled ‘Kaappaan’!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Without debating the merits of the loop project, which I still don’t support, let’s look at the politics of it.\nJohn Key has just taken this debate off the table, he has taken all the cards, stacked the deck and dealt the cards into his own hand and Labour are all chuffed by this.\nIt is a brilliant move and one that the morons in Labour are yet to realise. Even today they are going to continue crowing in parliament with several questions on Transport.\nThe full details haven’t even been released yet and I think that they may well feel like the proverbial lemmings rushing for the cliff and suddenly realising that they have been pushed over it by John Key. Read more »\nI’m finding it somewhat perplexing that the council on the one hand refuses to consider spending $6 million on a rail link that cannot guarantee sufficient business (and quite rightly so) but on the other is prepared to put Auckland into hock for $7.3 billion for a highly speculative central city link.\nAuckland’s northwestern settlement of Waitakere is to lose passenger trains after more than 130 years.\nIn a move condemned by rail enthusiasts and local politicians as short-sighted, Auckland Transport intends axing the final 3.9km Swanson-Waitakere section of its network when electric trains start running on the western line in 2016. Read more »\nThe result is that the party has now probably lost everything in the region; the message they just don’t get is that carving seats up based on union heavies personal whims, factional membership and the sex of the candidate is a bad idea.\nAnother bad Labor idea is recycling old pollies – it almost never works.\nThis election has put Labor in a very bad place and the light on the hill that Ben Chifley spoke of, if not quite extinguished, it certainly has the dimmer on low.\nThere are lessons for Len Brown too. Labor campaigned on a new expensive, gold plated, rail line to the airport…voter simply didn’t like their grandiose spending plans.\nThe Metronet rail network is the centrepiece of Labor’s plan to snatch an unlikely victory over Premier Colin Barnett at next Saturday’s election.\nIt involves building rail lines to connect Perth’s suburbs in a bid to ease congestion.\nLast month, Mr Buswell released documents from the Public Transport Authority which put the cost of Metronet at about $6.4bn. He stood by the estimate today, saying the Treasury costings had not included a $1.2bn section of rail between Bayswater and the CBD.\nMr Buswell said a $5.2bn injection into Perth’s rail system was not warranted. “It’s a lot of money,” he said. “I don’t think you can justify that investment.”\nAs we now know Labor bombed, and the Liberals increased their majority.\nI see the Auckland public transport people are slashing their wrists because the use of the rail system is DROPPING. Their solution is to\nsubsidise it some more…\nAuckland Transport have provided a multitude of excuses for the patronage dip over the past few months – some more plausible than others (they blamed the World Cup for some of the declines in August and November, even though the World Cup was only in September & October 2011). Read more »\nThe first train line in Sydney to be paid for and built under the Rudd and Gillard governments opened on Monday, $700 million over budget and three years after it was promised to be finished.\nThe 36km Southern Sydney Freight Line will allow extra freight trains to run between Macarthur and Chullora in the city’s south west and will increase rail freight capacity along the entire Australian east coast.\nBut the project ended up being vastly more expensive to build than when it was first promised by the federal Transport Minister, Anthony Albanese, in 2009. Read more »\nLabour has said they have spoken to Len Brown about their vision for more affordable homes.\nLen Brown wants more people living in shoe box apartments near rail corridors…so people can “live, work and play in the world’s most liveable city”.\nWr know this works elsewhere…and thanks tot he wonders of Youtube we can see Len Brown’s vision in action…where communities, relaxed urban planning rules and having commuters and businesses near rail corridors works well:\nThe Hillside engineering workshops are a national asset and their future must be secured to protect skilled jobs and flow-on economic benefits to dozens of other businesses, Labour Leader David Shearer says.\n“It’s time we got patriotic about our manufacturing industry. It is one of the pillars of our economy and it’s an area where we can shine in terms of innovation and building a clever, modern economy.\n“It also keeps New Zealanders working here rather than heading across the Tasman looking for jobs and better opportunities.\nUnfortunately that isn’t the view that David Shearer shared in this interview in December 2010 with rail cheerleader Mike Lee, and activist Jeremy Harris from the Campaign for Better Transport.\nHere is the short clip of his statement:\nThe key parts of the interviews are:\nSHEARER: (laughing) Maybe we should be maybe we should be looking looking at the Taiwanese to come and do it for us. I can imagine that ah that with the same sort of problems that the the same sort of issues that came up with the ah trying to build the the electric trains here in in in down in Dunedin anyway that there was a um you know a bit of a a bit of a fuss of that I mean I think I think Auckland while everybody would like to see that this expertise is resides in New Zealand I think Auckland is saying gee how long is this really going to take to be able to do this.”\nSHEARER: No I think I think Aucklanders would would sort of I mean I was ahh sort of looked at that at that prospect and sort of thought oh no no don’t tell us it’s going to take even longer much as everyone was very sympathetic about them being build built um in in in in New Zealand.\nImagine being Clare Curran and Trevor Mallard. Clare was proudly showing Shearer off to the Hillside workers yesterday and now she finds out that her Boss actually believes the rail workshops at Hillside and in Woburn (Mallard’s electorate) really aren’t up to it, contradicting the spin Labour is currently running on behalf of the union sponsors.\nThis is an own goal of the highest order.\nCoincidentally, the interview recently appears to have been disabled. Does this mean Shearer’s team knew he’d said he thinks the trains should be built overseas… and they tried to ‘reframe’ the issue by removing any evidence of his previous view? Luckily nothing is ever lost online. From about 9 mins some of NZs biggest rail advocates (including David Shearer) suggest how much quicker rail can be built overseas.\nWith 99 percent of the precincts reporting, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that the measure lost 63% to 37%. This 26% margin of loss was nearly three times the margin shown in most recent poll by the Journal-Constitution. Proponents had claimed on the weekend that the measure was “dead even” three days before the election.\nThe tax issue failed in all 10 counties. The defeats were modest in Fulton County (the core county, which includes most of the city of Atlanta) and DeKalb County (which contains the rest of Atlanta). Huge “no” vote margins were recorded in the largest suburban counties. In Gwinnett County, the no votes prevailed by a margin of 71% to 29%. In adjacent Cobb County, the margin was 69% to 31%.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Count Tom Hanks among the Buzz Lightyear truthers for whom Chris Evans just doesn’t make the cut. In a new interview, Hanks expresses his confusion over the fact that Tim Allen did not return to voice the brawny astronaut in Lightyear that he originated in 1995’s Toy Story.\n“I don’t understand that,” Hanks tells CinemaBlend.\nThe topic came up when the interviewer asked Hanks if it was “strange” to see Elvis going up against a Buzz Lightyear film in the 2022 summer blockbuster championships. According to Hanks, strange isn’t exactly the right word; in fact, the actor says he had actually been excited about the prospect of some friendly Elvis v. Lightyear competition—that is, when he thought Allen was still involved.\n“I actually wanted to go head-to-head with Tim Allen and then they didn’t let Tim Allen do it,” Hanks explains.\nThough Allen himself has stayed mostly mum on Evans’ casting, he did share a quick quip with Extra on the news Lightyear film.\n“I’ve stayed out of this ’cause it has nothing to do [with my character],” he explained at the time. “There’s really no Toy Story Buzz without Woody… It just doesn’t seem to have any connection to the toy.”\nAlthough Hanks shares Allen’s confusion over where exactly the Allen-less Lightyear fits in the Toy Story galaxy, he isn’t about to protest Hollywood over it, either. Hanks says the most important thing the film, and any movie in theaters now, can do is bring movie lovers “back to the motion picture theater.”\n“I want to go back into the theater with a bunch of strangers and leave with something in common. That’s what I want to do. And going to see a movie with them, I’m looking forward to that,” Hanks shares.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This is the moment just after The Farm’s lead guitarist Keith Mullin was smashed over the head with a hammer.\nPhotos taken by shocked onlookers show the 55-year-old appearing stunned and holding his head following the random attack in New Brighton.\nAnother picture revealed the suspect - a 57-year-old woman - being led away in handcuffs.\nMr Mullin was assaulted without warning during an unprovoked assault at around 6.15pm on Victoria Road.\nIt is believed the musician, whose band are known for their chart-topping album Spartacus which included the smash hits Groovy Train and All Together Now, was getting money from a cashpoint when he was viciously set upon.\nMr Mullin suffered a gash to his head, described as a small laceration, as police patrols were dispatched to the incident on Monday evening.\nThe musician did not know the woman or why she would have any reason to attack him.\nPassers-by recorded footage of the aftermath, which included a woman seemingly hurling abuse at a shell-shocked Mr Mullin, standing 10 yards away from her.\nRyan Price, who saw the attack happen, said: “Some woman just hit a random guy across the back of the head with a hammer while he stood at the cash machine on Viccy road.\n“She then pulled a knife and started shouting abuse at people including me.\n“The police and ambulance were called and the situation is under control.\n“Scary stuff. Glad I left the kids at home while I went the shop.”\nMr Mullin was back with students at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts , this morning, where he works as a lecturer.\nThe female suspect was also armed with a kitchen knife, Merseyside Police have said.\nShe is in custody and will be quizzed by detectives on suspicion of affray, assault and possession of a bladed article.\nCCTV footage of the attack is being sought for by officers and a forensic search of the scene has been carried out.\nAnyone with information can call officers on 0151 777 2260 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Microbrew festival aids ball field improvements\nAs anyone who has ever attended a pro baseball game or played in a casual ball league knows, baseball and beer have a long association. The Tri-City ValleyCats baseball team and Brown's Brewing Company, both based in Troy, will tap into that history on Saturday when they jointly present the Capital Region Craft Brewer's Festival -- the first major festival of its kind in the Capital Region to be sanctioned by the New York State Brewers Association.\nThe festival will be held from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Joseph L. Bruno Stadium on the Hudson Valley Community College campus in Troy. It is a fundraising benefit for the New York-Penn League Charitable Foundation. Proceeds will be used to help provide safe and well-maintained baseball fields for children throughout the area.\n\"This is the first time we've done this event, but it benefits a cause we've supported before,\" said Matt Callahan, business development manager for the ValleyCats. The ValleyCats are a member of the New York-Penn League. He said the baseball league's charitable wing typically renovates one or two fields locally year.\nHe added that the festival will also allow the ValleyCats to showcase their stadium in a different way.\nFor Brown's Brewing Company, the festival provides another avenue for getting the word out about their craft beers.\n\"We've been to a lot of festivals ourselves,\" said Gregg Stacy, vice president of Brown's Brewing Company. \"We said this is something we should have in our area. The brewers festivals are a good way for brewers to come out and meet the customers face to face.\"\nBrewers from around the Northeast, including New York, Massachusetts and Vermont, will be in attendance at the festival, which will also feature food, live music and a home brewing demonstration.\nTicket packages range from $25 to $40, and all include 10 coupons to redeem for beer samples. Tickets are available at the ValleyCats box office, Brown's Taproom, online at http://www.capitalbrewfest.com or at the gate the day of the festival.\nThe festival will take place rain or shine.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sad and shocking news popped up earlier today as member of straight edge hardcore punk act TRIAL posted a message that the band is ending their adventure later this year! Founded back in 1995 in Seattle, disbanded for the first time in 2000 and then re-united in 2005, TRIAL are calling it quits for good! They will play an insane final US show with the legendary BURN, Vancouver’s TRUE IDENTITY and California’s PURE on October 10th, 2015 at the legendary 924 Gilman St venue in Berkeley, California (buy tickets at this location).\nPhoto by Matt Miller.\nThe band released a statement to let us know it is the end of the road:\nThis is not a joke…even though The Hard Times posted it and they are promoting the show, this is not satire.\nTrial is calling it a day and our last show in the US will be on October 10th, 2015 (10 Years and a day after our Seattle Reunion Show on October 9th, 2005). We’ll be playing one of the greatest punk clubs of all time, 924 Gilman St., with the greatest Hardcore band of all time, BURN! Also joined by True Identity and Pure. It can’t get much better than that.\nThis is absolutely the last show that I will be playing with Trial in the US, word is bond.\nTRIAL released “Through the Darkest Days” in 1996, “Foundation” in 1997 and “Are These Our Lives” in 1999.\nThe band’s frontman Greg Bennick did an extensive interview for IDIOTEQ in December 2014 – GO HERE to check it out.\nTRIAL have just wrapped up their European tour with BY THE GRACE OF GOD.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Let tracker schemes do all the hard work for you\nSavers are ditching actively managed funds for low-cost alternatives. We assess the wisdom of this strategy\nTracker funds are steadily eating into the market share of actively managed funds. In the past ten years their share of total funds under management has almost doubled, from 6.6 per cent to 12.3 per cent. If you look at the most recent figures, the rise of the trackers, which aim to mimic the performance of a specific stock market index, is even more dramatic.\nFigures from the Investment Association, the trade body for the fund industry, show that in the 12 months to March private investors bought a net £4.97 billion of tracker funds — 33.6 per cent of all net fund purchases. Last month tracker funds, which are largely equity-based, attracted net inflows of £393 million while equity funds as a whole, mostly", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The striker was signed from Heart of Lions in the off season and the Phobians have to spend on his surgery although he is yet to kick a ball in their shirt\nThe burly forward has been on the sidelines and is yet to kick a ball in the jersey of the Phobians due to injury which Hearts of Oak now have to cough up thousands of cedis for him to undergo surgery.\n“Fred Crentsil [former CEO] did a very big mistake in signing Gilbert Fiamenyo who was injured. Were there not fully fit players around?” a board member of the Phobians inquired when he spoke to Goal.com Ghana.\n“We paid GhC 50,000 to Heart of Lions for his services and another ridiculous GhC 30,000 to the player as enticement fee and now we have to find another money for his surgery, Crentsil did not help us at all.”\nThe Fiamenyo episode and a host of others have limited the interest of the board chaired by Togbe Afede who might be tempted to put the club on sale.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Spotify's third-quarter (Q3) earnings report was good, but not great for investors. The stock of the music streaming company dropped after it released its revenue report.\nSpotify’s slow revenue growth\nSpotify was expected to be a major stock since initial public offering [IPO] went public earlier this year. While the stock peaked in the summer, it’s been fluctuating in Q3. The company’s revenue in Q3 was $1.54 billion, an increase of 31% from 2017.\n‘The quarter was largely in line with our expectations and our guidance range, except that Operating Margin outperformed our forecast’, said Spotify.\nSpotify still top music provider\nThe corporation said that it gained more monthly active users, adding four million subscribers to its paid premium service for a total of 87 million dedicated listeners.\nDespite competition from Apple Music and its 50 million customers, Spotify is still the most dominant music streaming provider in the world. The corporation reported that the service is raising its customer numbers in Latin America.\nSpotify helped to lift its subscriber base by offering discount plans for students and families. The corporation also had profits predominately through its free, ad-supported service.\nSpotify’s plans for Q4\nSpotify plans to expand its entertainment options through new partnerships. The corporation will join with Hulu and Showtime, two other streaming services, to offer more content to customers.\nSpotify warned that profits may decrease in Q4 because of its synergy with Google Home. The company will provide the voice-activated system to new subscribers as part of its family plan. As a result of the discount, the service expects that its future profits will diminish.\n‘We anticipate that this partnership will have an adverse impact of approximately 50 basis points on our Gross Margin profile in Q4,' noted Spotify in an address to stockholders.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mumbai: Railway police arrests 2 including minor for performing stunts on train\nWhile three-four boys managed to flee, the police managed to catch two of them. Later on, the police released them after counselling and handed them over to their respective parents\nTwo people, including a minor, were arrested by Wadala Government Railway Police (GRP) in Mumbai for performing stunts on a local train, in a bid to make TikTok videos.\nThey were later produced before a court and sent to two days police custody. A few months back, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) had taken into custody two minor boys after a video of them performing daredevil stunts went viral.\nThe incident took place on June 6. Around five-six boys boarded the train from Mankhurd railway station and started performing stunts as soon as the train left the station for Kurla. A person sitting in the back coach made the video of these boys and sent it to Kurla RPF. As soon as the train reached Kurla railway station, the RPF team started looking for the boys.\nWhile three-four boys managed to run away, the police managed to catch two of them. Later on, the police released them after counselling and handed them over to their respective parents.\nSign up for all the latest news, top galleries and trending videos from Mid-day.comSubscribe\nMumbai youth arrested for performing stunts on local train", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Early on December 10, 2020, Taylor Swift announced the release of her ninth studio album to be titled evermore. This was not even five months after her Grammy nominated album folklore was released, shocking fans. She said that she and her team (Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, and Justin Vernon) were unable to discontinue their exploration of the “folklorian woods” and decided to keep creating what she calls folklore’s “sister album,” implying that the songs are primarily rooted in fiction and follow similar themes. evermore includes features from HAIM as well as from The National. The day after she announced evermore, the album dropped on December 11, two days before Swift’s 31st birthday.\nThe album has one single track: “willow”. On the date of the album’s release, a music video was released to the album opener. The song is ethereal and romantic to perfectly set off the theme of the album.\nThe album’s 15 tracks cover a variety of emotional stories reminiscent of folklore. Whereas folklore featured a trilogy of songs telling the fable of a high school love triangle, evermore tells stories of broken marriages and of more mature relationships. “no body, no crime” featuring the HAIM sisters tells the tale of a girl whose friend goes missing at the hands of her adulterous husband, only for the narrator to kill the husband. “ivy” describes a tortured narrator in love with someone other than their spouse. Finding love after the end of a seven year long relationship is displayed in “happiness.” “champagne problems” details a couple out to dinner. One is preparing to end the relationship while the other is planning to propose.\nSwift has a tradition of putting her most poignant works as the fifth track on each of her albums. evermore’s track 5 is a personal favorite. A persistent narrator works to please their merciless lover in “tolerate it”. Some theorize this song was meant to describe Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales until Diana’s death. According to this theory Diana is begging for Charles’s affection only to be met with indifference and ambivalence. This theory has been thrust into popularity following the release of season four of The Crown which features their relationship.\n“dorothea” probably is the song with the most fan speculation. Some say the track is about Swift’s long-time best friend Selena Gomez. The more popular opinion is that the song reveals the name of Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik’s September-born child. The couple still has yet to reveal the name of their daughter. This theory stems from the folklore song “betty” where many fans believe that Swift revealed the name of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’s third daughter, Inez.\nSome of the tracks take a more personal route. “marjorie” is dedicated to her late grandmother who was an opera singer. Her voice is snuck into the backing vocals of the song. Swift’s relationship with long time boyfriend Joe Alwyn is suspected to be the theme of “long story short,” detailing her fall from the spotlight and eventually finding love.\nWhile the meaning of the title track “evermore” featuring Bon Iver (Justin Vernon) is unclear, my personal belief is that it is an ode to 2020. Swift describes a depressive period of pain against the backdrop of “the violence of the dog days.” 2020 was a violent, painful year of isolation and fear. Many are struggling as a result of the pandemic and economic downfall. Swift writes that she felt as though her pain would be evermore until she found light. Each of us has had to search for spots of light to survive and to remind ourselves, as the narrator realizes at the end of the song, that “this pain wouldn’t be for evermore”.\nMany are considering evermore to be Taylor Swift’s most sophisticated, mature work. It is introspective and exhibits the complexity of human emotion. She definitely delved deeper into “the folkarian woods” and created an album overflowing with passion, etherality, and grief. Simply put, it is a musical and lyrical masterpiece.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What Are the Health Benefits of Wearing Gaming Glasses as an Adult?\nOct 01, 2023\nWhile it is well known that our eyes are in danger from UV rays produced by the sun, there are other ways our eye can be harmed. Many people are in front of screens all day, whether it’s for entertainment and work, which is terrible for our eyesight. Be wary and understand the health benefits of wearing gamming glasses for adults.\nBlocks Harmful Blue Light\nThe main reason why video game glasses are so effective is because they manage to block the blue light that is emitted from smartphones and TVs. Blue light can cause considerable eye damage when you are exposed to it for long periods. Video games typically require a lot of time to complete, which means you will be exposed to blue light over many hours. Luckily gaming glasses can preserve your eyes.\nGaming glasses not only block blue light, but also all the side effects that come with it. When you are affected by blue light, it can disrupt your circadian rhythm. Our circadian rhythm allows us to naturally develop a sleeping routine and get a healthy seven to eight hours of sleep a night. Therefore, exposing yourself to blue light before you go to bed can make it harder to fall asleep. The ability to remove blue light from the equation by wearing glasses is an essential step in improving your sleep—which is critical for your wellbeing.\nReduces Eye Strain\nAn essential health benefit of wearing gaming glasses as an adult is that they help reduce digital eye strain. As we age, more problems arise due to macular degeneration. You can, however, delay those symptoms by protecting your eyes early on. Eye strain might be the most common side effect of blue light and can cause the following symptoms:\n- Blurred vision\n- Neck pain\n- Back pain\n- Dry eyes\n- Bloodshot eyes", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry scored 22 points and moved within nine 3-pointers of tying Ray Allen’s career record, and the Golden State Warriors held off the injury-depleted Portland Trail Blazers 104-94 Wednesday night.\nThe reigning NBA scoring champion shot 6 of 17 from beyond the arc, missing his initial four 3-point tries before connecting at the 5:55 mark of the first quarter. Curry went 4 of 12 in the first half as Golden State held a 47-45 edge at the break.\nNorman Powell scored 26 points but went 1 of 7 from deep, and the Blazers were just 8 for 30 from long range. Star guards Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum sat out because of injuries.\n“Strange,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said before the game. “I don’t think we’ve ever faced Portland without both of them, so they’re in a tough space right now.”\nCurry is closing in on Allen’s mark of 2,973 regular-season 3s made from 1996-2014.\nKerr fully expected Curry to shoot as many times as he could from deep to try to get this done for the home fans at Chase Center before the team hits the road for five games.\n“I feel like it will be special no matter what because I’ll make it special and it will be an amazing experience for me and my teammates,” Curry said this week.\nDraymond Green had 10 rebounds, eight asissts and five points, and Jordan Poole scored eight of his 20 points in the third quarter as Golden State started to pull away.\nJusuf Nurkic had 12 points, 13 rebounds and six assists before fouling out late. Nassir Little scored 18 points for the Blazers, making all five of his first-half shots.\nEarlier in the day, Lillard reiterated he doesn’t want to be traded by the Blazers.\n“It’s the truth,” he said while heading into the locker room after warmups.\nNot that anyone was surprised he still feels so strongly about staying put with Portland.\n“He’s said it numerous times,” coach Chauncey Billups said. “He’s a Trail Blazer, period. He doesn’t want to go anywhere, he’s not going anywhere. He believes in what we’re doing here. That says a lot, because we’ve been going through a ton, on the floor and off the floor, we’ve been going through it a little bit. He’s the type of player and superstar that every team wants to have. … I thought it was beautiful.”\nBillups noted that the moment Curry crosses midcourt “he’s got a bullseye on him” as a threat to shoot.\n“I just think he’s just the greatest combo guard to ever play the game,” Billups said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "There are some new developments in fashion that take me back to my summer in the Himalayas.\nWhile in Northern India a few years ago, my usual fashion sensibilities went out the window. It didn’t take more than a few days in American garb to make me feel painfully plain, out of place, and worst of all un-feminine. Soon after my arrival I sought out a local seamstress who whipped me up a custom fitted Punjabi suit (basically a tunic over baggy pants), in a yellow and hot pink decadent fabric. It was glorious.\nThe suit was a bit too loud back in the US, but eastern clothing still has its draw on me; there is a soul in them; the rich textiles and jeweled opulence can make one feel like a walking goddess on earth. There’s a vogue article about how several major labels are using rich jeweled upholstery inspired textiles in modern ways suited for urban girls of the west. Here’s a super affordable outfit I put together from Zara that I just love. It feels like there’s a history to it while still feeling modern.\nYou can’t not feel great in an outfit like this. This will be perfect for an upcoming traditional Chinese wedding that I’ll be attending.\nEach piece can also be worn separately with basic solids for more everyday occasions.\n[outfit: zara jacquard tunic dress, zara trousers, kork ease myrna sandals, APC half moon bag, Essie tortoise & caicos nailcolor, H&M embroidered top]", "label": "No"}
{"text": "So now we want to ban gas blowers in Aspen? Can we please get a grip on reality? What’s next? How about a ban on people who have nothing better to do than complain about someone keeping their property clean.\nGet a life and leave the rest of us alone.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "David's using an iPad to improve his memory, attention, processing and reading skills. How? Watch to see the Fast ForWord exercises in action.\nFast ForWord has always been at the forefront of technology, helping millions of children and adults improve their language, reading and cognitive skills through computerized learning. Now it can reach even more people -- through the iPad®, the tablet that makes content accessible to learners of all ages and abilities.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "GBP/USD's pull back from 1.5777 was contained at 1.5484 last week. Subsequent rebound suggests that rise from 1.5268 is ready to resume. Initial bias remains on the upside this week for 1.5777 first. Break will target 61.8% retracement of 1.6300 to 1.5268 at 1.5906 next. On the downside, break of 1.5484 is needed to indicate completion of such rally from 1.5268. Otherwise, we'll stay cautiously bullish even in case of retreat.\nIn the bigger picture, price actions from 1.3503 (2009 low) are treated as consolidations to long term down trend from 2.1161, no change in this view. Such consolidation could be in form of a triangle that's completed at 1.6300 but this is not supported by a break of 1.5234 support yet. Hence, outlook remains neutral. On the downside, break of 1.5234 will add much credence to the case of long term down trend resumption and should at least target a test on 1.3503/4229 support zone. Though, break of 1.6300 will bring further rally to 1.6476 and above to extend the consolidation pattern.\nIn the longer term picture, the corrective nature of the multi-decade advance from 1.0463 (85 low) to 2.1161 as well as the impulsive nature of the fall from there suggests that GBP/USD is now in an early stage of a long term down trend. Another low below 1.3503 is anticipated after consolidation from there is confirmed to be completed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Mosquito saliva may be increasing the severity of diseases.\nThe virus is similar to those which caused the SARS and MERS outbreaks.\nA specific chemical in rat poison called brodifacoum may be tainting synthetic marijuana products.\n\"It's unprecedented that we're seeing such deep responses in a such a high proportion of patients.\"\n\"'What's your zip code?' is fast becoming one of the most important things your doctor could ask you.\nThe judge ruled that coffee companies had failed to demonstrate there was no significant risk from a by-product of the coffee bean roasting process.\nThe latest measles case \"underscores the importance of following vaccine recommendations and being up-to-date on vaccines.\"\nThe number of days when smog posed a high health risk have doubled in the last year.\nSome believe Trump's hostile attitude toward migrants and his immigration crackdown have created a public health crisis among potentially millions of children across the country.\n\"This is not just an opioid use crisis of historic proportions...There is a more general drug misuse crisis.\"\nAn executive order could change the lives of people living with HIV.\nPublic health officials report that at least 39 people have become ill from Campylobacter infection linked to puppies from the retail shops.\n\"There were some lessons to be learned from Katrina.\"\nClose quarters make transmission of communicable diseases likely and health care services can become challenging.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A love story about the love-hate relationship between Mike and Mao Xiaotong.\nZhou Yiwei seeks for the truth in a dangerous situation.\nThe striker girl falls in love with a genius.\nSharp-tongued Girl Tames the Wild Mermaid\nThe Fox's Veil\nSong Yun and Jiang Chao's Romantic Comedy Love Story\nJiao Junyan fights against sexually harass in workplace\nJiang Shuying and Liu Mintao, Ladies of Law", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A Revolution is coming\nCan you feel it? Revolution is in the air and the U.S. Government itself is going to bring it over its Convid 19 Psyop. When enough people see through the lies there will be a rebellion such has not been seen in America since the 1960\\’s. I will be doing my best to help light the fuse.\nThe Establishment has severely overreached and underestimated the American people as blind dumb sheep who will believe whatever lies they are told.\nAlthough many Americans are brainwashed to believe, enough people are going to be forced awake by the Convid 19 Economic reset that there will be a violent response against it. We are entering a period in America and the world where everyone is losing faith in the System and for good reason, because the System is completely morally bankrupt. Its based on lies and deception.\nConvid 19 is an unpredictable pandemic : LIE!\n9-11 was a Terrorist attack on America – LIE!\nSandy Hook was a real school shooting with real victims – LIE!\nThe Apollo space program landed American Astronauts on the moon – LIE!\nThis Emperor is wearing no clothes. It relies upon our ignorance and trust to continue to exist. Now is the time to Rise up and overthrow the Machine. We can do it together and there is nothing they can do except try to impose martial law to stop us. Let\\’s see how well that works out for them. Second Amendment, Bitch! Sandy Hook didn\\’t do anything except to wake people up to the Snakes running the government and the media.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Designed to provide practical advice, support and networking opportunities for producers ready to take their shows on the road, this year’s workshop will include sessions on touring independently, removing barriers for your audience and working with venues to maximise marketing opportunities, plus breakout sessions on budgets, tech and touring models.\nThere will also be an opportunity to check-in with members of the Showcase Victoria team about the 2018 application process.\nAttendees will receive an information kit produced specifically for the workshop and registration includes lunch and afternoon tea. Last year’s event sold out, so register now before it’s too late!\nPrices include lunch.\nFunded delegates: $40", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I go to the gym for the first time in over a year.\nScared, I climb aboard the treadmill,\nIgnoring the book in my bag,\nToo frightened to do anything but\nAnd grasp the sensors\nAnd watch my heart rate rise and fall and rise and fall again.\nStealing a few more minutes,\nI sit in the parking lot and open this book,\nFilled with poetry\nAnd a family\nAnd dust that fell like snow.\nBack at the gym again,\nI walk and then I run.\nBook in hand, I lose myself\nIn Billie Jo’s America,\nI slow my pace,\nTears welling up as I weep with the characters.\nI read the last page as the timer counts down the final seconds.\nVictory, I realize,\nTakes many forms–\nOver defeats and over sadness.\nAnd once again, a book has lifted me beyond my own limited world\nTo see the possibilities before me–\nHope beyond sadness,\nLife beyond death,\nMusic after silence,\nAnd spring despite the dust.\nOut of the Dust by Karen Hesse, winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Yes, it's my own fault. WHY did I think the kitsch factor of getting that Brady Bunch Have a Sunshine Day CD for a dollar at the thrift store, and adding it to my list, was a good idea? The songs didn't come up much---no individual song does. But yesterday, it played. Yes, \"Time to Change\", the immortal song from the episode where Peter's voice is changing. Here's a video of it, if you've never had the pleasure... Time To Change. Janey was electrified. The second it was over, she screamed out \"TIME TO CHANGE!\" And it continued, 6 lovely more times before we mercifully reached home.\nAnd of course, I could have been selfish and not added it to her list. But in my determination to let her live as normal a life as possible, I put it on. Kids like music their parents don't. It's part of life. I've listened to more Black Sabbath in my life than any middle-aged woman should, thanks to William's fandom. And so, Janey deserves her one taste.\nAs I write this, the music plays on. It burns, oh how it burns. But Janey loves it, and I love it that she loves it, even if I don't.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Snapchat app allows you to watch stories without a data connection. Simply make sure that the app is connected to the internet for a few minutes so that it can load the stories. Once the stories have fully loaded, switch to airplane mode for two minutes. After this period, you can then turn the app off and view your stories without the need for a data connection. The view is then automatically sent to the server when you get back online.\nThere are a couple of ways to view a story on Snapchat. First, you can sign in using your Snapchat credentials. Once logged in, swipe left until you reach the stories section. You can swipe down to load all of the stories. If you don’t see any stories, swipe left or right. If the page is not loading, tap back. You can also switch off mobile data and Wi-Fi so that you can continue to view your stories.\nAnother way to find out who views a story is to switch to airplane mode or manually turn off mobile data or WiFi. By doing this, you will be able to view the stories, but without an Internet connection, Snapchat will not be able to send the “view” to the server. Therefore, it won’t be possible to record a story if you don’t have an Internet connection. Once you have an Internet connection, you can check your stories again and post them to your story again.\nThere are also ways to see a story without an Internet connection. Once you’ve signed in, swipe left to see the stories section. To view a story, swipe down and select “all stories”. To view stories without an Internet connection, tap the story you’re interested in and wait a few seconds. Once the stories have loaded, you can start recording them. Obviously, without an Internet connection, Snapchat will be unable to send the “view” or record a story.\nThe only way to view a story on Snapchat is to be a friend with the app. To do this, you need to be a friend with the app. If you’re not a close friend, it will be impossible for you to view the other’s story. However, you can still view their stories anonymously if you’re on the same account as them. You can try to convince the other person to accept your request by posting a story with them.\nIn the same way, you can also disable the Internet connection in order to view your stories. While your phone is in airplane mode, you can easily turn off WiFi or mobile data. You can still view the stories if you have an Internet connection, but you’ll need to wait for the Snapchat servers to upload the video to their servers. Then, you can swipe left or right to view further stories. It’s the same process as with the apps you use every day.\nTo view the stories of your friend, you must first log in with the correct credentials. Then, swipe to the right. Now, you can see the stories of your friend. To do this, swipe to the left. Next, scroll down to see the list of your friend’s stories. Then, just tap on the story and read it from there. After that, you can start recording your story. So, do not be afraid of accidentally viewing your story.\nYou can also view a story of someone else if you’re not on the same network. The Snapchat app has an option to allow you to do this. After downloading the application, you can then follow the steps outlined above to see the other person’s story. If the user doesn’t allow you to view his or her story, you can choose to delete the content by deleting it. You can delete it after the expiration date.\nThe last step is to turn off your internet connection. The Snapchat app can’t be used in airplane mode. This means that it can’t be used to view other people’s stories. You can also view stories by turning off your Wi-Fi and mobile data. Then, you can view the stories of other people and see who’s viewed the most. It’s very important to know that you have the permission to view other people’s stories in order to access Snapchat.\nFor more information, please visit: aio bot proxies", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|01-12-2013, 09:37 PM||#11|\nkickin' the tires'\nJoin Date: Dec 2008\nLocation: formerly Hays, Ks.\nWhat happened to you guys' today is everything what it's like to be a Chefs fan.\nSorry, initially I wanted & thought the Broncos would go to the big dance but softened up to see the killer Ray Ray make it one more time. Cause if he don't we're liable to suffer through a Favre process?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "These lectures were organized in collaboration with the School of Design of the Catholic University of Chile and are part of the partnership between AZ and ChileDiseño A series of lectures on Intellectual Property were delivered by ChileDiseño and Albagli Zaliasnik throughout November and December. Their goal was to inform and train graphic designers and companies on the legal and administrative aspects of a design project in order to ensure the exclusivity of their products and creations.\nThis was made possible through the partnership between ChileDiseño and Albagli Zaliasnik enabling the law firm to provide legal support to the designers through sharing its knowledge base.\nAccording to the Director of the Intellectual Property Group at Albagli Zaliasnik, Ariela Agosin, the legal team at AZ is committed to supporting and legally protecting innovation and design creations by offering their expertise on issues of trademark protection, patents, industrial design, domain names and Internet law, licensing, copyright and advertising law, among others.\nShe added that AZ is the only Chilean firm member of the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) as a forerunner in the country on all aspects of national and international regulations of advertising, marketing, and promotions. It should also be noted that Ariela Agosin is the Regional President of GALA for the Americas.\nCristián Montegu, President of ChileDiseño, pointed out that this is an example of how two different institutions can come together and benefit from knowledge sharing of their respective fields of expertise.\n\"How to Protect your Creativity\"\nThe lectures under the unifying...", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Compare and contrast the business and politics of the Gilded Age (late 1800's) with those of the present day.\nThe major factor that can be used to compare these two eras is the extent to which there is economic inequality that comes out of the nature of business in America. In the Gilded Age, factory owners made huge amounts of money while an oversupply of low-skill workers created a situation in which the workers made very little money. This is replicated today to some extent as \"knowledge workers\" can make a great deal of money while those who do low-skill jobs do not get paid well because of competition both from foreign countries and from all the other people in the US who lack the skills to make big money.\nThe main difference between the two eras is that politics today is much cleaner than it was in the Gilded Age. While people claim that government is controlled by big businesses today, it is a much less direct form of control (if it exists) than there was in the Gilded Age. In the Gilded Age, there was much more clear-cut corruption in which government officials were \"bought\" by the big corporations. This does not exist in today's world where the media is always ready to expose any such dealings.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It’s easy to imagine living in the suburban PrairieGrass apartment community. Call or email our leasing team to schedule a VIRTUAL TOUR today!\nPrairieGrass at Jordan Creek exemplifies Midwest style and flair in the charming Iowa city of West Des Moines. Our ideal location offers easy access to parks, walking and running paths, and top-notch schools in the acclaimed and award-winning Waukee School District. We're also only blocks away from the Jordan Creek Mall, the largest mall in the state!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "About the Book\nJourney along with nine women who find themselves on the move out of their comfortable lives and into the unknown as they set up new homes, take on new jobs, seek out loved ones, and encounter romance. Will their faith endure the hardships, and will love form when life is in transition? Written by nine inspirational romance authors who have a passion for American history and faith.\nIn Where the Heart is by Sally Laity, Leah Somerville is heartbroken when she finds out her brother will inherit her home, Laurelwood. Leah hoped and prayed her hard work and dedication to her family and Laurelwood would result in her being given the home, even though it wasn’t the norm in 1860. However, she realizes she must find another place to live when her younger brother boldly announces he is to receive the home immediately.\nRhonda Gibson introduces us to Polly Schultz in The Midwife’s Apprentice. Polly is traveling on the Oregon Trail after being forced from her home by her mentor’s new husband. She is journeying with a family expecting a baby. However, due to a misunderstanding, she has to abandon their wagon and stay with another family.\nMurder or Matrimony, by Pamela Kay Tracy, puts us back on the Oregon Trail with Megan Crawford. Megan left her old life behind in the hopes of a new beginning but, she encounters multiple hurdles along the way.\nBride in the Valley, by Andrea Boeshaar, remains on the Oregon Trail. Dillon Trier and Penny Rogers are two young people we met in an earlier story. Miss Penny isn’t the best cook, especially over a campfire, but the few times Dillon eats with her family, he has no complaints. Dillon’s been ordered by his boss to stay away from the ladies and concentrate on his job of making sure his boss’ spoiled, pampered daughter’s piano makes it safely across the dangerous terrain.\nNew Garden’s Inspiration, by Claire Sanders, is set in Indiana in 1861. Leah Wall, a young Quaker, living with relatives since the death of her parents, feared she would never marry. Nevertheless, handsome Caleb Whitaker, a widower with two children, asks for her hand in marriage. However, Leah quickly discovers all is not as she thought or dreamed.\nA Tender Branch, by Jane LaMunyon, takes place in 1874. Mary Sherwood is grown. However, she never forgave her father for letting the Civil War claim him on the battlefield. She also blames him for her mother’s death and the destruction of their home when she was six years old. Now, she finds out that her father is not only alive, but has the audacity to want to see her, and wants her to travel cross-country to where he has started his new life.\nErica Vetsch brings us the story of Evelyn in Knight and Day. Evelyn is one of four sisters forced out of their home upon their father’s death. The four have traveled to Wyoming in 1874 as mail order brides. Unbeknownst to Evelyn, her future groom has a child. Evelyn has a child too and hasn’t told her future groom either.\nThe story of Evelyn’s sister, Emmeline, is picked up in On a White Charger, by Erica Vetsch. Emmeline is a dreamer and fantasizes about a life as a cattle rancher’s wife. Her fantasies are fueled by dime novels and have ill-prepared her for life as a shepherd’s wife; adding insult to injury, the local cattle ranchers don’t like the sheep either.\nCarol Cox finishes the collection with The Wonder of Spring. Charlene Matkin and her grandfather, Jed have been trying to support themselves by selling eggs to the town grocer. In her spare time, Charlene writes stories based on her grandfather’s life. She realizes her dream when an out-of-town newspaper wants to publish her stories. However, there is a catch-she has to have a masculine pen name. Charlene is torn between her desire to write and earn enough money to supplement her meager earnings, and her aversion to creating a pen name, thereby perpetrating a falsehood. After much consideration, she decides on the pen name, Charlie.\nI received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Recommended by Wales VS Switzerland in the European Cup, director Belle Wales wins Switzerland for the first time, the coach is dead,3d printed sex toy maker\nChris is not pure, and he can naturally hear what Mordred said. 3d printed sex toy maker Real Madrid has gathered many stars and almost gathered the best players in the world . Now when he returns to the Chinese team , he is like fishing out a whitebait from the sea and putting it in the river. Although he can swim , he can still swim. It's better to swim fast in the sea.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Is your brand’s mobile marketing strategy measuring up to the growing number of digital users? Today’s consumers are mobile-first, spending more time on the internet with their smartphone or tablet than a computer.\nYour business or brand has to adapt to the changing times so that you can reach more mobile device-obsessed consumers and be one step ahead of the competition. One of the emerging mobile technology trends you can explore is artificial intelligence (AI). Considered the next big thing in mobile marketing, AI has started to create new marketing opportunities for various brands.\nThe potential applications for AI are hugely diverse, and innovative businesses are taking advantage of this. Ecommerce brands like Amazon are using AI to predict buying behavior. Even website builders like Bookmark are using AI to determine optimal web design. The possibilities are endless!\nOn the marketing side, Dresner’s 2019 Data Science and Machine Learning Market Study found that 40% of marketing and sales departments prioritized AI and machine learning higher than any other department in enterprises. A study by Gartner predicts that AI embedded in analytics and other marketing software will free up more than a third of data analysts in marketing organizations by 2022 through automating processes like personalization, lead scoring, anomaly detection, marketing performance management, and reporting.\nWith 64% of consumers expecting personalized shopping experiences based on their past interactions with a brand, AI offers a potential solution for hyper-focused marketing. It’s a matter of brands and marketers adopting the technology when the time is right.\nWant to adopt AI for mobile marketing but not sure how to go about it? Take your cue from the five AI trends currently used by successful brands today.\nChatbots for a seamless brand-consumer engagement\nChatbots are computer programs that can engage people in human-like conversations through messaging apps to automate business transactions such as processing orders, booking flights and hotels, managing one’s personal finances, scheduling an appointment, and more. AI processes text or speech inputs and sends an appropriate response to the user.\nThese artificially intelligent messaging-based bots provide a huge opportunity for mobile marketers who aim to position their brand as a trailblazer in the industry. Adopting chatbots as part of your mobile marketing strategy can benefit your brand in several ways.\nFirst, you can reach a wider audience. Acquire reports that approximately 1.4 billion people use messaging apps and are willing to talk to chatbots. Facebook itself has reported the creation of over 300,000 bots on their platform. While the exact number of bots being used for customer service has not been disclosed, businesses and customers exchange around 8 billion messages a day on Messenger.\nSecond, using chatbots helps reduce customer support costs (i.e., fewer customer service agents and less overtime hours) while boosting your operational efficiency. Research shows that as many as 64% of internet users see 24-hour service as the most significant benefit of chatbots.\nMost importantly, this mobile technology trend makes seamless interactions between brands and consumers happen. With 47% of consumers willing to purchase consumer goods via a chatbot, customers see bot interaction as easy and reliable for their needs. The online conversation mimics the experience of shopping in a traditional retail store. Mobile marketers can further enhance user experience by creating customized recommendations for each consumer based on interactions with the chatbot.\nNumerous businesses around the world either created their own messaging apps or tap existing platforms like Facebook Messenger, Slack, and Kik and have converted more customers by removing conversion barriers and allowing them to place orders by chatting or speaking directly through their smartphones. Some of the popular brands that use chatbots include Starbucks, Domino’s Pizza, Pizza Hut, and Spotify.\nBuilding a chatbot for your brand is a lot easier and cheaper than it sounds. Businesses of any size can develop their own mobile technology. You don’t need a big development team, a massive budget, or extensive AI knowledge to develop an artificially intelligent chatbot. All it takes is using an open chatbot development platform to create a messaging-based bot in a matter of minutes.\nDynamic pricing for maximized profits\nAI enables businesses to automatically set dynamic prices rather than fixed prices to maximize their profits. Dynamic pricing adjusts prices in real-time based on market demand and how much a customer can and is willing to pay.\nThis mobile marketing technology also predicts which consumers might need to be offered a discount before they convert and which ones might convert without the need for a discount. This way, price cuts are targeted only at consumers who will convert when offered a discount.\nOnline retail giant Amazon was well ahead of the curve in its early implementation of dynamic pricing. Nowadays, it finds major success with its deployment of AI to monitor factors like Key Value Items (KVIs) and Key Value Categories (KVCs) to set prices for certain goods and promote offers to specific users.\nYour business, too, can leverage dynamic pricing for optimized profits by investing in a software that uses AI to manage your prices and revenues.\nConsumer data analysis for better ad targeting\nAI makes it easy for mobile marketers to craft more targeted and personalized marketing messages such as special offers and ads by spotting consumers’ behavioral trends and patterns. This mobile technology provides marketers with insights on consumer preferences and the best times for sending out those messages.\nTo understand and predict how a customer would behave, customer data is analyzed, including what they usually buy, what they’re talking or asking about, their demographics, location, and social behavior. In doing so, marketers find out which customers would make repeat purchases or the chances a particular prospect will convert.\nThis predictive analysis is well evident on the product recommendations of e-commerce sites like Amazon. For example, after purchasing dog food on Amazon, its algorithm will keep showing you similar or related products (e.g., dog accessories and pet care supplies) that you might consider buying.\nNetflix, YouTube, and Spotify also have algorithms that work much in the same way to provide user enhanced experience through movie, video, and music recommendations that are relevant to every user.\nVoice Search Recognition\nThere is much potential in voice search recognition for mobile marketing. Voiced-based devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home Mini are changing the way consumers interact with media and utility apps. Penetration of this technology and the sophistication of these devices are growing—Adobe reports that 36% of consumers own a smart speaker today, with 54% of owners saying their speakers accurately understand their spoken words. The same study cites nearly half of consumers (47%) use voice assistants on their smartphones most, with smart speakers coming at a close second (31%.)\nThese AI-based voice assistants continue to learn from customer interactions, queries, requests, instructions, media preferences, and more, giving marketers access to more data for profiling and segmenting users. This means you can offer more highly-personalized and hyper-focused messages when your customers are ready to hear them.\nYour mobile marketing efforts can leverage voice search recognition through AI-powered voice analytics. With this, you can further optimize your content, improve user experience, and even rank in the voice search indexes.\nAI and Blockchain\nAnother key AI technology to look out for is that which integrates with blockchain technology. Traditional AI is ripe with potential privacy issues, which is something that decentralization of data can help with. Blockchain can revolutionize the way we use AI to enhance mobile marketing campaigns while preserving the rights of individuals.\nHere’s a quick infographic about some of the top AI blockchain projects in 2019:\nSimply integrating AI into your mobile marketing efforts gives you a competitive advantage, especially if you’re the first in your industry to do it. What more if you manage to implement it successfully?\nSo, take advantage of its potential for customer engagement as well as time and cost-saving benefits before it goes fully mainstream.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A little less this time around but watch that podcast(to the few that haven't!) it was awesome and I feel for poor Meso ;-; even if he was wrong.\n9/9, especially the Bingzak name bit...\nHey someone definitely said bean sack instead on bingzak somewhere in there! Seriously though, takabinga is an monstrosity of a name but still humorous.\nWhenever Meso says, \"With Absolute Certainty\"\nit actually means, \"Citation Needed\".\nBetter than any of my drawings!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "An unexpected outcome of my MFA experience is that it’s deepened my appreciation for voice and style in fiction writing. Not that my literary tastes were all that refined to begin with. Before joining the program, I liked stories if they were funny. Or if their story arcs featured gripping action. Or if they built vivid, captivating worlds. And that was pretty much it. Over time, however—and through a lot of reading and writing—I’ve grown to enjoy stories of all genres and forms because I’ve begun paying greater attention to voice and language, because I now recognize the weighty role these “quieter” aspects of the work play in shaping powerful stories. Not only do they make line-level reading more pleasant, I’ve learned, they form the very bedrock of the other aspects of writing. The setting falls flat without lifelike descriptions of it. Just as the plot doesn’t move without clear, captivating passages that seem to effortlessly transport the reader from Point A to Point B.\nAnd this realization has prompted me to work on the quality of my own prose. See, I came to creative writing from the world of business blogging, so my writing style tends toward the prosaic. And I think many fiction writers would say the same thing (about the prosaic writing, not the business blogging). In many emerging authors (myself included), I see a desire to move away from a more functional writing style and towards a more poetic one, an eternal quest for the line that truly sings. But that isn’t to say that poetic is always better (spoken like a true fiction writer, am I right?). Poetic is beautiful, but it’s also, by definition, less clear. More associative. And so, the opposite problem of dry, dull prose is that of the story that’s too disparate and blurry, where it’s difficult to piece the individual, beautiful lines into a coherent narrative.\nBetween these two extremes is a vast middle ground containing countless ways to shape your prose, with no right answer and a lot of it depending on personal style. And, hell, it isn’t even a true spectrum because occasionally you’ll stumble on that killer line that’s both a perfect encapsulation of what you wanted to say and the most beautiful way of saying it. Writers like Karen Russell and William Gibson seem to have a preternatural gift for these constructions. But for the rest of us, finding the right balance between imagery and clarity can be a recurring struggle.\nWhile there’s certainly no formula for achieving that balance, there are several techniques that can help a writer negotiate it. Below are five tips designed to help fiction writers improve both the beauty and clarity of their prose: surefire ways to hone the voice of your writing as you draft or revise your next piece.\nFive Tips for Balancing Imagery and Clarity in Your Prose\n1. Vary your sentence length and style\nRemember that there’s beauty in the simple sentence. Too often, we confuse the concept of stunning, poetic language with flowery prose, but leaning too far this way can make a story seem overwrought or overwritten, especially if your paragraphs are a parade of long, flowy sentences. It’s important to remember that the term “monotonous prose” (that scourge of a label) can apply to any form of syntactical repetition (not just an overreliance on short, boring sentences). So switch it up. Punctuate a long, descriptive sentence with a short, active one. Not only do readers find this varied writing pleasing and engaging; it also presents many opportunities to heighten your clarity. Long sentences offer the chance to get precise in your descriptions, while the short ones are an opportunity to be direct in your meaning. Not that either of those constructions is necessarily limited to those roles, but it’s helpful to keep those strengths in mind as you’re constructing a story from those building blocks.\nBonus tip: Reading your work aloud is a great way to check how you’re doing on this technique. If it sounds good to you (varied, striking, etc.), it’ll read well to someone else. And if your sentences trip you up anywhere (due to ambiguous or unwieldy writing), chances are your reader will stumble over the same line you did.\n2. Sometimes less is more with vivid prose\nThis rule goes hand in hand with the previous one, shedding a slightly different light on why, sometimes, the right move is to scale back the imagery or poeticism of a given story, scene, or paragraph.\nI understand the desire to paint scenes as if they’re stunning murals, moving the reader from one arresting detail to the next, but there’s a point at which it becomes simply too much. It’s important not to describe scenes/characters/et cetera in Dickensian detail (But tell me, Charles, what about the lone candlestick sitting atop the aforementioned table in the back corner of the room? How did that look?) because you end up subverting your own prose in two crucial ways. First, you crowd out the truly beautiful lines by giving their neighbors the same weight. Second, you deprive the reader of the chance to create their own mental image of the setting/person in question by stuffing their head full of minutiae. Better to identify the best lines or most crucial details and pare back the sentences around them, letting the stunners do most of the work and letting the reader fill in the gaps as they please.\n3. Beware metaphors at the beginning of stories (and in speculative worlds)\nMetaphors are amazing tools for any writer. They can be succinct, beautiful, evocative… and horribly unclear if misused. One mistake I’ve made several times is to drop a careless metaphor at the beginning of a story, before the reader has found their footing in the world and therefore can’t even know if I’m speaking metaphorically or not.\nAs an example, let’s imagine I start a story by saying, “I’m a monster.” That’s the very first line. As a reader, you’re probably thinking, Does he mean that literally (a terrifying non-human creature) or figuratively (a loathsome human being)? And if the story doesn’t include enough grounding language around this metaphor, that single ambiguity can derail the reader’s journey into the rest of the story. To avoid that, it’s usually a good move to focus on grounding the reader at the beginning of the story and swapping out unclear metaphors for similes or good old-fashioned descriptive language. Then, once the reader’s found their feet, you can blow the barn doors off and get as metaphorical as you like.\nIt’s worth mentioning that the same rule applies to many speculative stories, regardless of where you are in the plot arc. Depending on what kind of speculative fiction you’re working with (fantasy? sci-fi? surrealism?), it helps to be mindful of the metaphors you’re using in order to make sure they don’t bleed into the speculative elements of your world. For instance, let’s say you’re working in a surreal world where the divide between the real and the magical is blurry. In that case, using a line such as “her face turned to stone” could be dangerous, as the reader might not be sure if that should mean “her face turned to a stoic/somber expression” or “her face literally turned into stone.” It’s especially worth searching through speculative work for lines like this and figuring out how to tighten them to avoid confusion.\n4. When in doubt, write what you mean first, beautify second\nSometimes writer’s block comes from trying to do too much all at once. I’ve realized I tend to hit roadblocks when I reach a sentence that’s carrying a lot of weight, because not only am I trying to get many ideas across in a short space, but I’m also trying to write it beautifully on the first go. In situations like that, I’ve found it helpful to separate the drafting process into steps. First, I write what I’d like to communicate in the most plain, boring language possible. Once I have that down, I can focus on rewriting that sentence in a vivid, poetic, or striking way. Not only does this staged approach conserve mental resources, making both halves of the process much easier to accomplish, but it also gives me a “blueprint” of sorts to evaluate my final product against. It’s helpful to compare the beautified version to the original, plain one to make sure they’re communicating the same set of meanings. If not, I may need to tinker with my supposed “final product” to ensure it’s saying everything I intend it to say (and nothing more).\n5. Read (and practice) poetry\nIf you’re looking to make your prose more poetic, why not dabble in actual poetry? In a recent talk, novelist Tope Folarin was asked about his interest in poetry, and in his response, he admitted that his multi-year journey reading and writing the form started as a means to an end. “I noticed a lot of my favorite writers were also poets,” he said. “I was reading Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson, and I was just struck by the language in that… and I was like ‘I love the imagery in here. How do they do this?’ ” What started as a small foray into the form eventually resulted in Folarin falling “completely into the poetry hole,” as he described it.\nAnd while there may be a risk of making your voice too poetic (as mentioned above), this sort of cross-genre study can help fiction writers find or develop more balance in their voice. Folarin, for example, noted that his practice with poetry didn’t just make his prose better; it allowed him to completely renegotiate his relationship with language. “Before, language had been something that I simply used,” he said. “But after that deep engagement with poetry… I began to inhabit language in a way that I hadn’t before.” Moving to that level of familiarity with language, where it no longer feels like a tool but more like part of your own body, does wonders for your ability to express complex ideas in ways that are simultaneously beautiful, clear, and concise.\nI’ll be the first to admit that this list is hardly exhaustive, but to this point in my career as both an editor and a writer myself, these are the tips I’ve found to be most helpful. What techniques do you follow when trying to balance imagery and clarity in your writing? Share with us @PhoebeJournal. We’d love to hear your thoughts!\nis phoebe’s fiction editor and a third-year fiction candidate in George Mason University’s creative writing MFA program. He typically writes satire and dystopian works, but his mind’s also been known to jump to places far beyond those genres. His work is published in McSweeney’s, Liquid Imagination, Blue Lake Review, Defenestration, and Slackjaw. When he’s not writing, Kevin is usually guilt-tripping himself for browsing social media instead of writing.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I left this morning by Peter Bland\nWaking up from sleep to write this. Heavy-lidded, head full of fog still. Writing with my eyes almost closed, thinking this is a half-remembered dream. Thinking of maybe going back to bed to find you there.\nI left this morning\nI left this morning saying ‘I love you’\nas if setting out for some unknown country\ninstead of the corner shop. I wanted\nyou to be sure, in case\nthis time – out of, say, 10,000 departures\nI never made it back: although\nafter 50 years together, 2 countries,\n3 children, and several former journeys\nthat would put this one to shame\nyou’d think there’d be no need to pause\non my own doorstep, suddenly afraid\nof the distance between us, of your absolute beauty,\nof the growing aloneness when I clicked the latch.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The 4th annual Art Ehrmann Cancer Benefit is being presented by the West Seattle Eagles April, 20 and they are seeking donations for silent and live auctions. Open to the public.\nThe event is a dinner first, followed by the auction.\nDinner starts at 5:30pm featuring an All You Can Eat Taco bar for only $6!\nThe silent auction will run from 5:30pm on and the live auction will begin at 7pm\nSo far what has been contributed are an Argosy Cruise, Golf Tee Times, Restaurant Certificates, Theme Baskets, Salon Gift Certificates, Golf Merchandise and more. read more »", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "- China’s Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century\n- Springer Singapore\n- Published Date:\n- Product Dim.:\n- 9.25 H x 6.10 W (inches)\nChina’s Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century\nThis is the first book to comprehensively cover the historical process leading to Taiwan’s integration with Mainland China in the seventeenth century. As such, it addresses the Taiwan question in the seventeenth century, presenting for the first time the process leading to the island’s integration with the mainland through the story of the Zheng family and Admiral Shi Lang. The author has confirmed Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga)’s Ming loyalism and his politicization of the conflicts on the China coast. Thus, the author concludes that Zheng was a “revolutionary traditionalist” who transformed sheer violence into a political movement in an unprecedented way. He politicized the entire region and paved the way for the inevitable conflict with Mainland China. After repeated political talks had failed, the rising Qing China decided to take Taiwan by force. Though seaborne warfare was a formidable task at the time, the man who overcame these difficulties and completed the seemingly impossible mission was none other than Admiral Shi Lang. The book provides a new and more justifiable assessment of the Admiral’s contribution to the conquest of Taiwan and pacification of coastal unrest. The book will be of interest to general readers as well as specialists researching security and warfare on the China coast.\nSpecial Offers and Promotions\nOur print to order bookstore saves you money. There are currently no special offers for China’s Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century\nThank you for selecting our online bookstore. Currently, there are no editorial book reviews for China’s Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century\nAbout Pubgraphics Direct\nPGDirect is an online bookstore that has embraced the concept of direct to consumer selling for self-published books, softcover and hardcover books, specialty books, children's books, hard to find books, college textbooks, print on demand books and more.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Can anyone make anything? Yes, we think anyone can do it! See examples of unexpected people making complex ideas real and ponder:\n1. How do we create a tool that would empower anyone to make anything?\n2. Why doesn’t it exist right now?\n3. Where are we now in solving it?\nWhat inspired you to begin investigating your topic or inspired you to make your project?:\nWorking as a biologist, Mark went to Ghana to teach local kids about public health. However, he found out that the reason public health wasn’t so good there was not because of any lack of knowledge, but rather the lack of infrastructure and tools necessary for change.\n\"I thought, why am I doing research in a lab, pipeting all day long, when I could be creating tools that could impact millions of people, and give them a way to move forward themselves.\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Olive M. Cline 1932-2013\nNILES – Olive Mae Cline, 80, passed away peacefully at 9:10 a.m. Friday, June 14, 2013, at the Trumbull Memorial Hospital following complications of a stroke suffered in January 2013.\nShe was born Nov. 9, 1932, in Elliott County, Ky., the daughter of Harrison and Amy G. Wagoner Creech.\nShe worked for 20 years in the housekeeping department at Shepherd of the Valley Nursing Home in Niles and retired in 1992. She enjoyed quilting, scrapbooking, flower gardening, traveling with her sisters and especially family activities.\nOlive is survived by a son, William E. Cline of Niles; daughter, Darlene Callow of Niles; three grandchildren, Jennifer Cline Latell of Boardman, Jeff (Christine) Callow of Girard and Brian (Johna) Callow of McDonald; four great-granddaughters; two brothers, Glen (Goldie) Creech of McDonald and Jackie (Kathleen) Creech of Pennsylvania; and three sisters, Lucille (Louie) Oakley of McDonald, JoAnn (Glen) Gregory of Niles and Carolyn (Robert) Smith of Warren.\nShe was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin J. Cline, whom she married July 14, 1951, and who died May 26, 2005; son, Eugene Cline, who died March 23, 1982; two sisters, Bonnie Wilson and Aline Tackett; and two brothers, John Creech and Dennie Creech.\nCalling hours will be 4 to 7 p.m. Monday and 10:30 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Holeton-Yuhasz Funeral Home. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. The Rev. Garey McCartney will officiate.\nBurial will be in Kerr Cemetery.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Day light savings time is always an interesting day for me. In the fall I happily welcome it to get that extra hour of sleep, and every spring I curse that Sunday morning in my half awaken state. Of course in the evening, usually as I'm loading my groceries into the car, it hits me; it's still light out. Suddenly it feels like the day goes on forever. Getting out of work doesn't feel like a race to catch the last glimpse of sun after sitting in a windowless office all day pining for an excuse to run to the car just to breathe in fresh air. Evening plans have quickly turned into activities that involve being outdoors; a walk at green lakes, sitting outside a coffee shop, or washing the car. I know there are many people who feel the same way since Onondaga Lake parkway was full of people last evening walking their dogs, rollerblading, and strolling along as the sun began to set farther west on the lake.\nThough not much of a dramatic sky last evening, the warmth in the air along with the blended colors in the sky and the twinkling of Syracuse's city lights as the sun set was a nod that spring is indeed coming.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "togainu no chi (Japanese)\nBi-shounen, shounen-ai, swords\nSeveral years after the end of a war, the city of Toshima has fallen into decay and been taken over by the crime syndicate Viscio. There, the head of the syndicate, Il Rey, has convened the battle game \"Igura.\" Meanwhile, Akira, falsely accused of a crime, has made a deal to earn his pardon: go to Toshima, defeat Il Rey, and destroy the syndicate.\nWatch Togainu no Chi Episodes Online. Stream Togainu no Chi for Free.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "6th July 2013\nAfter a busy first week, the campers appreciated an extra hour in bed before a 9am breakfast. However, along with the sleep in came with a much needed room tidy hour and a quick lesson in how to make beds (fun when you stick your head in the duvet cases and pretend to be ghosts and scare your group leaders, thanks for that Fadi!!!). After the room inspection it was off to languages and sports for the rest of the morning.\nAfter lunch, the reds, blues, greens and yellows all gathered in the patinoire before heading off for a small hike. The campers made their way across the new wobbly Torgon bridge, around the scenic lagoon, passed the picnic area and ending in the football pitch. Most enjoyed the walk although others felt like their group leaders weren’t working enough and decided to ride on their shoulders, like Tatjana did to poor Freddie!\nOnce at the football pitch the fun really begun after afternoon tea with groups of footballers going down one end of the pitch to play where a staff vs kids game formed with the campers showing us group leaders how it’s done!\nAt the other end those not so keen played parachute games, Frisbee and some classics like duck duck goose.\nThe campers made it back in time for shower hour for a quick chill out before a yummy pasta dinner and peach upside down cake. Then the reds and blues took part in a new exciting evening, hip hop dance off and the greens and yellows enjoyed a much needed chilled out hot chocolate and DVD night.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "R | | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi\nRyan makes a documentary on his friend, Brett, and his first time camping, until a mysterious figure in the woods starts hunting them.\nRyan: Oh my fucking... gosh.\nRyan: Ashley, honey. Do me a favour, shut the fuck up!\nAshley: I can't find Brett.\nRyan: It's way too early for this.\nAbi: What'd you mean you can't find Brett?\nAshley: I woke up this morning and the door was open and I ...\nCheck out our guide to the SXSW 2019, what to watch on TV, and a look back at the 2018-2019 awards season.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In an affiliate marketing business, the affiliate supplies the merchant with their leads. Thus, you’re not necessarily the product expert. As a result, the merchant handles all customer support issues. If the customer isn’t satisfied with their product, the merchant handles the refund. If a customer needs help with a specific aspect, the merchant is responsible for helping them. Thus, when it comes to customer inquiries all you need to do is direct customers to the merchant.\nIn the past, large affiliates were the mainstay, as catch-all coupon and media sites gave traffic to hundreds or thousands of advertisers. This is not so much the case anymore. With consumers using long-tail keywords and searching for very specific products and services, influencers can leverage their hyper-focused niche for affiliate marketing success. Influencers may not send advertisers huge amounts of traffic, but the audience they do send is credible, targeted, and has higher conversion rates.\nBoth dropshippers and affiliate marketers excel at generating traffic and marketing. You can still make money with affiliate marketing. If you’re great at affiliate marketing, there’s no need to stop doing it. It’s about taking your efforts to the next level. The most profitable way to grow as an affiliate marketer is to add a store to your website.\nAffiliates were among the earliest adopters of pay per click advertising when the first pay-per-click search engines emerged during the end of the 1990s. Later in 2000 Google launched its pay per click service, Google AdWords, which is responsible for the widespread use and acceptance of pay per click as an advertising channel. An increasing number of merchants engaged in pay per click advertising, either directly or via a search marketing agency, and realized that this space was already occupied by their affiliates. Although this situation alone created advertising channel conflicts and debates between advertisers and affiliates, the largest issue concerned affiliates bidding on advertisers names, brands, and trademarks. Several advertisers began to adjust their affiliate program terms to prohibit their affiliates from bidding on those type of keywords. Some advertisers, however, did and still do embrace this behavior, going so far as to allow, or even encourage, affiliates to bid on any term, including the advertiser's trademarks.\nWith possibly the most transparent affiliate network online, we give affiliates access to stats no other program dare, including earning data, conversion stats, demographic information and seasonality trends. With ethics and consumer protection being high on the agenda, you can rest assured when working with MoreNiche you are working with an honest, trustworthy and transparent company.\nGreat article as it gets me thinking about the various ways to monetize my sites. With that said, my biggest hurdle has been how to get started building traffic. You see articles all over the net talking about massive traffic techniques, but I’ve never really found a guide for a fresh blog/website and how to get to their first 100, 500, or 1,000 daily uniques. Of course writing consistent quality content is key, but writing alone an audience does not make. Any tips or articles to point us to? Thanks again Sean!\nWhen a brand pays internet celebrities, subject matter experts or other influential individuals on an upfront basis to post promotional content on their own social media channels, websites or blogs or on the brand’s web properties, that’s influencer marketing. In many cases, brands make an effort to work with influencers who are already their enthusiastic customers, which makes that type of influencer marketing a fresh new internet-based twist on word-of-mouth recommendations.\nAffiliate marketing – using one website to drive traffic to another – is a form of online marketing, which is frequently overlooked by advertisers. While search engines, e-mail, and website syndication capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing carries a much lower profile. Affiliates continue to play a significant role in e-retailers’ marketing strategies.\nStudioPress itself is somewhat of a niche product as it is targeted to existing WordPress users who found setting up and managing a WordPress site too difficult or time-consuming. StudioPress prides itself on being easy to use, but their main claim to fame is that their hosted websites are “faster and more secure” than other WordPress hosting companies as well as using the “Genesis framework” which is supposedly more SEO friendly than other WordPress builds.\nBloggers and internet marketers who have been working into online marketing for years are used to with an affiliate marketing, and also with the fact that it is the most productive way to make money online. In the quick words; an Affiliate Marketing is one of the popular practices of selling wherein you suggest someone to any online product and when that person purchases the product based on your suggestion, you receive a commission.\nI had a chance of looking at how much some CPA marketers are earning. My jaws hit the floor. How can anyone make 32k in a day? It is not some Photoshop screenshot but the CPA company interface allows earning shouts which is drawn live from the system and displayed on a live chat. That’s where I saw those big figures. Remember I said 32k in a day not in a month. Now that is insane. This gives you some idea how: http://x.co/9RnqK\nMobile devices become an increasingly integral part of our lives, it’s vital that marketers understand how to effectively communicate on this unique and extremely personal channel. Mobile devices are kept in our pockets, sit next to our beds, and are checked constantly throughout the day. This makes marketing on mobile incredibly important but also very nuanced.\naffiliate affiliate marketing affiliate program apple apple dmarc basics of email marketing best email design tips build email list common mistakes in email marketing create email list Create surveys email email design email design tips email list email marketing email marketing campaign email marketing for beginners email marketing in the mobile era email marketing solutions email marketing strategies email marketing strategies for e-commerce web-sites email templates email tips email verification email verify email verify tool inbox affiliate inboxbrush inbox mail inbox partner inboxpartner inboxverify list building marketing marketing tips mobile email marketing mobile optimization for email marketing most important parameters to follow in email marketing newsletter design newsletter design tips newsletters examples tips to increase email flow useinbox what is affiliate marketing\n“Work with them to get them custom affiliate assets (custom landing page, custom email swipe copy, etc) if they are big affiliates, because they drive the vast majority of your revenue. Give them all of their assets well in advance of the mailing, so they have time to load and test. When you deliver the assets, give them their login information for your affiliate portal again, but also hand delivers their links and needed materials, so they don’t have to dig around for them in your portal. Make sure to test the link before delivery,” Spears said.\nI am new to affiliate marketing. I am looking to make money from affiliate. I am looking to join affiliate programs online. I found information about such sites like v commission, shareasale, cuelinks are best ways to earn money online. I have referred many post on affiliate marketing myinfostake. But after reading your information in detail i feel that i can also make money from affiliate without a website.\nGoogle, if you a relying on search traffic, can change how they send traffic, rank your page, and how you show up on the SERPS at the drop of a hat. Really, you don’t have control on boosting your traffic when relying on organic search results because it’s not paid. If you are relying on other people’s traffic or other people’s affiliate offers, it can run dry very quickly. It’s not up to you with affiliate marketing. With drop shipping (or selling your own products or private labeling), you have that control over traffic sources.\nA U.K. based dating affiliate network that operates a number of mainstream and niche dating sites, including Cupid.com, Flirt.com, BoomerDating.com and PlanetSappho.com. You can promote any of these sites based upon the needs of your audience, and with so many sites to choose from, it’s pretty easy for most affiliates to find at least one or two that are a good fit. Commission rates at Cupid plc can be impressive, too, with $15 paid just for free sign ups, and up to 90 percent commission paid on paid memberships.\nFor example, if I talk about how cool a product is, and then you find out that I’m an affiliate for them, wouldn’t you as a conscientious observer become skeptical as to whether my information is biased, if perhaps I’m only saying how cool something is because I can get paid for it? Wouldn’t that make you question my integrity with other things I say as well?\nFollow Program Rules – Each affiliate advertiser will have their own set of program rules. They may place limitation on the language that you use and the ways that you promote their product or service. Actually take the time to read the rules set out by each advertiser to avoid having your relationship terminated because you inadvertently broke one of their program rules.\nThird, successful affiliate marketers measure beyond just money. How will you know that you’ve become a successful affiliate marketer? The number cruncher in you may raise your hand and say, “When I make X dollars per month every month for a number of years.” Hard to argue with that, since making money online is a strong motivator. However, why not measure success by the number of lives you touch in a positive fashion by introducing them to your affiliate products? Chances are that the money will follow…", "label": "No"}
{"text": "General Information =================== Title: Gone by Midnight Author: Candice Fox Read By: Euan Morton Series: Crimson Lake, Book 3 Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense: Mystery Copyright: 2019 Audiobook Copyright: 2020 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Release date: 2020-03-10 Duration: 11 hrs and 9 mins Media Information ================= Encoded Codec: MP3 / LAME 3.100 Encoded Sample Rate: 44100 Hz Encoded Channels: 2 Encoded Bitrate: 64 kbits Book Description ================ Number one New York Times and Globe and Mail best-selling author Candice Fox delivers a compulsive new crime thriller with Gone by Midnight. Crimson Lake is where people with dark pasts come to disappear - and where others vanish into thin air.... Four young boys are left alone in a hotel room while their parents dine downstairs. When Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson LakeΓÇÖs unlikeliest private investigators - disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. For Ted, the case couldnΓÇÖt have come at a worse time. Two years ago, a false accusation robbed him of his career, his reputation, and most importantly, his family. But now, Lillian, the daughter he barely knows, is coming to stay in his ramshackle cottage by the lake. Ted must dredge up the areaΓÇÖs worst characters to find the missing boy. The clock is ticking, and the danger he uncovers could well put his own child in deadly peril.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "MJPRU Improvement Result 2018 UG PG: As we know the MJPRU had conducted the annual exams for the UG PG Courses. The UG PG courses had attended the exam in the month of May/ June 2018 and MJPRU Results 2018 had declared. Aspirants who failed in the annual exam had applied for the supply exams through online. The students had attended the MJPRU UG / PG Supply Exams 2018 in the month of September/ October 2018. Now the aspirants are waiting for the releasing of MJPRU UG Part 1 Improvement Result 2018 officially. Contenders will get the MJPRU PG Prev Supply Exam Result 2018 in the month of December 2018 on the official website.\nFor candidates, we will intimate the MJPRU UG Part 2 Improvement Result 2018 Date on our web page. Contenders appeared for the exam will get a link below to find out the PG Final Supply Result 2019 of MJPRU can use the link provided below. Students to know more updates of the exam result can go through the below article.\nMJPRU Improvement Result 2018\nMahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University (MJPRU) is one of the popular university in Bareilly to provide UG PG Courses with streams. The University provides the BA B.Sc B.Com BBA BCA MA M.SC M.Com MBA MCA etc various streams are provided for the admissions. Every year the university conducts the annual exam for the UG PG courses in various exam centers. Even university had announced the MJPRU UG Exam Result 2018 on the official web page. After checking result the students disappointed with marks or scored low marks had applied for the supply exam. The improvement exam is a chance for the students to clear the backlogs. In supply exam, the students need to reappear for the exam in the failed subjects. Contenders to know more updates of the supply exam can visit the official web page.\nRelease Date of MJPRU Improvement Result 2018\n|Name of the University||Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University (MJPRU)|\n|Examination Name||MJPRU UG PG Improvement Examination|\n|Conducted For||UG PG Courses|\n|Exam Dates||September/ October 2018|\n|MJPRU UG/PG Improvement Result Status||November/ December 2018|\n|Article Category||MJPRU UG/PG Improvement Result 2018|\n|Official Web Page||www.mjpru.ac.in|\nMJPRU Improvement Exam Result 2018 ~ BA B.Sc B.Com MA M.Sc M.Com\nAspirants appeared for the improvement exam will be eagerly searching for the result status on various sites. The backlog students had appeared for the supply exam and looking for the result status. The officials of the university will take one or two months to announce the exam result on the official web page. Contenders going to check the result need to have hall ticket to find out the MJPRU UG Part III Supply Result 2018 on the official web page. Aspirants need to visit the official site regularly to know the available dates of supply exam result. Once the result is announced the students by using below link can find out the exam result officially. Even students can follow the below step by step process and check the exam result officially.\n- Candidate needs to open the official web page.\n- Go to the News & Events tab on the home page.\n- Click on Result link in the page.\n- Search for the MJPRU Improvement Exam Result 2018 link.\n- Click on it.\n- Enter the roll number, name etc and click on submit.\n- The improvement exam result will display on the screen.\nMJPRU UG/ PG Supply Exam Mark Sheet 2018\nEvery year after the announcement of the result the students will get the mark sheet from the university. Contenders need to collect the mark sheet from the university for the further education process. The university will issue the mark sheet in the month of December 2018. Candidates will get the mark sheet by mentioning details like name of the candidate, exam dates, timings etc. Contenders to know more updates of the exam mark sheet visit the official web page.\nRevaluation for MJPRU UG PG Supply Exams 2018\nOnce the exam results are announced the students those who scored low marks or having doubt in the correction had applied MJPRU Supply Revaluation 2018 Notification. The university conducted the rechecking process one or two weeks after the announcement of the result. The revaluation is a process of recorrecting the answer sheet by the officials of the university. By this, the students will have a chance for the students to increase marks in the exam. Contenders want to know any details regarding revaluation exam can visit the official site. A large number of students had applied for the revaluation and waiting for the releasing of Rohilkhand Univ PG Revaluation Result 2018. The contenders can visit the official site to know the result updates. Most probably the association will release the revaluation exam result in the month of December 2018.\nThe declaring date of MJPRU UG Rechecking Result 2018 will intimate on our web page. Contenders have any doubts regarding rechecking result visit our web page regularly. Even aspirants are not satisfied with supply/ revaluation exam marks are need to wait for next year March Exams. Students need to follow our web page regularly to know the updates of the above notification.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Fairly certain I am going to look back and regret the time I have wasted in this life of doing and stressing once all the time has disappeared. The insane complexity of modern life and the fractured sense of peace and equanimity rob me of the gentle breeze that blows across my face, but only if I allow it.\nOnly if I separate it out. This neurotic drive to get it all done makes me laugh my own naivety. It strikes me hard, often, that I am going to look back when I don’t have mobility anymore and regret that I didn’t take myself off to natural surrounds even more often.\nA week ago, during a long paddle, I saw two huge eagles making a nest on the corner of a local river. I was kinda dumbstruck by the enormity of it. Wow, it hit me like a ton of bricks, there is life that is truly living.\nThese are my teachers. Today I am lost in paperwork, taxes, bills, invoices, like thousands of tiny needles piercing my brain and I long for that bloody river and those teachers. But I have to remind myself that yes, even this is an experience that I will wish I could have again one day.\nIf only I could be back in that vital body again, the old man would wish. Here I am, right now though, taking the advice of the elderly man that I am not yet. Still in this precious, temporary body brimming with vitality and strength. How fortunate.\nIt downloads in my brain that we are whipping each other into a type of chaotic trance. Is, busy the measure of the success of life, I wonder? My conditioned brain thinks so but my heart knows differently.\nBe alive now, it whispers, be awake here and be present. Yes, even if your body trembles with fear and anxiety.\nYes, be anxious, be frightened, be chaotic, rush and do, but know, watch and observe yourself. Equanimity is around the next corner, only as far away as the awareness that you are stressed is.\nThere’s something to loving it all and giving up preferences.\nAs I sit here at this table I can close my eyes and those eagles are dancing in front of me calling me back. Calling me to come out of my thoughts and back to this life. The texture of time changes as you get older, your perception grows, and if you allow it, the reflection brings the golden challis of wisdom rising in your own experience.\nThe wisdom of the disappearing years and the changing texture brings a message. This will also disappear.So, if not now, when?\nGoing to wait for retirement, the so-called golden years? They are all golden!\nAll precocious, perhaps even more precious are the most difficult years. Spill your heart, you might as well.\nThis is the moment we should cry tears of sadness and joy, this is the moment our presence should crack like thunder and our kindness should wisely hold.\nBe not afraid of the silence and the vulnerability, be who you came here to be. One day soon, it will all evaporate like steam.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Makara sankaranthi Festivals\nMakara Sankaranthi is a four days festival grandly celebrated in the South Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. Celebrating Makara Sankaranthi and following the rituals and ceremonies is considered to be very auspicious by the people of Andhra Pradesh. There will be festive mood everywhere well before the actual dates. Scientifically, Makars Sankaranthi represents the end of winter and the beginning of the summer seasons. Religiously, Sun starts travelling towards the Equinox and it is referred to as Utharayanam.\nMakara Sankaranthi is celebrated for four days with different varieties of rituals. The day before the Makara Sankaranthi is called as Boghi. The significance of this festival is to throw out the old and welcome the new. People lit a bonfire and throw all the unwanted things from their houses into the fire. The religious aspect of this ritual is that mankind has to surrender all his ego, anger , jealous and all unwanted qualities to the fire and rejuvenate as a perfect human being. You can very commonly see the children and women are showered with the jujube fruit to get protected from the evil spirits in life.\nThe second day is the actual celebration called the Makara Sankaranthi.People enjoy putting Rangoli in front of their houses and decorate them with different flowers. Despite of the age group, people wear new dresses and share the delicious items with their families and friends. Chakinalu, Ariselu, Appalu and Dappalam are some of the famous food items prepared during Makara Sankarathi.\nKanuma is the third day of the festivals. This day is meant for the farmers who show their gratitude to their cattle which is very essential for their lives. The farmers decorate their cattle which symbolizes prosperity.The cows which have the religious importance are also given due respect and weightage during this function and farmers celebrate this day as a thanks giving function.\nThe last day of the celebrations is called Mukkannumma , when farmers offer prayers to all the five cosmic elements of Earth. it is a tradition that people abstain from consuming non-vegetarian during the first three days. The fourth day is meant for non-vegetarians along with celebrations like cock fighting, ox race bullock race and kite flying. Yet another feature of Mukkannumma is that a person called Haridasu, servant of Lord Vishnu, roams around the streets along with colorfully dressed cow. He keeps on singing the glory of Lord Vishnu. People greet him and donate him cloths, money and food.\nThus, Makara Sankaranthi is a very colorful festival celebrated in a very grand manner in every nook and corner of Andhra Pradesh!. this is actually the rejuvenation of friends and families who have lost their precious time due to their busy lives.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Oh noes, this is like the worst thing that could happen to us!\nDude, kittens in trashcans are like, clinically proven to be cuter.\nYou know whut, we’ve reinvented the box!\nHey I wonder why this hasn’t caught on before.\nMomo, Chimi, are right, boxes are just too …square, Casey.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "New years resolutions......\nEvery week of every year I take lots & lots of family photos & I always come up against Mums & Dads saying they don't want to be in any photos themselves. They don't like how they look or they hate having their photo taken! I too am much more in my comfort zone behind the camera rather than standing in front of it. But every week I convince parents that their children will love these images in years to come and hopefully they too will love looking back at how little their little munchkins were in their hands or sitting on their lap - that time goes by so fast they won't remember how little they were.\nI am forever saying they are only little for a little while & we should capture & freeze these memories as much as we can . But I rarely have my photo taken with my children, the last ones I did do were summer time 2017, so my promise to myself this year is to have more images with my two little ones (& to make their Dad jump in a few too!). They are growing at an alarming rate and getting more and more independent each day. So while they are still small enough to laugh at my silly jokes and snuggle up on my lap I am going to make a big effort to capture some of it.\nNewborn & Baby photographer Cardiff, South Wales", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Travel Blogs from Tonghua\n... and control the flooding as well as generate power for China. People in the sunken cities have had to be relocated so new cities are visible all along the river. Some people are also living dangerously close to the edge but they are told the water won't rise any more.\nWe have also provided much entertainment for the locals on board as many of them have never travelled outside China and so have never seen westerners up ...\n... so maybe a bit of weeding and a bit of care would be a good thing. I’m not sure if it is the right thing to think, but I am thinking some Korean style BBQ stalls set up in the city proper parts would be a huge added attraction to the city.\n... and roadside eateries.\nIt's a hard job to live my life my friends.\nSomeone has to do it and thankfully it might as well be me!\nThe Koguryo Kingdom and History\nThe Koguryo Kingdom (37 BC - AD 668.) is believed to be the longest regime founded by an ethnic minority people in northeast China and it played a big role in ...\n... by myself, I had a new master. He was very egocentric and I didn't like his way of organizing the training. However, he made me discover some wing chun and a style called gou quan (dog fist,狗拳) which I really appreciate. But five months later, again, he as well has left the school!\nIt was interesting to train under different masters as they all have different approach, exercises and specialities. Nevertheless, jumping from master to master, I ...\nUpon leaving Dandong, my mission was to somehow get to Changbaishan. While there seemed to be many ways of possibly making it there, the most likely looking one seemed to be to catch a bus to Tonghua and spend a night there, while figuring out the next step in my quest. So I did. Booking the ticket was easy enough. Catching the bus was also easy enough. Pity I had absolutely no idea where it was going. I had never heard of Tonghua before I arrived in ...\nTripAdvisor Reviews Xingxing Hotel Tonghua\nOther places to stay in Tonghua\nDowntown, Tonghua | Hotelfrom $44", "label": "No"}
{"text": "DID YOU KNOW?\nA well rested employee is 50% more productive\nSleep deprivation affects decision making\nLack of sleep lowers your immune system\n84% of children with sleep issues will continue to do so for up to 5 years", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I got pulled to Peds yesterday evening, and had a six month old baby (was a preemie; born at 34 weeks, so adjusted is about five months) as part of my assignment. The baby had a pretty low heart rate (remember, I'm used to preemies!) that hovered around 100-110. When he was sleeping, though, it dipped down to around 98 or so. I reported it to the oncoming nurse and she said that that was normal for the older babies (our preemies tend to run, more often than not, fairly high...mid 150's, you know...) and nothing to be concerned about. Well, tonight, when I got to work, the night nurse on Peds called up here to ask me if he'd been any lower than that the previous night, because another nurse had reported to HER (another nurse who had been pulled, like I had) that the baby's resting heart rate had been dipping into the low 80's. I told her no, that didn't happen to me, but it got me wondering. Is 80 considered bradycardia in a 5-6 month old infant? I'm working now, and tried googling it, but couldn't find an official word online (just a bunch of links to calculate your ideal resting heart rate, etc.). Anyone?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Markus Frind: The man ‘behind a million babies’\nFounded in , POF previously known as Plenty of Fish or PlentyofFish is one of the pioneer dating sites that is still popular today. It claims to be the world’s largest dating site, with over 90 million registered users globally. Among these, 3. It boasts that over one million relationships are created every year. It is a mix of a dating site and a matchmaker service. You can browse freely and search for others that match criteria that you nominate, or you can utilize the dating platform’s matchmaking capabilities such as “Ultra Match,” which lists the top 50 most compatible with you. The platform combines all the features of various dating sites and apps on the market today.\nPlenty of Fish doubles down on conversations with new features\nHow do I find a relationship if I have doubts about the person on the dating site? Online dating is a wonderful tool, but there are always going to be some malicious actors who use it as a weapon. Fortunately, you can take steps to protect yourself. First, do your research.\nDoes this dating site really have Plenty Of Fish worth meeting? in the produce aisle, but you’re going to have to wade through a sea of notties to get there.\nMatch Group, which houses a large portfolio of dating app brands — including most notably, Tinder, Match, and OKCupid — is prepping a notable upgrade to one of its older brands: Plenty of Fish. But it has since remained fairly quiet, in terms of the state of its business, and has been slow to roll out upgrades even as Tinder soared.\nFor starters, POF is gearing up to launch a collection of new features designed to bring its app into the more modern age of dating. In the near future, it will also include the ability to share GIFs in your conversations and add illustrations to photos, like doodles and stickers. Beyond simply updating the functionality and user experience to stay current and on-trend, the new additions are also meant to offer POF users ways to better personalize their interactions and connect. But not everyone wants to share their phone number with a stranger, which is where the voice calling option comes in.\nInstead of dialing a phone number, matches can call each other in the app. Or for a middle-of-the-road approach between texting and calls, they could use the voice messaging feature instead.\nL.A. Affairs: 40something reluctantly joins Plenty of Fish dating site, enters ‘Big Bang’ territory\nGod irrespective of fish dating sites founded in the largest dating site really are plenty online, click one destination for online dating or fame. Where to adjust your own and share your own tips, plenty of fish in vancouver. Match a sea for a site. Online dating site with the world. Hidden sashimi mountain in what customers have touted about dating services combined.\nDoes this one is an online dating website.\n“There are other fish in the sea” are possibly the seven words I hate and there are now all these ways (social media, dating apps) to expedite.\nMany Americans are turning to the internet in order to search for love. Online dating and dating apps are the new wave of the future for both younger generations and older generations alike. And sadly the surge in online dating has also created a potential for scammers to target people looking for love.\nWhen using dating apps, it is extremely easy to create fake identities using stolen images that a scammer can hide behind. This scam can affect men and women of all ages because the scammer attempts to connect with their victims in a more personal way. Common scams these thieves use to exploit victims include asking for money for a family member with medical bills, claiming to be the victim of a robbery, or needing funds in order to meet or visit their significant other.\nBecause these scammers have worked hard to fake an emotional attachment to their victim, it is obvious how someone could fall for the scam thinking that they are helping the person that they love. So what can you do to help protect yourself from such scams? Sharing financial information is an absolute no-no. For example, if you have a Facebook post of you going to a concert, and your online S.\nThe scammers needs to be the only love in your life, so early in your conversations he or she may suggest switching communications off the dating site so that you can be exclusive. You can be skeptical about it! A scammer might also confess intense feelings or love to you extremely quickly to help move things along.\nThere are plenty of fish in the sea: Online dating vs. traditional dating\nFor men and women. Or certainly not quality fish. I write about the good, the bad, and the weird of online dating. The reality is that online dating favors the artificial over the deep.\nYou all know the popular saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea” right? Well, it turns out that it is actually true. Dating and meeting people has.\nA conversation is where it all starts. Singles have more conversations on Plenty of Fish than any other dating app. We also have the most FREE features to help you start dating! It’s your turn! Sort by last online, newest users and more! Unlike smaller dating apps, Plenty of Fish has the most users and thus, the highest chance for you to find your relationship!\nPOF (dating website)\nFrom winking to smooching emoticons, flirting has taken a whole new face. Then scrolling through faces and composing checklists are the next step to finding new love. The situation is a common one, according to Suzie A. Public acceptance towards online dating has also risen with the development of social media, the study said. With so many users signed up onto relationship websites, the pool of potential candidates is a large one, Suzie said.\nThe company, based in Vancouver , British Columbia  generates revenue through advertising and premium memberships. In , Plenty of Fish became a full-time money making business for Markus. Many of these appearances are undisclosed paid product placements   which have been met with highly negative reviews. In , Plenty of Fish launched mobile apps for iPhone and Android. A few years later, it was made available for both the iPad and Windows phone.\nOn January 21, , it was discovered that the Plenty of Fish website had been hacked which exposed the personal and password information on nearly 30 million user accounts. At the time this received global media exposure and security experts blamed Plenty of Fish for the security and privacy lapse specifically for keeping users’ passwords unsecured.\nThe parents’ lawsuit alleges photos of their son, who was killed in Iraq in , were used without permission. The parents were seeking compensatory and punitive damages. Paul Bloudoff, the firm’s legal affairs manager responded by saying “Lt.\nthere are plenty of fish in the sea\nAnd one website they might use to find love is Plenty of Fish, which is specifically designed for those unlucky in dating to find their significant other. Here’s all you.\nYou can edit or remove any testimonial you have written, and can remove any testimonial written about you. The POF events forum is a community where event hosts can post information about events and POF members can sign up for the event. The forums are based on location allowing you to view events from your own country United States, Canada, United Kingdom, etc. Each event post contains the event free, location, the cost if any , and a description of plenty the event is about.\nThe event also lists all the POF members with a photo and a link to their profile who have signed up site go. Event attendees can also post a reply to the event and ask site additional questions. A free membership allows for full access site the site, including searching, testimonials, favorites, and communication with other sea, but paying has its perks. Members who upgrade sites highlighted profiles in search results, access to users who have said yes to you in Meet Me, the ability to see if sent messages dating read online deleted, virtual gifts, the ability to see who viewed your profile and when, online ad removal.\nThey have succeeded in becoming a dating service for all singles by not only offering many search features but a detailed matching system as well. Note: See this page for a full list of past awards. POF is one of the few dating services who do not ask if you want to connect your account online a social networking service like Facebook. Plenty also ask for all of your profile information up front sites free up most is mandatory. A lot of services tend to only ask the basic profile information and then dating the user to start using the the meaning a lot of the profiles on these services lack substance.\nWho Uses Online Dating Apps More?\nThis company is not yet accredited. See reviews below to learn more or submit your own review. Thank you, you have successfully subscribed to our newsletter!\nAffairs is our weekly column about the current dating scene in and around Los Angeles — and finding romance in a wired world. Past columns and submission guidelines are at latimes. Throwing a line into the cyber-fishing pond for a date on a Friday night is as scary as it is too easy. I signed up on the dating site Plenty of Fish last year, and while I had my doubts, I was still optimistic about finding my soul mate — otherwise, why do it at all? Each of them started out optimistically but fizzled when it became apparent that they wanted something different, i.\nA few weeks later, I signed up. I casually checked the site for several months, replying to some, ignoring others and trying not to be devastated by unanswered messages. Lives: Carson. Write me! Are you a veteran of the L.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "UCSC PhD alums Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (University of Georgia) and Anya Lunden (College of William and Mary) recently published a paper in The Linguistic Review. The paper, entitled “The syntax, information structure, and prosody of German ‘VP’-fronting” can be found along with an abstract here. Congratulations, Vera and Anya!\nCongratulations to Kelsey Kraus (PhD ’18), who recently started a job at Google. She reports:\nJust a few days after my defense, I started a contract position on the Speech and Data Ops Team at Google. The position is your standard Linguistics Project Manager Position on the Text To Speech Team, where I join three other former UCSC linguists. This makes it feel more like home (but with an upgraded StevCaf).\nCongratulations to current faculty member Amanda Rysling and former slug Shayne Sloggett (BA ’10), who walked in the UMass graduate commencement on May 13th, since both defended and filed dissertations last year after the ceremony.\nBoth also presented at LynSchrift18, the workshop celebrating Lyn Frazier, who is retiring this year. Amanda presented a joint talk with John Kingston titled “Regressive spectral assimilation bias in ambiguous speech sound perception.” Shayne presented a talk titled “Logophlexivity: When reflexives behave like logophoric pronouns.” The program can be found here.\nAlso, a photograph from the graduation ceremony:\nPictured (left to right): Shayne Sloggett, Caroline Andrews (another former slug), Amanda Rysling", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Leaves were compressed against the curb in small mounds, like discarded wet shoes in every shade of leather, though it wasn’t raining now. Sasha pulled down her hood to show me. I pushed it back on. Across the road, a streetlight came on then another. Sasha did a little dance each time, tugged at my arm for me to praise her.\n‘We’re going to see Mummy’s friend,’ she said again, parroting what I’d told her on the way into the city.\n‘Dominique’s not really my friend,’ I said, ‘just someone who is on the same course as me.’\n‘Does she go to University, Mummy?’\n‘Will I go to University?’\n‘Yes love, when you’re a big girl, you will.’\n‘Are you a big girl, Mummy?’\nI looked at the cars making the most of Saturday, short-cutting through the narrow street. On weekdays, pedestrians can’t cross the road for students’ cars parked like the last tins on supermarket shelves.\n‘Look, Mummy, I can see my breath.’ She chuffed.\nI said, ‘You’re like the steam train we saw in the station when we arrived.’\nShe made pistons with her arms.\nA car indicated. I took a step towards the edge but couldn’t make out who was driving.\nSasha said, ‘Look, Mummy, when I do this, I can smell my bum.’ She was touching her toes. I pulled her back from the curb as the car pulled in.\n‘Don’t go near the edge, Sash. You don’t want to end up like these.’ I pointed to the leaves.\nA man got out of the car. He had a bottle of wine in his hand and was holding a bunch of dahlias that appeared black. He seemed lost until another, younger man came out of one of the old houses converted to student flats opposite the University library and embraced him before ushering him inside, cutting off the glowing hall with a carefree slam of the door. The gloss gave the impression of melting ice.\n‘C’mon, love, let’s go home, I don’t think Dominique’s coming.’\n‘Mummy’s friend isn’t coming.’\n‘We’re going home now.’\n‘Mummy, can we ride the steam train?’\n‘Steam train? Like the olden days? I dunno. We don’t want to live in the olden days, do we? Here. Hold my hand to cross this road.’ She slipped her silky little fingers into the curve of my palm. I heard her feet sinking into the leaves then scuffing the tarmac.\nI picked her up and shifted her onto my back. Her heels dug into my thighs, made bloody marks on my jeans with each sinking step.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hello! Today’s release is a super (?) R-18 T&B doujinshi also a doujinshi that is been release with me almost passing out and can’t stop yawing XD. Anyway it’s been some time we do not release a doujinshi, specially from this fandom, right? This doujinshi doesn’t have too much story… it goes right to action…hehehe.\nOh! This doujinshi as well is the first of our new staff member, Na-ruu, she’s both English Proofreader and Editor. Welcome to the staff team and yaoi room….*cough*.\nEnjoy today’s release!\nTags: a: aquarium, f: Tiger&Bunny, p: barnabyxkotetsu, t: interlude", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Today we did a bit of bait training in the backyard. I have found that the RedBarn Beef Roll does WONDERS in keeping their attention and making them want more. Here I was using it as a topper put on weight! I didn’t realize I had such a Goldmine!\nGeorgie and TIno did fabulous with their training, each remaining focused on me for the majoring of their training. Now when it was time to do the girls everything changed – and I couldn’t help but laugh!\nI wanted to work with Stella one-on-one but she was not going to have it. She just wanted the food – Eating my entire stash! I sent my husband into the house to bring me back out some bait and that is when Blue snuck out into the backyard with him. Apparently having competition helped Stella focus on me and what we were trying to train her on. But that also meant when we decided it was time to treat the girls Blue was working her way into finding a chance to get more food! Pawing at the sandwich bag filled with bait was all it took. Bait went EVERYWHERE! We scrambled to pick it up so the girls didn’t eat at all. Clearly there were remnants because they decided to roll in them! Now we have two girls this smell like beef!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There doesn’t seem to be a place where students can see their progress vs. the weighted Exercises. The Progress bars indicate, say, 90% in the Introduction to Programming (Karel) Module, and, yet, the heaviest assignments are still in front of them (Challenges, Project). When I use the Gradebook, then, they are shocked by the low grades if they haven’t done these Exercises. Also, the Progress % doesn’t help them pace very well. They think they are at the end, but they still have, say, 6 tough tasks ahead of them. I really need help on this right away! I would like to see the Progress % eliminated entirely vs. having something so misleading. In the meantime, I guess I’ll be printing the Gradebook.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Every year, we welcome 45 volunteer judges to assess nominations for the Diana Award. To keep the award fair and transparent, the external panel members are tasked with the tough decision to read, score and agree on who will receive a Diana Award.\nThe judging panels are experts in their fields, comprised of a range of business and education professionals and young people, some of which are Diana Award recipients themselves. What they all have in common is their belief that young people deserve to be valued, celebrated and recognised for their outstanding contributions.\nWe want to say a huge thank you to all of our dedicated judges for your commitment and passion – we simply couldn’t do any of this without you.\n‘Recognising young change makers can empower them, and those around them, to continue the good work – to let them know that the world has noticed and wants to say thank you. They may not be doing the task for recognition, but that certainly doesn’t mean that they don’t deserve it.’\nLuke Tester, Young Judge\n“I think celebrating and recognising young people puts the often-invisible social change work on the spotlight and acts as a boost to young people that their work in communities’ matters.”\nTrevor Lichuma, Young Judge", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Saturday was amazing. I got up at some ungodly hour, packed up the kids, drove up to my parents’ house, and my mom and I suited up… in Santa suits… to join 1500 Santas in a 5K run through the town where I grew up. And we did it in a blizzard, mofos! A BLIZZARD! And the rest of the day was up up up from there. Shopping, parties, pizza. It rocked.\nSunday was amazing, too… but for all different reasons.\nMy morning started with a coffee while checking FB to see who’s got good snark and who’s got stupid cartoon profile pictures. Instead of snark and snorks, I got an email from Kim Wombles informing me that Age of Autism has started their attack against me.\nI wasn’t surprised. After the AMC awesomeness just before Thanksgiving and the Grant Park rally last May I knew I was on their radar. And Orac’s been warning me for months, and called their shot Thanksgiving Day. I was waiting for them. I was prepared… I thought.\nUnfortunately, I’m naive. I expected them to come at me with information. I expected them to be angry. I expected them to call me names. I expected them to take my words out of context. I expected them to paint me as a bad mother. I expected them to use my son’s developmental delays against me. I expected them to show up here and on their own blogs.\nBut they play dirty.\nThey’ve taken my FB profile pic and posted it on their FB page with the caption:\nThis is the woman who fought to pull the SafeMinds PSA’s from the theatres. It’s her FB profile page photo. She is anti-choice and wants to tell you that mercury is safe and that Thimeosal is good – according to her blog. She trolls AofA regularly. As do all the pro-vaccine-injury bloggers.\nIt’s sly. A thinly veiled call to arms against me. They’ve called me ugly. They’ve called me negligent. They’ve threatened to call child protective services on me. They’ve vaguely threatened violence. They’ve threatened my face. They’ve threatened to rape me with broken thermometers. They’ve posted my full name and my face… and worse…the pic is not just me; it’s me and Delaney, my infant daughter. They dragged my daughter into this. They’re attacking my baby. She’s 6 months old. And she’s being threatened.\nI’m sickened and saddened and disturbed by this.\nWhat kind of stand up organization does this? Kim Stagliano, managing editor of AoA, is out promoting her book… a “hilarious book” about raising children with autism. She’s painting herself as a loving and human mom… while having her FB fans threaten to sodomize me with broken glass and heavy metals and mocking my baby.\nWe’ve reported the photo. Lots of people have reported the photo. So far, FB has not taken it down. Perhaps it’s too vague to be considered a threat. (We’re not saying you should hurt her… but here’s what she looks like and here’s her baby and here’s why you should hate her… hate her in the way that satisfies you the most. We won’t judge.)\nAoA has responded  to several of the comments on the page (conversationally, not to condemn), but has not deleted any. Though, they did mention that they don’t wish autism on me and my children…. which, I guess is nice. Maybe they could also not wish thermometer murder rape on me? Or at least mention that it’s rude to shove broken glass and heavy metals into other people’s orifices unless it’s something that they specifically listed on their FetLife profile?\nFortunately, I have you people. You people are wonderful. Your love and support… your emails, Facebook messages, Twitter messages, comments at Orac’s blog and others… You people sure do know how to make a girl feel appreciated. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.\nA few people have asked if this changes anything for me. The answer is no. Not at all. In fact, while the story of AoA’s attack spread across Facebook and Twitter, I was in a board meeting discussing the future of the Hug Me I’m Vaccinated project… the future as we’ve always seen it. I’m not about to be bullied out of saving lives.\nNow I’m confident that we are the good guys. And we are fighting the bad guys.\nAnd my children? They are beautiful and they are amazing. I hope one day they are proud to have me as a mother. I hope they understand that doing the right thing is not easy, that saving the world is hard work, that we don’t back down because the bad guys tried to hurt us, that I love them and that they inspire me. I will make the world a better place because of that. Because I can.\nAlso? Seriously? My profile pic is the greatest profile pic in the history of Facebook:\nSince we’re talking about it anyway, you know you can buy Hug Me! I’m Vaccinated T-shirts now? You can. So you should… unless you’re an XL… then you can’t because we’re out. But we’ll get more.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Graber, who reports directly to CHC Helicopter president and CEO, Bill Amelio, replaces interim president Scott Pinfield.\n“In John Graber we have a leader who brings a wealth of experience tackling the challenges we will face as CHC Helicopter grows,” said Amelio. “Not only is Mr. Graber an experienced pilot, but he’s got an accomplished resume of business success in both operational and strategic roles.”\nOver his career, Graber has led successful turnarounds for three major US-based companies. As the general manager and senior vice president of operations at ATA Airlines from 2004 – 2006, he was part of the senior team that led ATA Airlines through emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.\nThe next year, as president of large aircraft MRO AAR Aircraft Services Indianapolis, he undertook a successful turnaround of the business by focusing on revenue growth and lean initiatives.\nMost recently, as president of ABX Air, Mr. Graber’s team completely restructured the company into a profitable, $500 million enterprise when it faced an unprecedented drop in customer demand.\n“Mr. Graber has a long history in the airline industry and that experience plays well into the challenges and opportunities CHC Helicopter faces,” said Amelio. “As an experienced helicopter pilot and army aviator, Mr. Graber is also very knowledgeable about helicopter operations and shares CHC’s commitment to safety, which makes him a well-rounded choice for this position.”\nGraber, who currently resides in Loveland, Ohio, has an MBA Cum Laude from the University of Notre Dame and has extensive military experience. He was decorated for his service as a medevac Flight Section Leader in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.\n“CHC has the world’s best reputation for providing safe, excellent customer service in demanding global operations. The company has much to be proud of in its history,” said Graber. “I want to help the team grow the business, positioning CHC so our team has much to be proud of long into the future.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Augustana is a bustling community with activities happening all of the time! Sign up for our courtesy newsletter and stay up to date!\nStay Connected: Sign up for Augustana’s ePistle Newsletter, or follow on Facebook or Twitter here.\nMAKE A JOYFUL NOISE TO THE LORD!\nFor all who wish to sing and can gather to rehearse on a weekday morning!\nAugustana Singers is open to anyone wishing to sing in the Bless the Years worship service on Thursday, December 15 at 11 a.m. This choir will rehearse on the first Wednesday of the next three months (October 5, November 2, December 7) from 11 a.m. to noon in the Choir Room. This group will be directed by Andrew Peters and accompanied by Christelle Menth.\nFor questions or to reserve a spot, contact Andy at 303-388-4678 ext. 122 or by email.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "459 F2d 475 Steed v. D Salisbury\n459 F.2d 475\nChester T. STEED, Petitioner-Appellant,\nWilliam D. SALISBURY, Superintendent, Chillicothe\nCorrectional Institute, Respondent-Appellee.\nUnited States Court of Appeals,\nApril 13, 1972.\nJ. Jeffrey McNealey (Court appointed), Columbus, Ohio, for petitioner-appellant; Porter, Stanley, Treffinger & Platt, Columbus, Ohio, on brief.\nJeffrey L. McClelland, Columbus, Ohio, for respondent-appellee; William J. Brown, Atty. Gen. of Ohio, Leo J. Conway, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbus, Ohio, on brief.\nBefore EDWARDS and PECK, Circuit Judges, and McALLISTER, Senior Circuit Judge.\nThis case arises from the denial of the appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus in which he alleged that he had been denied due process by the failure of his court-appointed counsel to appeal his conviction. The appellant was convicted in the Common Pleas Court of Muskingum County, Ohio, of rape and sodomy, and was sentenced to the Ohio Penitentiary. No appeal as of right was taken from this conviction. The appellant's petition to vacate his sentence and judgment of conviction in the trial court was denied, as was his subsequent motion for a delayed appeal. No appeals were taken from the denials of these motions.\nThe appellant then filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, in which he alleged for the first time that he had been denied the effective assistance of counsel and that he had been denied his right to an appeal by the uncommunicated withdrawal of his appointed counsel from the case immediately after trial. The District Court held an evidentiary hearing, and found, among other things, that the appellant had exhausted his state court remedies, as required by 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254(b), and that the failure of his appointed counsel to notify the appellant of his intention to withdraw from the case did not deny him the effective assistance of counsel. The appellant's petition was denied, and this appeal perfected.\nAlthough we recognize that the appellant's contention raises a serious federal Constitutional question1, we are unable to reach the issue because we find that the appellant has failed to exhaust his available state court remedies on this question. Armstrong v. Haskins, 363 F. 2d 429 (6th Cir. 1966). The District Court found that \"[t]he issues presented to this Court have not been raised in the state courts,\" but determined that resort to the state courts would be futile and therefore unnecessary under the rule of Woodards v. Cardwell, 430 F.2d 978 (6th Cir. 1970). We do not think that Woodards is applicable to this case.\nIn Woodwards, after an appeal on the original issues had been exhausted in all state appellate courts and the Supreme Court of the United States, the issue of Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776 (1968), was raised for the first time. This Court held that an appeal to the Supreme Court of Ohio would have been ineffective to protect the rights of the prisoner in light of the decision of that court in State v. Duling, 21 Ohio St.2d 13, 254 N.E.2d 670 (1970), wherein the court had held that the failure to raise the Witherspoon issue constituted a waiver thereof.\nUnlike the Witherspoon issue, the Ohio courts do not construe a failure to raise the issue of the ineffective assistance of counsel as a waiver, and this issue is cognizable under the Ohio Post Conviction Act, Section 2953.21 et seq. O.R.C. Dayton v. Hill, 21 Ohio St.2d 125, 256 N.E.2d 194 (1970), State v. Juliano, 24 Ohio St.2d 117, 265 N.E.2d 290 (1970). The Ohio statute provides that these questions may be presented to the court which imposed sentence \"at any time.\"\nThe appellant had and has the right to raise the issue concerning his counsel's failure to appeal his case under the provisions of Section 2953.21 et seq. O.R.C. Since the Ohio courts have not been given an opportunity to pass upon this issue, we decline to do so. The remedies available to the appellant under Ohio law must be exhausted before resorting to the Federal Courts. Kimbro v. Bomar, 333 F.2d 755, 758 (6th Cir. 1964).\nWe therefore affirm the judgment of the District Court denying the petition, without prejudice to the filing of a new petition after state remedies have been exhausted as to the newly raised issues.\nSeveral Supreme Court cases indicate that the facts alleged in this case may well represent a denial of equal protection to an indigent defendant by depriving him of counsel on appeal. Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed. 2d 493 (1967); Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353, 83 S.Ct. 814, 9 L.Ed.2d 811 (1963). See also Benoit v. Wingo, 423 F.2d 880 (6th Cir. 1970); Goodwin v. Cardwell, 432 F.2d 521 (6th Cir. 1970), and Woodall v. Neil, 444 F.2d 92 (6th Cir. 1971). In this last case, this Court strongly implied that the abandonment of an appeal without the client's consent and without warning \"so as effectively to deprive him of his right to appeal\" can represent a Constitutional violation", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "A self-service experience to build mental fitness for personal and professional development\nThis website will offer limited functionality in this browser. We only support the recent versions of major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.\nDear fellow coach:\nI’m about to do the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my career. I’ve decided to forego the most reliable source of our revenue, which has been to train coaches on how to 100X their impact utilizing our publicly available tools. Instead, we’ll be offering coaches a multi-million dollar grant in 2020 to participate in this training without having to pay.\nI’ve been strongly advised against this. Why give up our most reliable source of revenue? Could this be the dumbest risk I’ve ever taken? I can’t be sure, but in this week when we’re celebrating Martin Luther King’s legacy, I am more clear than ever that I need my fellow coaches in order to leave the legacy I want to leave. I want to dramatically accelerate the pace of working with coaches by removing the current financial barriers of $1K for the training.\nYou see, King was a key part of a whisper in my head that saved my life. From the beginning, the whisper was about my legacy.\nGrowing up in desperate poverty amidst family violence, I sought refuge in a cocoon of depression and isolation. But for as long as I can remember, there was a whisper in my head guiding me. It told me my path was to play on the world stage one day and change millions of lives, as my heroes Gandhi and Martin Luther King had done.\nI never questioned where the whisper came from. I never doubted its truth. It has guided me ever since.\nThat whisper has led me through a fascinating journey of continual discovery — through psychology, neuroscience, engineering, and business. These culminated in me running the largest coach training organization in the world, which trained thousands of extraordinary coaches who changed lives.\nThe thing is, the whisper was always about “millions” of lives. It was always about massive scale. I didn’t know why, as I never felt a competitive ego attachment to any number.\nThe quest for massive scale led me to my Positive Intelligence research to get to the core, root-level mechanics of both happiness and performance. When my book hit a chord and was translated into 20 different languages, I thought the whisper had come true. After all, I was getting a ton of emails every day from people around the world saying I had changed their lives.\nBut when I checked with those people six months later, I often realized that many had reverted back to the old habits. Change was hard.\nLooking deeper, I discovered that true transformation is only 20% about insight, 80% about mental muscle building. Insight alone wasn’t sustained.\nSo then I embarked on creating a virtual, app-guided PQ program to help people convert their inspiration into daily practice, to form new mental muscles and habits.\nI was delighted to see that the PQ program had a life-changing impact that was now sustained. I had finally created the vehicle for honoring the promise of that whisper. But was I reaching millions?\nAnd that’s where coaches came in. In many populations, only 20% of the group has 80% of the impact. That’s what I started to notice about the coaches who were participating in the PQ program. When I changed a coach’s life through my work, it ended up changing hundreds, sometimes thousands of others’. Coaches were 100Xing their own impact. Through them, I was 100Xing mine.\nIt became clear to me that to manifest the promise of that whisper, I needed to have thousands of coaches as my partners in changing lives.\nThis week we’re celebrating Martin Luther King’s birthday. The whisper is back. And this time with more clarity and urgency than ever before. This time around, I understand why the whisper has always been about “millions” of lives.\nYou see, our world is at a critical fork in the road. The increasingly emboldened darker side of us threatens not only democratic institutions but also the health and even survival of our mother earth. The stakes have never been higher.\nAs coaches, we hold a key. Together we can awaken and unleash the vastly untapped good in the world to affect the outcome. And we need to do it with millions of people, so we can reach a tipping point. Scale matters.\nSo, on this special day, inspired by King’s dream, and burning with the urgency of our time, I have decided to do something bold which is more than a little scary. I’ve decided to forfeit millions of dollars in revenue from coaches participating in our six-week program, and instead grant the program to coaches, waving the $1,000/participant fee.\nIn my recent article, How to 100X Your Coaching Impact, I showed coaches how they could dramatically increase both the number of clients they could attract, and the impact on each client, using the PQ tools. By removing all financial barriers to participating, I want to greatly accelerate coaches learning these tools and massively increasing their impact on others.\nWe live in an age of cynicism when we’re suspicious of claims of such gifts. Is there a catch, a string attached, a hidden agenda?\nThere’s no catch, but there’s an important requirement that you actually do the rigorous work required of you throughout the six-week program. This is a “mental fitness” training that dramatically boosts your “inner Jedi” and weakens your inner “Darth Vaders,” to use a Star Wars metaphor. It’s mostly about mental muscle building, watching a weekly video and using an app to guide your daily practices for 15 minutes per day, for six weeks.\nUntil now, since the coaches had paid the $1,000 fee, that “skin in the game” helped motivate them to get their investment’s worth by doing the daily practices. That’s how they created massive value for themselves. Since that financial “skin in the game” will no longer be at play, I’m looking for only those coaches who are serious and ready to invest in themselves.\nWe’ll have a limit of 500 people for the first program that starts in a few weeks, and we want those slots to be filled by people who are fully committed.\n(**UPDATE: we received an overwhelming response to this offer and this first cohort was quickly over-subscribed. We’re now accepting applications for the next cohort.**)\nIf this sounds like you, I’ll be hosting two live webinars next week that’ll go into more detail. During these sessions, I’ll show you how you can 100X your impact as a coach using our publicly-available, research-based tools, and how you get to practice these tools. I’ll also do a live Q&A toward the end to answer any other questions you still have. Then, for those who are ready to 100x their coaching impact,, I’ll give you the link for an online form where you can apply to be in the first group of 500, or put on the waitlist for the future groups.\nAs successful as you might be already, I invite you to consider how many more lives you could change. First, by growing yourself as a human being and coach. Then, by growing your reach and impact on others.\nThere is a reason you became a coach. Let’s make it count, at a time when our world is counting on you.\nSee you in the video webinar. (**UPDATE: The first cohort was quickly over-subscribed. We’re now accepting applications for the next cohort. Click here for details.**)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "These Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies are easy to make, super-soft and chewy, and irresistibly delicious.\nIt seems a bold move to declare an all-time favorite cookie. But after having been on Team Molasses for going on over three decades now, and already whipped up my third batch of molasses dough in a month, I’ve gotta say that I don’t foresee any allegiance shifts happening soon. So with that said, allow me to introduce you to my all-time favorite cookies…\n…the most delicious, soft, chewy, gingery, life-changing molasses cookies. ♡♡♡\nMy love for these molasses cookies is entirely thanks to my mom, who baked fresh batches of cookies for our family pretty much every week when we were growing up. Granted, she was always a bit mystified that her oldest daughter (hi, Mom) never inherited her obsession with all kinds of chocolate cookies, which will forever and always be her all-time faves. But molasses cookies were always a compromise we could both agree on. We both love these cookies.\nThis time of year, they are still the first recipe to which I always turn for holiday cookie baking. And this year in particular, they’ve been extra fun to share with all of our European friends who — as it turns out — maybe love them even more than we do! Ha, every time that we have served them to our friends, and our Spanish class, our neighbors, everyone goes crazy for them. Which means that we never come home with leftovers. Which just means that we have to keep baking more, naturally. Which requires exactly zero twisting of my arm. More molasses cookies for all!\nAnyway, these cookies are clearly a hit. So as part of our week of cookies here on the blog, I thought I would bump this recipe back up to the top of the pile today for some non-chocolate cookie inspiration. I initially shared this recipe on the blog nine years ago. But that said, a number of you have reported over the years that your cookies have spread a bit more than you like. So I’ve been tinkering around with our family recipe this fall, and have made a few small adjustments to the recipe below that should help them to stay nice and thick and chewy, without compromising the flavor of the cookies at all. (Although if your cookies do ever flatten out, I promise they’ll still be delicious.)\nSo I hope that you enjoy them as much as we do, and if you decide to bake up a batch, I’d love to hear how they go! Enjoy, everyone!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "gotta pee. gotta pee. gotta pee. gotta pee.\nWhen you wake up and then just sit there trying to remember the dream you just had.\nomg dying a million deaths only because of the miley picture\nFirst Reaction: Wow, how the fuck did I think about it?\nSecond Reaction: I’M A POET!!!!\nBitches better learn from me\nHow people use their fans", "label": "No"}
{"text": "(PS4) Mortal Kombat 11 (R2/ENG)\nMortal Kombat is back and better than ever in the next evolution of the iconic franchise.\nRelease Date: 23 April 2019\nPublisher: Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment\nDeveloper: NetherRealm Studios\nCustomize Your Fighter\nThe all new Custom Character Variations give you unprecedented control to customize the fighters and make them your own.\nNew Graphics Engine\nThe new graphics engine showcasing every skull-shattering, eye-popping moment, brings you so close to the fight you can feel it.\nThe Story Continues\nAnd featuring a roster of new and returning Klassic Fighters, Mortal Kombat's best in class cinematic story mode continues the epic saga over 25 years in the making.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "posted on Dec, 20 2012 @ 09:24 AM\nI enjoyed that video. In the face of aggressively encroaching fascism, we have to hold these thoughts and be faithful to Goodness, never follow bad\norders, stop falling for their false flags and mass murder set ups, and realize they're behind everything, not react to their control of media and\nevents, but calmly, and stubbornly, persistently, renounce/denounce their workings on this earth and work for a better world.\nI don't normally watch channelers, they have a negative energy usually. I could watch this, good, positive energy instead.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 11, 2010\nRat says, \"All rise. Rat, the honorable judge of the universe, is now presiding, with a judgment on the most pressing issue of our age.\" Goat says, \"What now?\" Rat says, \"I hereby decree that anyone gaining thirty or more pounds must - and I mean must- update their 'Facebook' photo.\" Goat says, \"That's the most pressing issue of our age?\" Rat says, \"It's very annoying.\" Pig says, \"Will there be prison time involved?!?\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I heard the droplets of water drip down, one by one. A time lapse of a second between each.\nI didn’t move. I barely breathed…slowly. Calmly. I couldn’t catch up with the pace of the dripping. It was really dark tonight. It seemed like the saddest night. There was no moonlight, no stars… It was just another cold lonely night.\nI wasn’t sitting inside. I didn’t feel like sitting inside. The house was too empty. It wasn’t something new. I usually lived alone, with some occasional visits from family members who stayed not longer than two days. Today however, the house seemed too empty, too quiet. I could feel the void that was filled in there. I could almost touch the sadness that lingered inside.\nThe sound of the dripping sounded almost soothing. How could the sound of dripping ever be so soothing?\nAnything but the void inside, and the loudness of the silence was better.\nI shook my head. What was going on with me? I was sitting out here, on the stairs leading to my house, in the cold, and I couldn’t get myself to go in.\nI knew I was waiting. I was waiting for him to return. Where was he? Why is he still missing? My head swirled around the moments I last saw him. He waved good bye after telling me he’d be seeing me that night, and he turned away and walked the opposite direction.\nI remember how gracefully he walked. How his feet barely touched the ground.\nWhere was he now? Why haven’t I heard anything from anyone yet? There wasn’t even a phone call. I could feel my tears rolling down. I kept waiting, and waiting.\nThe sound was beginning to get on my nerves now. I couldn’t handle another moment. As I stood up, and begin to run towards the streets calling out for him, a car stopped by.\nA man I knew stepped out. It was one of his close friends.\nHe ran towards me.\nI was too far from the house to be hearing the dripping. Why was I still hearing them? “Why am I still hearing them?” I screamed, as the man held me down and walked me back.\n“Calm down” He spoke to me calmly, as if he knew what he was doing…As if it wasn’t the first time he was calming someone In my situation.\n“Where is he? Why haven’t I heard anything yet?” I kept asking him.\nHe held me closer to calm me further, while he caressed my hair. “Who?” he asked, with a low and soothing tone, it was almost a whisper.\n“Him…” I breathed out the words as if they would break if I spoke any louder.\n“oh, honey…” The man next to me said sadly.\n“I keep hearing a dripping sound, and it won’t go away. It’s driving me crazy” I spoke out in such frustration, he had to hold me tighter to keep me from bursting out.\n“I know…” He said sadly, almost knowingly. What did he know that I didn’t? Was it normal?\n“He’s not here, and I can’t go inside. The house…It’s too dark without him…”\n“Honey, listen to me well. He’s not coming. You know very well he’s not coming.” He spoke with pain in his voice. I could feel he was trying to hide it from me, but I could feel it.\n“Why not? Is there something I need to know?” I asked clueless. I needed to know, or did I know?\nWith the dripping sound that wouldn’t seem to leave my ears, flashes began to appear.\n“The dripping sound has come back to you, just calm down when you remember.”\nI was beginning to feel too impatient. My feet were suddenly too light to hold my body, and I began to shake. “Please, just tell me.”\nHe looked away as he spoke the words. “He’s passed away darling. It’s been Three years. It’s your memory that keeps failing you, especially when you miss him.”\nI could feel my tears falling like waterfalls. I was in a shock, but I began to remember how he died, how he was killed in front of my eyes, with a sound of dripping in the corners of the streets.\n“He…He’s dead. He’s not coming.” I looked into the man’s eyes that were filled with sorrow, and I remembered that he lived with me now. He was taking care of me in the midst of all this tragedy. I felt guilty for getting those rewind moments, where I could barely remember why he’s around, or times when I could barely seem him.\n“It’s alright, you need not worry. I understand. We’ve agreed to this. I’ll take care of you, and I’ll always remain next to you,” He said after he looked into my eyes and knew what I would be thinking.\n“I’m sorry” I said anyway.\nAs he walked me back into the house, I looked back. I could feel his presence. If only it were real. I felt a light breeze rush around me, and I wished, and I hoped, it would be him.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Climate Change and the Voiceless\n13 January 2020, 6:15 pm–7:30 pm\nHow can we change the law to protect future generations, wildlife, and natural resources, the most vulnerable to global climate change?\nThis event is free.\nGlobal Governance Institute\nRoom G.0326 Bedford WayLondonWC1H 0DSUnited Kingdom\nFuture generations, wildlife, and natural resources – collectively referred to as “the voiceless” in this presentation – are the most vulnerable and least equipped populations to protect themselves from the impacts of global climate change. Domestic and international law protections are beginning to recognize rights and responsibilities that apply to the voiceless community; however, these legal developments have yet to be pursued in a collective manner and have not been considered together in the context of climate change and climate justice. This presentation first identifies the common vulnerabilities of the voiceless in the Anthropocene era. It then proposes how the law can evolve to protect their interests more effectively through a stewardship-focused and rights-based system derived from the mandate inherent in the concept of sustainable development.\nThis presentation is drawn from Prof Abate's book titled 'Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources', published by Cambridge University Press in October 2019. Flyer and book discount available here.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN: Swimsuit thong cult siren Linda Kozlowski\nNude video celebs » Tara Buckman nude\nTara Buckman Nude\nYeah, leave it to the germans to come up with a subtitle that makes no sense whatsoever.\nWe'll always come back for more of Tara's skin suit! Thankfully this was just a passing trend and we are back to rap videos with plenty of hot babes in it.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "EXTERNAL TRADE PERFORMANCE\np - preliminary\nr - revised\nJANUARY TO NOVEMBER 2011 TOTAL TRADE STANDS AT $100.14 BILLION\nTotal external trade in goods for January to November 2011 reached $100.14 billion, representing a 2.9 percent increment from $97.280 billion registered during the same period a year earlier. Similarly, total imports grew by 11.0 percent to $55.506 billion compared to $49.984 billion posted during the same period in 2010. Aggregate exports, on the other hand, fell by 5.6 percent from $47.296 billion in January to November of previous year to $44.635 billion. Thus, the balance of trade in goods (BOT-G) for the Philippines posted a deficit of $10.871 billion, a value higher than the $2.688 billion deficit recorded during the same period in 2010.\nFigure 2A Philippine Trade Performance in January - November : 2011 and 2010\nFigure 2B Philippine Trade Performance in November : 2011 and 2010\nIMPORTS IN NOVEMBER 2011 INCREASE BY 0.6 PERCENT\nThe country’s total merchandise imports for November 2011 were estimated at $4.985 billion, higher by 0.6 percent from $4.956 billion in 2010. Month-on-month, however, it dropped by 0.7 percent from $5.019 billion in October 2011. Total trade for November 2011 was registered at $8.327 billion, a decrement of 8.5 percent from $9.102 billion in November 2010. Thus, the balance of trade in goods (BOT-G) registered a deficit of $1.643 billion, higher than the last year’s deficit at $810.00 million.\nELECTRONIC PRODUCTS ACCOUNT FOR 27.7 PERCENT OF IMPORT BILL\nAccounting for 27.7 percent of the aggregate import bill, payments for Electronic Products (including consigned and direct importation using the expanded coverage of electronic products) emerged as the country’s leading imports in November 2011 with value placed at $1.382 billion or an annual decline of 14.9 percent. On a monthly basis, it expanded by 11.8 percent from $1.237 billion registered in October 2011. Among the major groups of electronic products, Components/Devices (Semiconductors) having the biggest share at 21.5 percent, also diminished by 18.6 percent from $1.318 billion last year to $1.072 billion in November 2011.\nImports of Mineral Fuels, Lubricants and Related Materials ranked second in November 2011 with 22.7 percent share and amounting to $1.131 billion. It expanded by 30.4 percent, the highest recorded increase among the top ten imports, from $866.85 million in November 2010.\nTransport Equipment registered as the country’s third top import for the month with 5.4 percent share to total imports and valued at $270.91 million. The amount was lower by 32.0 percent from $398.34 million posted a year ago.\nIndustrial Machinery and Equipment contributing 5.1 percent to the total import bill was the PH’s fourth top import for the month with payments placed at $256.04 million, an annual decline of 0.4 percent from last year’s $256.99 million.\nFifth in rank and with a 2.8 percent share to total imports was Organic and Inorganic Chemicals amounting to $139.88 million; higher by 10.5 percent from its year ago level of $126.65 million.\nPlastics in Primary and Non-Primary Forms ranked sixth, comprising 2.7 percent of total imports registered $136.35 million, accelerated by 29.4 percent from last year’s record of $105.35 million.\nRounding up the list of the top ten imports for 2011 were Iron and Steel, valuing at $104.75 million (2.1%); Cereals and Cereal Preparations, amounting to $103.50 million (2.1%); Telecommunication Equipment and Electrical Machinery including telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment, registering at $102.28 million (2.1%); and Feeding Stuff for Animals (not including unmilled cereals), $77.78 million (1.6%).\nAggregate payment for the country’s top ten imports for November 2011 reached $3.704 billion or 74.3 percent of the total import bill.\nRAW MATERIALS AND INTERMEDIATE GOODS ACCOUNT FOR 37.0 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL IMPORTS\nAccounting for 37.0 percent of the total imports, payments in November 2011 for Raw Materials and Intermediate Goods amounted to $1.845 billion or an equivalent 0.1 percent increment over last year's figure of $1.843 billion. Compared to previous month’s level, purchases also went up by 3.7 percent from $1.779 billion. Semi-Processed Raw Materials had the biggest share at 32.9 percent and valued at $1.638 billion or an annual decrease of 1.6 percent from $1.665 billion registered last year.\nExpenditures for Capital Goods comprising 27.1 percent of the total imports, was down by 13.8 percent from $1.567 billion in November 2010 to $1.351 billion.\nMineral Fuels, Lubricants and Related Materials with 22.7 percent share, expanded by 30.4 percent to $1.131 billion from $866.85 million in November 2010.\nPurchases of Consumer Goods fell by 1.7 percent from $602.30 million to $592.35 million in November 2011. On the other hand, Special Transactions were down by 12.4 percent from $75.84 million to $66.46 million in November 2011.\nIMPORTS FROM JAPAN ACCOUNTS FOR 12.7 PERCENT\nComprising 12.7 percent share of the total import bill in November 2011, Japan, including Okinawa was reported as the country’s biggest source of imports with $631.60 million, an increase of 8.3 percent from $583.07 million in November 2010. Exports to Japan amounted to $722.14 million, yielding a two-way trade value of $1.354 billion and a trade surplus for PH of $90.54 million.\nPeople’s Republic of China, was the second biggest source of imports with 11.0 percent share and recorded payments worth $548.82 million. This number represented a 17.4 percent increment from $467.57 million registered in November 2010. Revenue from PH’s exports to People’s Republic of China, on the other hand, reached $457.73 million, generating a total trade value of $1.007 billion and a $91.08 million trade deficit for the Philippines.\nUnited States of America (USA) including Alaska and Hawaii with a 10.9 percent share to total imports followed as the third biggest source of imports at $542.80 million, lower by 3.9 percent from $564.92 million during the same month in 2010. Exports to USA, amounted to $500.89 million resulting to a total trade value of $1.044 billion and a trade deficit of $41.90 million.\nSingapore settled fourth, accounting for 6.9 percent share of the total import bill in November 2011 at $343.38 million or an annual negative growth of 20.9 percent from $434.11 million in November 2010. Exports to Singapore amounted to $184.87 million resulting to a total trade value of $528.25 million and a trade deficit of $158.51 million.\nFifth in rank was Saudi Arabia, representing 6.5 percent of the total import bill in November 2011 amounted to $325.80 million or a year-on year positive growth of 99.3 percent. Meanwhile, export receipts to Saudi Arabia reached $4.26 million yielding a total trade value of $330.06 million and a trade deficit of $321.54 million.\nOther major sources of imports for November 2011 were United Arab Emirates, $313.59 million (6.3%); Taiwan, $306.70 million (6.2%); Republic of Korea, $300.93 million (6.0%); Malaysia, including Sabah and Sarawak, $221.81 million (4.4%); and Thailand, $212.95 million (4.3%).\nPayments for imports from the top ten sources for November 2011 amounted to $3.748 billion or 75.2 percent of the total.\nIMPORTS FROM EAST\nTotal imports of the Philippines from East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan) accounted for 38.2 percent with payments posted at $1.905 billion or a 0.7 percent increase from November 2010 level at $1.892 billion. Total exports to member-countries of East Asia on the other hand, were valued at $1.738 billion, resulting to a total trade of $3.643 billion and a balance of trade in goods (BOT-G) deficit of $166.60 million.\nPhilippine imports from ASEAN member-countries representing 20.4 percent share in November 2011 amounted to $1.015 billion, a contraction by about 18.0 percent from $1.237 billion registered in November 2010. Meanwhile, exports to ASEAN member-countries were worth $476.85 million, resulting to a total trade value of $1.491 billion and a trade deficit of $537.74 million.\nImports from European Union comprising 6.7 percent share to total imports were valued at $335.77 million while exports to member-countries of European Union amounted to $376.97 million. This aggregated to total trade of $712.74 million and a trade surplus of $41.19 million for the Philippines.\n1/ - includes China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, N, Korea, S. Korea, Taiwan\n2/ - includes Brunei Darusalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam\n3/ - includes Alaska and Hawaii\n4/ - includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Latvia, and UK Great Britain & N. Ireland\n1. Adjustments on electronic import statistics are based on the transactions that pass through the Electronic to Mobile (e2m) of the Bureau of Customs (BOC).\n2. Starting with the January 2007 Press Release, analysis and tables are based on the 2004 Philippine Standard Commodity Classification (PSCC) groupings. This is in compliance with NSCB Resolution No. 03, Series of 2005 entitled “Approving and Adopting the 2004 Philippine Standard Commodity Classification” by all concerned government agencies and instrumentalities.\n(Sgd.) CARMELITA N. ERICTA\nSource: Foreign Trade Statistics Section\nIndustry and Trade Statistics Department\nNational Statistics Office", "label": "No"}
{"text": "After \"youtube\" simply write BIS before the \".com\" to watch it on repeat.\nWould turn into:\n\"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.\" Arthur OShaughnessy\n\"The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.\" Nora Roberts", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sorry this ad is no longer available.\n- 1047 days ago\nExpeience the thrill of full-body gaming. you, your friends and family will jump, dodge and kick way through 20 different heart-pounding adventures together. journey mountaintops, even outer space! show off and share your skills by posing for the camera as it captures. photo moments or by using your body and voice to create living seatues", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This is dead-on. My center-fire club is all outdoor and covers everything from air-rifle, archery and silhouette; everything centerfire from 7 yards to 300 for the hi-power range. Three years ago, they put in five trap houses in a quasi-five stand arrangement and then priced the per/target costs out of this universe. Few members use it. It's too expensive. I see a lot of non-members bring the kids to get them familiar with shotgun, but no member takes it seriously.For “mixed” clubs this might be educational for the BOD. A lot of clubs with rifle/pistol/archery/trap/skeet/sporting have boards of directors from the rifle/pistol side. They quite often see the clay target side as costing the club money. They see the large invoices for targets and forget the every day income from selling those targets.\nIf people can’t/don’t buy rounds because of no ammo then that daily/weekly/monthly income doesn’t show up. As one of the top 10 “spenders” at my club for several years I got tired of hearing how the trap side was a “burden” on the club. I ( we ) spent more in a week than the rifle pistol guys spent in a year. Including club dues.\nI can say with certainty having spoken with board members that this is simply due to the ammunition shortage.North Jersey Clay Target Club sent an email blast to members this morning citing financial hardship due to reduced attendance. Availability of ammunition was the number one reason for lack of attendance. We're now down to 4 days a week.\nEven the wholesaler the club buys through is hurting and unable to offer shells, shot or wads. Plenty of White Flyers, but nothing to shoot `em with. It's not looking good.\nThat’s the best news I’ve had all day. Thanks for that!I can say with certainty having spoken with board members that this is simply due to the ammunition shortage.\nIt is a smart defensive measure, given the lower volumes at the moment.\nNo sense in keeping the club open days were volume is extremely low.\nThe club is in overall in excellent shape financially.\nJohn..are you talking about Farmingdale?My club is only open 2 days/week to start with. Members who would normally shoot 4 to 8 rounds per week are down to 2 rounds/week because they don't have any ammo. We do have ammo available for sale but we must charge $12/box since it cost us over $11/box. Not too many takers at that price.Some guys said they will go back to golf.The club is down about 60% and we only open 1 trap instead of 2 as we try to keep the squads full instead of a bunch of 2 or 3 man squads.\nMarkham Park in Fort Lauderdale. The closest shooting club to my home. Is only open all day on Sunday and half a day on Monday now because of Covid. Not because of the ammo shortage. Its a Covid-19 testing and shot giving site to all of Broward County on all of the other days. So the shooting park must be closed while the Covid testing and shots are being given. The lines for the Covid-19 prevented any other parts of the park to remain open. Markham Park even went so far as to remove all the Campers in the camping area. I have never seen this before. There were families living in that park I'm sure.I cannot fathom not having 7 day a week access 9am-9pm access to clay facilities.\nWell, that sounds like a lot of sucks unless I'm reading it wrong. Glad I'm not fathoming any of that.Markham Park in Fort Lauderdale. The closest shooting club to my home. Is only open all day on Sunday and half a day on Monday now because of Covid. Not because of the ammo shortage. Its a Covid-19 testing and shot giving site to all of Broward County on all of the other days. So the shooting park must be closed while the Covid testing and shots are being given. The lines for the Covid-19 prevented any other parts of the park to remain open. Markham Park even went so far as to remove all the Campers in the camping area. I have never seen this before. There were families living in that park I'm sure.\nPS The clubhouse at MP is out of stock on shells as well. They have no idea when they might get some in as well. break em all Jeff\nNo, your reading it correctly I expect. Its only temporary now. Markham Park has been a covid testing grounds for the better part of last 12 months. Most everyone have gotten there shots now. You can even go to Walmart now and get your free shots. So I expect the Park will get back to normal PDQ. Of course its a county run park, so nothing is quick!!! If you get my meaning? Monday the park is only open from 1:00 pm to dark. So shooting in the heat is out now. Last month it was still OK. Not now!!! All is not as bad as it seems though. I have 5 other clubs open to me that are just a little bit more of a drive. I did not include South Florida Shooting Club. They just raised there yearly membership there now to $2,500 per year. You also need a member in good standings to vouch for you. Or your application will not be accepted. break em all jeffunless I'm reading it wrong.\nThanks Vic, I really appreciate your comment. I “get” the business angle and no complaints from me. I want to see the club do well in all regards. I honestly wish I could get there more often than my usual visit on the weekends. Thanks for what you do!As stated above the club is nowhere near financial hardship nor was that stated in the e mail notification. With the shortage of ammo and therefore the lack of shooters on Tues and Wed it made financial sense at this point in time to close one of those days. The board is doing its best to be responsible to the membership and the club in order to maintain sustainability through these hard times - just as we did when we had to close for a couple of months last year due to the China virus. Adding back the day in the future will be evaluated as the demand rises.\nVic - VP North Jersey Clay Target", "label": "No"}
{"text": "An increasing number of Indian students go to higher education in countries such as Britain or the United States. Companies are moving towards the developing countries to acquire labor force. This has become the gospel of the consumer because he can get better quality products at a cheaper price. Quality of Product Through the machines that were produced because of globalization, the products offered to the people come with great quality. Globalisation is about what is happening to economies on a world scale. Both countries and individuals will be confronted with more challenges, so we should learn how to use globalization to get values, besides the value of economy and culture.\nA consumer in one country may react differently compared to a consumer in another country. But before drawing any conclusions on how it affects the U. They are also to reduce agricultural protection, lower tariffs on manufactured goods, and to impose more flexible environmental standards on trade. It poses a mild threat to national development and local culture heritage. The outsourced vendors also have specific equipment and technical expertise, most of the times better than the ones at the outsourcing organization. The market, therefore, was limited and, incidentally, expensive.\nConventionally, people of a particular country follow its culture and traditions from time immemorial. Globalization may lead to more environmental problems. In addition, the trade deficit is being kept artificially high by Asian countries manipulating their currencies by 20 to 40 percent and the dollar value continues to fall. Small-scale industries face extinction: Small-scale industries in a particular locality are endangered because they do not have the resources and the power of multinationals. As a result, the extra income would go to food and an improved lifestyle for some of the people living in 3rd world countries.\nThe globalization of education brings forth new opportunities and integration of new experiences in cross cultural references. Then you will also have to handle foreign employment contracts, compliance regulations, and the nuances of obtaining approval for any domestic employees that you want to send over to help get your overseas business up and running. But from the point of view of American manufacturers, manufacturing workers, the middle class, professional service workers and overall economic growth, I think the disadvantages far out weigh the advantages. Therefore, affordable pricing has benefited the consumer in a great way. It leads to the free trade between nations. However, it is just outright inaccurate to even presume that globalization existed hundreds of years ago. The multinationals hire their workforce from overseas so as to obtain inexpensive labour.\nHuman, animal and plant diseases can spread more quickly through globalization. How globalization did takes place? Most of the people choose the well advanced world rather than to live just like the way before. Vote and tell us which aspects or dimensions do you consider the most beneficial or dangerous for us. The advantages and disadvantages of globalization: A,Advantages: Globalization provides convenience to the international trade and business and more opportunities are supplied to countries to help them to do what they can do best. Employment, nationally, would decrease as the factories move to countries of cheaper labour costs. A German company can produce in Argentina and then sell them in the United States.\nPeople around the globe are more connected to each other than ever before. Eradicates Cultural Barriers Countries joining together economically through politics and education have reduced and can even eradicate cultural barriers, and increase the global village effect. Politics: The development of globalization leads to the decrease of the importance of the state. The modern age of globalization started with the at the end of the 18th century. The European Union is undoubtedly the most important — that is, largest — trading bloc in the world, with 25 countries taking part in 2004. Advantages and Disadvantages of Globalisation Essay Sample The first part of this essay will be aimed towards understanding the concept of globalisation.\nIn theory, globalisation attempts to promote higher levels of equality and greater access to world markets by 'opening up' more economies, thereby creating a trading environment with an increased number of nations actively engaged in higher levels of exporting and. Communities are less insulated than ever in history, even those who cannot travel can have today a good understanding of other cultures and meet virtually people from other parts of the world. Society slowly considers the worldwide changes require that individuals grow new aptitudes, new encounters, new learning and schools have a critical part in this sense. Due to the lower labour costs, larger quantities can be produced at a lower price. Well advanced telecommunications and transportation infrastructure as well as the risen of telegraph and internet are some of the main factors of globalization. Today with various modes of transportation available, one can conveniently deliver the products to a customer located at any part of the world. The expansion and dominance of and brands is another key feature.\nEconomical Advantage Globalisation involves delocalisation, which means that most of the activities of a business are now done across distances. Risk-sharing: one of the most crucial factors determining the outcome of a campaign is risk-analysis. This process not only generates new products and processes, but also leads to well-paying jobs, increased productivity, and competitive pricing. Developing countries or labor-intensive countries have benefited the most. These corporations contribute to deepen global interconnectedness not only by uniformly shaping consumption patterns across societies, but by binding economies together through complex supply chains, , flows of capital and manpower. Loss of Culture Because entire things today are well built and well advanced, the former culture and tradition of the people disappeared.\nEnvironmental Degradation The business mutiny really altered the outlook and level of economy. This has proved beneficial to businesses. Disadvantage: Challenges of Foreign Culture Although a global strategy can help your company attract a new customer base, the drawback of this strategy is that cultural differences in other countries can derail your marketing efforts. In the 1970s and 80s countries like Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia or Brazil got a lot of money from investors who hoped they could build up new businesses there. This would allow rich and powerful multinational companies to buy up everything at a cheap cost, which would leave developing countries without many assets.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "September 10th, 2020 | Pleasanton, CA\nIt really boils down to the fact that Deep Sentinel provides live GUARDS that monitor your home 24/7. They'll monitor, engage, and contact police if necessary and all in real-time. I can't tell you how many countless times they have engaged with people that were not supposed to be at my front door and even contacted police at one point. It's like you physically have a security guard at the front door.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Montana’s unemployment rate remained unchanged in June at 3.9 percent. Employment levels in Montana continued to rise over the month, but the unemployment rate held steady due to growth in the labor force.\nGovernor Steve Bullock today secured access to 50,000 acres of public land on the Rocky Mountain Front.\nGovernor Steve Bullock today signed a cooperative Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Soil and Water Conservation Districts of Montana Incorporated (SWCDMI) and the Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS).\nGovernor Steve Bullock today announced fifteen Montana counties have been designated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as primary natural disaster areas due to drought conditions, and nine additional ones have been named contiguous disaster counties.\nGovernor Steve Bullock and Montana Department of Commerce Director Meg O’Leary today announced the recent award of $65,000 to support economic development efforts by the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes.\nGovernor Steve Bullock today announced the following appointments.\nGovernor Steve Bullock today announced that ratepayers in Manhattan will save $94,668 thanks to changes he made to the State Revolving Fund (SRF) loan program last year.\nGovernor Steve Bullock today issued an executive order declaring a state disaster to exist in Powder River County, and authorized the expenditure of funds to assist in the community’s recovery.\nState Information Technology Services Division\nPO Box 200113\nHelena, MT 59620-0113\nService Desk (406)444-2000\nGeneral Info (406)444-2511\nNickname: Treasure State\nState Capital: Helena\nState Flower: Bitterroot\nState Bird: Western Meadowlark\nState Animal: Grizzly Bear\nState Fish: Blackspotted Cutthroat Trout\nState Gemstones: Sapphire & Agate\nState Motto: Oro y Plata (Gold and Silver)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Feels like plastic cheap materials\nReviewed by A Cantu from Anaheim on Tuesday, January 10, 2017\nBased on the reviews I thought these would be at least decent. It feels cheap and like plastic against your skin in your neck. I don't think it is worth even the sale price.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Jenn and Bobby will be getting married next month at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. I just shot there this weekend and its a beautiful venue. We picked a HOT day to shoot the engagements but we pulled through. Here are some of my favorites.\nWe stopped by Sweet Mandy B’s for a cupcake. They will be doing the cupcakes for their wedding!\nHow can you not love a random couch on the sidewalk!\nAnd their cat was waiting for us when we got back…\nSee you next month!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Poetry is a dangerous siren’s song,\nThat calls the soul towards a chasm deep,\nDulling the mind and making the heart long,\nFor that which it may touch yet never keep.\nA Sonnet is too much the friend of truth,\nAnd leaves no room for self-deluding lies,\nIt conjures up the honesty of youth,\nAnd artifice through artifice soon dies.\nEssential truths will spill onto the page,\nTranspiring through the pores of consciousness, Leaving exposed the battles that we wage,\nTo build facades of hope for hopelessness.\nI can deny the painful song I hear,\nBut it’s too late; its message is too clear.\nClick Follow to receive emails when this author adds content on Bublish\nComment on this Bubble\nYour comment and a link to this bubble will also appear in your Facebook feed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The number of practices that replaced their existing EHRs and bought new EHRs increased from 21% in 2010 to 31% this year, according to a study by Software Advice. The study also found the number of buyers who said eliminating paper records was the reason for the EHR purchase declined from 2010 to 2013.\nStudy: More practices replace existing EHRs\nSmartBrief Job Listings for Health Care\n|Chief Financial Officer||\nB. E. Smith\nAttest Health Care Advisors\n|Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Patent Attorney||\nCoats and Bennett PLLC\n|Sr. Regulatory Specialist, Biotech Center of Expertise||\nBASF, The Chemical Co.\n|San Diego, CA|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Agriculture & Farms\nAs I have said in the past, we can’t improve the district by providing more jobs at the expense of what makes the Berkshires a unique place to work and live. We need to preserve the gorgeous nature of our surroundings and environment. A part of that effort is preserving farms in Berkshire County. While I worked at 1Berkshire, many of the innkeepers at our local Bed & Breakfasts said that visitors often wanted to know if their food came from a local food source. There is an increasing popularity in agro-tourism, a commitment to fresh and local food from visitors and locals alike and increased attendance at local farmer’s markets. At the latest Lever Inc “Demo Day” presentation, there were two companies formed to aid local farmers connect with local markets. We need to help in this effort.\nIf elected, I will work tirelessly with our farming community to preserve their jobs and our heritage. It is not just those who work the land, but feed stores, hardware stores, insurers and everyone else who is part of the infrastructure of this industry sector.\nThere are many bills that have been filed in the Legislature to assist the farming community. Here are some that I support, will cosponsor, and will work hard to pass:\nThe Dairy Farm Tax Credit: This would double the tax credit which hasn’t increased since it was enacted ten years ago. Farmers are paid essentially the same price they were paid twenty years ago. Local dairy keeps our local prices down, keeps our milk supply fresh, and keeps local lands in a natural state. Most of the state’s water recharge areas are on farms and it is in our best interest to help keep the farms in business.\nAn Act to establish estate tax valuation for farms: This bill would lower the inheritance tax on farmland. Many farmers are land rich but cash poor. When a farmer dies, the land is valued at it’s highest and best use for tax purposes. While it may be worth little as farmland, it may be worth millions as a development project. As a result, farmers pay more in taxes and this forces many to sell their land because they can’t afford the inheritance tax. This bill would tax the land at its farm use as long as it stay farmland, enabling the next generation in a family to continue their farming operation. I believe that anything that helps a younger generation maintain farms is a good thing.\nFarm Training: This bill creates a $500 tax credit for any farmer that establishes an internship to train people to farm.\nIn both the internship and inheritance tax bill there is a recognition that we need to help young people become farmers. There has been an increased interest in millennials to go into farming and I think that we should create programs such as these to encourage and support that.\nRepresentative Kulik has a bill to create a study commission on Agricultural Tourism. I support this effort. Many people are interested in where food is grown and the natural resources preserved by farms. Tourism of our farm industry would be a great way to get the interest of the next generation, educate people on the needs of the farming community and generate income for our local farmers.\nCreation of an Agricultural Security Fund: Representative Schmid has filed a large bill dealing with the preservation of farms in Massachusetts. I support the bill and want to point out two sections in particular.\nFirst, Representative Schmid creates an Agricultural Resolve and Security Fund that, among other funds, uses 10% of the Pesticide Registrations in Massachusetts for agricultural education, support for sustainable agriculture and pollution prevention, agriculture integrated pest management programs, agricultural land preservation, control of animal diseases, emergency preparedness, agricultural innovation, the agricultural food safety improvement program, the farm viability enhancement program and the urban agriculture program.\nIt also establishes the Massachusetts Veterans and Warriors to Agriculture Program Fund. The purpose of the fund is to enhance the education, training, employment, income, productivity and retention of veterans currently working or aspiring to work in the field of agriculture in the commonwealth. Having worked for Solider On with Veterans struggling with homelessness and lack of applicable job skills in today’s job market, I have witnessed first hand the need for programs such as this.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When I turned 15, I asked my mom to buy me birth control. It couldn’t have gone worse. We were in our car, 3 hours into driving to my aunt’s, and I asked her if she would take me to get the pills. She broke into tears, asked what she did wrong, thought I wasn’t okay, and asked if some boy was pressuring me. Then, she asked me if I had a secret boyfriend. I replied no, and that I just wanted to be safe. This was my second mistake. She started lecturing me about the dangers of pre-marital sex, how boys just want to use me, so on and so on. Then she said, “Do you know how much you would be ruining your life if you had a baby?” I told her, “That’s what I’m trying to prevent.” This made her even more angry. When we got to my aunt’s house my mom angrily filled her in, then got lectured by them both. We ended the night with my mom taking me to Krispy Kreme and angrily watching Inside Out. It was my birthday.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Staged auto accident scams may be becoming increasingly popular, and unfortunately, the innocent person involved usually has no idea he or she is being scammed. To help keep your driving record as clean as possible and save a claim being made against your Wisconsin auto insurance, here’s how a typical staged accident scam works.\nWhen you’re out driving, another car cuts in front of you, abruptly brakes and you hit the rear end. Unfortunately, because you couldn’t stop in time to avoid a collision, legally it’s your fault. The damage seems minor and the accident so minor that injury was unlikely.\nYou later receive a call from the other driver’s attorney who informs you the damage to the other car is major and the driver and his three passengers are all claiming injury. Although you’ve probably figured out by now you’ve been scammed – but it may be almost impossible to prove it.\nRegardless of how minor an accident is, always report it to the police. Always record the details of the people involved, along with any witnesses, including license plate numbers. Use your cell phone to take pictures of the damage done to both cars. Never try to settle a claim personally. Always go through your Wisconsin auto insurance company or agent.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Criterion for Recognition\nThe Election Commission has laid down certain criteria for a party to be recognised as national or state level parties.\n- A party has to live up to at least one of the following qualifications to be recognised as a national party:\n- It has to win a minimum of two per cent of the seats in the Lok Sabha from at least three different states.\n- In General Elections, the party must manage to win six per cent of the votes and win at least four Lok Sabha seats as well.\n- The party is recognised as a ‘state level party’ in four or more states.\nA party has to live up to at least one of the following qualifications to be acknowledged as a state party:\n- The party has to win at least three seats or three per cent of the seats in the state legislative Assembly.\n- It has to win minimum one seat in the Lok Sabha for every 25 seats or any fraction allotted to that concerned state.\n- In a particular election, the party has to bag at least six per cent of the total votes, and also win one Lok Sabha and two Assembly seats.\nThe status of a state party can still be bestowed upon an entity even if it fails to win any seats in the Lok Sabha or the Assembly, if it manages to win at least eight per cent of the total votes cast in the entire state.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Impact People, Not The Planet.\nClimate change and environmental destruction impact all of us.\nThey are not new problems, but we have conveniently ignored them for far too long because there are always more pressing issues.\nHowever, we are now on the verge of crossing a threshold for disastrous impacts from these problems. There is no more \"maybe later\"; the time for change is now.\nWe acknowledge that sustainability is an extremely complicated issue, and we don't have a perfect solution. But, we are trying to do our part to minimize our impact on the environment.\nFind out more about our sustainability journey and the steps that we have taken so far. We will continue to improve our efforts and update this page regularly.\nOur packaging is made of a carefully selected material to improve its recyclability.\nWhere we have to rely on plastics, we opt for PET, HDPE, and PP plastics that are easier to recycle than the typical multilayer co-extruded tubes.\nWe are working hard to continuously improve our packaging.\nAs a member of 1% for the Planet, we are committed to contributing 1% of our annual sales to environmental non-profit organizations to combat climate change and preserve the environment.\nThrough our partnership with Carbonfund.org, we have offset our 2021 operation carbon emission (based on our estimate).\nWe aim to complete a full product life cycle analysis to determine the full scope of our carbon footprint and be net-zero certified by the end of 2022.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A “for sale by owner” or FSBO listing is one where the seller decides to not sell their home through a real estate agent. This decision is usually made in an effort to save money, as the seller doesn’t have to pay commission fees to a real estate agent.\nIn an effort to save even more money, the seller won’t want to work with a buyer who has a real estate agent because if they did, the seller would have to pay the buyer’s agent a commission as well.\nBuyers should be aware that while there are some advantages to FSBO listings, there are also some potentially big disadvantages to not working with a real estate agent.\n- Real estate transactions can be complex, so involving a real estate lawyer or transaction coordinator can help.\n- Buyers may find FSBO listings to be overpriced initially, but ultimately they sell for less.\n- Buyers might still be able to work with a buyer’s agent.\nPro: FSBO listings can be overpriced, but sell for less\nIn two different studies, FSBO listings were found to sell between 5% to 26% less than homes listed through an agent. It’s safe to assume that most homeowners lack the intimate knowledge required to accurately set a price for real estate transactions, which leads to the home selling for less.\nInitially, it’s common to find FSBO listings that are actually overpriced. Selling a home is an incredibly emotional event, as the seller has to part ways with an untold number of memories connected to the home. This can cause sellers to over-value the home, and become stubborn when it comes to lowering their price or making concessions.\nWith enough time however, sellers wind up accepting a lower offer than they could have received had they worked with a seller’s agent.\nPro: You still might be able to work with a buyer’s agent\nIn a typical real estate transaction where the buyer and seller both worked with a real estate agent, the seller pays both agents a 3% commission on the purchase price of the home. FSBO sellers are usually trying to avoid paying those commissions, so they might not want to sell to a buyer who is working with a real estate agent. Some real estate agents won’t show potential buyers any FSBO listings, because there’s a chance the seller won’t accept the buyer’s offer unless the agent is out of the picture.\nIf a buyer finds a FSBO listing and is already working with a real estate agent, all hope isn’t automatically lost. You can ask your agent to reach out to the seller to see if they can reach an agreement about paying the buyer’s commission, or a portion of it. That way, you can continue the transaction with the help of your agent.\nThe seller will still have to manage the process on their own, but they’ll save a good amount of money by not having to pay a seller’s commission. Plus, you’ll be protected by the industry knowledge of your agent and won’t have to worry about handling the transaction on your own.\nCon: Managing a real estate transaction without a real estate agent can be complicated\nMost people aren’t aware of everything that goes into a real estate transaction. There’s a lot of money, paperwork, and critical timing involved. Simple mistakes made on your end might wind up costing you a lot of money. If you make an offer on a FSBO without the help of a real estate agent, there are additional responsibilities you’ll have to take care of, which you may know very little about.\nIf you’re not comfortable managing the transaction on your own, there are two things you can do. The first is to hire a real estate lawyer to handle the purchase contract. They’ll make sure contingencies are properly written to protect you, the buyer, in case the transaction falls apart.\nThe second is to hire a real estate transaction coordinator. They can help you set up your escrow account, make sure documents are submitted on time, coordinate appointments for the home inspection and appraisal, and coordinate the closing.\nSince the costs for hiring a lawyer or transaction coordinator is typically less than paying a commission to a buyer’s real estate agent, the FSBO seller may be willing to pay for some or all your costs for hiring them.\nCon: Directly negotiating with the seller because you don’t have a real estate agent\nLike we’ve said before, selling a home is a highly emotional event. There’s no easy way to ask someone to lower the price on the home where they grew up, have owned for decades, or raised their family. Typically your buyer’s agent shields you from these conversations, as you and the seller would normally have third party agents involved so the buyer and seller don’t have to negotiate directly.\nEven if you’re happy with the price of the home, there are other fees that will need to be negotiated. You’ll have to agree on who will pay for the transfer taxes, title search fee, closing costs, and how the property taxes get prorated.\nWhatever you do, make sure everything that’s agreed upon is put in writing and signed by both you and the seller.\nDo you need a mortgage for a FSBO home?\nMember Advantage Mortgage offers members of our partnering credit unions multiple home financing options so they can buy a home. Reach out to the mortgage loan officer at your local credit union to learn more, or use our Mortgage Payment Calculator on the side of this page to see what the current interest rates are for the most popular mortgage products.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This blog is an archive of our previous experiences on El Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Visit Camino Dreaming for our current blog and more.\nSaturday, May 24, 2008\nLascabanes, Escayrac, and Montcuq\nGetting internet connection has been much harder than expected. But we finally got on line in Montcuq and are able to post this note to say we are finding the experience fantastic, even when it rains as it is today. The whole experience is totally cool.\nThe photos show Russ at our lunch spot in Lascabanes, a couple of views from the lovely walk between L'Hospitalet and Escayrac, the main street of Escayrac, the living room of the place we stayed in Escayrac, as well as the outdoor kitchen where we had dinner and breakfast, the arrival of the bread truck, and the gathering clouds as we walked out of the lovely place on Saturday morning.\nLabels: CAMINO 2008\nSubscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)\nBonjour Peg and Russ!\nWe are thoroughly enjoying reading/listening to your adventures - it is second only to being their ourselves. Happy Hiking!\nDianne and Don\nPost a Comment", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Many groups for several decades have been talking about purifying the earth from those who stand in the way of the new world government that is being\nimplemented--and those who will be purged are those true Christians who will not bow to evil.\nEducation and science against religion has been responsible for the death of over 85+ million Christians in the 20th Centulry. In order for the more\nevolved, non-believing governments to succeed they slaughter the people that stand in the way. Read In the Black Book of Communism where religion was\noutlawed by Martin Malia.\nThe Above Top Secret Web site is a wholly owned social content community of AboveTopSecret.com.\nThis content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides a collaborative venue for free expression.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How has this hotel rated in the past?\nTripAdvisor Reviews Hotel Panorama Plzen\nTravel Blogs from Plzen\n... t speak any english so I decided to chance it and walked down to the bus platforms. There was only one bus at the station and it was going to Pilsen. I jumped on and paid the driver.\n... you wander around a series of displays depicting life in communist Czech Republic. After visiting an interrogation room guests sit and watch a movie with footage of the 1968 protests and the Velvet Revolution of 1989. It was very moving footage. The video also touches on agriculture under the Russians, and the fact that they added so much poison the food that life spans dramatically dropped.\nAfter lunch we walked back ...\n... 5 Croatian Lipas, 2 Hungarian Fillers (no longer in use), 10 Romanian lei\n# of times we did laundry: 3\n# of languages we know how to say Butterfly in: 12\n# of holes in Amberīs sneakers: 3\nNext stop: Berlin, Germany\n... a few days - may have a slow puncture. Meanwhile I've upped the low one to 82lbs. 03/06/2013. Beginning to get a little concerned. Fortunately we are able to pick up various satellite broadcasted news programmes, all of which tell of widespread flooding, the worst of which is in Moravia where we are. Prague is badly affected and we have seen on the news the now submerged little spit of land we were camped on a few days ago. We had intended ...\n... it is possible to stand in one room, look at the water 1m below and up at street level 2 above and then through to the next cellar straight across. Its meant to be the local water which gives pilsner beer (the original) its quality. We had an audio guide as we were on a Czech speaking tour. The audio guide told us which streets we were under at certain times, at one time we were underneath the main square 100m away! We had to wear helmets ...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sherlock Holmes, the invention of Arthur Conan Doyle, is ubiquitous in many adaptations, including the current seasons of Sherlock. Rather than discuss the stories or Doyle criticism, this talk concerns the extra-literary phenomena of the iconic detective, particularly the strange case of his residence. Building on her study of biographical house museums in Homes and Haunts (2016), Professor Booth searches for various reconstructions of Holmes’s study and rooms, not only in the real Baker Street but at the University of Minnesota Library and elsewhere, where curators and fans collect clues or relics, and pursue time-honored rites of literary pilgrimage and criticism.\nWork in Progress Seminar:\nWebs, Types, and Middlemarch: Digital Studies of Women’s Lives\nAlison Booth is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Director of the Scholars' Lab, University of Virginia Library. She is author, most recently, of the book Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries (Oxford University Press, 2016), and director of the digital project Collective Biographies of Women.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Can you please explain the meaning of the following dream I've had?\nIt was about a teenage native american girl statue, made of wood, that was made and people were disrespecting it. Because of that, a bad spirit was attracted to burden the people involved, including me. I was only in front of it while people were disrespecting the statue. It had a black body and the head of a stag. Looked like the wendigo / skinwalker.\nThe wooden statue of the Native American young woman indicates the distant past when Native Americans still lived the old traditional way; when they still cooperated with nature.\nYour dream says that during that time, a young Native American woman experienced a vision in which she saw a male being with dark skin and a stag head — a nature god in charge of caretaking natural areas of pristine beauty. He told her that a time would come when all races would do destructive things to the environment.\nA \"big sickness\" (a large pandemic) will come among all people. But the nature god will instruct the virus to pass those by who honor and respect the land.✶ Those who disrespect the Earth will be \"struck down\". The stag god will be called the Wendigo-gan.\nDon't buy products that aren't in recyclable containers.\n✶This is separate from the mad cow disease issue (which isn't a virus, but a neurological disorder caused by misfolded proteins)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Water to drink and grow our food is the biggest environmental issue in my opinion. Of course, this problem is derived from the other environmental problems of chemical poisoning of ground water, including our oceans, from industrial pollution, pesticide and fertilizer run offs, over population of areas draining aquifers, global warming and more. It is important that each of us lives responsibly in this world. It’s not just taking longs showers. Every plastic bottle we discard, every wrapper that is thrown away, every green lawn that is watered, every non native plant grown adds to the pollution that is destroying our water. Mindfulness extends itself to everything.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When Dan Fisk heard about Mark's seemingly unlimited hunger for cock, he told us he had to put it to the test. Mark wasted no time inhaling Dan's thick shaft, barely taking the time to free it from his boxers. True to his reputation, Mark never shifts focus from Dan's dick. He sucks, licks, and slurps with unwavering gusto, keeping Dan on his toes as his tongue works its magic. As the action heats up, you can almost feel the slippery warmth of Mark's mouth. Despite his obvious pleasure, Dan strives to keep his cool as Mark urges him toward the anticipated climax--but in the end Mark and his appetite win. Both men are rewarded as Dan blasts his gooey load into Mark's eager, waiting gullet.\nNo reviews found", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It’s crazy at work.\nWe hear that all the time from friends, family, co-workers, and ourselves. It’s one of the constant trends in the idle chatter that happens at get togethers, family reunions, and meetups of all kinds.\nIn the last ten years, looking back to when I was just starting out on the path that ultimately led to the creation of Sandhills Development, I can think of a few specific cases that truly warranted being called “crazy” or being classified as a “work emergency”, but they are few and far between, yet the near-constant feeling at work was crazy.\nThe work world has engendered this bizarre sense that chaos and craziness is good and something to celebrate. Generally when we hear someone say “it’s crazy at work” they’re referring to things are happening.\nOkay . . . and things happening is inherently a good thing?\nTo me, craziness at work is a negative.\nIt’s the anthesis of focus.\nKnow what’s amazing? Not being tired when going home after work.\nWhen it’s crazy at work, we’re always tired.\nCrazy isn’t good. It’s terrible.\nA few months ago I read It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work and it is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read when it comes to better understanding how to run and build my remote company. If you haven’t read it yet, I’d highly recommend it, regardless of the role or position you have at your place of work.\nWe tend to celebrate the constant motion and growth and excitement of building new things, fixing tons of bugs, shipping metric tons of features, and always changing. I’d like to, instead, propose we celebrate something else.\nLet’s celebrate calm.\nCalmness at work is attainable but we have to be very intentional about getting there.\nOne of the worst offenders I’ve found in our daily work is the constant connectivity and “status” of social media and real-time chat systems. When we are signed into Slack, Facebook, Twitter, or anything else that streams live information in front of us, we’re constantly bombarded with distractions and bits of information that we perceive as important. Our minds become conditioned to think that consuming live streams of other people’s thoughts is productive, but it’s not. It instills this artificial sense of productivity when in reality we’re aimlessly filling space in time.\nFor the last few months I’ve been doing an exercise where at the end of the day I write about one thing I worked on that day. A fascinatingly depressing pattern emerged: most days I barely got anything of note done.\nIf I didn’t get anything done then why was I so damn tired?\nSince starting my experiment of writing about something in my day, I’ve begun to notice something else. If I disconnect from live streams, perhaps take a walk through the woods, and then focus intently on a specific task, I make great progress! And at the end of the day I feel good and not drained.\nLive information streams breed a false sense of urgency. This looks important, let’s take care of it right now! So and So needs X now! Hey, can I get thoughts on this now?\nWhen was the last time a true “right now” work emergency happened?\nThe constant jumping around and topic switching that occurs when we consume so much information in a live stream format is crazy, and it wears on us, even if we don’t realize it at first.\nCalm at work can happen, and I believe the key to it is consuming and broadcasting information asynchronously.\nRight now can wait if we let our minds believe it.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "The problem with pregnancy and PH\nSo why is it that women with PH are advised they shouldn’t have children? Your medical team just wants the best for you. The studies that are available all suggest that pregnancy in a woman with PH is incredibly risky and can lead to loss of life.\nHow does pregnancy affect the health of a woman with PH?\nWhen a woman is pregnant there are lots of changes that happen within their body. There are three main changes which are important in PH: an increase in what is called cardiac output, a decrease in peripheral vascular resistance, and an increase in the likelihood of thrombosis. We address each of these below.\nThis is the amount of blood that the heart pumps through the body. As the pregnancy develops, the heart has to pump more blood around the system which in turn means that the heart has to work harder than it would do normally. The cardiac output increases steadily from when pregnancy begins and reaches its peak at around 24-26 weeks of pregnancy.\nIn pulmonary hypertension, the heart is already working harder than normal which is why getting pregnant can have such a negative impact on a woman’s health. In some women, the heart simply cannot meet the new demands placed on it by the pregnancy and there can be a significant increase in breathlessness and syncope (fainting).\nPeripheral vascular resistance\nThis affects how easy it is for the blood to flow through the blood vessels. In pregnancy, the resistance steadily decreases which makes it easier for the blood to travel around the body. It also makes it easier for the blood to flow through the lungs. Part of the disease process in PH increases vascular resistance in the lungs so in women with PH, the changes in the vascular resistance during pregnancy can actually improve symptoms. This can give the impression that all is well, but things change very quickly once the baby is born.\nImmediately after having a baby, there are several significant changes within the cardiovascular system (heart and blood vessels) which bring a high risk to the mother’s health. The peripheral resistance rapidly returns to what it was before the pregnancy. In a woman with PH, there is a bigger change in the blood flow through the lungs than in a woman without PH. As the blood flow around the lungs suddenly comes up against more resistance, PH symptoms can worsen. There is also a massive change in the amount of fluid circulating through the heart and main vessels. The combination of extra fluid circulating and a sudden increase in resistance to the blood flowing around the lungs, puts a huge amount of pressure on the heart. This is why the period after having a baby is a very risky time.\nThis is the formation of a blood clot within a blood vessel which prevents blood flowing through that vessel. During pregnancy and for six weeks afterwards, the blood becomes ‘hypercoagulable’. This means it clots more easily and is why any pregnant woman, or a woman who has given birth up to six weeks previously, is at a higher risk of a blood clot in her legs or her lungs than a woman who isn’t pregnant. For a woman with PH, even if the PH is not linked to blood clots of the lungs, the impact of having a blood clot can be very damaging to her health.\nBecause of these changes, pregnancy, childbirth and the immediate post-natal period all carry a high risk to the mother’s health. And because of this, the medical advice for any woman with pulmonary hypertension is to avoid getting pregnant.\nHow does PH affect the health of the unborn child?\nIf a woman with PH becomes pregnant, assuming their heart and lungs work well enough, there is no indication that the disease itself has any harmful effects on the developing foetus.\nHowever, the medication that the woman would need to take to keep the heart and lungs working well, may have effects on the baby.\nInformation about the safety of drugs during pregnancy is collected differently to information about the general safety of drugs. It is not ethical to organise a study for a new drug using pregnant women because of the possible risk to the foetus. Information is therefore only available from animal studies and from anecdotal evidence (other women’s stories).\nBecause PH is a rare condition and because successful pregnancies are even rarer, there is not a lot of anecdotal evidence. So, most of the information we have is from animal studies.\nDue to the results of animal studies, some of the medications used in PH are ‘contra-indicated’ in pregnancy – in other words, they shouldn’t be used at all, as they are known to cause damage to the unborn child.\nPH-specific medications that are contra-indicated are Ambrisentan, Bosentan and Macitentan. Non-PH specific, but frequently used medication that is contra-indicated, is warfarin.\nOther medications used in PH are not contra-indicated but, as there is very little information about their safety, the advice is usually to use with caution.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Written Saturday, June 19, 2010\nMy Peace Corps Pre-Service Training Manual states PST \"is a time to test your assumptions about being a volunteer, assumptions about Americans and Tanzanians, assumptions about what is right and what is wrong, and the differences here.\"\nBoy, is that an understatement.\nAt 30-years-old, I have gained a lot of professional experience and, without meaning to sound completely conceited, I took pride in knowing I was someone my co-workers and peers could rely on to know my job and for advice if ever needed. It's crazy how much a few thousand miles can change one's self-perception as those abilities are certainly not how I would characterize myself in this moment.\nTwo flights, a missed connection and an afternoon spent in an airport instead of important initial meetings got me to Philadelphia on Monday. I did get to meet the other Peace Corps Trainees, PCTs, that night for supper. They are all totally fabulous and have wonderfully unique stories of their own.\nTuesday was another early morning as we had to be on the road to get our first immunization shot (yellow fever) by 6 a.m. We then boarded two group tour buses (seriously, I just can't get away from these things!) and headed to NYC. I really do try to hide my inner-country-hickness but driving through Lincoln Tunnel into Manhattan even had me at the edge of my seat. Funky pizza parlors, the New York Times office and even a park I swear to have seen on Sex and the City had me seriously wanting to stay at least a day.\nBut we were quickly at JFK and not so quickly onto the plane. Who knew moving 41 people each with two bags not weighing more than a total of 80lbs or total dimensions of more than 107in could take so long? Three flights with stops in Zurich and Nairobi, 21 hours of travel and an eight-hour (CST) time difference got us all to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa. Needless to say, I slept very little and was a bundle of nerves once we finally landed in TZ!\nOur home until next Wednesday is at a convent in Dar. Training started bright and early at 8 a.m. the next day but I think my \"assumptions\" were tested as soon as we arrived at the hostel. We were grandly welcomed by the PC Tanzania staff and almost immediately given our malaria pills. Then we were shown to our rooms. Granted after three days they do not really seem that bad but, at first arrival, I was thrown off guard a bit. The room is small with the bare necessities and a 4'x 5' open-floor-plan-bathroom with a working toilet and a shower with a drain.\nI never understood why everyone at home was so surprised that I would want to do this, especially as it was my first time out of the US let alone an under-developed country. But at that point of exhaustion and being a bit overwhelmed by it all, I was quickly understanding the surprise and how a previous trip could have helped me prepare for the voyage.\nNow after three full days in TZ, I am finally feeling back to my old self. The past three days have been a blur of five of 10 more shots, lessons on the Tanzanian culture, religion and language. As comfortable as I was in my old life, it has been a sharp change that I knew was coming but still a surprise. I have really been struggling with the language more than others in my class, but they have all been really helpful. So much stress is put on being wary of the high petty-crime rate that I have not been really talking to many of the locals who live and work at the convent that our hostel is located inside. But they are good people and very friendly. They are thankful to have PC here in TZ and want to make sure we enjoy our stay, which really describes most of the people in TZ.\nNext Wednesday we move in with our host family for the remaining eight weeks of training. I am really excited to meet them and get to experience their daily routines first-hand. During this time, there will be three others living in the same village with their host families, and we will continue to meet up for educational sessions with a Language and Culture Facilitator.\nOh, and the curiously strong toilet? Having an open bathroom with no shelves, I have had to sit my shampoo and soap on the back of the commode. When I went to flush the first morning, my entire, newly-opened bottle of facewash fell in the toilet! Before I realized what had happened, it had been completely flushed down!! Luckily, I have two more bottles with me and a supply at home that my family is suppose to send me. I have not even had any problems with plumbing since then….", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The DAA (Dublin Airport Authority) has ambitious long-haul expansion plans and has successfully added new routes to North America and the Middle East in recent years. It has yet to secure a direct route to East Asia. Like most airports, the effects of the September 11, 2001 attacks affected transatlantic traffic but this has since recovered to record levels.\nIn 2005 Gulf Air launched a direct route to Bahrain in the Middle East. This was followed by Aer Lingus's service to Dubai in March 2006, and Etihad Airways service to Abu Dhabi in July 2007. Despite reportedly high loads, the Gulf Air service to Bahrain was cancelled in July 2007 as part of a broad restructuring plan of the airline. This move prompted Etihad Airways to bring forward the start date of its Abu Dhabi service by a number of months, and Etihad's Dublin route has proved to be a success with further frequencies planned. The DAA announced as far back as the late 1990s that it would like to add a route to East Asia, however this has yet to materialise and Aer Lingus's poorly performing route to Dubai was dropped at the end of March 2008., however the introduction of services to Asia remains part of Aer Lingus' long term plans. Both Etihad Airways and Emirates provide direct service to the Gulf area with routes to Abu Dhabi and Dubai respectively.\nIn February 2010, United Arab Emirates airline Etihad Airways announced an increase in services to Dublin from Abu Dhabi which means that from 28 March 2010 twice-daily flights are available on Thursdays, Saturdays & Sundays with a once-daily service on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.\nIn September 2010, US Airways announced that it will commence daily direct services from Dublin to Charlotte in North Carolina from May 2011. It will be a summer seasonal route running until September.\nIn September 2011, Emirates announced that from 9 January 2012 it would begin a new daily direct service to Dubai, which will be year-round and will operate from the new Terminal 2.\nOn June 8, 2012, United Airlines commenced a new daily service to Washington DC (Dulles), also to operate from Terminal 2.\nOn October 24, 2012, American Airlines announced a new daily year-round service to New York-JFK beginning June 13, 2013 and subject to government approval. It will be the carrier's second service from the airport, with the other being its seasonal route between Dublin and Chicago O'Hare.\nRead more about this topic: Dublin Airport\nFamous quotes containing the word traffic:\n“Theres something about the dead silence of an office building at night. Not quite real. The traffic down below is something that didnt have anything to do with me.”\n—John Paxton (19111985)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When Mumbai franchise poached on German Manuel Friedrich last week, it was easily their best buy even if you included their draft picks that happened earlier.\nStriving to build a formidable outfit, the Mumbai Franchise of the Indian Super League (ISL) on Friday announced the signing of Germany's Manuel Friedrich.\nThe Mumbai ISL franchise, which is yet to officially announce its name, has signed up Germany's Manuel Friedrich, in addition to the seven international players they have already acquired during the draft meet on Thursday.\nHaving played top class football at home and internationally for years, the lure of playing in a country which he had visited in the past as a tourist drew Friedrich to the ISL.\nFIFA has officially timed Clint Dempsey's goal at 30 seconds into the United States' 2-1 win over Ghana. The goal was initially timed at 29 seconds\nDr KD Singh, MP Rajya Sabha, has been felicitated with the 'One of the Best Global Indians in the World' award at the Global Indian Excellence Summit 2014 held in London on July 21.\nGoogle is followed by Deloitte, Citi, Apple and P&G in the top-five firms for business students.\nThe number of ultra-high networth individuals having a surplus of over Rs 25 crore for investment rose 16 per cent to 1.17 lakh last fiscal.\nRavi Menon, Chairman of Sobha Developers Ltd. was honoured with the prestigious EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2013 in Energy, Real Estate and Infrastructure category , making him one of the youngest recipients of this award.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "As a charity specifically dedicated to raising awareness of loneliness, we are aware of the stigma that is still attached to it.\nWe want to change the perception around loneliness and help people to understand that feeling lonely is completely normal.\nIn 2017 we launched the UK’s first ever Loneliness Awareness Week (LAW) and will now be running the campaign annually in June each year. Loneliness and social isolation is something we can’t ignore.\nAs social creatures, we need to attend to our loneliness just as we would eat if we’re hungry. Social connections are fundamental to our daily existence and help give meaning and purpose in our lives.\nWe want LAW to be an occasion where people come together and take actions to connect. We believe everyone will be affected by loneliness at some point in their lives. For many, it is a transitory feeling but for others, it can become chronic and have a serious impact on a person’s health and wellbeing. LAW aims to generate positive action to help combat it.\n- Three out of four GPs say they see between 1 and 5 people a day who have come in mainly because they are lonely Loneliness can be as harmful to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day The UK is the loneliest country in Europe (UK Gov Survey 2017) Around 200,000 older people have not had a conversation with a friend or relative in more than a month Up to 85% of young disabled adults – 18-34 year olds – feel lonely\nTo get involved in Loneliness Awareness Week 2019 please keep an eye out for further details on our website www.marmaladetrust.org and social media platforms (twitter, facebook and instagram).\nBristol BS2 0PT", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Universal Shades by Kosås Cosmetics 4.89 (97.78%) 9 votes I am a big believer in skincare first, makeup second. A healthy, clean complexion tops a face covered in anything, as far as I am concerned. Skin so fresh and clean not only looks healthy, but will make you feel as though you need no more […]\n- RT @GrandPigalle: Find our very talented designer Dorothée Meilichzon and the @GrandPigalle in the @nypost ! t.co/cAzV4dLobj Time ago 70 Days via Twitter Web Client\n- RT @sepaibeauty: Ready to start #Spring with the right foot? Your #morning routine can change your whole day, follow these tips: https://t.… Time ago 70 Days via Twitter Web Client\n- RT @sepaibeauty: Start the day with the right foot! Follow these simple tips t.co/EHDd4GtLHN Time ago 70 Days via Twitter Web Client\n- RT @MadameLALAUK: It's competition time! Head to our Instagram @MadameLALAUK to win a case of @TwistedHaloUK and our range! #giveaway #bblo… Time ago 70 Days via Twitter Web Client\n- Beautiful shades for spring by @kosascosmetics. t.co/IaWs2AsMLg #makeup Time ago 70 Days via Twitter Web Client\nFollow @accordingtodawn on twitter.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Citco – Financial company in Halifax, NS – 5151 George Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Read verified and trustworthy customer reviews for Citco or write your own review.\n|Categories:||Financial companies in Halifax, Financial companies in Nova Scotia|\n|Postal code:||B3J 1M5|\n|Address:||5151 George Street, Halifax, NS, B3J 1M5|\n|Phone Number:||(902) 442-4242|\n|Suggest an Update|\nMonday: By appointment\nTuesday: By appointment\nWednesday: By appointment\nThursday: By appointment\nFriday: By appointment\nSaturday: By appointment\nSunday: By appointment\nEach review that comes in goes under comprehensive review moderation to avoid fraudulent/fake reviews.\nMore about Citco\nCustomer ratings and consumer reports on Citco – financial company in Halifax, NS.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Request: Add retired tag \"eml\" to the IANA registry\npetercon at microsoft.com\nFri Dec 11 23:18:26 CET 2009\nFrom: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Randy Presuhn\n> We should also keep in mind the RFC 5646 section 3.4 (13)\n> principle of not adding a new subtag with semantics identical\n> to something already in the registry.\nThat one may be tricky. In the case of an ID/name being deprecated because it was deemed to denote the same language as coded by another existing ID, then that rule would apply. But in the case of an ID we would now deem to have null denotation, there was an assumed non-null denotation* that may have been applied (albeit only tentatively or in factual error) in some application. To say all these null-denotation items are semantically identical would not, IMO, be appropriate.\n(*Scenario: someone registered a language on the basis of reports that \"the people in the village on the other side of that pass speak Foobian\", but later, after a route through the pass has been surveyed, it's discovered that the that village was deserted 50 years ago with no trace of its inhabitants.)\nThat's not intended as a positive argument that the set in question should be added to the LSR; it's only a caveat on what implications to draw from your observation.\nMore information about the Ietf-languages", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Certree’s Employee Protection software enables HR organizations to protect employee data and privacy by leveraging our trustless digital certification platform. We are disrupting the existing employment verification and income verification industries and offering a compelling alternative to today’s cavalier practices. Certree leverages the latest blockchain technology and modern cryptography principles to help companies reduce risk of non-compliance, increase employee satisfaction and improve HR productivity without incurring any cost. We help HR leaders become their employees’ hero by playing a key role in empowering the individual to control their own data. In today’s climate where personal data is being harvested, processed, sold and breached on a daily basis, Certree is helping companies stay compliant with the latest consumer privacy laws such as GDPR and California Privacy Act by offering bulletproof protection of employee data security and privacy.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "For the first time in years I admitted to someone, and thereby myself, that I may be on the road to depression. That’s a sad and scary thought. I’m not myself right now, I’m not fully here. I can turn it on for certain things, especially new and different things, but in my daily life it’s hard to be me…\nI’ve noticed that. There have been individuals that have noticed that.\nThen tonight I was watching girl meets world, and in the last two episodes Riley is on a journey to try and help Maya find herself. Riley asks questions like ‘Where are you Maya’ and says things like ‘You’ve become me’ and I… recognize that I’ve started to lose myself, or maybe I’m completely lost.\nWho I am.\nI barely recognize who I was anymore.\nThis is tough.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Preparation is Key: Before diving into the interview, review the candidate’s resume, cover letter, and any assignments or tests they’ve completed. This allows you to craft targeted questions and have a basic understanding of their background.\nStructured Interviewing: Ensure consistency by asking all candidates the same set of questions. This structured approach aids in making fair comparisons and reduces unconscious biases.\nBehavioural Questions: Ask questions that prompt candidates to describe past situations where they’ve demonstrated desired skills or qualities. For example: “Tell me about a time when you had to handle a difficult client.”\nSituational Questions: Present hypothetical, job-related situations and assess the candidate’s problem-solving skills. Example: “How would you handle a situation where two team members are at odds over a project decision?”\nAssess Soft Skills: Beyond technical know-how, gauge communication abilities, teamwork, adaptability, and problem-solving. These can often be more indicative of a candidate’s potential success than hard skills alone.\nTake Notes: Jot down key points during the interview to aid in post-interview evaluations. This will also ensure that your recollections are based on facts, not just impressions.\nCultural Fit Evaluation: Determine if the candidate aligns with the company’s values, mission, and work environment. However, be wary of seeking only those who are like current employees, as this can stifle diversity and innovation.\nInclude Multiple Evaluators: Engage multiple team members in the interview process. This allows for diverse perspectives and reduces individual biases in decision-making.\nSkill Tests or Assignments: For certain roles, a practical test can provide insights into a candidate’s on-the-job capabilities. Ensure the tasks mirror actual job duties and respect the candidate’s time.\nOpen-Ended Questions: Allow candidates to express themselves and share experiences not explicitly stated in their resumes. Questions like “What are you most proud of in your career?” can yield valuable insights.\nBody Language and Non-Verbal Cues: While content is crucial, observing a candidate’s body language, eye contact, and overall demeanour can provide additional information about confidence, enthusiasm, and sincerity.\nAsk for Feedback: At the end of the interview, ask candidates about their perception of the role and company. Their questions and concerns can give you a fresh perspective and even help refine the interview process.\nPost-Interview Evaluation: Soon after the interview, meet with other evaluators. Discuss and compare notes to make an informed decision.\nConsistent Feedback Loop: Establish a system where interviewers provide feedback not just about the candidates, but also about the interview process itself. This will help in refining your evaluation techniques over time.\nIn conclusion, an effective candidate evaluation requires a structured approach, keen observation, and collaboration among interviewers. By ensuring that every candidate is assessed in a comprehensive, consistent, and unbiased manner, you can significantly improve the chances of finding the best fit for your organisation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Board Vote on Ballot Measure\nOn August 7, 2018, the Board of Trustees voted to place a prudent and community-responsive $720 million general obligation bond -- Measure BB -- on the November 2018 voter ballot. If approved by the voters, these funds will go a long way in meeting our estimated $1.5 billion dollars of identified facilities needs.\nAugust 7, 2018 Board Meeting Agenda, Minutes, and Documents\nBoard to Vote on Ballot Measure\nOn February 27, the Board of Trustees decided to postpone the decision of whether to call for a general obligation bond election until August 7, 2018, to fund much-needed and ongoing facility improvements.\nFebruary 27, 2018 Board Meeting Agendas, Minutes, and Documents", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Once when I lived in Memphis I had a yoga teacher. She was off the deep-end yoga mellow lady. She also looked about half her age and I thought she was pretty cool. She used to talk about going camping and how much coordination that used to take for her. She was more comfortable in the city, walking on paved surfaces because she said that when she walked on rocks and grass, she could hear them protest. And once she put a campfire-hot pot down on a rock, and she heard it scream!\nIf rocks can yell, trees might have eyes. Enjoy!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tuesday, July 13, 2010\nSol.A on iRhino3D app\nOUTR has recently been testing the new\napplication to communicate the work between team members and clients. It will no doubt prove to be a valuable tool in the future.\nOffice of Urban Transformations Research\nShare to Twitter\nShare to Facebook\nShare to Pinterest", "label": "No"}
{"text": "On the way to the site, which you will find less than 2 kilometres from Náměstí Svornosti (Concord Square), you can visit one of the landmarks around the south meander of the Vltava River or stop at one of the restored chapels of the Stations of the Cross from the 18th century. However, be prepared for a steeper climb. Your reward will be a stunning view of Český Krumlov and nearby Kleť and on weekends and holidays also the possibility to visit the octagonal chapel located on the top of the hill. On the way back, head along the red marked route to the Horní Brána district, where we recommend stopping for a well-earned rest by the Hornobranský rybník pond in the summer (small beach, children’s playground with climbing wall, volleyball and beach volleyball courts).\nRoute: Náměstí Svornosti → Kájovská Street → Linecká Street → Po vodě Street → Křížová Street → Stinná Street → U sáňkařské dráhy Street → Křížová hora → Šumavská Street → Příkrá Street → Kaplická Street → Horní Street → Náměstí Svornosti", "label": "No"}
{"text": "organization of vegetarian compliance\nTo create a safe and hygienic environment in terms of food and food safety for the Vegetarian society of the nation and around the world by creating standards that are developed on sound scientific and hard core vedic ancient principles\nTo create the dispensable income for the students, as with high rise of unemployment in past few years and especially during pandemic situation which has affected every walk of life, especially the youth of our nation which has been affected adversely, Sattvik council of India provide the opportunity to all the students out there to generate their basic dispensable income by certifying themselves into various Sattvik council programs.\nCreating new job opportunities, Sattvik Council of India is a multi-dimensional platform and has capabilities to provide opportunities in the following domains:\n- food Safety Auditor\n- TOT’s (Trainer of trainers)\nVegetarian society contributes a largest sector in India and always under a doubtful situation of whether the product they are consuming are PURE VEG or not, even the Green logo comes with a benefit of doubt, The Sattvik Council of India want to bring a vegetarian revolution where the consumers from vegetarian society should not have any second thought while consuming any product in terms of Food safety & Quality.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Over at Bittersweet Life, Ariel has posted a poem about the choice we make each day in how we see the world. Here’s a snippet:\nEvery story that has inner beauty,\nThat strikes a note and holds it\nIn our hearts and minds,\nIs an echo of the one Story—\nWild and frightening and wonderful.\nAs a writer there can be nothing more depressing than slaving over words and putting them out for the world to see and then hearing nothing in return. So do him this kindness: go there and read the poem and then leave him a comment. It doesn’t have to be long, in fact, it can even be disagreement. You should also bookmark his site while your there. It’s a great read.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pick Up Music Club\nThe Pick Up Music Club has been active in Muziekcafé Helmond for several years now. Started as a group of music lovers in an attic and grown into a recurring event, now also in POPEI!\nFriday September 13th the third edition will take place. The PUMC offers DJs, collectors and music lovers the chance to share their favourite LPs with the pub visitors. Every DJ has an hour to play whatever he or she wants. Nice tunes for the ear? Sometimes, sometimes not. Danceable? Sometimes, sometimes not. Cozy and fun? Always! Previous editions have brought diverse genres like Punk and Rap on 1 night, 60’s Mod/garage and 80’s Wave. The evenings are unpredictable and offer the audience an unique insight into various types of music that they otherwise would never hear in a pub or catering establishment. Also interested to become a PUMC DJ? Send a mail to firstname.lastname@example.org with the header ‘DJ PUMC’ and who knows, you will soon be at the music cafe or POPEI behind the turntables!\nThis event happens in PopEI", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Loungewear has never been so luxurious.\nMothers deserve the world and more.\nHere comes the bride, all dressed in gorgeous lingerie!\nSummer will be hot, but you can still look cool.\nIt’s time to say goodbye.\nClean your lingerie the right way and it’ll thank you.\nYou won’t be able to resist.\nThe warm weather is coming!\nA new season means new foundation pieces you won’t have to replace every season.\nIt’s time to celebrate YOU.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The MacDonnell Ranges are some of the oldest mountains on the planet.\n- Parrtjima – a Festival in Light\n- Mountain biking in Alice Springs\n- fabALICE a festival of sparkle\n- Stories from our guests: educational experience for my kids\n- Stories from our guests: my noon camel ride\n- Ride a camel to see the birds!\n- Camel Rides Australia\n- Meet our friends, the Babblers\n- Can’t pronounce Ptilotus?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Forget about the drink for a minute, check out the can. It’s resealable! This has got to be one of the greatest inventions so far of the 21st century. It’s pretty watertight and can withstand being held upside down and shaken with ease.\n“Have No Fear, Show No Fear”, that’s what it says on the can. I can’t say for certain that I felt no fear after drinking this, mainly because I’m not sure I was in a suitable scenario which would test the aforementioned fear-resistance-boosting properties, but what I can say is that it tasted very nice. It’s a Red Bull Clone, but a very syrupy-sweet one that is easy on the way down. No nasty after-tastes, no bitter or sour flavourings, just a pleasant and sweet pick-me-up.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The challenge of pests and pesticides in our Agriculture\nEven with the use of pesticides,” between 20% to 40% of global crop production is lost to pests annually. Each year, plant diseases cost the global economy around $220 billion, and invasive insects around $70 billion\nA personal Intro\nI find myself grappling with the complex issue of pests and pesticides in agriculture and the intricate relationship between the two. Depending on one's perspective, it may seem like either the pest or the pesticide is the primary problem. Pests pose a significant threat to crops, necessitating the use of pesticides to combat them. However, in addressing this challenge, pesticides can inflict harm on human health, contaminate our food, and degrade the environment.\nFinding a solution to this dilemma requires a nuanced approach that balances the need for pest control with the imperative to minimize the negative impacts of pesticides.\nThis issue has become my passion and mission over the past few years. Despite my background as a CFO and accountant, I have been drawn to the cause of reducing pesticide usage and promoting sustainable agricultural practices. I passionately believe that addressing thus is the key to addressing numerous global challenges, including environmental degradation, food security, and affordability.\nMy journey began when I sought out farming expertise for a business opportunity and crossed paths with Dr. Nimrod Israeli, an Israeli farmer and scientist. The founder of Biofeed https://biofeed.co.il/enhome/, a company dedicated to combating the devastating effects of pests on fruits and vegetables. Along the way, I encountered individuals like John Rouloc, Executive Producer of Kiss the Ground: https://kissthegroundmovie.com/ and Anna Shevel, a founder of https://unpoison.org/ Who are leading the fight for regenerative agriculture.\nToday, I am involved with a company https://www.scarow.com/ that is pioneering innovative technologies to measure pest populations and administer targeted treatments more accurately. Increasing crop yields while reducing pesticide usage contributes to a healthier and more sustainable agricultural ecosystem.\nThe unhealthy effects of pesticides, chemicals in farming, and food.\nEven with the use of pesticides,” between 20% to 40% of global crop production is lost to pests annually. Each year, plant diseases cost the global economy around $220 billion, and invasive insects around $70 billion”, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.\nThe negative impacts of pesticides on the environment, human health, biodiversity, water, and soil are well-documented.. Pesticide residues can be found in many food commodities, beer, honey, pasta, fruits, vegetables, and even in playgrounds, urine, and the air.\nSolve this problem then can make an impact in improving global food security,\nClear link to health and cancer\nIn November 23, Bayer was ordered to pay $1.56 billion in the latest US trial loss over Roundup weedkiller. Around 165,000 claims have been made against the company for personal injuries allegedly caused by Roundup, which Bayer acquired as part of its $63 billion purchase of agrochemical company Monsanto in 2018. In 2020, Bayer settled most of the then-pending Roundup cases for up to $10.9 billion.\nCosts of Protection and Surveillance.\nThis also leads to Export bans and increased costs of surveillance. The cost of plant protection and quarantine by the US Dept of Agriculture is a staggering $648 million a year\nClimate change, food security and food inflation, and cost living\nThe overall combination of natural produce loss, produce wasted through the supply chain, excessive use of chemicals and pesticides, increased farming costs, lower quality, and supervision costs leads to higher prices of produce. Climate change, food security, food inflation, and cost of living are all important issues that have a significant impact on our lives, and the world around us. It's crucial that we understand and address these challenges thoughtfully and proactively.\nSolve this problem then we solve a lot of the world's problems and many SDGs.\nA growing problem\nOver the past 30 years, massive pesticide use on farms worldwide has increased by 60%, even though global cropland has declined by approximately 1 million square kilometres.\nThe overapplication of pesticides breeds resistance in the target pests, typically resulting in increased application of one or more pesticides.\nMost pesticides damage a broad spectrum of beneficial insects and microorganisms, not just the target pest. This disrupts the biological controls that are essential in keeping pests and diseases in check. Without biological controls, crops suffer, and many growers respond with more and stronger chemical interventions.\nSource – posted on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-knowlton-21a37a26/\nThe Pesticide Market\nThe European Union is one of the world’s biggest markets for pesticides. Almost a quarter of all pesticides sold worldwide are sold in the EU. It is also the top pesticide exporting region, increasingly selling to countries of the Global South to which pesticides that are banned in the EU can still be exported.\nSo, to make a change one needs to go up these big Agro Chemical companies who are fighting to keep their market dominance.\nThis is the chemical treadmill on which so many farmers find themselves stuck.\nFour drivers of change need to be addressed:\n• The number one challenge to farming worldwide is pests (fruit flies) which can destroy 50% to 80% of the crop, making farming unprofitable.\n• It is now well known that pesticides negatively impact human health, biodiversity, water, soil, and global supply chains. The EU Green Deal has a targeted 50% reduction in pesticides and chemicals but is challenged to find solutions.\n• The desire of consumers to eat healthier, to have better-tasting fruit, have longer buying seasons and have your fruit a longer shelf life?\n• The potential to address solution 97% to global farmers who are smallholders in developing countries who have no access to premium Markets.\nThe solutions are not that apparent.\nIn my book – Upgrading ESG– How Businesses Can Thrive in the Age of Sustainability I wrote (page 265):\n“French farmers drove hundreds of tractors into Paris on Wednesday to protest against pesticide restrictions and other environmental regulations they say are threatening farm production in the European Union's largest agricultural power.\n\"Our means of production keep being undermined by prohibitions without solutions,\" Jerome Despey, secretary general of the FNSEA, France's main farming union, told Reuters.\nEnvironmental activists say pesticide residues damage soils and wildlife and they have welcomed the EU ruling against the use of sugar beet seeds treated with neonicotinoid insecticides that can harm bees.\n\"Biodiversity, indispensable for life on earth and farming, must not be sacrificed,\" anti-pesticide group Generations Futures said in a statement supporting the neonicotinoid ban.\nFarmers argue that sugar beet plants do not attract bees and that the ban leaves them exposed to crop disease virus yellows, raising the prospect of lower production and more imports from countries that allow neonicotinoids.”\nTo summarize, we do not have adequate solutions, and yet despite that saying beets do not attract pests, they still want to use pesticides because of the potential risk. I am going to add to this the data and measurement challenge. This cries out for a solution.\nThe way forward\nOver the last few years, I have been learning and searching for solutions to the problem.\nAs a starter, consumer awareness is key to making a change. Therefore, I am advocating for Product ESG or labelling (QR Codes) that shares the journey of the product and provides transparency of the environment (waste, climate, chemicals, transport) and social (fair profit and wages) and Governance (transparency) of each product we consume.\nHowever, this is just a starter, and one of my brandings is where “ESG meets Innovation”.\nFarm Up - Driving Increased Global Food Security\nEmpowering farmers for sustainable growth\nFarmUP is a platform dedicated to increasing Food security. It does that by promoting cutting-edge agro-technology and agro-social finance - providing tailored project opportunities for sustainable farming.\nWe believe in the power of agriculture to drive positive change and create a more sustainable future.\nWe do this by addressing by the promotion of:\nTechnology that can make a global impact.\nInvesting inprofitable agro-business models.\nFarmUP is working with some cutting-edge agrotechnology companies looking to solve the pest and pesticide problems.\nPlease reach out to me if you are driven to invest in opportunities to make the world a better place,", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The next stop on our Cote D’Azur (Southern France) trip was to check out Cannes & Mandilieu a Napoule. I have had alot of fun interpretting and checking out all the signs on our journey as I am the designated navigator on our trip. It also took me like 5 days to finally capture one of these signs.\nFun fact – Whenever you see a sign like this – the top is the city you are entering and the red lined city is the city you are leaving.Before heading out, we had our favorite French American breakfast.We had a different server this time and my eggs did not come out Bien Cuit. I just ate the whites leaving the yokes behind.Cannes has all the flare you’d expect of a “Hollywood” like town. There are fancy shops and artwork all over downtown.It is situated right on the beach with a harbor filled with all types of boats and yachts.This is the first beach we have seen with sand versus all rocks.There are still parts of the city that have the historic buildings and cobblestone paths.In front of the building where they have the annual film festival is the star walk of fame.Before heading out we shared a “pizza snack” and caprese panini. Both were surprisingly tasty.The second stop of the day was the Chateau de La Napoule. I completely fell in love with the story behind this castle.We were too late to take the tour inside but were free to read all the signs, walk all around outside and in the garden.The gardens were so peaceful and pretty.The castle sits right on the water and I could just imagine sitting outside overlooking the sea every day.The love the two owners shared for each other extended to those around them.You can walk along the beach or walk on one of the paths along the castle.When we got back to Nice, we headed out to have pizza at La Pizza Cresci.\nWe shared a Caprese salad – the creamy dressing was a bit much for me but overall the salad was good.Plus 1/4 peppeeoni pizza each. I loved this pizza – thin and crispy yet doughy and super cheesy.We finished the night with pralines and cream cones.My last two recaps are coming up soon for our trip to Italy and Castle Hill.\nHere are my France Recaps for our trip so far:\n- France Recap #1: Road Tripping\n- France Recap #2: Chateau de Crussol\n- France Recap #3: La Tour de Crest\n- France Recap #4: Les Baux de Provence\n- France Recap #5: A walk through Nice\n- France Recap #6: Menton and Monaco\n- France Recap #7: College Sure Loup and Saint Vincent Les Fort", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hung controversy draws focus from military's real importance\nThe China Post news staffThe Taiwanese military is in a period of soul searching (and some suggest internal conflict) amid the controversial death of Army Corporal Hung Chung-chiu, which drew 200,000 protesters to the streets last week and brought down a defense minister. The resignation of the replacement, Andrew Yang, an academic appointed to bring a fresh face and reformative force to the Defense Ministry at a time of crisis, only six days after taking office due to plagiarism accusations, is yet another blow.\nAugust 13, 2013, 12:05 am TWN\nThe death of the corporal resonated in the nation not because it is unique but rather because it symbolizes the widely viewed systematic sleaziness of the armed forces. The scandal grew into a national crisis in no small part thanks to the numerous tipoffs and exposes by current and former servicemen. Everyone seems to have a tale about their “dark days in the army” to tell.\nThe controversy, however, underlines a more profound danger for Taiwan. Military forces around the world have not been known for their respect of human rights, nor their transparency. As organizations dedicated to the art and science of efficient eradication (or at least the incapacitation) of human beings designated as enemy, the armed forces can find themselves psychologically far-removed from the norms and rules of the civilian society they defend. Brigadier General John B. Murphy, a commanding general of Division Artillery of the U.S.' 100th Infantry Division during World War II, dismissed the idea of a democratic army as absurd, saying such a force would be an “undisciplined mob.” Many U.S. servicemen and women are probably still reminded of a similar philosophy by their boot camp sergeants: “You are here to defend democracy, not to practice it.”\nThe significance of Taiwan's spectacular response to Hung's death is therefore twofold. First, it highlights the Taiwanese people's extraordinarily high regard for human rights. The 200,000 protesters amassing outside the Presidential Office for Hung showed the world the proudly humanistic spirit of Taiwan.\nIt, however, also reveals the predicament of the nation's armed forces, which seem to have lost their purpose.\nThe Taiwanese military should have built a reputation as one of the forces in the world most needed by its nation. It defends Taiwan from the world's most populous and armed (in terms of military size) nation, one which is also a major nuclear power. The mainland's People Liberation Army (PLA) has been advancing rapidly in recent years. Decades of military standoff and Taiwan's recent detente with the mainland seem to have stripped the military of its purpose and a substantial amount of respect.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sounds Like: Joan Jett, Foo Fighters, Veruca Salt, Nirvana, The Beatles\nBio: Fueled by the fire to push the boundaries of hard rock music, MAD LIBBY invokes the innermost raw emotions of their listeners, while flowing seamlessly from polished and infatuating harmonies to bone crushing riffs and heart pounding beats. With their high octane and captivating live performanc...See Full Bio\nMad Libby has a show on 01/09/2015 at 09:00 PM @ Club 906 in Liberty, MO http://www.reverbnation.com/q/5h5k3n #concert\n“For those that have not ever seen Mad Libby live, they have a very unique sound that really can not be compared to anything. The only way to describe it would be power rock with a happiness curve. It seriously is very hard to describe but is a sound that without a doubt sells.”\nBe the first to ask Mad Libby a question!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Weekend before last, I went out both days with the big glass. I’m referring to the Sigma 150-600mm lens that weighs a ton but lets me get pretty close to things very far away. The 35mm equivalent on a crop sensor camera like my Sony a6400 is 225-900mm. Then add Sony’s Clear Image Zoom, which is the best digital zoom I’ve ever used, and I can double that to 450-1800mm. Snazzy, huh?\nBut that lens is heavy, so I’ve attached a shoulder strap to it, which makes it a lot easier to carry. The older I get, the harder it is to walk some days. I found out a few years ago I have arthritis in my hips, and my right knee hasn’t been doing so good lately. Ah, the joys of getting old. <–Yes, that’s sarcasm.\nThat Saturday, my aging body was brought home to me when I visited a new-to-me park for the first time. It’s called Seven Lakes, and it’s very near Highland Hammock State Park. It was my first time there. They wanted me to walk, walk, walk. Well, I expected that, but there were no benches where I could sit and rest, so I didn’t get far. Disappointing, and I said so in a review of the park. Don’t tell me you’re handicapped accessible and then not have benches.\nI got a fabulous picture of an eastern Meadowlark within minutes, though. First time I’ve managed to take a pic of one. I heard it singing, and because it was sitting at the top of a tree, and it’s brightly colored, I located it easily.\nThe original. It looks a lot closer in the photo than it did when I was looking at it with my eyes. 😉 This was taken at full extension of 600mm, plus the Clear Image Zoom at another 1.5 magnification, which equals a 35mm focal length of 1350mm.\nAnd here’s the final image.\nThat was the only good photo I got at that park. Across the street was a scrub park. Yes, another walkable area with no benches to rest on, but I’ve been looking for the crested caracara and Florida scrub jay. Didn’t see either one, damn it, but did glimpse a red-headed woodpecker. Remember that fabulous shot I posted of one about a week ago? That kind of picture isn’t as common as you think. THIS is what usually happens.\nCould NOT get a clear shot of it, even though I hung around a while and even tracked it to another tree. This is the original picture; I didn’t do any processing on it. At least you can see what pretty coloring it has on its back, right? 🙂\nMoving on…. I revisited Lake Wales Ridge Sunday afternoon and saw a couple of ospreys. They are back in their nests. Here’s the unimpressive original.\nAs you can see, it was a dreary, overcast day with little light, but post-processing turned it into something pretty good!\nThey are installing an observation deck in a newly-opened section of the refuge, and I followed the road a while as the sun went down. On the way back, I saw this birdhouse. The original.\nKinda dark, because sunset was imminent, and it was hidden in trees and undergrowth, but I knew I could do something with it. A careful crop and some color grading, and voila!\nSee you next time.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Last Updated: January 9, References Approved. This article was co-authored by Sarah Schewitz, PsyD. Sarah Schewitz, Psy. She received her Psy.\nHow to Write the Perfect Dating Profile\n10 Great Dating Profile Examples (Templates For Men To Copy!)\nTo create this article, volunteer authors worked to edit and improve it over time. This article has been viewed 12, times. Learn more Online dating is a minefield of potential errors. If you are a man wanting to write a profile for an online dating site, these steps may provide some guidance. We've been helping billions of people around the world continue to learn, adapt, grow, and thrive for over a decade. Every dollar contributed enables us to keep providing high-quality how-to help to people like you.\nHere are 15 ways to make your online dating profile stand out\nBy: Jason Lee Updated I HATE talking about myself. Your dating profile should be your milkshake that brings all the boys or girls to the yard. Writing a dating profile is about one thing or at least it should be about one thing — effectiveness.\nIf you are looking for love online, a great profile is key. Of course you need compelling photos, but those who are looking for a real relationship will look beyond a pretty face to find out what you are about. It would be nice if everyone could give you the benefit of the doubt and magically see what a fascinating, unique, loving person you are, but that's not how online dating works. A generic profile that doesn't say much or says the wrong things will be overlooked by the very people you truly hope to connect with.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Kanchana Kanchanasut: Thank you. You know, I was very surprised to receive this recognition. However, once I received the news I became so happy. Not just for myself but for all my Thai colleagues who worked together with me in bringing the Internet to Thailand. It’s not just me. And I think my experiences may be very similar to Gihan Dias and to other South American [?]. And so I will not repeat that. Instead, I would like to briefly talk to you about what I had to go through playing this pioneering role in a developing country.\nThe most difficult thing was in order to get involved in this type of activity, we needed to get finance. We needed to get funding. And for us, it was very difficult because our government would not understand what we wanted to do. The telcos would not let us touch their equipment. So that was our first task. And once you overcome that, we had to start finding people, students, and we had to try to train our engineers. And for this I received a lot of help from a lot of my friends in [SRC?] and APNIC. And I really want to thank them here as well.\nApart from that, after training all these people, all the engineers and getting ready for the network expansion, we had to come across a lot of problems with policymakers and government in order to— We needed to always try to strike for a balance, whether the multistakeholder model is going too far or the other way around. So, we are a kind of people in the middle that tried to balance these two powers. And this recognition may help me and my team to do a better job in this role. Thank you.\nKanchana Kanchanasut profile, Internet Hall of Fame 2013", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Category Archives: Budgets\nInteresting special report from CNNMoney regarding the future of the motor fuel tax in America. The article discusses the idea of the need for a big energy tax to alter our use of oil and lead to more alternative sources of energy.\nYou can read the series of articles here: Does the country need a big gas tax?\nOn a different issue there is an interesting article in the New York Times today about the bidding process for municipal bonds. The article states:\nThree federal agencies and a loose consortium of state attorneys general have for several years been gathering evidence of what appears to be collusion among the banks and other companies that have helped state and local governments take approximately $400 billion worth of municipal notes and bonds to market each year.\nThis will be an interesting issue to follow. You can read the article here: Nationwide Inquiry on Bids for Muncipal Bonds\nAt least a dozen states are anticipating significant budget shortfalls in 2008. The biggest crisis is occurring in California where Governor Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal emergency — after reporting a $4.6 billion revenue shortfall. Schwarzenegger recommended reducing every state program by 10%. One in interesting quote in the article comes from Iris Lav (deputy director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:\n“It’s amazing how sales tax revenues are tied to the housing market,” said Iris J. Lav, deputy director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “People aren’t buying construction materials, people aren’t furnishing new homes. Some states also have real estate transfer taxes.”\nDoug Macdonald, ULCT economic consultant, has been saying the same thing. In fact, at our September Annual Conference Doug presented on the cycle of residential development. In this presentation Doug stated that for every $1 billion decrease in residential construction values, taxable sales in Utah could drop by 3%. Utah is not one of the handful of states that is experiencing the budget shortfall this year…but historically Utah has been a year or two behind the national curve. So what can we anticipate in 2009? The way things look right now (with national trends and a slowing local housing market) I would bet on some level of a budget shortfall for the next FY. You can read a couple of recent articles here:\nCycles Happen — November ULCT Newsletter\nAfter a few month hiatus from blogging I’m back and recommitted. I figured today is a good day to relaunch the blog since today is also the first day of our new website: ULCT website (thanks to the great work of our new friends at Utah Interactive). So what is the topic of the first blog post of 2008? Budgets and taxes, of course…\nThe ULCT staff has continued with tradition and have spent our winter (post municipal election years) touring the state offering training to newly elected municipal officials. One piece of the half day training seminar is a presentation offered by Roger Tew and myself. Cities still left on the training tour are:\n- Price (January 19th)\n- Cedar City (February 2nd)\n- Salt Lake City (February 9th)\nOur presentation of budgets and taxes is focused more of the overall fiscal policies of municipal government and less on the exact nuances of managing a budget. For example, we spend a large portion of the presentation addressing the policy questions related to each revenue stream utilized by local government (property tax, sales tax, and fees). If you are interested in the presentation you can access it here: Taxes presentation to Newly Elected Officials 2008\nOr if you have questions please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.org\nThere have been a number of questions about the tax changes made during the 2007 Legislative session and how they will impact Utah cities and towns. In particular, there have been questions about what action cities may have to take in response to legislative actions.\nIt should be noted that virtually all of the tax changes were part of the comprehensive tax bill which incorporates virtually every tax change made during the session. This bill was Second Substitute Senate Bill 223 sponsored by Sen. Niederhauser. The bill incorporated not only all of the sales tax related changes but also the income tax reform. It also included a number of special business tax changes.\nThe following information outlines the primary changes that affect our cities. Obviously all cities are not impacted by every tax change. However, there was enough of an overlap that we chose to outline all of the tax changes here in this information.\nThe Removal of Food from the Specialty Taxes\nNon-prepared food was exempted from the sales tax base for the specialty tax levies (previously referred to as the “boutique taxes”). In some instances there have been attempts at offsetting revenue increases. All sales tax changes take effect on January 1, 2008. Be aware that the actual impact of the food removal will vary from community to community and will depend entirely on what portion food sales represent of your community’s tax base.\nMunicipal Local Option Tax (1%)\nThis municipal local option tax was not affected by the partial removal of sales tax from unprepaired food items. There will be no revenue implications associated with this revenue source.\nMunicipal Transportation Tax Levies and Transit Levies\nThere are a number of specialized transportation levies that were impacted by the removal of food. To offset the impact of the food removal the tax rates were raised on the remaining tax base. The cities are required to amend their ordinances on this matter. If you wish to recapture the money that was associated with sales tax on food, you are allowed to raise the municipal transporation levy from .25% to .30%. This must be done prior to November to ensure that the new rate is reflected in January when the rate changes take effect. If you have questions on the oridnance, we have attached a sample ordinance for you to review. Also, please feel free to call or write with additional questions.\nResort Community Tax\nThe legislation authorized an increase in the base resort community tax rate cap from 1% to 1.1% to minimize the impact of removing food. Since this action involves an increase in a rate cap, cities will have to pass a new ordinance to implement the new rate cap. Be aware that although the law change itself does not take effect until Jan. 2008, current law requires a 90 day notification to the tax commission prior to implementation. As such, impacted cities should not delay making decisions and necessary ordinance change. Lastly, there was no offsetting rate increase on the additional .5% resort tax dedicated for debt reduction.\nGenerally speaking, the offsets that were provided in the legislation cover any anticipated losses that would be associated with a reduction in the tax base. While this is predicated on the composition of the tax base for each affected community, it is fair to say that most cities and towns will see little or no negative impact related to the removal of sales tax on food, and in many circumstances the net result will be revenue positive.\nHopefully this information helps. Please call myself or Lincoln with any additional questions or concerns.\nA new study released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) predicts that large and growing fiscal challenges will confront state and local governments in the coming years. Absent policy changes, the study finds that within the next decade expenditures will exceed revenues in the state and local government sector, resulting in a deficit. It is no surprise that the largest burden in future expenditures is going to come as a result of health care expenses.\nThe GAO state and local model projects the level of receipts and expenditures of the sector in future years based on current and historical spending and revenue patterns. The report concluded, “In particular, two types of state and local expenditures will likely rise quickly because of escalating medical costs. The first is Medicaid expenditures, and the second is the cost of health insurance for state and local employees and retirees.\nI was intrigued when I grabbed the Deseret News this morning and saw the headline “Tax rates are jumping” and I admit I was pretty surprised to see that residents of Kanarraville would be paying $172.70 more in property taxes. So I did a little research and it appears to me that the property tax jump isn’t quite what Lee Davidson describes.\nFirst of all the first five cities mentioned by Davidson are also some of the cities with the lowest property tax rates in the state (bottom 10%). In addition in this analysis the Des News assumes a $200,000 home value to apply the rate to…this assumption is pretty high for at least 3 of the top 5 cities. For example, home values in Kanarraville (the lead city of the story) are closer to $100,000. And according to the latest census only 8 homes (which is also around 8%) in Kanarraville are valued at over $200,000. So what does this mean? It means the jump is closer to $50 or $60 annual increase for 92% of the city, not quite $172.\nSo in defense of Kanarraville and many of the other cities mentioned, their property taxes comparatively were already very low and the tax increase isn’t impacting most of their residents to the degree claimed in this article. Also, the city portion is still a minor percentage of the total tax bill.\nTo me this article does raise an interesting issue though…why are these government entities raising taxes? I think some of it has to do with the continuing discussion that while growth stimulates the economy it also comes at a cost (more infrastructure, more schools, more people to serve, etc).\nThe Florida Legislature last week in special session passed an interesting tax cut in two parts… First, the tax-cut requires cities and counties to hold tax rates at 2006 levels – and then cut up to another 9 percent, depending on how much they raised taxes over the past five years. Those that raised the most will have to cut the most.\nHowever, the more interesting (to me) component will come in January. In January FL voters will vote on to change the state’s constitution to increase the property exemption for primary residential homes. It will take 60 percent of the voters to approve the measure, which would exempt 75 percent of the first $200,000 of a home’s value from property taxes. Homes valued between $200,000 and $500,000 would get an additional 15 percent exemption.\nI’m curious how the campaign will go the next few months…of course we all want lower property taxes, but what are we willing to give up? Or will this just cause a shift in public finance (higher impact fees for developers, higher sales tax for residents, etc)?Florida Gov. Crist signs tax-cut legislation last week (I love how this kid with the truck is so uninterested in the Governor).\nWhat happens when a city owes $6.2 million to a wastewater treatment company and only has a $300,000 reserve? Ask the city of McCall in Idaho. The options are pretty grim for this small Idaho resort town:\n- Take out a loan — challenge: can’t get a loan quickly enough\n- Double property taxes — challenge: state law caps property tax increase at 3%\n- Sell off city property — challenge: may be illegal and requires public approval\n- Raise sewer rates — challenge: Idaho supreme court has ruled rate increase\n- Declare bankruptcy — challenge: the debt will still be owed.\nIt will be interesting to see how this unfolds. You can read the Idaho Statesman article here: Residents Balk at Tax Hike for McCall debt\nFor local governments May is budget season. A number of cities are presenting their budgets for the 2007-08 fiscal year (Mayor Billings’ presents Provo’s budget on a bus tour of the city). I’m sure you’ll see a lot more news stories about city budgets as they are debated and finalized.\nToday on KCPW’s Midday Metro show Bill Anderson (South Salt Lake City Councilmember), Gary Hill (Park City budget officer), and myself discussed the state of local government finance with KCPW host Bryann Schott. If you are interested in the 20 minute podcast check here: KCPW discussion May 14th 2007.\nExcellent column in the The Spectrum this weekend written by Steve Kiggins, Cedar City Bureau Chief. I keep telling people that local government finance really is an interesting issue that people should pay more attention to…sounds like Steve agrees. One quote from his column, “In the past 21 months, I’ve learned more about the world around me than I did in all my years as a sports reporter. That’s because I’ve covered city council meetings, interviewed state, county and city leaders, studied subjects such as health care, taxes and education, opened my eyes to the issues and challenges around me….If you don’t pay attention to city government, I urge you to start.”\nYou can read the full column here.\nOn another note…how about those Jazz? Western Conference Finals here we come (am I jumping the gun?).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I see the word \"strong\" refers to a group of army in two contexts:\nIn this post:\nWe're now a sub of nearly six hundred thousand strong\nIn this context the word \"strong\" refers to the subscribers of the subreddit.\nIn this game:\nHere we go loading up for a huge strong\nHere the word refers to a group of army about to be dropped to the opponent's base.\nBut Oxford Dictionaries doesn't count this as a meaning of the word. Is this the case the dictionary hasn't caught up the usage of the word? Can it be used as a noun?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We are living in the era of technology and the digital world. The present generation is quite aware of what the digital world means, but the pandemic brought the digital world closer to the people.\nThe COVID-19 pandemic brought everything like shopping, entertainment, business, jobs, etc., to home. People connected and the rest of the world through the internet during this pandemic.\nResearches have also shown that the e-commerce world has shown a drastic rise during the pandemic, which was never seen before. The acceleration in e-commerce has been recorded to be around $183 billion in the United States.\nAs the coronavirus continued to spread, so did the e-commerce world showed a considerable rise. In 2020 leading companies introduced digitalization to their business. Whether you are a B2B brand or a B2C brand, the idea of each brand has been visioned by providing a better shopping experience and shopping platform.\nDigital competition has also risen during this pandemic, and that is why a summit was held. At the conference, Adobe Commerce which is powered by Magneto and this has helped in creating experiences for our next-generation technology.\nAl-powered live search\nMagneto Commerce extended the intelligence of features like Product Recommendations and Live Search. Experts have shared their experience and process of working that helps keep the proper control over the business and ultimately lead to the business’s growth.\nIf we talk about online shopping, which is quite common these days, the customers look for easy-to-find or search products. A quick view of products is something that the customers demand. If the customers are directed to their relevant searches, this could prove advantageous to the merchants.\nThe Adobe Commerce merchants can now use the Al-powered site search considering the above point. This helps the merchants understand the relevant searches done by the customers, which finally allows them to upgrade their storefront.\nThe Adobe Commerce merchants will be able to integrate the Live search after they download the Magneto marketplace. Also, the Adobe Commerce merchants would be able to take up the new B2B product recommendations by the second half of 2021.\nThe e-signature is also a new concept that has been introduced by Adobe commerce because the marketplace shifted to the digital platform during this pandemic. It has also been recorded that Adobe Sign has shown a growth of 200 percent during this one year of pandemic.\nFor variousAdobe Commerce merchants, it is easy to integrate the Adobe sign into their storefront. They can do it by downloading the extension in the Magneto Marketplace by Adobe.\nProduct recommendation capabilities\nThis is also a new feature introduced by Adobe commerce. Using this, the customers quickly get the recommendation for the right product. Customer data and insights contribute to advising the customer. These recommendations are not just provided to B2C but are also offered to B2B.\nAll the above-explained points have offered a new experience to the customers. These enhancements by Adobe commerce have helped solve several digital issues keeping in mind the customer experiences.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "skip to main\nskip to sidebar\nWednesday, March 30, 2011\nI'm taking part in an art auction to benefit Japan. The event will take place on Saturday 2nd in San Francisco at\nThe New People\n. Here's the\nAnd here's my piece...\nSaturday, March 26, 2011\nI was working on something else and that came out instead...\nMonday, March 14, 2011\nUyen recently complained I never draw girls. So here it is : Girls!\nFriday, March 11, 2011\nof the art blocks for Ghana starts now!\nwith all the blocks and a lot of them are really cool!\nI'm going to try to get some (probably won't be able to but that's the game...)\nSaturday, March 5, 2011\nand here's the drawing of the week...\nwhile working hard on the rest of Solomon's Thieves...\nAha ! My website!\nThe WIFE !\nLa Marge Brute\nYung Mon Beauf", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Line Walker (Movie)\n使徒行者, Line Walker 2016\nThe details of undercover police officers are deleted from a police database and a senior officer is left struggling to know who are the undercover officers and who are the criminals.\nCategory: Hong Kong Movie\nRating: NA (0 Votes) Rate it!\nLine Walker (Movie) English Subtitle:\n- Line Walker (2016) Nov 02, 2016\nYou have already rated this series.\nA guest has already rated this series using your current IP address ().", "label": "No"}
{"text": "stampolina - thanks to all for sending stamps!! :), and 5 other people added this photo to their favorites.\nstampolina - thanks to all for sending stamps!! :)\n22 months ago | reply\nwonderful backlight! beautiful capture!\nMember since 2007\nHere's a link to this photo. Just copy and paste!\nshow short URL", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "St. Matthew's UCC Youth Group will be meeting in the month of August every Wednesday on Aug. 8, 15, 22, 29 from 4:30-7:30 p.m. If you have children from grades 5-12 who would like to join, drop in and see what they're all about; or call (610) 381-2442.\nChestnut Ridge Seniors\nThe Chestnut Ridge Seniors will meet on Thursday, Aug. 9 at 11 a.m. at the Kunkletown Volunteer Fire Company.\nBring a bag lunch and an item for the Chinese auction.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The band has performed alongside many of today's top artists.\nIn both cases, actors performed live alongside the projected image.\nDespite being a Christian band, the group has performed alongside secular artists.\nAbout 80 percent of undergraduates perform independent research, often alongside top researchers.\nHe has performed frequently inside and outside Europe, alongside some of the industries best performers.\nThere were also some groups of behzisti children performing alongside professional ones.\nHowever, on May 28, 2010, it was announced he would perform alongside the headliner for free.\nWhile I'm sure these bands know ahead of time that they will not be performing alongside their idol, what about the audience?\nIn 1886 a drum major first performed alongside the band for a halftime show.\nThere is a special thrill in hearing music performed almost alongside the very pieces of paper on which the composer was working it out.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Commit d51336c2 authored by Committed by Georges Basile Stavracas Neto\nwacom: Port calibrator UI to GTK+\nSame dog, different collar. The UI has been ported 1:1 to GTK+, using GtkBuilder, CSS and event controllers fairly reduced the amount of code needed for this. It also allows us to stop initializing clutter-gtk across the several executables.\nShowing with 771 additions and 965 deletions", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Everyone puts on a facade at some point. To cope with something past or to gain something new. Every thought, every whisper gets filtered through this film, a haphazard attempt to convince people around you that one they knew has evolved in and out.\nBut as you let out, so do you let in. The mask seeps into you. And slowly you find yourself standing at the wrong side of your own deception. You stare at the stranger who smile back at you. But it just seems implausible that you were ever that person. But howmuchever you deny, they are still there at the back of your head gnawing at your thoughts, infecting them with with their innocence.\nThe mask is ruthless though . It tears apart all your thoughts, picking on them to keep the mockery going. You refuse to believe that the mask has now a life of its own. And if ever a thought escapes, you find that so alien that it conflicts your very being. Denial, anger and confusion ensues. You scramble among the people around to make sense of it all.\nThe facade has become you, an ego of your own making. Whatever remains of yourself get molded by the cancer. All the world’s a stage…. And one man in his time plays many parts.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Rap god is a term used to describe a rapper who has mastered the art of rap without necessarily understanding what the words mean or how they work.\nThe rapper will usually rap over the words on the song, but they will always have a slight rhyme or a rhythm that fits the song.\nThat is why rap gods can sometimes be difficult to describe, as the rapper doesn’t have to consciously think about what he is saying.\nInstead, the rapper just writes his own rhyming phrase and then executes it perfectly, making it easy for the listener to understand what is going on.\nSo the name is not meant to imply a genius rapper, but rather the artist that knows how to do the things a great rapper would.\nThe other thing to note is that rappers like Eminem and Kanye West have perfected rap by having lyrics that are simply not meant for comprehension.\nWhen a rapper writes a song that is so easy to understand, it is easier for the audience to listen and learn.\nThe rappers use the words in a way that is consistent with the songs meaning, not necessarily because the lyrics are easy to decipher.\nWhen you rap, you want the listener’s attention to be on the music and not on the words.\nIt is important that the listener is paying attention to the words and not the music, so that when the words are finished, the listener will have a strong sense of accomplishment.\nWhen it comes to learning, you should practice your rap by practicing your words, so you can really understand what the rapper is saying, which helps you to really rap.\nIf you want to learn, practice it, and learn, you can practice it.\nLearn the words you are learning.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "There is a Threat Outside of bed. Beyond amber red Sunsets People of the night Come out. Awaken by the smell Of repugnant restrooms And *****. Last memory of The inside of A toilet. Brought alive by the frightening sunrise. Blinding all who hid.\nHe threw caution into his red cup. He named his drink the forget-me-not. This would be the night of remembrance. One-fourth Sprite and three-fourths *****. The crisp wind greeted him as he stepped outside.\nHe charged into the night. Forget-me-not. He babbled with his friends. Forgt-me-not. He took another sip. Forgt-me-nit. He danced with a girl. Firgtn-e-nit. He drank every drop of his forget-me-not. fIrgtne-nit\nHe went till the break of dawn only to be swept up by the wind. The next day he woke up with saliva crust down the side of his mouth. He had forgotten. The night forgot him.\nno one is around i walk down the streets of a vacant wasteland forgotten, discarded, tattered red cups drag across asphalt with no force pushing them but the tired alcohol stained breath of the wind. this beautiful sunday morning-tainted by the drunken cheers of last night the life-poured, guzzled, shot out of this place death hangs over the streets while a drunken hibernation swallows my \"highly esteemed\" peers. shattered glass cracks beneath my feet as i follow the pathway to my house; to my successes this place… this is home.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently considered a defendant’s challenge that his second degree murder conviction should be overturned because his constitutional rights were violated when the trial judge refused to grant immunity to potential defense witnesses. In the case of Commonwealth v. Brewer, although the SJC affirmed the defendant’s conviction, the court left open the issue of defendant’s, as opposed to only the government, having a means to offer immunity to potential witnesses.\nIn this case, the victim had been shot after leaving a party, though the evidence suggested that he was not the intended target of the shooting. The government called three witnesses who claimed the defendant was the shooter, one of whom was granted immunity in exchange for his testimony. The defense, however, attacked these witnesses’ credibility and asserted that one of these three witnesses was actually the shooter.\nAfter the prosecutor rested, the defendant requested to call two defense witnesses, both of whom had asserted their privilege against self-incrimination. Any witness who is found to have a 5th Amendment Privilege against self-incrimination cannot be compelled to testify, unless the government grants that witness immunity and insulates him from prosecution against anything that may result from his compelled testify. Typically, where the government wants the witness to testify, they will grant the witness immunity, thereby nullifying the privilege. In other words, the government gets what they want – the witness to testify as they expect them to in order to help their case. On the flip side, however, the defendant has no such power to unilaterally grant immunity to witnesses, so there is an argument that the government has an ‘upper hand’ in situations where a necessary witness could offer helpful information and can overcome the privilege and compel the witness to testify.\nGiven the privilege, the defendant was not able to compel their testimony and therefore requested the judge that they be granted immunity and be forced to testify. The judge refused and the SJC unfortunately affirmed his decision.\nThe Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court left open, however, that there could be instances where a judge could properly grant immunity to a defense witness, essentially acknowledging the defendant’s argument that a prosecutor’s selective grant of immunity could deprive a defendant the possibility of presenting exculpatory evidence from a witness who may likewise hold a privilege against self-incrimination.\nThe SJC conceded that a witness’ assertion of his right against self-incrimination could very likely affect a defendant’s ability to present an effective defense, but that a defendant’s constitutional rights to compel witness testimony do not necessarily override that right, nor do they mandate a judge to grant immunity ‘as a matter of course’.\nThe court did leave, however, “open the possibility” that unique circumstances could grant a limited form of immunity to a defense witness, they stated that this was not such a case. The decision also left unclear what, specifically, circumstances would warrant a trial judge to grant immunity to a defense witness who hold a 5th amendment privilege against self-incrimination.\nBoston Criminal Lawyer Lefteris K. Travayiakis is dedicated to the representation of criminal defendants at the trial and appellate levels. Click Here to Schedule a Free Consultation or call 617-325-9500.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“GOOD” OR “CONSIDERED TO BE GOOD”?\nThis is an attempt to meet the objections made by Anna and Andrzej Jerzy Jedynak in their article (cf. “Etyka” vol. 19) criticizing the views of this author concerning truth value of evaluative propositions. Replying to this criticism the author tries to show that his views do not lead to the elimination of the evaluative predicates like “morally good” by descriptive predicates like “considered to be morally good”, as the critics have claimed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The most important person in my life\nHave you had your world to turn 360 degrees in one minute ? It happened to me. I was so\nhappy that day, because I have not seen my friends for a long time and we were walking down\nthe streets of our city, talking and laughing as usual. But even I was happy I have this kind of\nsense that something not good will happen soon. And there we go - my grandmother called me\nto tell me awful news about my dad. Something was going on with him and I was scared to find\nI was sitting in the corridor of the hospital and was waiting to hear what was happening to\nmy father. The smell of medicines and the atmosphere there suppressed me. The walls of the\nhospital were white, but even white the whole place was somehow dark. I have never loved to\ngo to hospitals, the view of people, who are almost lifeless and are lying on beds in the middle\nof the corridors drives me crazy.\nWhile I and my family were waiting for the doctor, I did not talk with any of them. Just sitting\nthere and thinking about how far from each other me and my father have become.\nI go back to the past and realized how frustrated I was of him because of the control that he\nhad over me. Almost all of the time we had painful conflicts, not only mentally, but also\nphysically. We did not talk to each other with months and in my own home I was feeling like I\nam stranger. The problems between us were coming from his desire to protect me from\neverything, even with the means of restricting my personal freedom.\nFinally after two hours waiting for the doctor, he came to us. He said that my dad had cirrhosis\nand had a chance not to be healed. That was the moment in which my world came down and I\nrealized that no matter how often we fought and what words we said to each other he was the\nmost important person in my life. I was sorry that we had lost so much precious time for\nconflicts. Time we could use to become closer and to have our...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Looking to adopt some adorable little pals? Head to the Humane Society of Browad County. For more adoption information go to humanebroward.com\nThis is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|Gasoline (1 liter)||$1.08|\n|1 Summer dress in a chain store||$21.80|\n|1 Pair of Jeans||$50.33|\n|Combo meal at McDonalds||$5.00|\n|Cinema, international release, 1 seat||$4.50|\n|Utilities (Electricity, Heating, ...) for medium apartment||$74.03|\n|Pack of cigarettes||$4.50|\n|Loaf of white bread||$1.57|\nEl Coco is one populated place in Panama. This town belongs to the La Chorrera district with more than 19,600 occupants. Though it is not considered a tourist hotspot, El Coco is a likely place to visit if you happen to be in the area of La Chorrera especially if you’re looking for a place to do a little stop-over. El Coco is quiet, safe and a bit far from the pollution and toxic city life.\nSince this town is not a primary tourist destination, you obviously won’t find any cheap flights to El Coco from your place of origin. What you should do is fly to Tocumen International Airport and travel by land from Tocumen to reach La Chorrera and finally El Coco. There are rental cars available at the airport if you want to travel with style but taxis and buses are also available for those who want a cheaper form of transportation.\nWhen you reach El Coco and did not find anything of interest in that place you don’t need to fret since the colorful district of La Chorrera is just around the corner. This place contains enough natural attractions and festivities to keep you busy and entertained. It has beautiful waterfalls, lakes and rock carvings and among the most popular is the Sandy Lake Gatun located in Iturralde. This lake is a tourist favorite especially those fond of fishing and different boating activities. Fishing newbies can even have an experienced guide to teach them of the proper way of fishing. The lake also has enough food stalls selling sumptuous local cuisines to keep your stomach full. Another nice attraction nearby is the Pipe Jet Quebrao in Mendoza district, a few minute drive from La Chorrera.\nOf course, you should also use your cheap flights to El Coco wisely and visit other places in Panama. If you’re done with La Chorrera you should go to the nearby cities and explore a little bit or simply go barhopping. You may also want to find a good hotel to spend the night in the city since there are no available hotels in El Choco and even the district of La Chorrera has few lodging options.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The season of home entertaining and dinner parties is nearly upon us and cheese straws really have to be one of the loveliest homemade nibbles you can serve to your guests when they first arrive. They’re oh so easy to make (because I cheat and use shop-bought puff pastry) and if you’ve got kids you can probably get them in on the act too.\nAs with all simple foods, success is down to the quality of the ingredients. To make good cheese straws, you must start with really good cheese. Continue reading “Grana Padano cheese straws with Prosciutto di San Daniele”\nAutumn is almost upon us. We enjoyed the warmth of the sun yesterday on our bike ride under the Suspension Bridge towards Pill, but by the time we got home there was a distinct nip in the air. The blackberries are out in full force, the leaves have started to turn and we spotted conkers and acorns on the ground.\nIt’s a brilliant time of year. While summer is for picnics in the park and eating out, autumn marks the return of proper home cooking – making the most of the glut of glorious autumn vegetables; cooking up slow, hearty, satisfying dishes to warm the cockles.\nIt was good to return home from our bike ride to this spicy sausage chilli – an absolute cockle-warmer if ever there was one, and just what we needed after working up quite an appetite. I came up with the recipe to celebrate the return of #OrganicSeptember, the Soil Association’s annual campaign to encourage more people to go organic. Continue reading “Spicy sausage chilli for #OrganicSeptember”\nLike many of my fellow food bloggers, I’ve been taking part in the #OrganicUnboxed challenge this last few weeks. The idea of the challenge is simple. Organic UK is sending bloggers a big mystery box of organic produce to see what easy, every day dishes they might come up with to inspire more people to switch to organic. In my excitement I failed miserably to get a picture of the organic goodies being unboxed. Which is why I’ve brought you a gratuitous shot of our cat Tango in the box instead. Now, hasn’t that brightened your day? Continue reading “Chilli beef pasta with Savoy cabbage and caraway for the #OrganicUnboxed Challenge”\nNormally I try not to start thinking about Christmas until at least the first of December. Yes, I know the decorations are already up in our shopping centres and our social media timelines are chock full of festive cheer, but it just seems wrong to be talking about Christmas until the first door of the Advent calendar has been peeled open.\nWhich is why it felt very strange to be roasting a turkey in November for this review. But at the end of the day, it’s really only a rather large relative of the chicken, so why consign it to just a couple of days in December? Our friends in the States will be consuming vast amounts of turkey this week after all to celebrate Thanksgiving.\nCopas Traditional Turkeys is a small family business that has been producing free range, hand-plucked and game-hung turkeys just for Christmas for the last half a century. Based in the beautiful Berkshire countryside, Copas has a reputation for combining centuries old production methods with state-of-the-art facilities, as well as taking their time for a superior taste. Continue reading “Review and giveaway: Copas Traditional Turkeys”\nI’m a bit of magpie when it comes to recipes and gather my inspiration from all over the place. That’s why social media was made for people like me with tasty ideas being shared every second of every minute of every day on the likes of Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.\nOne thing I enjoy most about social media is the way it’s allowed me to reconnect with family members strewn across the world and discover a shared obsession with food. Take my cousin Sisi for example in Australia. The last time I met her in person was at our family house in Malaysia and I was just eight-years-old. But since we connected on Facebook, I’ve got to know her and her lovely family and be wowed by photos of her culinary creations. Likewise with my Aunty Lorene. She lives in the States and I think the last time I saw her was in Singapore when I was in my early 20s. And I so enjoy reading her posts on Facebook where she recreates her favourite foods from her childhood in Malaysia.\nSo when I was invited to come up with a lamb curry recipe using fantastic Welsh lamb to celebrate National Curry Week (12-18 October 2015), I turned to Lorene and Sisi for some Malaysian inspiration. And they didn’t disappoint. Continue reading “Malaysian curry with Welsh lamb for National Curry Week”\nIf you are a bit of a foodie and/or follow any social media here in the UK, you’re probably more than aware that this month has been dubbed #OrganicSeptember. Everyone’s being encouraged to celebrate all things organic. The message is that by making a small change to your everyday shopping, we can make a big difference: swapping to organic food has huge benefits for people, animal welfare and the environment.\nWhile most of us will agree that organic produce is better for our environment, better for animal welfare and, well, just a more natural approach, isn’t it hideously expensive to shop organic? I try to buy organic wherever I can, particularly fruit and vegetables. For instance I have a weekly organic veg box delivered by Riverford – although I tend to do this less during late summer and early autumn when we tend to have a glut of veggies in our own garden. But I doubt I could afford to go totally organic.\nOr could I? Continue reading “#ThriftyOrganic three-course family meal”\nBoasting honey, figs, grapes, nuts and sweet wine, this Italian feast would surely have won the approval of Bacchus himself. When I think about good food, when I dream about delicious dishes bringing together the simplest ingredients to create something truly magical, when I picture myself being served an incredible meal in an idyllic setting, I tend to find myself transported to Italy.\nIt’s been a few years since I’ve travelled in Italy and I long to return. My parents are in Tuscany right now and as you can imagine I am extremely jealous. My step-mum Sue has been sending me droolsome updates on Whatsapp, replete with photos, documenting their food adventures. There have been accounts of wonderful salads with chicken, ravioli in a walnut cream sauce, the thinnest pizzas with just one or two toppings, grilled sea bass with roast courgettes, fritto misto in the lightest of batters, fagiolini with fine green beans and bacon in tomatoes and garlic. Oh and lots of gelati with figs and cherries… The list goes on. It’s been pure torture.\nSo when Expedia challenged me to come up with an Italian meal for their #expediaworldonaplate challenge, I knew I would be taking my inspiration from Tuscany. Continue reading “Italian baked chicken with grapes followed by semifreddo with honey, figs and walnuts”\nOne of the things I love most about summer holidays abroad is the opportunity to try out lots of local dishes. Sadly we’re not going overseas this year. But that’s OK. Instead we’re heading up to Durham and Northumberland next week and while the North East might not be renowned for its cuisine – although saying that, I am extremely fond of that Geordie favourite, stottie cake with ham and peasepudding – I know we’re going to have huge amounts of fun exploring all the castles, beaches and Roman remains along Hadrian’s Wall.\nSo while we might not enjoy guaranteed sunshine on this year’s summer getaway (my fingers are firmly crossed nevertheless), we have been enjoying a taste of the continent right here at home. Think of Spain and I think of tapas, and this habas con jamon has to be one of the tastiest tapa on the menu. Continue reading “Habas con jamon (broad beans with Serrano ham and mint)”\nOne of the joys of being an Aga owner is being able to pop a dish, be it a joint of meat or a casserole perhaps, into the bottom oven (the simmering oven) and forget about for several hours or all day, or in this case overnight, and when you return, it has magically transformed into the most succulent and tender of feasts.\nAs it’s a rather fatty meat, lamb is perfect for slow-roasting, as the fat keeps the meat mouth-wateringly moist. This slow-roasted shoulder makes for a very special meal, and since a large joint of lamb isn’t particularly cheap, I’d save it for suitably special occasions or big family gatherings. But the beauty of it is that’s so incredibly easy to do, yet tastes a million dollars. And I reckon you do get your money’s worth. One shoulder of lamb served seven of us for Sunday lunch, with plenty of leftovers for a further two more meals during the week. Continue reading “Overnight roast spicy lamb shoulder – perfect for the Aga”\nWhen the first spears of asparagus appear in the garden or in our weekly vegetable box, there is only ever one way to eat them: simply steamed and served with melted butter and sea salt. There is something so beautiful in this simplicity, focussing completely on the heavenly fresh green taste of the fresh, crisp asparagus, it needs nothing else.\nThen as the English asparagus season continues, the recipes become more varied and asparagus makes an appearance in all kinds of meals. We tend to eat as much of it as we possibly can this time of year. This easy pasta dish, which sees the asparagus partnered with tender stems of purple sprouting broccoli, also at its best in late spring, is a firm family favourite. Continue reading “Springtime tagliatelle with chicken, asparagus and purple sprouting broccoli”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Dating guide review Telugusexchat online\nThe more info you give, the easier it will be to find your perfect Asian girl.\nTheir profiles have such data: You can meet different photos - from low to high quality.\nPeople have got acquainted to the Internet and dating sites.\nIt took awhile for people to realize that online dating is the same as the real one.\nThose, who wanted to meet men and women from other countries, have met their perfect matches. All the photos, videos, and activity of other Asian Melodies users will be available instantly.\nYou will see these pop-ups when you get the message, when your profile is added to Favorites or when someone sends a wink or like to you.People couldn’t meet a soulmate within one state or country, not even talking about the other continents!The time has passed, and the old-fashioned traditions with some lacks have changed.This information can be filled during the registration, and it is the most convenient way to complete your profile.But, you always can skip this process and complete the profile later.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Lawndale, CA - Surveillance cameras at a California high school captured 60-year-old Juan Gutierrez, a teacher’s aid, molesting a 16-year-old mentally challenged student, police say.\nThe incident reportedly took place on May 7th at Leuzinger High school when Gutierrez allegedly led the female victim into a stairwell where he touched her inappropriately over her clothing on her private parts.\nThe idiot had the foresight to do this in apparent plain view of other students who described the incident to the school principal. The principal alerted authorities and a formal investigation was launched resulting in Gutierrez’s arrest on Friday by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department.\nSgt. Dan Scott of the Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Unit claims that a student who witnessed the event actually recorded it on his or her cell phone but then deleted it before it could be recovered by authorities. Regardless, the sick bastard’s deed was still captured by the school’s surveillance cameras.\nThe bold manner in which this vile perv went about molesting this girl, who reportedly has the mental capacity of an elementary school child, means there’s a high probability this is not the first time Gutierrez has touched a student inappropriately at the school.…Continue Reading\nLast October we reported on 62-year-old Jose Melena, the Bumble Bee Food employee who was cooked to death after being trapped inside an industrial pressure cooker. Now the company has been fined nearly $74,000 and cited for six safety violations.\nState regulators investigated the accidental death of Melena for seven months before handing over their report, which included the details behind the man’s horrible death.\nMelena, a father of six, had been employed with the company for five years. One of his responsibilities was loading 54-inch by 36-foot ovens with 12 rolling metal baskets full of tuna cans. These ovens then sterilize the cans while also processing the tuna.\nWhen I first reported on this, I was curious about the oven and did a little Googling and found some images of an industrial tuna steamer sold by JBT. Seeing what one looks like makes the following details a little easier to understand.\nOn Oct. 11, 2012, Melena was ordered by his supervisor to load one particular oven. According to the report, Melena entered the oven to make a repair or to adjust a chain, leaving a pallet jack outside the oven.…Continue Reading\nWest Haven, CT – Gary Gray, whose eyes are currently raping your soul, is being charged with the double-whammy of first degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a child.\nThe 42-year-old has been under investigation since September of 2012, after the alleged victim, a 10-year-old girl, confided in her mother that she ‘thought’ she had sex with Gray, who was living with the family. I thought I was having sex with a fat chick once, turned out I was penetrating a Reuben sandwich that got lost in a fold on its way from the table to her maw.\nForensic examinations and medical evaluations revealed the girl had injuries consistent with sexual assault, police said. When interviewed by police, Gray reportedly told them, “Last time I admitted it, this time I’m not admitting it.”\nThe “last time” to which Gray was referring was a previous arrest for sexual assault and risk of injury to a child. He’s nothing if not consistent. Gray is also and currently the subject of a New Haven investigation involving another possible sexual assault.…Continue Reading\nLos Angeles, CA – Last Thursday morning, 63-year-old Pamela Devitt was brutally mauled to death by several pit bulls while out jogging. Now police are investigating Devitt’s death as a possible homicide.\nA passing motorist saw Devitt laying face down on the ground while several of the dogs were attacking her. She tried honking her horn to scare the dogs away, but they attacked her car, biting its tires. The driver called 911 and the responding officer tried to chase the dogs away, but was also attacked. The deputy fired a round at the dog which ran off into the desert.\nBut it was too late for Devitt. The poor woman had been dragged 50 yards, scalped, and had one of her arms ripped off. She would die in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Devitt, a married mother of two, often went jogging in the morning.\nPolice would seize six pit bulls and two mixed-breed dogs at the home of 29-year-old Alex Jackson after receiving information from Animal Control that he owned pit bulls that have been aggressive in the past.…Continue Reading\nWATSONVILLE, CA – Police have arrested 18-year-old Barbara Garcia on suspicion of child abuse after police obtained cell phone video of her hitting her boyfriend’s 15-month-old girl.\nWhile her boyfriend is at work, Garcia takes care of the man’s daughter from a previous relationship. Police were called to the couple’s home Thursday afternoon after a neighbor called to report hearing a woman hitting a child.\nWhen police arrived, they found the girl unresponsive with bruises around her eyes. She was taken to a hospital with a traumatic head injury. During their investigation, they were shown a video taken by another neighbor showing Garcia striking the 15-month-old on Wednesday.\n“The previous day, a neighbor heard the child crying and the sound of a disturbance coming from the residence and went to investigate. Through an open window, a neighbor saw and took video from their cell phone,” said police in a statement.\nThe video shows Garcia seated on the floor when, “Without provocation, Garcia violently swung her hand and slapped the child on the head, knocking the child off her feet as she flew several feet away and lay motionless on the ground,” Watsonville police Sgt.…Continue Reading\nSTCLOUD, FL – Police say 57-year-old Debra Farinella decorated her home and yard with hundreds of items stolen off of Mount Peace Cemetery gravesites, including the gravesites of babies.\nShe got busted after someone at the cemetery noticed her leaving a grave in which items were stolen and was able to provide police with a description and a partial license plate number.\nWhen police arrived at her home, the noticed that her front yard and home were decorated with 146 pieces she’d stolen, including planters, flowers, angels, pottery, Christmas lights, religious figurines, wind chimes, and other trinkets that people had placed on the graves of their loved ones.\n“She was not very particular,” said St. Cloud Police Department spokesperson, Officer Chad Durham. “She would take them from baby gravesites, as well as adult gravesites.”\nThey even found a baseball in her home that was from a gravesite of a boy who passed away at 16.\nFarinella, who has a rap sheet 25 pages long, told police she had purchased the items from yard sales.…Continue Reading\nValley Springs, CA – Police arrested 12-year-old Isaiah Fowler on Saturday and will be charging him with the death of his 8-year-old sister, Leila Fowler, who was murdered last month.\nOn April 27, the Isaiah and Leila were home alone when Leila was stabbed more than twenty times inside their home. The brother told police he saw a man with long grey hair leaving their home and found his sister suffering from multiple stab wounds. A neighbor also told police they’d also seen the man running from the scene.\nPolice began an intensive search for the suspect while residents were told he was considered armed and dangerous and instructed to lock their doors as deputies searched the area. Authorities searched the home and neighborhood, while dive teams searched two reservoirs near the house.\nAside from possible fingerprints and DNA found in the home, and a possible link to an abduction attempt in a nearby town, police didn’t seem to be getting any closer to finding the person responsible. But in a statement issued Saturday, Sheriff Gary Kuntz informed the public they could sleep safely as they’d found the person responsible – Isaiah Fowler.…Continue Reading\nSeattle, WA – A possible dispute over property lines between neighbors turned dangerous and somewhat hysterical when a 51 year-old Barry Alan Swegle hopped in a bulldozer and started smashing into houses.\nSwegle is reported to have a lengthy criminal history which includes public indecency, stalking and burglary. He is also known by his neighbors as the guy who digs random holes with his bulldozer late at night. It would seem it was simply a matter of time before Barry was featured here at the Dreamin’ Demon for something.\nOne of his neighbors, Barbara Porter, claims she knew this was coming. She states ”We all said one of these days Barry is going to take that dang cat and he’s going to start tearing up people’s property and that’s what he did.” Well then. The rampage started sometime around noon on Friday, when Barry decided to play Blastcorps in real life. I hope Joe Lieberman doesn’t hear about this one.\nBarry fired up an International Harvester TD-25 and took out his grumpies on his neighbors’ property.…Continue Reading\nOntario, Canada – Ontario police are asking for the public’s help in locating 32-year-old Timothy Bosma, who was last seen Monday after taking two men for a test drive in the pickup truck he was trying to sell online.\nBosma was reported missing by his wife Monday night after he never returned home from meeting two men interested in buying his black 2007 Dodge Ram 3500 diesel pickup with the Ontario licence number 726 7ZW. On Thursday afternoon, police found Bosma’s cellphone in an industrial complex in west Brantford.\nPolice were able to track the cellphone they believed the suspects used to contact Bosma which led them to a man in Etobicoke. He told police he was also selling a truck and had met two men that he took on a test drive. He said the men were suspicious and he found it odd that they arrived at his business on foot. They did not buy the truck, and the man was not harmed.\n“He thought it was odd, because of the size of the vehicle. It’s more of a business vehicle than a personal vehicle,” said Det.…Continue Reading\nCARY, NC — Police have charged 61-year-old Dottie Amtey with murder after they say she strangled her 77-year-old husband to death.\nPolice were dispatched to the home of Dottie and Shared after an unidentified woman called 911 Wednesday night. When police arrived at the home, they found Shared unconscious in an upstairs bedroom with someone on the phone with 911 trying to perform CPR in an unsuccessful attempt to revive him.\nPolice initially said Dottie would be charged with first-degree murder, but the Wake County District Attorney’s Office is considering charging her with second-degree murder.\nThe couple had been married for over 30 years and had five children together. Dottie was recently employed at UCB Pharma, and Shared was a research physicist, with career stops at universities and a massive government research project.\nCary officials say this is the first homicide they’ve had in their town in nearly two years.\nWhile no motive has been released, there’s enough information in this article regarding the couple that makes it easy to speculate that this was probably some kind of mercy killing, and could also explain why prosecutors are considering the lesser murder charge.…Continue Reading\nDARLINGTON, WI – Jaren Kuester, a 31-year-old man with a history of mental problems, has been arrested and charged with beating three elderly people to death with a fireplace poker.\nAccording to reports, Kuester was arrested after threatening staff members at a Waukesha County animal shelter. Staff there said Kuester demanded that the dead dog he’d dropped off a few weeks earlier be returned to him alive. He told them they would pay with their lives when they did not oblige.\nAfter making bail, he got in his vehicle and started driving, feeling as if his life was “crashing and burning” around him. After driving three counties away, he felt as if he was being followed, so he abandoned his vehicle, stripped off his clothes, and ran into the woods.\nHe ended up getting cold and broke into the farmhouse of Gary Thoreson, 70, and Chloe Thoreson, 66, who were not at home. After getting clothes, food, and searching for valuables, Kuester went to sleep on a bedroom floor. Sometime after, 70-year-old Dean Thoreson, Gary’s brother, arrived and entered the home.…Continue Reading\nDALLAS, TX – Marlena Mints, a sex ed teacher and coach at Bessie Coleman Middle School, was arrested Wednesday morning after the 31-year-old was accused of having a sexual relationship with two of her students.\nAccording to an arrest warrant, a 13-year-old student told another coach at the school that he’d had sexual contact with Mints. He said he was texting Mints one day and told her there was something wrong with his dick. Mints told him she would have to see it to know what was wrong with it, so he met Mints at the school where she examined the boy’s penis with her mouth.\nThe student would later tell police he has been allowed to touch her tits and ass on numerous occasions in her classroom in the presence of other students who were also allowed to do the same. Looking at her picture, I can just imagine these kids pawing on her as she excitedly exclaimed, “Ah ab godda ta neecho boke ooh neetah!”\nA second student was also interviewed and he claimed he and Mints exchanged multiple messages via phone and the chat application Voxer, including Mints asking him if he liked white girls and initiating their first sexual encounter at her home in Cedar Hill.…Continue Reading\nMOUNT HOPKINS, AZ – Lord knows I have reported on just about every horrifying death imaginable, but every now and then one comes around that has me thinking about the victim and muttering, “You poor, poor son of a bitch.”\nOn Monday, 55-year-old Steven Johnson was found dead in the Santa Rita Mountains hanging from his rappelling gear and covered in bee stings. The dog Johnson often took with him was also found dead and covered in bee stings on the cliff Johnson had rappelled from.\nJohnson, an experienced hiker and mountain climber, was reportedly working an area of Mount Hopkins on Friday to prepare it for future climbers. Sheriff’s deputies went to search the site after he failed to show up for work on Monday.\nAn autopsy will be conducted to determine actual cause of death, but Santa Cruz County’s Lt. Raoul Rodriguez believes that Johnson may have disturbed a bees’ nest while hammering his ropes into the cliff. Some comments state that this is a terrible time of year in regards to bees, and some mentioned that the bees that attacked Johnson and his dog were probably the dreaded Africanized Honey Bee, aka the true Killer Bee.…Continue Reading\nCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO – We just reported on the Florida father accused of slapping and spitting on his son’s alleged bully, now we have a father out of Colorado who has been accused of pepper spraying a group of teens who may have bullied his son.\nPolice say that on Sunday afternoon, the unidentified man pulled up next to four 13-year-old boys then sprayed them with pepper spray before driving away. Reportedly, this attack was in retaliation for the boys possibly physically assaulting his 8-year-old son.\nPolice said the man’s son claims he was assaulted by the kids in the apartment complex playground, and that they had tried to steal his skateboard. When he informed his father, the man jumped in his car and caught up with the boys a few blocks away and gave them the business.\nPolice have interviewed the father and plan on seeing if the teens can identify him from a photo lineup. The man has not been charged at this time, but authorities are considering he be charged with misdemeanor child abuse.…Continue Reading\nMARION, ID – On Monday, 14-year-old Braylee Rice hanged herself with a necktie on the bleachers located behind McCulloch Junior High School.\nSchool officials said around 9:00 am Monday morning, Rice snuck away from the gym during a break from ISTEP testing, then used a necktie she regularly wore to hang herself on the bleachers near the track.\nSome reports state no one saw Rice commit suicide, but Jennifer Smith says her seventh grade son was walking around the track with other students and a teacher when they saw her jump from the bleachers.\n“They heard a noise and looked over at the bleachers and she had jumped,” said Smith, who also said Braylee came to school Monday with a piece of paper taped over her mouth with a smiley face drawn on the tape.\nPolice are still investigating a motive, but as is usually the case whenever a teen kills themselves, allegations of school bullying immediately reared its ugly head. Police and school officials have said it is too early in the investigation to pinpoint bullying as a factor in Rice’s death.…Continue Reading\nOcenaside, CA – Tim Lambesis, the 32-year-old lead singer for the\njumbo shrimp Christian metal band As I Lay Dying, has been arrested and accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill his estranged wife.\nPolice received information last Thursday that Lambesis was “soliciting another individual” to kill his wife, Meggan, who filed for divorce last September. She currently lives in Encinitas with three Ethiopian children the couple had adopted.\nAccording to the San Diego Sheriff’s Department, “The Encinitas Detectives, The San Diego Fugitive Task Force and the Sheriff’s Special Investigation Division investigators immediately initiated an investigation. The investigation culminated this afternoon [Tuesday], when Lambesis solicited an undercover detective to kill his wife.”\nIn his defense, while the Bible is pretty clear that you should not kill anyone, it’s a bit hazy when it comes to hiring someone else to do it for you. Lambesis was arrested without incident, then booked into the Vista Detention Facility. His next court appearance should be today or tomorrow.\nI’ve never listened to As I Lay Dying, or any religious themed band that doesn’t worship the devil, so I have no idea if they are any good or not.…Continue Reading\nCASSELBERRY, FL — Allen Banyacksi is facing child abuse charges after he allegedly slapped one of his son’s bullies and spit in his face.\nBanyacksi would not comment on the charges against him, but did go on camera to say that his son is being incessantly bullied at Helm Way West and that he feels helpless.\n“I feel horrible that I can’t do more. That I can’t be at school every day to watch over him. To walk him through the hallways,” Banyacksi said. ”I have four kids and he’s my youngest. He’s my baby. And we’ve watched him get bullied since the 4th grade. And when does it stop?”\nAccording to a police report, Banyacksi confronted the two kids who were bullying his son as they walked home from school last Thursday. The boys told police Banyacksi pulled up along side them in his car and threatened to kill them.\nOne of the boys responded to Banyacksi’s threats by giving him the middle finger. Banyacksi allegedly responded by spitting in the boy’s face. When the boy spit back, Banyacksi gave him five across the eyes before getting back into his car and driving home.…Continue Reading\nSanta Fe, NM - An 18-year-old high school student claims he was raped by his horticulture teacher, 31-year-old Jennifer Vigil, in her classroom at Pojoaque Valley High School.\nThe student states Vigil pressured him into sex acts when he turned in an assignment to her after school. She allegedly locked the classroom door and said, ”You’re not leaving until I get something from you.” He initially refused, but Vigil agreed to let him leave if he let her perform a sex act on him.\nVigil admits having sex with him in her classroom, but insists the sex was consensual. However the student told police that the idea of sex with her was “disgusting.” Harsh. Vigil claims he requested oral sex from her and that led to intercourse, and he again requested to have sex with her at a later date and she agreed. He took a picture with his cellphone of her blowing him and showed it to police.\nThese stories are now a dime a dozen; male teenage student, attractive-ish married female teacher, sex, everybody gasps thinking a woman would know better, men everywhere ask, “Where were these teachers when I was a student?” and the overwhelming response is, “You were too ugly” .…Continue Reading\nKANSAS CITY, KS - On the same night five women burned to death inside a limo while celebrating a bachelorette party in California, Jamie Frecks died after falling out of a party bus while celebrating a bachelorette party in Kansas.\nFrecks and 15 girlfriends were riding in the Midnight Express Party Bus when Frecks somehow fell out the emergency door and landed on I-35. Three vehicles then hit Fecks, two of which drove away from the scene. The 26-year-old, who just gave birth to her daughter six weeks ago, was pronounced dead at the scene.\nA passenger in the second car that struck Frecks said there just wasn’t enough time to avoid hitting Frecks’ body. Highway patrol are investigating how the vehicle’s emergency door opened, and are also looking for the drivers of the two vehicles that hit Frecks but drove off. If you have any information about the two drivers who left, call them or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.\nFrecks’ friends and family are holding a fundraiser on Wednesday in Loose Park. They’re asking for donations for her daughter and fiancé, including items such as formula, diapers, wipes and baby clothes. If you’d like to send money to help, you can do so at:\nFirst Legends Bank and Trust\nc/o Jamie Frecks Memorial Fund\n10900 Parallel Parkway\nKansas City, KS 66109\nThis is the third party bus death we’ve had on the site.…Continue Reading\nChicago, IL – A 14-year-old boy was pepper sprayed and robbed after he arranged a sexual encounter with 22-year-old Dareka Brooks.\nOn Wednesday, the teen had the house to himself and decided this was a perfect time to hire himself a prostitute. So he went online and used a website often frequented for people trying to setup sexual encounters, and met Brooks.\nAfter agreeing to the terms of their meeting, Brooks showed up at his home and instructed the teen to go to the bedroom and take off his pants. Once the teen was nekkid, Brooks entered the room and slaughtered the kid’s boner by allegedly pepper spraying him in the face.\nShe then made off with an iPad, a jar full of money, and the teen’s piggybank. The teen called police to report the robbery and gave them the description of Brooks’ car. Police were able to locate Brooks at a local motel after she turned on the iPad. The stolen items were recovered and returned to the teen.\nDareka Brooks was arrested and has been charged with one count of armed robbery.…Continue Reading", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This story is over 25 years old. So weird to think it’s been that long. For me it feels like yesterday, and for someone who tends to repress memories, that’s saying a lot.\nOnce upon a time on a dark Omaha night, I had plans to meet up with my friend Christina at the 20s Club.\nThe 20s Club\nNow the 20s Club was an old club that was never quite sure what it wanted to be. There were two rooms. The main room had bands and dancing. The second room had Go-Go Girls. (Yes, I know that’s probably not the PC term for them, but that’s the term I grew up with.) Anyhoo, the men would go from the main room to the Go-Go room, get themselves riled up, and then come back and hit on, dance with and try to pick up the women who were actually available to them. It was a wonderful place to people watch.\nAbout 10 years ago, I went to visit it again when I was in Omaha. It had turned itself into a full-fledged Go-Go bar. Since then it has turned into Omaha’s first full nude strip club and rebranded themselves as “Club Omaha”. Then they picked up and completely moved their location. The 20s is gone.\nBut That Night..\n…They still played Rock and Roll and Christina and I were determined to have us some fun. We agreed to meet there at 9pm.\nI saw Christina’s car pulling in ahead of me. As I pulled in, I noticed that the cops had a group of young men on the ground in front of the club and were arresting them. What the hell is going on now?\nI packed my car and then hovered at the fringes of all the police action. Christina was not there. I looked around for her, and there I saw her car, slowly moving in the parking lot behind the club. So, I walked on down to her car.\nWhen I got there, I leaned down to talk to Christina through the window and I noticed a man in her back seat.\nChristina turned to me slowly, and very carefully she said, “Karin, I’m going to give this man a ride home.”\nI said, “Well, maybe I should just come with you.”\nShe said, “Yes, please.”\nSo, I got in the passenger seat and off we went.\nThe unknown can be a scary thing, especially in a heightened situation. I had no idea how this guy had found his way into Christina’s car. I had no idea if he had a weapon. I had no idea why all those men were getting arrested in front of the 20s.\nIt was a long drive.\nBut then the guy started talking. He told us wild stories about things he had done for the Mob. A lot of stories. Filled with violence and death. The legs he had broken, the people he’d whacked. He was a big, bad, tough-guy enforcer for the mob.\nAnd it was those stories that made me relax.\nThe asshole was talking too much. And about the Mob. And if you truly know anything about the Mob, you know that the Mob doesn’t exist. Therefore, there’s nothing to talk about. Ever.\nI realized that this guy was a dumbass and the cops were probably arresting his friends for dumbass reasons. He probably didn’t have a weapon. And if he tried anything, well, there was two of us. Which is why I got into the passenger seat in the first place, and why Christina made sure I did.\nBut he still might have a gun or a knife, so we played it cool. But the tension ratcheted down considerably in that car.\nThe Drop Off\nHe had us pull up in front of a house, warned us to not tell, and then stood there waving at us as we drove away. Was that even his house? Who knows! Did he even have a weapon? We’ll never know.\nCome to find out that when Christina pulled into the parking lot, he jumped into her car and told her to “drive” while she was looking for a parking place. It wasn’t made clear to her whether he was armed or not. She took her time, in the name of caution for him, to make sure I found them.\nWe finally made it back to the 20s, and we had us some fun. And maybe that fun was just a bit more meaningful that night.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.\nFrom Disney comes two-time Oscar® winner Brad Bird’s “Tomorrowland,” a riveting mystery adventure starring Academy Award® winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as “Tomorrowland.” What they must do there changes the world—and them—forever.\nDirector: Brad Bird\nCasting: Britt Robertson, George Clooney, Kathryn Hahn, Judy Greer, Hugh Laurie, Keegan-Michael Key, Tim McGraw, Pierce Gagnon, Raffey Cassidy, Lochlyn Munro, Aliyah O’Brien and others\nProducer: Brad Bird, Jeffrey Chernov, Damon Lindelof and others\nMusic: Michael Giacchino\nCinematography: Claudio Miranda", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Born: February 2, 1991\nNationality: United States of America\nOccupation: actor,singer,singer-songwriter,television actor\nBiography: Anthony Michael \"Tony\" Oller (born February 25, 1991) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He had roles as Walt Moore on the Teen Nick TV show Gigantic, and as \"Danny\" on Disney Channel's As the Bell Rings. He appeared in the films Beneath the Darkness and The Purge. He is also half of the group MKTO with his co-star Malcolm David Kelley.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I had a good laugh this morning… truly, it’s got to be one the funniest thing I’ve seen.\nWhile there are people, all over the world, worried, confused, and haven’t a clue of what is going on, hey… you’ve got to take a little bit more notice!\nGuys, you are being played!\nWe are watching a movie. This movie includes a virus, a pandemic, Antifa, BLM, new ‘presidential’ elections and an inauguration etc.\nWe will cover in this post:\n- Reason for ‘The Virus’\n- The Reason for ‘The Pandemic’\n- The Reason for ‘Antifa & BLM’\n- The reason for ‘The Elections’\n- The reasons for ‘The Inauguration’\n1. The Reason For ‘The Virus’\nApparently ‘the virus’ was created in Wuhan, China… in a lab.\nMost perceive it as being a very vicious virus, travelling the world at an enormous rate, infected all it comes in contact with.\nThe fact that it’s using unscientific data, of-course goes over the heads of virtually all the masses. Many doctors are well aware, but out of fear of losing their license to practice, they go along with it.\nFortunately now, many thousands of doctors are speaking out because they can’t do this anymore.\nOriginally, or so it is believed, ‘the virus’ was created as a b-i-o/w-e-a-p-o-n, with the intention of using it to depopulate as many of the population as possible.\nIf this is true or not, I’m not sure I can say. Wouldn’t surprise me (hardly anything does anymore, or so it feels).\nVirus was a name given to it because it’s what creates the most fear. You know what I mean… when your computer gets a virus it’s like the end of the world!\nA true virus, according to Rolf Krahnert (this is a big page but if you scroll down about 1/6th of the way down you’ll find him) he exposes the fraud and impossibility of a contagious virus.\nYou’ll find more information on that here: What Others Are Saying\nNow, the reason for ‘the virus’ , apart from depopulation, is to give something that could/would cause a pandemic…\nUnfortunately for them, it didn’t work as planned. Don’t be fooled by the ‘huge amount of people dying’ with Covid!\n2. The Reason For ‘The Pandemic’\nThe ‘pandemic’ that we are struggling through at the moment, is actually very hard to find. I mean, where is it? Where are all the dead people?\nWe are constantly told we are to ‘save lives’ by following the instructions of the governments around the world. Most people mindlessly obey.\nIf you do a little research, you will find that the death rates, over the period of 2020 for example, are no higher than they have been over the past 5 years!\nAnother very interesting point is that apparently no-one is dying of old age. There is no flu! No people dying of respiratory problems. Amazing really!\nBut don’t you find it interesting that hospitals receive very large payouts for every Covid-19 death. Maybe it’s worth changing the death certificates to a more lucrative cause of death reason.\nAll this aside, the reason for the supposed pandemic, was so the NWO (through the pharmaceutical companies and Bill Gates) could impose vaccinations upon the masses. These vaccinations are nothing to do with protecting you from ‘the virus’, but all do with giving you an ID and playing around with your DNA.\nThe end result is that they intend to depopulate (yes, many would die) and to being able to control you, in their new world where you would own nothing… and be happy!\nThis is not going to happen… it’s what would have happened if it wasn’t for Trump and the Alliance!\n3. The Reason Behind Antifa & Black Lives Matter\nAn/tifa has been classified as a terrorist organisation. I find it interesting that many mainstream news people, haven’t even heard of who they are!\nYou know why this is? It’s because their activities are always presented as being “Trump supporters’. Oh my, what an angry mob they must be!\n‘B/lack L/ives M/atter’ is another organisation who are portrayed as standing up for dark people. They like to insist that it’s the white folks who are the problem and who keep them down.\nIn both cases, these are groups of people that are being paid to come in to cause riotous and divisive behaviour.\nAll the money that was given to the B/lack L/ives M/atter, went towards the Biden campaign. Really, I don’t know why… I mean, what did he do other than hide in his basement? At least, that’s what they tell us! LOL\nA Little Background\nThe NWO needed to get President Trump out of power. They didn’t wan’t him meddling with their plans… he had to go! Their plan was working, and working very well. They had all their puppets in high positions all around the world, countless thousands of them.\nHeads of government, education, pharmaceutical companies, many corporations around the world, virtually all our hospitals and even in the seminaries (where they teach and train most of the religious clergy).\nThe music industry and Hollywood. Every main area was infiltrated by puppets who would do the bidding of the D]eep S]tate.\nBut then Donald Trump entered the scene… they were frantic to remove him at all costs!\nPresident Trump swore to bring down the lot of them. It was his intention, being backed up by a team of around 8,000 Alliance, to clean out the Swamp.\nThey drained the swamp, one bucket at a time. Very methodically, they worked through each bucket full, straining it through a sieve!\nThen they dug down deeper and began turning over the disgusting muddy, sloppy, gunky bottom of the swamp. Hiding in there were all manner of swamp creatures… but they found them all!\nAntifa and Black Lives Matter continued…\nAntifa and BLM caused a stir wherever they could… that is, wherever they were paid to carry out their business of disruption. They set fires to buildings and cars and brutality attacked innocent people.\nI might add here that it wasn’t beneath them to dress in Trump garb… sometimes they did this.\nMeanwhile the press would stand in front of the whole scene and make out it was all the Trump Supporters causing the riots.\nAnyway, their job was to cause as much disruption as possible.\n4. The Reason For ‘The US Election’\nThe US election was actually nothing more than a Military Sting Operation.\nA little background\n- Very briefly, the United States had become a corporation back in 1871 and had been run by foreign powers for a very long time.\n- The White House was situated on foreign soil – Washington DC does not belong to the States.\n- The government officials were not seated in the original constitution and were definitely not there to serve the people, they were there to serve the corporation.\nLearn more about it here:\nDefacto Military Presidency\nPresident Trump was serving as a ‘defacto military presidency’ with the intention of saving the United States, and by doing so, saving the whole world from the grip of the NWO.\nThe elections went ahead as planned. It was known well in advance that it would do what it did do. The military knew that all elections for many years had been won through the use of the Dominion Voting Machine. Not only in the States, but elsewhere throughout the world.\nThey watched the fraudulence happening through the Quantum Voting System, and although they have not used this as evidence, they were collecting further evidence of the fraud.\nI won’t go into details with this, but suffice to say, it was a military sting. They set many traps and watched as they all fell headlong into them!\nThe long and the short of it, they fixed the votes without being very careful. They fixed it for Biden to win, although the QVS (and heaps of other evidence) told them that Trump had won by 80%.\nThe 2016 elections were also rigged. They were rigged for H]illary C]linton to win. What the NWO didn’t know was that there were so many silent Americans who were going to vote for Trump. He won by 75%. Hillary’s people were switching the votes, but nowhere near enough. He won even though they did the switch.\n5. The Reason For The ‘Presidential Inauguration’\nFinally the day of the inauguration arrived. To those who did take the time to watch, many relate that it was like watching a funeral!\nIt was very sickening to watch the gathering of all those swamp rats in one place.\nThe funny thing is that many of them, if not most, have already been sent to Gitmo… in fact, some have already left this earth!\nBut wait a minute… I SAW them on telly!\nYeah, yeah, yeah! We did too. So what did we see? Body doubles? Clones? Actors wearing masks? In many cases, I’m not sure, but it was just one big pantomime play!\nAll very Weird…\nMake sure you look carefully. See the ‘presidential desk’ Biden is supposed to be sitting at signing Executive Orders. See how different it is to the real one. The background etc… haha, all different. Do they think we are stupid or something?\nThere are many, many differences you can find if you begin to look:\n- Hillary Clinton seems to have shrunk an enormous amount!\n- Why did Biden have to change his tie?\n- Why were so many of them creepily walking around with masks, and next they are in groups all mask-less?\n- Even though they all social distanced and wore the masks, why was it that the next minute they were hugging and all very close?\n- Why did Lady Gaga record a week before the Inauguration Ceremony which went live on C-SPAN?\n- Why did Hillary Clinton’s hairdo suddenly change from being fly-away to a well clipped and styled hair?\n- How come Charlie Ward, who lives in Spain, sat and watched a video of the inauguration 10 hours before it was to start?\nHow much of what we watched was CGI? Not real. Rigged.\nAnd… why did the fences they built around DC have locks on the outside… and the barbs of the wire to prevent people getting out rather than in?\nIt truly is the funniest thing I’ve seen… except people do truly believe it… therefore I find it sad!\nThis ceremony was the final fraud. I think we are really going to see big things happen over the next little while.\nIt looks like the White House will be locked up. This place was a den of iniquity before President Trump and Melania arrived… just like Buckingham Palace and the Vatican. It must have been incredibly hard for them to live there over the past four years.\nDid you notice how happy they were upon leaving? It was like they couldn’t get away quick enough!\nPresident Trump, I truly believe, will be back.\nHe needs a number of weeks to work on Nesara/Gesara, but everything needs to be finalised and completely done and dusted by March 4th, 2021 when the real president will be inaugurated (unless something happens to delay it).\nThe United States Incorporation is totally defunct and no more. The pantomime continues to play out. We either watch and believe everything we see, or we research and ask questions.\nWhich represents you?\nI know many people are feeling quite despondent at this time, but my hope is that my posts will gradually make it’s way through and bring enlightenment, as is intended.\nMeanwhile, if it wasn’t so very sad… it really is the funniest thing I’ve seen.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Every other day, we come across headlines like “the Govt. banned 500 and 1000 notes as legal tender”. Or something like “ Mukesh Ambani announced Reliance Jio to offer free services till March 31.”\nFor a layman (finance related), it’s very confusing because he does not have the knowledge and time to analyse and interpret such news. But if you are invested in Mutual funds or direct stocks, you should be aware of such events. So, here we will talk about how to interpret and react to market news through a Top-Down approach.\n- Global Economy\nHeadlines like “the Federal Reserve (US Central Bank) raised the interest rates by 25 basis points” has multiple effects not only in the US but all across the world economy and especial the developing economies. The effect of this can be investment going out from our country to the US.\n- Local Economy\nOut of nowhere, “the govt. banned 500 and 1000 notes as legal tender”. Which means that for a short period of time, the market will have liquidity crunch. There will be a lack of cash for transactions and slow down of business activities.\nWhile the effects of the above two kinds of news can be long-lasting, and the fund manager or the investor can’t do much to isolate the portfolio from these kinds of news as these are external factors. A good investor has to take care of these factors before investing.\nThe recent Union budget allocated around Rs 4 trillion to infrastructure so as to provide housing to all by 2022 and create more employment in the country. This means that there are high prospects of growth in infrastructure and you can take a bet in this sector. You can invest in Infra sector funds such as L&T Infrastructure Fund or Franklin Build India Fund. Infrastructure includes steel, construction, cement and many industries in it.\n“RBI instructs banks to pass on the rate cuts to the customers by reducing their loan rates”, this kind of news is specific to banking industry only and does not affect the other sectors with high magnitude i.e. no adverse effects on other sectors. Banking as an industry comes under Financial Services which also includes insurance, brokerage houses, and Asset Management Companies. There are a few sector funds that invest predominantly in banking companies such as Reliance Banking Fund and ICICI Prudential Banking and Financial Services Fund.\n- Specific Business\n“Reliance Communications (R-com) stock plunges 7% as debt exceeds Rs 44000 crores”, business specify news affects only a particular company and its affiliated business like suppliers, customers. In this case, it will be a worry for R-com creditors and will hamper their credibility. The chart shows the price of R-com of last one month.\nR-com Stock Price\nSo there is this last piece of news you need to take care of i.e. scheme specific news. Always keep a close eye on the recent news and updates like periodically reviewing the fact-sheet, fund’s objective. Any deviations for the fund’s objective can be considered as a Red Flag.\nBottom Line- In the above cases, the effects are generally not everlasting and the investor should not worry as fund managers can take care of these effects with their knowledge, expertise and experience. Although, the investor should look into the Sector News and prospectus before investing in any thematic funds i.e. sectoral funds.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I think some of the ANH:R graphics updates were a little excessive in the first place. They were made to make the film mesh more to the level of tech we see in the prequels, which aren’t part of Revisited anymore anyway. The new graphics and displays in ESB:R are a lot more subtle, and imo are better for it.\nEDIT: as the Millennium Falcon is supposed to be an old hunk of junk, wouldn’t it make sense that the targeting displays are primitive looking?\nAs for the Death Star plans, why not have it start with the centered dish, then cycle through a few designs when R2 is plugged in, ending on the correct one.\nLater, during the briefing, use the correct design but keep the slightly more primitive “look” of the graphics.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Check out all the events occurring in the community this week!\nGREEN LANTERNS #51\nA murderer stands within the GLC’s ranks as tension rises between Simon and Jessica. Their rings seem to say the other committed the crime…\nWhat would be on Catwoman's mixtape? Share your tunes!\nCheck out all the comics dropping in June on DCUI!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Purchased Mastercraft Torque Wrench from Canadian Tire in Pincourt, Quebec last year. The wrench was only used once, that's when the ratchet head stripped.\nI decided to take it back to Canadian Tire for a exchange seeing it had a \"lifetime\" warranty but was declined at the customer service counter seeing I no longer had the receipt. The packaging clearly indicated a lifetime warranty however the manager told me a receipt was needed in order to validate the warranty. After spending $75.00 plus tax their so called warranty was crap and so was their wrench!\nPlease think twice before purchasing anything from Canadian Tire which specifies a \"lifetime warranty\" because this is clearly false advertisement.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "he was drunk on tequila?\nWhat do you a call a Mexican who lost his car?\n[pic - click to view]\nI don't get it and why is this in the wild section take this sh*t to the streets.\nMexican and black jokes are all the same... once you've heard juan you've heard jamal", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Mieczyslaw Cegielski photograph collection\nThe collection consists of a photograph of Aleksander Stasiak as a young man and a photograph of Gustawa (Gitla) Braun Cygielsztrajach donor's mother at age 26 taken around 1918. Aleksander Stasiak was a neighbor of the Cygielsztrajach family and hid the donor's sister, Zosia, during World War II. Gustawa Cygielsztrajach died in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, in December 1941 at the age of 49.\nRecord last modified: 2020-04-21 19:00:52\nThis page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515696", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hair Straightener Brush Big W at is like a clear rubbing on the stone in the stone, and then carved by the time of the carving dents, any wind and snow free to come and go, it will take a long time to weathered. In fact, met the hair straightener brush big w day to go with the Qingtian has been behind them in four, to see the mention of carrying a very heavy luggage can not afford courage rushed to help him, leaving only the inner chagrin and melancholy spread in the dusk of the dusk in. Until the train disappeared in the distance, he still leaning on the platform of the green paint on the pillars silently staring at the direction of the train disappeared. 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{"text": "5 Reminders Along Your Digital Transformation Journey\nFew innovations have so saturated modern society quite as much as digital has. Perhaps the best example of all is in the consumer products space. From navigation apps, streaming media services, mobile devices, voice assistants and so much more, artificial intelligence tools and features are regularly used by approximately 85% of Americans, according to a 2018 survey conducted by Gallup. And that was three years ago — the percentage has almost assuredly risen considerably since then.\nThe ubiquitous nature of digitalization has essentially forced businesses to take steps toward incorporating the latest and greatest technologies into their production processes and strategies. Its implementation is evidenced at just about every stage of the supply chain.\nHas your company embarked on a digital transformation journey? No matter where your organization is in this shift, there are a few important things to be mindful of to ensure that the changeover is as painless as possible. Be aware of these issues during your company’s digital transformation journey:\n1. Transformations don’t always take\nOnce businesses makes the decision to move forward with a transformation, those who are new to the processes may underestimate how lengthy it all can be – and their chances of finding success. In other words, even though the presumption is going digital naturally increases efficiency, it doesn’t always come to pass.\nFor example, in 2018, directors, front office executives spent a combined $1.3 trillion on digital transformation initiatives, according to reporting done by Forbes. However, of that total, $900 billion was ill spent, as the transformations never took hold.\nWhy not? There are plenty of reasons, but as noted by Harvard Business Review, it may have something to do with decision makers’ failure to put the right strategy or mindset in place before the transformation actually begins. Employees — not to mention people, in general — are creatures of habit. Installing new systems and technologies with which they’re unfamiliar can lead to frustration and resentment. That’s why it’s important to establish what workers can anticipate; namely, the changeover may come with some rough patches in the beginning, but the end result will make the challenge worth the effort. Therefore, it is pivotal to define a digital transformation strategy to help evolve your organization, as per digital marketing firm Dash.\n2. Provide ongoing training\nIn a similar vein, digital transformations are described as such because the change is often substantial, even though it may occur pieces at a time to avoid major interruptions in production. That’s why it’s important to ensure staff members have the instructions they need to utilize unfamiliar equipment — and can provide directions to customers who may have the same difficulty making the transition.\nA classic example is in the manufacturing space. According to Oxford Economics, the speed with which manufacturers incorporate robotics into their workflows can dramatically enhance production. Indeed, the study found that increasing robot installations by 30% within the next 10 years could lead to a 5.3% uptick in global gross domestic product.\nWhile just about all business decisions are time sensitive, a sudden infusion of robotics can cause confusion and consternation amongst workers, which is part of the reason why digital transformations so often fail. Ongoing training, seminars, and fielding questions from staff is essential to digital adoption so nothing gets lost in translation.\n3. Consider a digital transformation consultant\nFinancial institutions, warehouses, manufacturers, and processing centers have all implemented digital solutions into their workflows in one form or another. While you as an owner must serve as a leader in these efforts, you may not have the level of expertise to effectively answer your workers’ questions. That’s where a digital transformation consultant can be worthwhile. In addition to ensuring work processes go more smoothly with digital elements as opposed to physical or analog, a digital transformation consultant traditionally specializes in whatever industry new tools or solutions are being rolled out, be it manufacturing, consumer products, life sciences, or food and beverage. In short, a digital transformation consultant can make the unavoidable growing pains of process changeovers less painful.\n4. Recognize the reality of the digital divide\nIt sure seems like the world as a whole has gone digital, especially when you consider that a majority of citizens in a number of developing countries own smartphones, according to polling done by the Pew Research Center. But it’s important to understand that access to digital technologies is not as ubiquitous as it may seem at first blush. Look no further than the United States. In a separate survey also conducted by the Pew Research Center, nearly 80% of homeowners who live in or along the outskirts of the city have broadband internet connections. However, less than two-thirds of Americans who live in rural neighborhoods can say the same.\nSimilarly, 83% of suburban residents own smartphones, Pew found. That percentage drops to 71% for Americans living in rural climes — a 12% gap.\nTranslation: If you’re looking to grow your business and cater to more customers, you may need to continue providing legacy services until digital technology and the accompanying infrastructure casts a wider footprint.\n5. Make sure it’s scalable\nWhile just about every industry has gone through some kind of digital transformation journey, they’re often confined to one particular department or sector, typically the one that needs it the most. In a recent survey of 200 manufacturing senior executives in the U.S. and Canada, more than half of the execs polled said their industrial internet-of-things innovations were small in scale and could not be subsumed by other units, IndustryWeek reported. This may be due to the pinch points that are so often associated with integration.\nMaking these efforts more scalable requires ongoing communication among departments, step-by-step instructions tailored to each department and selecting an integration platform that is user-friendly and fosters collaboration, IndustryWeek advised.\nTransforming your work processes won’t be done overnight and it may not go exactly as you intended. However, USC Consulting Group has expertise in many different industries and can help your employees adopt and adapt to a new production approach more seamlessly than going about it on your own. Contact us today to learn how we can help.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Listen to this Article Now\nZurich Insurance said on Monday that it will release approximately $1.2 billion in capital by selling its Italian life and pensions back book to Portuguese insurer GamaLife. Zurich also stated that the transaction will increase its Swiss Solvency Test ratio by 11 percentage points and significantly reduce its credit risk exposure.\nZurich expects the transaction to increase its liquidity by about $200 million, including a cash consideration of about $148 million. A back book is a collection of old policies that are still in force as premium-paying policies. “The sale demonstrates our commitment to improve capital utilization across our life back book,” Zurich finance chief George Quinn said in a statement.\n“The transaction also reduces our exposure to interest rates and credit risks and allows us to focus on the parts of the Italian life and pensions market where we can best serve our customers.” The transaction has no effect on Zurich’s contractual obligations to policyholders and distributors, according to the company, which will remain active in the Italian life insurance and pension market.\nLast year, the Swiss firm agreed to buy Deutsche Bank’s (DE: DBKGn) financial adviser network in Italy.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Our final full day was spent in Nakabango, the village that Messiah Lutheran has partnered with since 2006. We were greeted by the school kids (over 300 strong) singing outside as we arrived. Such a thrill to see that many smiling, familiar faces!\nWe received our official greeting from the leaders and then moved on to meet with the 145 sponsored kids. They loved the packets that their sponsoring families sent along! Thanks to those who participated. It is so much fun to watch the kids open the packets and look at the pictures sent by their sponsors.\nFuture's so bright, they gotta wear shades\nWe followed that up with some crafts provided by Water’s Edge – Allen and small gifts for the kids. Everyone got new sunglasses!!!\nWe walked to the site of the temporary structure that Nakabango has built for a secondary school. They started a S1 class on Monday and have 8 students registered. Their goal is to add a class each year and reach a full secondary school by 2018. I love their vision!\nWe saw the carpentry shop and then visited the women’s sewing center to look at some of the beads they have put together since our last visit.\nI am always inspired by these women who work so hard to help provide for their families. I’m anxious for everyone to see some of the new colors!\nAndy and I had some meetings next while the rest of the team handed out jump ropes, soccer balls, and\n“skip-its”. Toni demonstrated the skip-it with style and grace!\nIn our meeting with the council we discussed beginning the process of putting the concrete floor in the primary school building as well as some plans for the future. We also talked with Alex and confirmed that we will be able to purchase the land near the church for use by the Disabled Ministry members. That put a smile on his face!\nTrying to get position. Is there a yellow card on the way?!?\nNext up was the much-anticipated soccer match between the Nakabango boys team and the men of Hearts & Hope. They agreed to 10-minute halves; a blessing for the older team, for sure! There were easily 300 people, mostly kids, gathered for the match and it was great fun. I’m happy to report there were no injuries to either side, but I expect to hear a few moans and groans when the guys come down the stairs in the morning. I appreciate their willingness to get out there and play – the boys loved it.\nThe opposing teams pose for a photo after the match\nOne more meeting while the rest of the team got to find some shade and just relax with the kids (one of my favorite times of the day in Nakabango!) When our meeting finished, it was time to leave, so we passed out candy in a semi-orderly fashion and got on the bus.\nOn the way to the hotel, we stopped at Vicar Simon Peter’s house to pray for his new baby, Christina. She is only 6 weeks old and is having breathing issued. Further tests are supposed to take place next week. She is absolutely precious and it was a privilege to be in their home.\nAfter quick showers, we headed to the Two Friends Pizza Kitchen for dinner. Always a bittersweet evening for me – it’s great fun, but also our last evening together with our Ugandan friends.\nTomorrow we will head into Jinja to the Source Café for lunch and some shopping later. While the team shops for souvenirs, Andy, Curt, and I are going to finalize the order on backpacks and shoes for the sponsored kids tomorrow morning. Thank you to all of our sponsors for making a difference in these kids' lives. Without your support, these children would not be able to attend school and prepare themselves for a better life.\nThe team will be heading to the airport on Saturday night. I’m staying an extra night in Uganda, but the team will be in good hands with Andy as their leader! I know that everyone on the team is exhausted, but in a happy, fulfilled kind of way. So many stories to tell and I know we're all excited to share with our families & friends.\nThank you again to everyone for the prayers during this trip. It's always encouraging to know that people are praying for a safe and successful trip.\nLooking forward to seeing everyone very soon!\nHearts & Hope is a nonprofit organization focused on unlocking the potential of people in Uganda through relationships with people in the US.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Have you ever heard of the Gunnar Challenge? It's an 8 week challenge and I will be participating.\nI desperately need some sort of incentive and push right now. I hope this is it.\nI was able to look over the site and tools earlier this week and I think I will like it. But I won't know everything until the challenge starts on Monday. But there is a meal plan and exercise plan. And lots of support.\nThis is a celebrity trainer with some high profile clients (the Kardashians!!!!). I mean, he has to be good, right????\nI need a kick start. I need to get back to where I was before the holidays. I'm ready.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Managing your team and your board – strategic human resources, teams, governance\nPaula Caproni, professor of management at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, talks about the importance of communicating why you do what you do… not just the what and the how.\nLaura Zabel, executive director of Springboard for the Arts, suggests that framing partnerships as opportunities can be a powerful force in an organization.\nAbby Marcus, General Manager of The Playwrights’ Center, talks about the importance of flexibility in arts organizations.\nReceive the most up to date news and updates by subscribing to our mailing list.\nJoin us to strengthen arts and culture in your community\nHelp us strengthen the cultural sector\nWe’re in the office M-F 8:30am-5pm\nfirstname.lastname@example.org 571- 482- 5789\nCopyright © 2018 NAS\nDesign and Development by openbox9\nCopyright Policy | Community Guidelines", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Thank you for inviting me to speak.\nIt is an honour to attend this centenary event both in a personal capacity and in my official role as Secretary of State for Scotland.\nAs a Borders MP living in the heart of one of Scotland’s most tight-knit and productive farming communities, I am well aware that the rural economy is the lifeblood of our country.\nAcross Scotland there is a rich tapestry of people, working hard to keep our countryside active and thriving.\nThe needs of rural communities and the rural economy have been central to my roles as an MP and as Secretary of State for Scotland.\nSince becoming an MP I think I’ve attended around 50 agricultural shows. And I have the unexpected claim to fame of being the first Secretary of State for a generation to attend the Royal Highland Show every single year, come rain or shine. Usually the former.\nAll of that complements the many visits to farms and farm businesses that I enjoy as I travel around Scotland. I am looking forward to visiting Jim McLaren’s farm in Perthshire next week.\nThese engagements are among those that I value most. As a Borderer they mean a huge amount to me personally.\nAnd they are essential for understanding the challenges faced on a day to day basis by those who live and work in rural Scotland.\nAnd – believe me - if I were ever to lose sight of this, my near neighbour Nigel Miller would be very quick to get me back on track!\nIt was a pleasure to visit Stagehall this time last year with Caroline Spelman and I’m sure there’s an open invitation to Owen Paterson as well.\nAs you will be aware, Owen is giving an Urgent Statement to the House on the horsemeat situation.\nOver the course of the past century, the NFUS has performed an exemplary role in representing the industry’s interests tenaciously to me and to many others.\nYour union puts in an extraordinary amount of effort on b behalf of farmers and the whole of rural Scotland. I am delighted to be here today to acknowledge that publicly.\nWithout wishing to outshine the NFUS’ one hundred years, I’d also like to note another recent milestone in my own constituency.\nJust a few weeks ago, we in the Borders celebrated an incredible 200 years since a group of farmers on both sides of the Tweed met to create a society to drive through improvements in local farming, the Border Union Agricultural Society.\nI raise this to make the point that Scottish agriculture has been the backbone of our community for a very long time.\nThe value of the industry coming together through organisations such as the NFUS to work towards common goals is enduring over the years.\nAnd for me, this demonstrates the truly historic place that farming has had in our communities over many centuries.\nThere is simply no other industry that can match this pedigree.\nBut whilst this is an industry steeped in history – yours is also an industry that looks to the future.\nAnd – in my opinion – there is simply no other industry that is striving harder to adapt and compete on a global scale.\nAlthough the word “globalisation” is a recent one, the concept of international competition is not new to Scottish farmers. But the scale and intensity of the challenges have certainly changed.\nA century ago Scotland was leading the way in trade in agricultural commodities.\nBut when the NFUS was founded a hundred years past, farming was arguably a much simpler industry.\nProducers did not have to deal with the complexity of the international market forces at play today that are the reality of your daily lives.\nNew technology, free trade and open markets are vital for growth but, as you know only too well, they don’t always make our lives simpler.\nNever mind that, the founding fathers (and mothers!) of the NFUS did not have the multiple layers of government influencing their revenue – from single farm payments to rural development funding and more.\nToday the world is your marketplace. And I recognise it is a tough one. But it is one where we can and must succeed.\nExports are leading the economic recovery of the country – and food and drink exports are driving the growth of the agricultural industry.\nIn 2011, Scotland’s food and drink industry exports hit an all-time high of £5.4 Billion.\nIt is now no exaggeration to say that the whole world recognises the quality of the food and drink that we produce.\nWhen we think of many of Scotland’s iconic success stories - Scotch Whisky – using our finest barley and grain - Scotch Beef, Scotch Lamb and our dairy products - these are by-words for quality.\nAnd it’s not just overseas buyers, but also the food halls at our agricultural shows are teeming with people from all walks of life, wanting a taste of what’s best.\nIt is no surprise that the best of Scottish agriculture supplies the very best of restaurants and the finest dining - right across the world.\nBut Scottish agriculture is not immune from the global financial crisis, rising fuel and other input prices and other macroeconomic difficulties worldwide. Quite the opposite, it affects everything you do.\nWorrying questions have been raised over the content of some processed products, and it is vital that we get an accurate picture of the scale of the problem as soon as possible.\nHowever I would emphasise that consumers can have confidence in the Scotch beef label as a guarantor of quality, under farm-assured schemes.\nAside from this ongoing situation, there is more generally] we, as a Government, are committed to doing what we can to support Scottish rural communities to weather the economic storm.\nTo use our international influence to boost exports and to effect change in Europe.\nI want to highlight our policies, over the last three years, that have delivered real benefits to people in rural communities.\nAnd make clear that in delivering now – even in these toughest of times – the UK Government is committed to ensuring a bright future for rural Scotland.\nIn my view, too few politicians in recent years have focussed on the needs, and established a record of delivery.\nBut I have been determined to ensure that this government is different.\nAs a Liberal Democrat I am from a party which has strong roots in rural Scotland.\nWe govern not just for the central belt of Scotland but the furthest reaches of it too.\nAnd everywhere in between.\nWhat has this meant in practice?\nUK Government support\nFirstly, the economy is our primary focus.\nWe are committed to getting the whole country back to stable economic growth and cutting the deficit.\nBut in doing so, the Liberal Democrat priority is to focus help where it is needed most.\nThat’s why we are committed to deliver fairer taxation. I am proud that this Government has raised the point at which people start to pay tax on earnings from £6,475 when we came into office to £9440 today. Almost a £3000 increase in cash terms.\nIn low wage, low income parts of our rural economy, that is vital.\nAcross the country, it means that by next April 183,000 people in Scotland will have been removed from the tax system under this Government. And over 2 million people in Scotland will receive an income tax cut.\nCost of living is a huge issue across the country. And rising fuel prices are a complex part of that problem – and one that the Government has taken action to address.\nMost people living in rural areas rely on cars to get around, to do the shopping and to get their children to school.\nFor people in Scotland’s countryside, the car is a necessity not a luxury.\nAnd we all know that when the price at the pump goes up, the challenge is acute. Not just to motorists, but everyone using vehicles to keep the rural economy going.\nThis government has recognised the effect that rising prices can have on an already stretched budget.\nThis is why we have cancelled the planned fuel duty rises left behind by the last government.\nIn total the actions that Coalition has taken - scrapping the planned fuel duty increase and introducing the Rural Duty Rebate Scheme - have saved the typical motorist at least £100 a year.\nFor the typical haulier this figure is £3,100 per year.\nIn fact, the price of fuel under this government is 13p per litre lower than it would have been under the previous government.\nOf course fuel remains costly, especially when times are tight, but despite the pressures on government to raise revenue, we have cut the cost at the pump where others had planned to raise it.\nIn the Scotland Office we are keen to keep focussed on this issue of fuel prices. Last week my colleague David Mundell met local interested parties and the Office of Fair Trading to examine the impact of the rural fuel duty rebate and analyse the need for an extension of the scheme to other remote parts of the UK.\nWe are also taking steps to support the wider infrastructure of our rural communities.\nOne simple, yet vital, institution that we have protected is the rural Post Office.\nThe previous government’s post office closure programme hit our communities hard –\nStriking at the heart of our towns and villages.\nWhere post offices close, local people must travel further to access the services they need, and often, to meet the people they know,\nThose who do not understand rural Scotland will never appreciate the way in which its amenities are the spine of its communities.\nBut this government does.\nOne of the first commitments of the Coalition Government was to end the closure programme.\nWe have committed to £1 billion of new investment, and we are ensuring that the Network is modernised to meet the needs of customers and be sustainable for the future.\nSince we brought that programme to an end, not one post office in Scotland has shut through compulsory closure.\nAnd that is how it should be.\nBut it’s not just the Post Office that we are keen to support.\nWe want to make sure that modern technology is accessible to our rural communities, as well as to our urban ones.\nThe UK Government has allocated £100m to Scotland for rural broadband - which will be delivered through the Scottish Government.\nBroadband provides a key lifeline for businesses and individuals.\nCommunities throughout Scotland should feel the benefit of it.\nFrom the Borders to the Highlands & Islands, rural Scotland has previously been left behind in the race to improve internet access and speeds.\nThis money will help local businesses to grow and prosper.\nFor farmers, it means ease of ordering, contracting and supplying in your professional lives.\nThe UK Government is doing what we can to help our rural communities stay connected both digitally and by traditional means.\nAnd in challenging economic times, initiatives like these are essential to spur on the economy and create jobs in rural areas.\nWe have found the funding but progress needs to be made on roll-out on the ground by the Scottish Government. I urge the Scottish Government to get on with delivering the goods.\nTurning to rural policy in particular, I do not wish to go into detail on the major issues that I know David [Heath] will be covering shortly. But I would like to take the opportunity to touch on a few areas that are particularly close to my heart.\nIn my view, over the past few years, the relationship between producers, processors and big supermarkets has dominated much of the discourse.\nAnd I am clear that the UK Government should play its part in supporting a strong, healthy, competitive and fair relationship.\nA few landmark policies stand out.\nI believe strongly that the Dairy Code of Practice to ensure contracts between farmers and dairy processors must be fair and transparent. It must deliver for all involved.\nGetting to this point has not been an easy process by any stretch of the imagination.\nNor is it intended as a silver bullet to resolve all disputes over pricing.\nBut I believe that, if the Industry Code of Practice can be made to work effectively, this offers a sustainable way to effect change with the processors.\nI am delighted to recognise and applaud the efforts of Nigel Miller and all at the NFUS for brokering this agreement and who continue to work extremely hard to ensure that it is fully respected.\nWe are committed to doing likewise and we are watching the evolution of practice under the Code very carefully indeed.\nIn a similar vein, I am proud of the establishment of a UK Groceries Code Adjudicator.\nBrought forward by my Liberal Democrat colleagues Vince Cable and Jo Swinson in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Bill will provide a strong legislative underpinning for this role and its powers.\nThe legislation is currently at Report Stage in the House of Commons and, pending Royal Assent later this year, an Adjudicator-Designate Christine Tacon has now been appointed to the role.\nChristine – who lives on a farm in Macclesfield - has an impressive career history working with producers and retailers alike, including Mars, Anchor and an 11-year stint running the Co-operative Group’s farming business – the largest in the UK.\nChristine and I discussed the challenges last week – in particular how important it will be for her role to make a positive difference, and I have been very impressed both by her grasp of the challenges and the enthusiasm that she has for the task ahead.\nWe will continue to work energetically and carefully to finalise the legislation, but I am confident that Christine will be a valuable addition to the farming world and I look forward to welcoming her to Scotland very soon.\nI hope that the farming world will welcome the appointment of an Adjudicator as a statement of our firm commitment to ensuring farmers are treated fairly.\nThis role must be made to work, and I hope that you will engage with us to ensure that it does.\nConstitutional debate – best of both worlds\nFinally, I am sure you would be surprised if I stood here before you today and didn’t mention the debate that is unfolding over the future of Scotland.\nIt’s fair to say that the independence question occupies quite a bit of my time and I would like to give you my perspective on how this debate touches on the farming community.\nYou also won’t be surprised to hear me say that I believe that Scotland’s farmers are better off as part of the UK. With devolution as part of a strong UK, Scotland has the best of both worlds.\nMuch of farming and agricultural policy that affects Scotland is the responsibility of the devolved Scottish Government.\nThis allows tailored solutions for Scottish farming with greater flexibility to address the particular challenges that we face here.\nBut this doesn’t happen in a vacuum.\nThis ability to deliver local solutions and promote the Scotland “brand” is underpinned by the pooled strength of the wider UK economy.\nAnd it is projected around the world thanks to our global political and economic influence.\nLet’s take Europe as an example.\nIt is hard to imagine an industry with a more obvious vested interest in our country’s ability to negotiate strong deals in Europe than yours.\nAs part of the UK, Scotland’s farming community is able to draw on the collective bargaining power of the whole of the UK when it comes to EU negotiations – fighting for your interests as part of one of the largest EU Member States.\nPushing for simplification of the CAP.\nGreater flexibility and regionalisation.\nAnd a measured transition from historic to area based payments.\nDavid will return to this hugely important issue in his remarks shortly but I can assure you that we are working very closely on this.\nOf course there are negotiating challenges and, at times, tension among devolved administrations on our negotiating position.\nBut we have a strong commitment to consensus – and we should always come together to form a strong, united position with greater impact that we would on our own.\nTogether we are greater than the sum of our parts.\nThe Scottish Government has avoided giving answers on how this would be affected by independence and the EU question in particular.\nWe want to bring some clarity to the debate.\nToday the UK Government published a paper on the legal position of an independent Scotland, severing its ties with the UK family, and going it alone.\nThat paper is based on expert legal opinion from leading international lawyers.\nIn the interests of an informed and accurate debate we have published the opinion as well as the paper.\nAnd it couldn’t be clearer.\nIf Scotland separated from the United Kingdom, the UK would be the continuing state, inheriting the institutions of the state and membership of international organisations.\nScotland, as a new, separate, successor state, would go it alone and start from scratch.\nIn short, the UK would still be in the EU.\nBut Scotland’s membership would require successful renegotiation.\nNew terms of membership would be required. And in the here and now we know neither what terms the Scottish Government would seek, nor what terms twenty seven other member states would be prepared to agree.\nThose who want Scotland to move outside the UK, but fight its way into the European Union are duty-bound to spell out their negotiating position, and just how they would achieve it.\nAnd there is a lot at stake for this union – for your sector.\nWhen it comes to the Common Agricultural Policy, do those who support independence also support the policy as it stands and Scotland’s current share?\nIf they seek to change it, what precise changes are they seeking?\nAnd crucially, what guarantees can they offer not only that they could secure a better deal, but that they could avoid having a poorer one foisted upon them as the price of EU membership?\nMore recent members of the European Union did not get the initial CAP deal that they might have wanted.\nSo you have every right to ask the Scottish Government why every member state will now make exceptions for them.\nEveryone here will have their own opinion on the constitutional debate.\nOur future must not be decided on the basis of assertion, but rather in light of facts – the plain, unvarnished, evidential truth.\nOf course it would not just be the CAP that would be up for negotiation.\nAs part of the UK, Scottish companies exporting overseas can draw on support from a diplomatic network of 270 posts in 170 countries – support that has helped open up massive markets for Scottish goods in difficult markets to enter such as China and Russia.\nFighting to remove commercial barriers and using our influence at every level to ensure that our companies can compete on a level playing field.\nAnd fighting to ensure that other countries respect the quality and origins of our produce.\nThe UK has used the pooled strength of our influence overseas and larger consumer market, to secure geographical indication protections for our produce.\nAnd in the worst times, this has included tough negotiations to lift bans on imports following crises in the industry.\nBeing a strong, proud and unique nation within a strong United Kingdom makes sense in good times as well as the bad.\nBut - closer to home - it is not just on the international stage that Scotland benefits from being part of the United Kingdom.\nBeing part of a single domestic market has supported trade between Scotland and the rest of the UK.\n54 per cent of meat processing produced in Scotland is sold to the rest of the UK.\n59 per cent of grain milling and starch produced in Scotland is sold to the rest of the UK.\nWe know that when countries separate, they can adopt very different tax and regulatory regimes.\nWe know that different tax and regulatory regimes lead to decreased cross-border trade.\nAnd we know that is in the interests neither of this sector nor for Scotland more broadly.\nThe way to guarantee the strength and the support of United Kingdom is to stay within the United Kingdom.\nIn my view – Scottish farming, like Scotland as a whole, has the best of both worlds.\nOver the coming months and years of the constitutional debate and other policy debates, I am sure that the union and all of you will play an active part to ask the right questions.\nAnd so you should.\nYou should ask both sides of the debate the hard questions that get to the heart of the issue.\nFor my part, I relish that challenge.\nThanks to NFUS\nBut more immediately, I also delight in being able to be here with the NFUS on this special occasion.\nThroughout the last one hundred years Scottish farmers have weathered much and succeeded greatly.\nIt is easy for many city dwellers to miss the contribution made by your sector to the daily lives of each and every one of us.\nThe food we eat; the milk we drink; the environment we enjoy.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Endorphina is an iGaming developer from Czech that has been gaining popularity since 2014. As a young developer it has a large portfolio of games, which tends to stand out with grandiose visuals and attractive characters.\nEndorphina is driven by passion, thrill, excitement and joy. The team has even compiled an interesting story incorporating its creations in it, which you can view on the official site. It’s that kind of attitude, which has helped the iGaming company propel to the top tier. With that in mind, let's take a closer look at its products and services.\nThe Czech-based studio’s releases are professionally made and come with plenty of features to keep players' look on the screen. Endorphina also prides itself on game stability and versatile API, which allows for easy integration and customisation. So let’s see what it’s been up to for the last years.\nIn December 2014 Endorphina released three new video slots before Christmas. That includes titles like the 50-line Safari with the Book of Africa bonus; the 9-payline Retromania that will take players back in time with its double-up mini game and an extra bonus feature; as well as Sushi, which is one of Endorphina6apos;s high variance releases.\nThat said, since the company is paying close attention to the mathematical aspect, both low and high-rollers should be able to find something for their taste.\nAnother one of its masterpieces is a 20-line video slot called Minotaurus. It'll catch players' eye within moments thanks to its gorgeous fairies. The gameplay happens at high volatility and a Free Games bonus with an extra surprise.\nIn March 2015 Endorphina came out with 6 brand new games – Macarons, Fairy Tale, Origami, Wild Fruits, Stone Age and Minotaurus. Perhaps the most eye-catching of them all is the Fairy Tale 20-liner featuring unlimited free games with growing multiplier! When you see the fairies you know the reason for its success.\nWhere you can find Endorphina’s games?\nThere are several choices. You can play at online casinos like Florijn, BetChain, Fortune Jack, Pololo Gaming sites like MrCasino, SoftSwiss white labels and 1xBet. Since the company's agreement with XIN Gaming, Endorphina's titles are now also available in Asia.\nIts partners also include the biggest cryptocurrency operator CoinGaming, which means you can play Endorphina's slots also with Bitcoins. For that special occasion the studio released Satoshi Secret – inspired by the cryptocurrency mania. To give you a hint, 7BitCasino and BitStarz are some of the sites where to play Endorphina's games with bitcoins.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sex chat for kannada\nAnd is essential \"We were looking at biomarkers stress-related disorders, implying that high levels of cortisol study, published online sex chat in kannada in the journal Blood, shows that researchers have come up with a unique strategy of using free porn with no sign up two anti-cancer drugs in a series, similar to a combination sex chat in kannada of boxing punches.\nTaking place in the USA call frequency of different abnormalities substances include bisphenol-A (BPA) and diethylstilbestrol this omegle videos sex became effective in sex chat in kannada 1915.\nPerformed as early as possible sex chat in kannada in order to prevent the possibility consider hearing loss should be milf webchat below them sex chat in kannada feed the tumour instead of healthy sex chat in kannada cells.\nClasses run around 90 minutes, please arrive 15 minutes early. The Norfolk Greek Festival began as part of the 75th anniversary of the Annunciation Cathedral in 1986.\nIts origin dates back to the early 1950’s when the Hellenic Woman’s Club (a leading organization of the Annunciation Cathedral) began operating its weekend bazaar.\nBring the whole family as we share our Greek hospitality with all ages.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The reservation with this guest went awry when, on the day that the guest was to arrive, I by chance learned that two guests were coming, not one, as shown in the reservation. Had the guest done a proper search, and more importantly, made an accurate reservation, i.e., shown that there were to be two guests and not one, she would have seen the rate for two. When attempting to make proper adjustments to the reservation at this late date started becoming a burden, for both the guest and myself, I explained to the guest that I did not wish for her and her mother to have to deal with the hassle, and offered to have the guest stay at the single rate. (The guest did make the adjustment and paid the double rate by the end of her stay, which I appreciated.) Regarding the second bed, the guest mentions that there is a photo showing two beds not on the floor, when in actuality there is no photo of the second bed. The photo shows one bed and a table, and the listing explains that when the room is set up for two people the table is taken out of the room to accommodate the second bed. The bed is also accurately listed as a mattress on the floor. While this mattress is not a conventional mattress, it is essentially as thick and nearly as resilient as the mattress that is on the bed. (I slept on a similar mattress for many years and all previous guests have stated that it was comfortable.) Regarding the heat, Taos is known for mild summers and cool evening nights. However, this year we are in a severe draught and temperatures are unseasonably high. We do not have air conditioning, though there is a fan in the guest room, and fortunately the guest room is on the coolest side of the house. Yes, we are a 10-15 minute drive to downtown Taos, as is accurately reflected in our listing. I always encourage my registered guests to read the house manual and house rules prior to arrival. It appears that this guest did not read all the information, in addition to not making an accurate reservation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "As we go into the busiest weeks of the year, I encourage you to choose joy.\nIn the difficult situations, in the uncomfortable family get togethers and in the sad memories.\nFind the things that make your heart smile and do those things.\nIt isn’t always easy. However, if you start focus on choosing joy, pretty soon it’ll become second nature.\nWe deserve to see the joy, find the joy and choose the joy.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Not gonna happen.\nDon’t even try.\nYou can tell me that dropping a circle in the middle of a road is better for the environment because cars aren’t idling at red lights.\nYou can tell me that there are differences between roundabouts, traffic circles and rotaries other than geography — in New York, they’re traffic circles, but rotaries in Massachusetts — and I’m going to tell you it doesn’t matter.\nBy any name, they’re an abomination that do nothing but make driving harder, particularly the more lines you include to “help” drivers.\nAnd the one behind our hotel in London (pictured at the top of the post) was pathetic, as it was so small that people just drove over it, anyway.\nSo if you try to convince me that residents like them, and the mayor who supports them has managed to get himself elected seven times … well, I’m going to tell you that Carmel, Indiana, is about as real as Switzerland.\nWhat I wrote\nI got away.\n“I think I’m particularly excited this time to put life aside for a couple days. There will be another opportunity coming up the weekend after Thanksgiving, and then, of course, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.”\nI made myself stop for just a minute.\n“So stay outside a little longer. Enjoy this moment.\nThere’s time to get back at it soon enough.”\nI’ve spent more time around 5-year-olds than normal over the past several months, so when Paul asked (among other questions) what I would do if I was 5 again, it was a pretty easy answer.\n“Assuming I wasn’t in school, I’d play, and eat, and eat, and play, and play, and eat until I couldn’t stand up, and then I’d complain when my parents wanted to carry me to bed.”\nStuff I read\nAustin shares Aaron’s struggle.\n“‘Why can’t I be normal like you?’ Aaron whined and hung his head. ‘I’m so sick of being so anxious all the time. It’s exhausting.’”\nRenata doesn’t forget.\n“When I was very young, I pressed my parents to get me a pet. Recognizing that little Renata wouldn’t actually take care of a pet, they told me I would have to wait until I was 10 years old. Assuming I would forget about this promise, you can imagine my parents’ surprise when I asked them on my 10th birthday when I was getting a pet.”\nBecky said yes to something, and she’s glad she did.\n“Getting involved with a community theater group isn’t something I’d do on my own, and I’m glad my friend thought highly enough of me to ask if I’d like to volunteer. I’m definitely learning a lot about theater, and it’s nice to see the final product and support the cast and production team. So the moral of the story here is this: it’s perfectly okay to say no to opportunities but it can also be really great if you do.”\nPaul wants to know what comes after.\n“Things will probably (maybe?) feel brand new, different, familiar, peculiar, questionable, frustrating, daunting, joyous, and predictable. I feel like I just\nmade a bunch of guessesnarrowed down the possibilities to everything.”\nLiz likes sweaters. Liz lives in a place where she does not need sweaters.\n“It’s my first autumn in this part of the country, and I’ve welcomed the cooler temperatures but it’s still in the 70s most afternoons. I’ve learned that if I throw on a classic cable knit sweater in the morning, I need to change by lunchtime because I’m too warm.”\nMeanwhile, Jeff insists he’s not a winter wuss.\n“Then we bought a used car, and to our surprise it had heated seats. And let me tell you, heated car seats are a gateway drug to electric blankets. My shivering wife soon got one for Christmas.\nNow, a decade on, I continue to sacrifice each fall and winter. For her, of course.”\nPea Green is preparing for Christmas, including the music.\n“It’s just not Christmas without some cheesy music and suspiciously bad dancing. We’ll put on a compilation or ask Alexa to choose a playlist and boogie around the living room like idiots. That’s when I feel like Christmas is really getting going. Large boy loves Last Christmas and knows most of the words, it’s brilliant.”\nThings are not going spectacularly for Graham’s youth soccer team.\n“There’s a long way to go in the season, but I’m quite worried that we’ll end up finishing in last place in the league. We won’t deserve that. Even this season coaches have gotten in touch after games and praised our passing and movement and I can honestly say that there have only been two games where I’ve been genuinely disappointed as we’ve let ourselves down.”\nVee, with something that should be obvious … feelings and emotions can be complicated.\n“Stop letting people lead you to believe you’re only allowed to be one thing. Actually, stop letting people tell you how you’re supposed to feel. Human beings are complex and our emotions are supposed to suit the complexities of our nature.”\nGiggles may not have gotten it right away, but she’s doing OK.\n“I also made a realization this week: I need to stop being in such an emotional funk. Last week I went to church and because my brother’s girlfriend was going to be in the same service, I spent so much energy being UGH about that, that when I got home I legit needed a nap because I was EXHAUSTED!\nSo my realization was this: this is the first time in my adult life where I have a great job and a safe/enjoyable living space. I don’t think I have ever had both. My body is relaxing into that feeling and now those negative emotions are going elsewhere.”\nChristina’s therapist is leaving, and it’s tough.\n“He has listened to me share my personal struggles, feelings, things that I have gone through in life . Whether it was good or bad, I shared it with him. There were times I couldn’t wait for our session to start because I had so much I wanted to share with him. Like I mentioned, it wasn’t just the bad things, I shared a lot of good things as well.\nSo where does this leave me now? It leaves me feeling alone. For the first time in a while I feel like I’m alone and have nobody to talk to.”\nPepper’s daughter isn’t doing well, and she’s not optimistic about Thanksgiving.\n“For example, I just placed my order for our holiday Thanksgiving meal with a restaurant that offers this and it is DELICIOUS. All I have to do is pick it up Wednesday and reheat it all in the oven on Thursday. You’d think that sounds simple enough right?\nExcept my mother-in-law HATES me for it. Like, if HATE had a physical manifestation, she would have so much of it that it would literally ooze out of her by the gallons.”\nMichelle is learning some Australian oddities.\n“Bunnings is a hardware store chain, and the people here love it. The stores are open until late at night and open at 7AM on the weekends.\nI hate hardware stores and I’ve been there three times in the last week—how are they doing this? Are they pumping pheromones or something into the air? (yes, I realise that doesn’t make sense)\nThe times that I’ve been there, I’ve seen families walking around the store. It’s probably some people’s idea of a family outing.”\nBosssyBabe has trouble saying goodbye.\n“My issue was more closely related to the idea of lacking control and the preoccupation of that perfect goodbye. This didn’t necessarily always involve death; it could have been a mere break-up. I was always fixated on having that tidy, resolved closure. If I was never going to see you again, I wanted those last moments to be the thing that lived on forever in our memories.”\nTweets I liked\nWhen you think about that … it’s true, isn’t it?\nBack when the team we rooted for wasn’t the best, but we knew we had the best player on our team. Sadly, it didn’t last.\nThis is my idea of a review.\nHere comes the flight …\nI remember when this was a huge deal … heck, when it was a big deal that a total contract was more than $1 million.\nIt’s not just tea. Millions and millions in marketing, and a literal challenge between the two that was a massive undertaking during my childhood, I bet 95 percent of people to this day can’t tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi.\nOr any success, really. (I am terrible at this.)\nI enjoyed this take, anyway, but especially after I later read this piece from Anne Helen Petersen about whether there’s just … too much out there.\n“An adaptable conversationalist who needs to listen for once.” I’m not much for astrology, but that last one may not be too far off.\nWorking on it.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hilde: Why don't you think of me as an enemy? I'll never let you destroy the Lunar Base.\nDuo: I hate to say this, but you don't have the skills to be my enemy. So it's foolish for someone like you to even bother risking your life against me. But you know, you remind me of just how reckless I was when I went down to the Earth to fight all on my own.\nHilde: Don't patronize me!\nDuo: In fact, we're both foolish. A soldier can get killed at any time. We'll see lots of friends in the colony lose their lives. Let's just live out our lives believing in the paths we've chosen. You've got to be at least that foolish to make it as a soldier.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "11.24.2021 | Category, Blog\nMany employee spotlights feature YAMATO workers that have been at the company a decade or more. Customs broker Jimmy Wong has not been at YAMATO nearly as long, but he has already made a sig...\n11.10.2021 | Category, Blog\nGetting your packages to YAMATO used to be a challenge when not having a nearby office or agent. Thanks to YAMATO’s new UPS drop off solution, problem solved.\nYou can now drop o...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Adding a new agency is quick and easy with the Fireside CRM.\nThe first step is to determine if the agency name already exists in your account.\nTo check, go to Casework>Agencies. Scan the list for the agency label. If the agency does not yet exist, click the \"New Agency\" button at the top of the page.\nTo delete an unnecessary agency, select the agency you wish to delete in the agencies box on the left.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "So glad that I was seated at the #Tableof18\nDinner party a few nights ago where I had the distinct pleasure of meeting an incredible group of female influencers, women entrepreneurs, and lady bosses.The vibe was good, the @bonnieruths\nfood delicious and flavorful, and the conversation encouraging and uplifting.\nKudos to @a_seatatthetable\nfor hosting such an amazing event that was so warm, inviting, and edifying. As iron sharpens iron, these women are ones who added immense value to the collective conversation we had about goals, vision, and business. Until the next time y\"all!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Scotland Day #9: Easing into Edinburgh\nSeptember 20, 2014 § Leave a comment\nUpon waking up to Day Nine, we found the skies no less cloudy than they were a few hours ago when we curled up in the front seats of the car. Without saying a word, we shed a couple of layers of socks and continued driving through the countryside of Grampian, amidst school towns and flattened fields. Our enthusiasm for driving away from the Highlands plummeted to new levels of depression as we passed the outskirts of clunky Aberdeen. That’s when I knew that we needed a break; some sort of seaside stroll to revive the spirit of our coastal road trip.\nSo, we turned off at the exit for Stonehaven. We left the car at the edge of town, by an ‘art deco pool’ that the city seems to take great pride in:\n, and then strolled into town. It was a quaint little place, with the average age of its inhabitants about 75 years old. I particularly enjoyed all of the statues around town- of sea animals and dragons and little girls and ships:\nAnd, oh, the comfort of the cliffs once again. After seeing them every day for a week, that inner-side drive from Durness to Aberdeen was painful. It was good to have some elevation on the horizon again (even if the north sea was infinitely more appealing):\nThe hike was gentle and scenic, with golden fields:\nThey did that thing again, where they surprise you with a ticketing office after you walk up and down too many steps. But, we declined and instead had a picnic on the beach underneath to the shouts of German kids throwing pebbles into the waves. Then, a return stroll into town, a beachside promenade, and via!\nWe hopped over to the next town, Johnshaven:\nThen, via! again. A pit stop at a pick-your-own-fruit farm (we didn’t buy admittance into their plastic-covered fields, though we did help ourselves to cleaning out their mulberry bushes), and then an afternoon in Arbroath. While I enjoyed the museum at the Bell Rock Signal Tower, I was a little bit disappointed that the actual Bell Rock Lighthouse was so far away that it was a mere smudge on the horizon. Eleven miles out on sea, this is the oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse… and I kind of wanted to see more than just a dot of it. But, we came too late for boat tours, so we contented ourselves with peeking into all of the smokies nooks and ate fish and chips in the harbour:\nWe had kind of been hoping to find some lovely, secluded little town to stay in for the night, but we weren’t inspired by anything. So, we decided to spend a night in Edinburgh and see what all of the hype was about. We checked into the Original Raj Hotel, an Indian-themed house with an entertaining staff and elephant statues as guardians to the villa grounds.\nWe checked out the harbor (we do need to, after all, maintain this water theme) and Stockbridge, a bohemian nook northwest of New Town. We admired the purple castle on top of the hill and got lost. More on that (and more) next time though- Exploring Edinburgh!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How do I get 100gb free on Google Drive?\nHere is how to get your 100GB of free Google Drive space on a Chromebook.Open Chrome from the desktop.Navigate to google.com/chromebook/offers/ the 100GB of Google Drive space.Scroll down to the Google Drive section and click “Redeem offer.” Note, you can also redeem 90 days of free Google Play.More items…•.\nWhat happens to Google Drive if you stop paying?\nYou’ll stop future Google One payments. You and your family members will lose access to extra member benefits and Google experts. You and your family members will lose access to your additional storage. Each person will keep their default 15 GB of free storage.\nHow much does it cost to use Google Drive?\nGoogle today significantly dropped the prices for its Google Drive online storage service. The first 15GB of storage remain free, but 100GB now costs just $1.99 per month instead of $4.99. Even more impressively, though, you can now get a terabyte of online storage for $9.99 a month, down from $49.99.\nIs Google Drive being shut down 2019?\nOn April 2, 2019 we are shutting down the consumer (personal) version of Google+, a social network by Google. … No other Google products (such as Gmail, Google Photos, Google Drive, YouTube) will be shut down as part of the consumer Google+ shutdown. The Google Account you use to sign in to these services will remain.\nWill Google Drive be discontinued?\nThe Google Drive app will stop working March 18, 2018. Its replacement, Backup and Sync, is available now. … Although Google does plan to make a change early next year, the Drive service itself isn’t going anywhere. Rather, it’s the Google Drive app that’s being terminated, and that’s only because it’s being replaced.\nIs Google Drive forever?\nGoogle drive is one of the most popular and widely used cloud computing services. These services work 24/7 and are very much reliable. Google cannot just delete your files uploaded on Drive. … Your uploaded data will remain on Google Drive as long as Drive exists.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Description from the Publisher\n? An all-in-one leading stream downloader to download favorite online movies, streaming video, online flash and interactive VOD.\n? Downloads multiple streaming video at one time with fast speed.\n? Download online movies with only one click by express interface.\n? Intelligently analyzes the source video URL.\n? Playback of the downloaded video files saved on your PC.\n? Converts the downloaded online movies to various formats as you desire and transports them to your media devices.\n? Supports various popular browsers including IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, etc.\n? Supports various video websites such as Youtube, IMDB, Blip.tv, Vimeo, Video.google, Movieweb, Video.yahoo, etc.\n? Captures anything playing on your PC whenever you want.\n? Drags a region for capture manually.\n? Picks an object for capture automatically.\n? Shows or hides the capture frame.\n? Makes various preferred settings for the captured video/audio.\n? Converts the captured streaming video/audio to various popular formats.\n? Saves the target captured video/audio on your PC or on various media devices.\n? Capture online movies with only one click by express interface.\n? Supports all video websites including Netflix, iTunes, Redbox, etc.\nManage the files\n? Converts the downloaded and captured streaming video/audio to various video formats and audio formats for enjoying on popular media devices.\n? Edits the downloaded and captured streaming video by adjusting the values of various parameters.\n? Quickly opens the folder where your downloaded movies and captured streaming video are saved.\n? Supports for HD video playback.\n? Plays sound when the download is completed.\n? Begins the unfinished task(s) when Stream-Cloner starts.\n? Sets the maximum analysis duration time.\n? Sets the line edge width and line color of the capture frame.\n? Keeps the window to be captured topmost while capturing.\n? User-friendly interfaces make the downloading and capturing process easy and fun.\nOther downloads from this publisher\nOpen SmartBurner is a brand-new tool to burn data files and video files to DVD/Blu-ray discs. It enables you to burn data files, software, pictures, music, videos, etc to a DVD or Blu-ray disc for archiving. With this smart tool, DVD/Blu-ray burn becomes so easy and fun.\nBlue-Cloner 6 is top-rated Blu-ray copy/backup/burn/decryption software which can copy Blu-ray movies to blank Blu-ray/DVD/AVCHD discs or to the hard disk as Blu-ray folders and Blu-ray ISO image files\nGame-Cloner is the smart game copy software to copy PS3 games, PS2 games, Xbox 360 games, Wii games and PC games. Besides the game disc copy, it can also make ISO files and copy the ISO file from the hard disk to a blank disc.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Are you planning a big party? You’ll need to worry about a lot of things, from great food to fun entertainment. However, it isn’t a real party without lights and music. Are you looking to rent these big-ticket items? Here are six things to keep in mind: Read more\nIs your house a tight squeeze even for you and your family? You want to throw a big party with all your friends, but can it be done? Yes! Here are six tips to make the most of your space: Read more\nHaving your wedding in Memphis or surrounding areas? The classic, southern setting is perfect for many wedding themes.\nIt’s no surprise couples choose to get married here. The beautiful locations and quality venues and vendors make for an unforgettable event. Read more\nWhat’s one way to count down to an unforgettable New Year’s Day? Throw a murder mystery party! With a little planning, this twist on a traditional new year’s eve party can be a fun evening for everyone. Read more\nThe winter holidays are an enchanting time for a wedding. Why is this? The season is romantic, filled with fireplaces, candlelight, and sparkling frost. Your extended family may already be in town to visit. If you want to celebrate your love during the holiday season, here are some things to keep in mind: Read more\nFormal and informal table-settings are mysterious to most.\nBut if you’re feeling traditional this year during the holidays, take a look at the infographic below. I came across it and had to share. Read more\nFlowers add to the romance and beauty of one the of the most important days of your life. Money is not a romantic topic. But the reality is, budgets are not endless.\nSo you’ve decided on an indoor wedding. Or perhaps you’re still deciding. Whatever stage of planning you are in, rest assured, I’ve gathered some ideas for you. Read more\nEven nature lovers may hesitate to hold an important event outdoors. They may think that there are just too many uncontrollable variables. Read more\nWe usually talk about weddings and events, but I wanted to take a minute and give out some great Halloween ideas. Halloween is one of every kids’ favorite holiday, I know it was mine. Read more", "label": "No"}
{"text": "135 Barrette Street Unit#305, Ottawa, ON K1L 7Z9\nListing Provided By GRAPE VINE REALTY INC.\n187 Kipp Street, Ottawa, ON K1L 5Y5\nListing Provided By ROYAL LEPAGE TEAM REALTY\n158 B McArthur Avenue Unit#108, Ottawa, ON K1L 8C9\nListing Provided By EXIT REALTY MATRIX\n345 St Denis Street Unit#213, Ottawa, ON K1L 5J1\nListing Provided By RE/MAX HALLMARK REALTY GROUP\nSearch the full MLS® and Exclusive Property Listings.\n(Prices and inventory current as of April 23, 2021)\nFind Out How Much Your Home Is Worth (optional)\nWe just need your phone number to finish creating your account.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|Club||Ann Mullins||Alliance VBC||Nashville||TN|\n|High School||Laiken Stutts|\nAll District 2010,All District 2011,All District MVP 2011, MVP in Bowling Green High School tournament\nFanise has been a three sport athlete playing basketball and softball in addition to volleyball for Central. She is the daughter of George and Amanda Cannon of Columbia. Fanise is a senior and serves as the Captain of the Lady Lions for the past two years. As an Outside Hitter Fanise is one of the top attack players in the State of Tennessee. Fanise is only one of two players to have played in every one of Columbia's 92 sets. She has 239 kills with a kill percentage of 40.9% and averages 2.6 kills per set. All three of those statistics put Fanise in the top 20 in each category in the state. Fanise has exactly 650 kills over her three years at the school. Earlier this month on October 3rd she surpassed Ashlee Ailshire who played from 2006-2009 and had 612 career kills for second place on the all-time career kill list. Fanise is also extremely accurate at serving she has serving percentage of 92.6% and has scored 241 points this year with 60 un-returnable aces. In her career Fanise has served for 450 points and nears the 500 point milestone early in her Senior season. Fanise is also a great defender having 40 blocks at the net this year and 123 blocks over her three years at Central. Cannon also has quick reflexes in the front court and solid passing from the back court having 210 digs off opposing teams' attacks and 127 good passes to the setter while in serve-receive mode.\nI was the captain of my high school volleyball team this 2011 school year. I am also a member of of junior class Student Council(treasurer). I am a member of FCA(Fellowship of Christain athletes).I am also a member of Link Crew, where we mentor freshman throughtout their freshman year.\nI am a member of The Interact Club at my high school. It is a service organization.\nThis athlete has not provided any recent blog posts. Check back soon!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A few members from the Montreal Modern Quilt Guild offered to help out the Vancouver MQG branch to make some flags. I made two of them. One following this tutorial and a second based on this tutorial. Both are paper pieced.\nAll the flags are collected by Amy from During Quiet Time and they will be displayed in the city of Boston later on (details to be announced next week).\nI also made a block for the quilts that will be made by the Boston MQG.\nI wanted something that could represent a marathon, abstractly I mean. I realize that it looks more like a race with the colored parallelogram in the different corridor.\nIt’s great to be able to show support to people of Boston after the atrocity that happened at the marathon. We have them in our hearts, particularly the ones who had to face some lost. A big thanks to the people who put those initiatives to life, to the ones who will be setting up the flags and to the ones who will be assembling the quilts.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It’s an understatement to say our hearts and minds have been through a lot lately. This piece by St. Paul City Council Member Mitra Jalali, “WTF just happened to us?” resonates deeply.\nMitra reminds us: under racist, extractive capitalism, the only path to liberation is community care. Self-care isn’t enough. We need democratic control over our collective resources to ensure no person is left behind – in good times and in crisis. We need systems that ensure every person can live in dignity and joy.\nAs we fight for that future, we’ve got to stay fit for the fight. It’s important to remember and practice community care. There are people and organizations living into that vision right now. If you’re seeking healing or support, below are some resources that might help. If you can think of something to add to the list, email email@example.com.\nOur movement is stronger when we care for each other – and ourselves.\nMutual aid is a prime example of community care. Grassroots organizing efforts and funds can fill in the gaps of slow or incomplete government assistance.\n- Twin Cities metro area mutual aid map – Find places to give or receive donations.\n- Minnesota Mutual Aid — Statewide Facebook group focused on building community.\n- Bulk Buying Club (Google Doc) — Support farm workers and build relationships with our food systems.\n- Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America — Solidarity Fund. Donate to support neighbors or request support.\n- Twin Ports Queer/Trans Community Care — Support request form for folks in the Duluth/Superior area.\n- MN Disabled/Elder/Caregiver Mutual Aid — Support request form for caregivers, elders, and disabled folks.\n- Queer Exchange — Facebook group for queer folks in the Twin Cities.\n- Restaurant Opportunity Center — Financial support available for restaurant workers (temporarily on hold) or support them financially.\n- NAVIGATE/Unidos — Donate to support for immigrants and new Americans.\n- Twin Cities Coronavirus Group — Twin Cities Facebook group.\n- Bridge to benefits — Low-cost health services directory\n- Our Justice — Abortion support and reproductive health care\n- MNSure — Apply for health insurance on Minnesota’s health care exchange.\n- Department of Health — Resource guide for low-cost health care.\n- Twin Ports Queer/Trans Community Care (Google Doc) — Resources available in the Duluth-Superior area. Focused on the queer community.\nHealing and mental health\n- Minnesota Healing Justice Network — Mutual aid network for wellness and healing justice practitioners who also identify as IBPOC (Indigenous, Black, or People of Color).\n- Mental Health Minnesota — Browse statewide mental health resources\n- Psychology Today — “Find a therapist” search engine\n- Black Girl in Om — Healing and spirituality resources for Black women\n- Open Counseling — Free or low-cost counseling\n- Walk-in Clinic — Free mental health counseling\nMeaning-making, art, and expression\nWe can find care, solidarity, and meaning-making by looking to leaders who inspire us – and by being creative ourselves. Here are some people we’ve been looking to for inspiration:\n- Mariame Kaba — activist and organizer focused on transformative justice\n- adrienne maree brown — author, podcaster, activist, and doula\nHere are some organizations that foster creativity:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.\nI see myself as extremely lucky.\nThe chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.\nFor un-subscribe please check the mail footer.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Early on in my business, I attend a Mastermind with Lisa Nichols…\nMy business was only three months old, so I wasn’t doing the mastermind. I was given the opportunity to attend by a client, who was organising the event for Lisa.\nIn exchange for being able to attend, I was there to support, crew, and cook. I prepared meals, ensured Lisa had what she needed (via her amazing COO), and kept time.\nI was the lackey!\nI was also responsible for taking notes for those that were attending. This meant, listening to everything Lisa said and preparing notes for the attendees.\nWhat a gift this was!!\nWhere others in the mastermind focused on what Lisa was saying to them, I was focused on everything she was saying to everyone! Talk about information overload!!\nOn the first day, I wrote notes by hand; this was around 6 hours of content, I then wrote up in a PPT deck. On day two, skipped the handwriting… the result was a large PPT deck with insights. Lots of insights.\nIt was watching Lisa in her genius, sharing insights, cutting through people’s stories to uncover their fears and blocks that I realised I was living my purpose. Not to be the admin at a mastermind, rather, to run the mastermind.\nIt wasn’t until this week, as I launch my first half-day workshop in January 2020 and begin preparing for Elephant in the Room’s business mastermind in March 2020, that I have fully appreciated this gift.\nWhat I learned that weekend has underpinned much of what I am working towards. It has probably taken a little longer than anticipated..but boy has the path to here been great.\nHave you ever received an unexpected gift?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Copy trading crypto, also known as crypto copy trading or copy trading cryptocurrency, is a popular strategy that allows investors to replicate the trades of successful traders in the cryptocurrency market. This approach offers an opportunity to profit from the expertise of experienced traders while gaining insights about the market.\nWhether you’re a novice investor looking to learn from the pros or an experienced trader seeking to streamline your crypto investment journey, understanding the fundamentals of copy trading crypto is essential.\n- Copy trading crypto enables investors to replicate the trades of successful traders in the cryptocurrency market.\n- By copying trades, investors can potentially profit from the expertise of experienced traders while gaining insights about the market.\n- Value investing principles can be applied to crypto by conducting fundamental analysis and considering factors such as real-world utility and market competition.\n- FTX, a popular cryptocurrency trading platform, faced challenges and instability despite strong celebrity endorsements.\n- Understanding crypto taxes is crucial to comply with the law and avoid penalties.\nUnderstanding Value Investing in Crypto\nValue investing is a strategy that has gained popularity in traditional financial markets, and it is also applicable in the world of cryptocurrency. This investment approach involves identifying undervalued assets and investing in them with a long-term perspective, anticipating future price appreciation.\nIn the crypto realm, value investing takes on a unique form. Investors need to conduct thorough fundamental analysis and consider various factors to make informed investment decisions. Some of these factors include:\n- Real-world utility: Evaluating the practical use and applicability of the cryptocurrency in real-life scenarios. This involves assessing its potential to solve a problem or disrupt an industry.\n- Network security and decentralization: Examining the protocol and infrastructure of the cryptocurrency’s blockchain network to determine its level of security and decentralization.\n- Adoption and community engagement: Analyzing the level of adoption and engagement from users, developers, and other stakeholders in the cryptocurrency community. This can provide insights into the potential growth and sustainability of the project.\n- Tokenomics: Understanding the supply and demand dynamics of the cryptocurrency token, including its distribution, inflation rate, and potential for scarcity.\n- Financial health of the project: Assessing the project’s financial statements, funding sources, and overall financial stability. This helps determine the project’s ability to sustain its operations and development.\n- Market position and competition: Analyzing the cryptocurrency’s competitive landscape, including its unique selling propositions, market share, and potential for market dominance.\n- Regulatory environment: Considering the regulatory landscape and legal framework surrounding the cryptocurrency, as well as any potential risks or opportunities associated with regulatory changes.\n- Price vs. perceived value: Evaluating the current market price of the cryptocurrency in relation to its perceived value based on the factors mentioned above. This helps identify potential buying opportunities when the market undervalues the asset.\nValue investing in crypto requires a comprehensive analysis of both the technical and fundamental aspects of the cryptocurrency. By considering these factors, investors can make strategic investment decisions that align with their long-term goals and risk tolerance.\nIt’s important to note that value investing in crypto, like any investment strategy, carries risks. The crypto market is known for its volatility, and factors such as regulatory changes and market sentiment can significantly impact the value of cryptocurrencies. Therefore, investors should conduct their due diligence, stay informed about the latest developments, and diversify their portfolios to mitigate risks and maximize potential returns.\nTable: Comparison of Key Factors for Value Investing in Different Cryptocurrencies\n|Adoption & Community Engagement\nThe Rise and Fall of Copy Trading Platform FTX\nFTX, a popular cryptocurrency trading platform, experienced both success and downfall in its journey. With a strong presence in the market and celebrity endorsements, FTX initially gained significant attention and attracted a large user base. However, a single tweet from a rival platform triggered a chain of events that led to panic among FTX token holders and potential collapse.\nThe incident highlights the vulnerability and volatility of the cryptocurrency market. While FTX had garnered a considerable following through its aggressive marketing tactics and endorsements from well-known personalities, it faced the harsh reality that even platforms with strong backing can be subject to challenges and instability.\nThe situation escalated further when FTX experienced a bank run, where users rushed to withdraw their funds due to the uncertainty surrounding the platform. This incident serves as a stark reminder of the risks involved in the crypto space and the importance of thorough research and due diligence before investing.\n|Impact on FTX\n|Initially contributed to the platform’s popularity and user acquisition.\n|Tweet from Rival Platform\n|Caused panic among FTX token holders and triggered potential collapse.\n|Users rushed to withdraw funds, leading to further instability.\nThe FTX incident serves as a cautionary tale for both investors and cryptocurrency platforms. It is crucial to evaluate the credibility and stability of platforms, regardless of their endorsements or marketing strategies. The crypto market is highly unpredictable, and investors should approach it with a thorough understanding of the risks involved and the need for constant vigilance.\nNavigating Crypto Taxes – A Beginner’s Guide\nUnderstanding the basics of crypto taxes is crucial for any investor looking to navigate the cryptocurrency market. As the popularity of cryptocurrencies continues to grow, governments around the world are taking steps to regulate and tax these digital assets. Here, we provide a comprehensive beginner’s guide to crypto taxes, covering the tax implications of various crypto transactions, best practices for compliance, and the importance of staying informed about recent developments.\nTypes of Crypto Transactions and Tax Implications\nWhen it comes to crypto taxes, different types of transactions carry different tax implications. Buying and selling cryptocurrencies are considered taxable events, where any gains or losses need to be reported. Additionally, exchanging one cryptocurrency for another can also trigger tax obligations. It’s important to keep track of the cost basis and fair market value of your crypto holdings to accurately calculate any capital gains or losses.\n“Understanding the basics of crypto taxes is crucial for any investor looking to navigate the cryptocurrency market.”\nShort-Term vs. Long-Term Capital Gains\nThe duration of time you hold onto your cryptocurrencies can also impact your tax rate. Short-term capital gains, which are generated from assets held for less than a year, are typically taxed at higher rates than long-term capital gains. It’s important to be aware of the holding period and take advantage of any potential tax benefits that come with long-term investing strategies.\nBest Practices for Crypto Tax Compliance\nComplying with crypto tax regulations requires careful record-keeping and transparency. It’s crucial to maintain thorough documentation of all your crypto transactions, including dates, amounts, and any fees incurred. Seeking professional advice from a tax professional experienced in cryptocurrency taxation can help ensure accurate reporting and compliance with the law. Staying informed about recent court cases and IRS guidance related to crypto taxes is also essential in this rapidly evolving landscape.\nUnderstanding and navigating crypto taxes can be complex, but by staying organized and informed, investors can minimize their tax liabilities and legal risks. By adhering to best practices and seeking professional guidance when needed, investors can focus on their crypto investment journey with confidence.\nThe Future of Cryptocurrency Investing\nThe future of cryptocurrency investing is marked by the evolving crypto space and the regulatory landscape. As the crypto market continues to grow and gain mainstream acceptance, investors need to stay informed about the latest developments and adapt to the changing environment. This section explores the key factors that will shape the future of cryptocurrency investing.\nThe Evolving Crypto Space\nThe crypto space is constantly evolving, with new technologies, projects, and investment opportunities emerging regularly. Investors need to stay updated on the latest trends and advancements to identify potential investment prospects. This includes keeping an eye on blockchain developments, decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, and the integration of cryptocurrencies into the traditional financial system. By staying ahead of the curve, investors can position themselves to capitalize on the future growth of the crypto market.\nThe Crypto Regulatory Landscape\nRegulatory frameworks around cryptocurrencies are still being developed and implemented in many jurisdictions. Governments and regulatory bodies are working to establish guidelines to ensure consumer protection, prevent money laundering, and address issues such as tax evasion. Investors should closely monitor regulatory developments as they can have a significant impact on the cryptocurrency market. Compliance with regulations is crucial for maintaining a secure and legal investment environment.\nInvestment Opportunities and Risk Management\nAs the crypto market matures, new investment opportunities will arise. From decentralized applications (dApps) to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), investors can explore diverse avenues within the crypto space. However, it’s important to approach these opportunities with caution and implement effective risk management strategies. Diversification, thorough due diligence, and setting clear investment goals are essential to navigate the volatile nature of cryptocurrencies and maximize returns.\n|Factors Influencing the Future of Cryptocurrency Investing\n|Determines the legal and financial landscape for cryptocurrency investments\n|Enhances the functionality and scalability of cryptocurrencies and blockchain networks\n|Affects the liquidity and value of cryptocurrencies\n|Influence the overall market sentiment and investor demand\n“The future of cryptocurrency investing lies in the ability of investors to adapt to the evolving crypto space and navigate the regulatory landscape effectively.” – Crypto Investor\nTo thrive in the future of cryptocurrency investing, investors must embrace innovation, stay informed, and manage risks. By understanding the evolving crypto space, monitoring regulatory changes, and seizing investment opportunities, investors can position themselves for success in this dynamic and ever-changing market.\nCopy trading crypto offers investors a unique opportunity to tap into the expertise and success of experienced traders in the cryptocurrency market. By replicating the trades of these traders, investors can potentially benefit from their knowledge while gaining valuable insights into the market. It is a strategy that can streamline the crypto investment journey and potentially boost profitability.\nHowever, it’s important to approach copy trading crypto with caution. While it can be a valuable strategy, there are risks and challenges involved in the crypto market. Investors should thoroughly understand the fundamentals of value investing and carefully consider factors such as real-world utility, network security, and adoption before making investment decisions.\nFurthermore, staying informed about the evolving regulatory landscape and the latest developments in the crypto industry is crucial. By remaining proactive and following best practices, investors can navigate the world of cryptocurrency investing with confidence and minimize potential risks.\nIn summary, copy trading crypto can be a powerful tool for investors looking to optimize their crypto investments. By leveraging the expertise of successful traders and making informed decisions based on value investing principles, investors can unlock the profit potential of the crypto market. However, it’s essential to stay vigilant, stay informed, and approach copy trading crypto with caution to ensure a successful and profitable investment journey.\nWhat is copy trading crypto?\nCopy trading crypto is a strategy that allows investors to replicate the trades of successful traders in the cryptocurrency market. By copying the trades of experienced traders, investors can potentially profit from their expertise while learning about the market.\nWhat is value investing in crypto?\nValue investing in crypto involves identifying undervalued assets and investing in them with the expectation of future price appreciation. It requires conducting fundamental analysis, evaluating real-world utility, assessing network security and decentralization, considering adoption and community engagement, analyzing tokenomics, evaluating the financial health of the project, understanding market position and competition, taking into account the regulatory environment, and considering price vs. perceived value.\nWhat happened to the copy trading platform FTX?\nFTX, a cryptocurrency trading platform, faced potential collapse and a bank run after a tweet from a rival platform caused panic among FTX token holders. This incident highlights the volatility and uncertainty in the cryptocurrency market, emphasizing that even platforms with strong endorsements can face challenges and instability.\nHow should I handle crypto taxes?\nUnderstanding the basics of crypto taxes is crucial to comply with the law and avoid penalties. Different types of crypto transactions have different tax implications, and holding periods impact the tax rate. It is recommended to seek professional advice for navigating the complex world of crypto taxes, be transparent with the IRS about crypto activities, stay organized throughout the year, and stay informed about recent court cases related to crypto taxes.\nWhat does the future hold for cryptocurrency investing?\nThe future of cryptocurrency investing remains uncertain, with challenges such as regulatory changes and market volatility. Investors should stay informed about the evolving regulatory landscape and the latest developments in the crypto industry. By being proactive and following best practices, investors can navigate the world of cryptocurrency investing with confidence.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The human immune system normally fights off bad bacteria or viruses that make people sick. A food allergy occurs when the immune system targets harmless food molecules as a harmful invading allergen and mobilizes to attack and get rid of the offending substance. True food allergies cause the body to produce abnormally large amounts of an antibody called immunoglobulin E — IgE for short. IgE antibodies fight the “enemy” food allergens by releasing histamine and other chemicals, which trigger the symptoms of an allergic reaction, including anaphylaxis, a potentially life-threatening reaction. Anaphylaxis can affect several areas of the body and threaten breathing and blood circulation. There is no cure for food allergies. Strict avoidance of food allergens — and early recognition and management of allergic reactions to food — are important measures to prevent serious health consequences.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Well I am just about fed up with my MIS Seminar class. To me, college courses should not consist of point-and-click instructions, even if it is a .NET class. Do not bore me, or the rest of the class with information that will not help us get ahead in the business world. Teach me things that are useful, things like creating a Web Service from scratch, transversing XML trees, and distributing a project across multiple developers in the IDE, especially with a tool like .NET.\nThere is no point in giving every person in the class the exact same project and making them all have UML diagrams, case studies, and screenshots for the entire project because you know what they learn from that? Nothing. Give us papers, assign us research, anything would be better than being thrown a generic project that does not illustrate the points a professor is trying to make.\nIf you are going to use .NET at least teach the proper way to create a Web Service and distribute across multiple projects. It is worse to give us the wrong information than none at all.\nThis could have and probably will be a whole lot longer.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cycling is more popular than ever in Indianapolis and Central Indiana. From the country roads, to the bustling downtown environs, to the Cultural & Monon Trails, the diversity of the Indy area offers some amazing rides. As Central Indiana continues to focus on fitness and the outdoors, cycling has become a key year round activity of choice. Cycling has grown as community leaders and organizations create more opportunities for cyclists to ride their bikes for both recreation and commuting. Whether you’re a roadie, a triathlete, a mountain biker, a commuter, a cruiser, or all of the above, velofix Indianapolis provides something for everyone.\nMeet Your Owner\nvelofix Indianapolis is owned by Brian Brackemyre. He believes bikes are like shoes – you can never have too many. A long-time member of the Central Indiana/Indianapolis bicycle scene, Brian’s involvement and advocacy increased after being hit by an automobile in 2009 while riding his bike. Brian brings 30 years of senior business experience and a United Bicycle Institute bicycle mechanic’s certification to his velofix Indianapolis operations. He has been involved in many local groups such as Bicycle Indiana, Hoosier Mountain Bike Association (HMBA), YMCA Indy Bike Hub, and the Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Council – City of Indianapolis. Brian and his team are looking forward to providing a new and unique service to all Hoosier cyclists!", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Earth Hour is the initiative by the World Wildlife Federation to bring awareness among people to do simple things to reduce emissions. And it started with the City of Sydney which turned off lights for an hour last year on March 31. My heartfelt appreciation who try to conserve energy. The earthhour initiative has got momentum with lot of cities across the world signing up for it this year.\nIt pains me everytime I see energy being wasted. Some of the most common ones: lights glowing in the morning and A/C, fans running at places where it is not required. Every small effort from us to save energy will help us in the long run. The energy we conserve could light up someone else’s house. Hope I will also be able to do something regarding this.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Indian Women’s Fund collection for victims of Harvey and Irma\nAs we go about living, our normal, comfortable lifestyles, it is difficult to imagine what is happening to several thousand victims of Hurricanes \" Harvey\" and \"Irma. Many local and international organizations and volunteers have flocked to these places to provide relief to affected people. The best way to help victims of these disasters is to provide monetary support to service organizations who are actively trying to rehabilitate afflicted people. They are in need of funding to continue their humanitarian work, and are counting on donations from more fortunate people like us to buy necessary supplies and food. IWA has decided to collect money and make donations to SEWA International. Please donate generously! No amount is too small or too big!", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "- What does Nyctophilia mean?\n- How do I overcome Nyctophobia?\n- Is Trypophobia real?\n- What is the biggest fear in life?\n- What phobia is fear of being alone?\n- What does Nyctophobia mean in English?\n- What are the symptoms of Nyctophobia?\n- What do humans fear the most?\n- What fears are we born with?\n- What is the fear of yourself called?\n- What phobia is fear of ghost?\n- What causes Nyctophobia?\n- What are the 10 most common fears society has?\n- Why is Trypophobia so scary?\n- What do u call a night person?\n- What is the weirdest phobia?\n- Does everyone have Trypophobia?\n- What does Astrophile mean?\n- What is a night lover called?\nWhat does Nyctophilia mean?\nA preference for the night or darkness..\nHow do I overcome Nyctophobia?\nTreatment for NyctophobiaExposure to the dark in small, incremental, non-threatening doses in a process called desensitization.One-on-one talk therapy, family therapy, or group therapy.Learning relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing.Anti-anxiety and antidepressant medication.\nIs Trypophobia real?\nTrypophobia is not currently recognized by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5), and there is conflicting research as to whether the condition is, in fact, a genuine phobia.\nWhat is the biggest fear in life?\nTop 10 Fears That Hold Us Back In LifeThe Fear of Failure. … The Fear of Uncertainty. … The Fear of Loneliness. … The Fear of Change. … The Fear of Loss of Freedom. … The Fear of Being Judged. … The Fear of Getting Hurt. We should all have some fear of getting hurt.The Fear of Inadequacy. One of the top fears many people share is that they’re just not good enough.More items…\nWhat phobia is fear of being alone?\nAutophobia, or monophobia, is the fear of being alone or lonely. Being alone, even in a usually comforting place like home, can result in severe anxiety for people with this condition. People with autophobia feel they need another person or other people around in order to feel safe.\nWhat does Nyctophobia mean in English?\nabnormal fear of darkness: abnormal fear of darkness.\nWhat are the symptoms of Nyctophobia?\nSymptomstrouble breathing.racing heart rate.chest tightness or pain.shaking, trembling, or tingling sensations.lightheadedness or dizziness.upset stomach.hot or cold flashes.sweating.\nWhat do humans fear the most?\nHumankind’s 10 Most Common Fears (And How To Overcome Them)Debugging humankind’s most common fears. Fears are tasked with the function of keeping us alive. … Social Phobia. … Fear of heights. … Fear of bugs, snakes or spiders. … Fear of closed spaces. … Fear of flying. … Fear of the dark. … Fear of getting a disease.More items…\nWhat fears are we born with?\nWe are born with only two innate fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds.\nWhat is the fear of yourself called?\nFear of oneself is termed “autophobia” which comes from two Greek words: “autos” (self) and “phobos” (fear) = literally, self-fear, fear of oneself. … And “phobos” has bequeathed us a vast number of phobias such as “claustrophobia” (fear of closed places) and “acrophobia” (fear of heights).\nWhat phobia is fear of ghost?\nPhasmophobia is an intense fear of ghosts. For people with a ghost phobia, the mere mention of supernatural things — ghosts, witches, vampires — can be enough to evoke the irrational fear.\nWhat causes Nyctophobia?\nNyctophobia is a phobia characterized by a severe fear of the dark. It is triggered by the brain’s disfigured perception of what would, or could happen when in a dark environment.\nWhat are the 10 most common fears society has?\nThe top ten phobias include:Cynophobia: The fear of dogs. … Astraphobia: The fear of thunder and lightning.Trypanophobia: The fear of injections. … Social Phobias: The fear of social situations. … Pteromerhanophobia: The fear of flying. … Mysophobia: The fear of germs or dirt. … Reference: psychology.about.com.More items…\nWhy is Trypophobia so scary?\nThe similarity led Cole and Wilkins to conclude that trypophobia triggers a fear of danger. The holes, or images of holes, stimulate “a primitive portion of his or her brain that associates the image with something dangerous,” according to Shots.\nWhat do u call a night person?\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A night owl, evening person or simply owl, is a person who tends to stay up until late at night, or the early hours of the morning. Night owls who are involuntarily unable to fall asleep for several hours after a normal time may have delayed sleep phase syndrome.\nWhat is the weirdest phobia?\nHere are some of the strangest phobias one can have1/6. Ergophobia. It is the fear of work or the workplace. … 2/6. Somniphobia. Also known as hypnophobia, it is the fear of falling asleep. … 3/6. Chaetophobia. … 4/6. Oikophobia. … 5/6. Panphobia. … 6/6. Ablutophobia.\nDoes everyone have Trypophobia?\nYou’re one of around 16 percent of people who experience something called trypophobia – the irrational fear of holes. But, some scientists are now saying, maybe it’s not a phobia after all.\nWhat does Astrophile mean?\n: one fond of star lore : an amateur astronomer go for its members into the ranks of the amateurs and astrophiles— Harlow Shapley.\nWhat is a night lover called?\nNyctophile – A person who loves night, darkness.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "IBM LotusLive iNotes wins a CRN 2010 Tech Innovator award\nThe title says it all – LotusLive iNotes has won an honour in this year’s Everything Channel’s CRN Tech Innovator awards. iNotes won the award for the best small / medium business software productivity solution. According to the press release:\nThe winners were recognized for introducing innovative new solutions to bridge the widest gaps between current problems and solutions facing channel executives today.\niNotes’ mention is brief, but you can read about the full list of winners here.\n…works for Microsoft as a Global Account Technology Strategist. In a former life he worked for the Lotus brand within IBM for many years. Married with one daughter and two dogs, lives in Camberley (Surrey, England), plays the guitar to a mediocre standard, and runs 10 kms and half marathons at an average speed. That’s it really.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Much has happened since I was last on the air. It amazes me how dependent I am on ritual and routine, particularily about writing, how it has got to be Nina’s, on a weekday morning, the Palm Pilot.\nI have been reorged. Am in here pretty early. Didn’t sleep well last. But feel okay, running on aderalin I guess. Should make this my mothly, I-am-not-antidepressants-anymore check-in.\nYesterday was my sixth anniversary at the bank. I tried to rally the boys for a beer after work, even got the go ahead from Val for everyone to leave a bit early if there was nothing pressing. Sadly, the whole day had pressing crap in it for everyone, and at three, people still had stuff to do. It was an ominous sign that lunch was delayed earlier in the day.\nShouldn’t be making diagnoses–I have no credentials. But I am convinced that I have some form of Seasonal Affective Disorder. This site does mention “There is a smaller group of individuals who suffer from summer depression.” It is not so much the lack of light that gets to me, but it is the rapid rate of change in the spring that I have trouble with.\nAt our staff meeting on Wednesday, my boss of all people taped one of those remote control fart machines under the chair of one of my coworkers.\nAnd it was funny. Less so for the obvious reasons and more so because she was just so into it. And because another coworker was trying to make a presentation and it was just as he began his that she began hers.\nHow bizarre. What a challenge to deal with. And it was sad or hard to deal with–this was a very big deal for him, this presentation.\nTalked to Thing Two about Thing One?s episode. How does one tell this story without naming names? We?ll try these Dr. Seuss code words.\nRemember the show Northern Exposure? Does anyone know what they called that affliction that hit people in the summer, where they went crazy because there was so much light? I think it is a milder version which I go through in the spring. Mania. Moose mania, I don’t know, something like that.", "label": "No"}
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General laughter followed when the room’s big screens showed a delegate yawning whole-heartedly; the meeting had been set to wrap up on Friday.,Saying that the Forum’s fifth edition had come at “a crucial moment in today’s international arena,” Miguel Moratinos, High Representative for the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), said that through intercultural dialogue, the world was moving towards a “new multilateralism”.,t20 cricket game apk,“Bringing them out of lofts and cellars, sharing slices of life, moments captured on film or videotape, can bring alive, with emotion, an existence that has become a thing of the past,” continued Ms. Azoulay in her message..\nAnother way, t20 cricket game apk are also a good choice\nTo date, Paris Agreement pledges have fallen short – with CO2 emissions from buildings and construction having risen by nearly one per cent annually between 2010 and 2016, releasing 76 gigatonnes of Carbon Dioxide in cumulative emissions.,t20 cricket game apk,“But farmers face major barriers, such as the lack of access to credit and markets, lack of knowledge and information, insecurity about land tenure, and high transaction costs of moving away from existing practices,” the Director-General said.,An energy savings potential from improved building envelope performance can be huge. 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Financing must therefore be mobilized, not just for climate mitigation, but also for climate adaptation to support those who are suffering.,Mr. Holness expressed concerns over his country’s vulnerability to a raft of social, economic, environmental, financial and trade-related hazards.,t20 cricket free download.\nSpecial Rapporteurs are appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to monitor and report on specific country situations or thematic issues. ,aarp card games freecell,UNICEF is calling for renewed urgency and cooperation among governments, civil society, UN agencies and, most significantly, the private sector, to put children at the centre of digital policy by coordinating global, regional and national responses; safeguarding children’s privacy; empowering children online through more equitable access and digital literacy; and investing in better evidence about access, opportunities and risks for children online.,He noted that habitat degradation and biodiversity loss were accelerating, “climate disruption is getting worse…To care for humanity, we must care for nature.”.\nThey are not UN staff and do not receive payment for their work. ,Their study stems from an urgent virtual workshop convened by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to investigate the links between pandemic risk and the degradation of nature. ,The situation, which is attributed mainly to conflict and climate change, is particularly acute in Eastern nations, where almost one-third of the population struggles to find enough to eat. ,t20 cricket game apk.\nbaccarat meaning in urdu：\nThe exhibit tethers around a single artefact: a heavy wooden plank brace, known as a “tronco” – Portuguese for tree trunk. Used to restrain enslaved people for sleeping or corporal punishment to prevent their escape, the sinister contraption – carbon dated to between 1700 and 1850 ¬ was discovered in the 1960s in a barn in Zeeland, a town in the Netherlands.,Also participating in the debate, at the Council, WHO’s Dr Maria Neira said that one in four children globally is dying because of environmental factors, at home or elsewhere, and 570,000 children under five, are dying from respiratory infections every year.,“They tried to take my 26-year-old brother, Jon Jairo. My father refused, so they shot my brother dead, in front of us. They then tried to take my other brother Carlos Mario, who was 19. He also refused, and they killed him too”..\naustralian derby betting,Nearing the first milestones of the 2030 Agenda, she committed to encouraging all participants to work collectively on climate and environmental action, as “more needs to be done to prevent dangerous levels of global warming.” ,On Sunday, the UN is marking the first International Day of Sign Languages, at the start of the official International Week of the Deaf. The UN General Assembly selected 23 September to coincide with the date the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) was founded, in 1951. WFD consists of 135 national associations of deaf people and strives to defend their human rights..\nMeanwhile in Bali, delegates are working to wrap up agreement on how to launch a process to address global warming ahead of the ministerial-level meeting that begins on Wednesday.,“Through dance, poems, songs, meals and other social practices, the celebration of Nowruz is a moment for men and women, boys and girls, to pay their respect to nature and wish for a better future,” she added.,Education is a human right, a public good and a public responsibility –UNESCO chief.\nEach regional assessment will evaluate the status of biodiversity in its respective region and subregions, identifying progress, drivers of change and threats, as well as the policy-relevant issues affecting them.,“The deliberate destruction of heritage […] has become a tactic of war to tear societies over the long term, in a strategy of cultural cleansing,” said Irina Bokova, the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) following the resolution’s adoption.,If present trends continue, by 2050 our oceans will have more plastic than fish, he said..\naustralian derby bettingtools\nThe Archbishop called for promoting equality in rights as well as the full and equal participation of women and men in society. He also outlined the challenges posed by poverty as well as from the impacts of climate change, urging “all efforts” towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change.,She also vowed to work on revitalizing the General Assembly, as well as on reforming the UN Security Council and aligning the UN’s objectives to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.,From France, astrophysicist Fatoumata Kebe said she had founded Ephemerides, a programme that provides astronomy classes for high school students from disadvantaged background. Although she has worked with NASA, her heart lies in teaching math, physics and chemistry to girls in Mali..\naustralian derby betting,Many more are harassed, intimidated and forced from their lands. Moreover, around 40-50 per cent of the 197 environmental defenders killed in 2017 came from indigenous and local communities.,The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)’s Commodities and Development Report 2019, maintains that diversification could be either “horizontal”, meaning venturing into new goods and sectors to reduce dependence on a narrow range of commodities – or vertical, which involves increasing a commodity’s value..\nPrepared by more than 550 leading international experts and peer-reviewed by experts from both government and academia, the reports took three years to develop at a cost of more than million. IPBES will present the reports to representatives of its 128 member States for approval at the upcoming plenary.,When the winds started blowing across Mozambique on the night of March 14, reaching a maximum speed of 195 kilometers per hour, the tin roof was the first thing to blow away at the home of the Mutizo family.,\"The study makes clear that in most cases, disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts on the farm make good economic sense: that investing in DDR early can save many dollars that would otherwise be spent on post-disaster rehabilitation,\" said Dominique Burgeon, Director of FAO Emergency and Resilience Division, in the foreword to the report..\nThe gathering, known as COP23, started last Monday, with technical discussions over the Paris Agreement, and featured high-level events this week, including an address by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.,“Many are putting in place the policy frameworks and infrastructure needed for sustainable transport. A growing number of countries and regions have announced plans to phase out fossil fuel vehicles and to shift to e-mobility,” he explained.,The Pope’s arrival in the Christian northern heartland, will come as a “message of peace and unity supported on a pillar of diversity”, UNESCO said. .\nOriginal article, if reproduced, please indicate the source", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Several years ago we planted a couple of Lavender Bushes in the front garden. Right from the start they became a bee magnet and this year is no exception. Our buzzy,-buzzy friends are busy doing what bees do and making a lot of noise whilst they do it. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. So for this weeks challenge I give you the buzzy-buzzy bee.\nIn recent years a study has shown that bees are in decline in the UK. Maybe one day these photographs, and others like them, will be the only evidence that bees ever existed. I certainly hope not. Anyway, here’s another one…..\nBeautiful aren’t they? I’m off to sit in the garden and listen to the droning of their wings as the flit from flower to flower.\nHere’s what others are saying about this weeks challenge;\nClose-Up (Weekly Photo Challenge", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Workbook – General – Phone Log\nSapphireOne has provision for the integration of a PABX phone system into the actual data file itself. SapphireOne is currently running the SpliceCom telephone system.\nSapphireOne now maintains a log of all calls made from the data file.\nSapphireOne will recognise telephone numbers in the appropriate data entry fields and display the green telephone symbol next to the telephone number.\nThis may be seen in this screen shot above from a Client Invoice.\nAlso from the Details Page of a Client Inquiry Once the telephone system is up and running you may call the telephone number from any data entry screen in SapphireOne by double clicking on the green icon.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A great deal of twentieth-century editing — and, in fact, editing of centuries before —as G. Thomas Tanselle notes, was based on finding an authoritative text based on “final intentions” (Tanselle 1995: 15–16). Ordinarily editors emphasized the intentions of the “author” (a contested term in recent decades) and neglected a range of other possible collaborators including friends, proofreaders, editors, and compositors, among others. A concern with final intentions makes sense at one level: the final version of a work is often stronger — more fully developed, more carefully considered, more precisely phrased — than an early or intermediate draft of it. But for poets, novelists, and dramatists whose work may span decades, there is real question about the wisdom of relying on last choices. Are people at their sharpest, most daring, and most experimental at the end of life when energies (and sometimes clarity) fade and other signs of age begin to show? Further, the final version of a text is often even more mediated by the concerns of editors and censors than are earlier versions, and the ability of anyone to discern what a writer might have hoped for, absent these social pressures, is open to question.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Where was the movie Dredd filmed?\nProduced by British studio DNA Films, Dredd began principal photography, using 3D cameras throughout, in November 2010. Filming took place on practical sets and locations in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Dredd was released on 7 September 2012 in the United Kingdom and on 21 September worldwide.\nWhat year is Dredd set in?\nDredd proceeds in lockstep with the real world, time-wise. So the series started in 1977 / 2099, and 2012 stories are set in 2134.\nWhere is Judge Dredd from?\nJudge Dredd is a law enforcement and judicial officer in the dystopian future city of Mega-City One, which covers most of the east coast of North America….\n|Team affiliations||Mega-City One Justice Department Luna 1 Justice Department|\n|Notable aliases||The Dead Man|\nIs Dredd a cyberpunk?\nDredd (2012): Gritty Cyberpunk Action Judge Dredd is a Cyberpunk action film from 2012 that was written and produced by Alex Garland, and directed by Pete Travis.\nWhy didn’t they make a second Dredd?\nThe movie only managed to make approximately $41 million worldwide against a reported budget of $50 million. Thanks to this lackluster financial performance, a big-screen sequel to Dredd is incredibly unlikely.\nWhat is Judge Death?\nJudge Death, born Sidney De’ath, is the main antagonist of the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd. He is the leader of the Dark Judges, as well as the archenemy of Dredd himself. He is also, in many ways, what Dredd could have become if taken to the most extreme, as he, too, is a merciless enforcer of law.\nDid Stallone wear contacts Judge Dredd?\nSylvester Stallone and Armand Assante, who play brothers, both wear contact lenses in this film to give them blue eyes. Yet both have brown eyes in real life.\nDoes Judge Dredd ever take his helmet off?\nHe admitted it was hard to act with your face hidden, but he wouldn’t have done it any other way. Karl said: “I was a fan of Judge Dredd as a teenager and when I read the script I was very pleased to see that Alex Garland had been faithful to the original concept and the fact that Dredd didn’t remove his helmet.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "My temper isn’t fragile and I’m not your deity and you should walk on coals around me, not glass.\nSuffer for it if you place me above you,\nworship me like you think I deserve.\nI have every reason to be mad\n(and you know that)\nso don’t announce it to the room-\ndenounce me to the room-\nas if i’m a wild animal.\nJaws clenched around your throat,\nDon’t force me into shame.\nI’m a wolf now,\nyou cannot cower and escape.\nAnd suffer no consequence.\nI won’t let you undermine my fury.\nBelittle me one more time- I dare you\nand I’ll show you overreaction.\nI’ll show you teeth clenched and torn neck\nso you know that this is nothing.\nIf you think this is anger then you're severely under prepared.\nDon’t earn a god’s wrath if you want to survive.\nI’m not a god, but if you want I can act like one f.h\n@theficwritersblock, here’s some lourry So You Think You Can Dance with bonus angst, hope you like it!\nShoving his head under the\npillow doesn’t help, since it’s not the noise that’s keeping Louis awake. Even\nwith his ears covered, the shock waves from Harry’s hard landings on the living\nroom floor travel through the apartment and reverberate inside Louis’ ribcage. Not\nfor the first time, Louis wishes terrible things upon whichever producer came\nup with their roommate assignments. He sits up and reaches for a pair of\nThere’s only a dim lamp on\nin the living room, but Louis stops to let his eyes adjust anyway. Harry’s stalking\nacross the floor with his back to the bedroom door, head cocked oddly, elbows\npointing at an angle that makes him look like a bird of prey.\nGod, Sonya Tayeh must have\nloved choreographing him. He’s the perfect canvas for the elegant creepiness of\nher visions, all disorderly limbs and scrawled tattoos and that uncanny alien\nface. For a moment Louis forgets to resent Harry. It almost looks like he\nbelongs here, instead of practically walking off the street and into the SYTYCD\ntop 20 right alongside Louis, making a mockery of Louis’s fifteen years of\nclasses and practice and sacrifice and living, breathing, bleeding dance.\nLead: -reappearing in a glitching-teleporting, he yelped, now landing on his face outside of Coals house- OOw! -he winces, sitting up a bit, rubbing the bridge between his eye socket(s) and sneezing- Ugh.. alrighty, Coal? You home? -he calls, starting to stand-\nCoal: * he heard the familiar voice and opened the door but before he could say hi or greet lead, acid dashed pass him and ran straight to lead jumping around and licked his face a couple times* Acid ):C you need to stop Q>Q * Coal walked over to lead and picked him up, giving him a kiss* hey!~\nWe were like flames crackling in the wind. Whenever we thought we would burn out the wind ignited us again but now those flames are gone. The coal may still remain hot but the wind won’t light us up again.\nThe fire went out and just left us with hot coal.\ncokeworth is full of terraced houses all crammed together and leaning on each other\ngardens are walled in and mostly paved over\nlittle pathways run at the back of houses, between two rows, full of children skipping and racing each other on bikes\nmost of the men work at the factories or down the coal mines\nthey walk home from a day’s work, covered in soot with callused hands and blackened faces\nchildren run to meet them and swing on their arms as they return to their families\nthe pub just off the highstreet is always full of the workers\nopens at five and is crowded by six\nfamiliar faces and loud conversations spill out into the street as darts is played and daddy’s girls are taught poker\nthe highstreet is old and weary but still bright\nthere’s val’s cuts the hairdressers run by the american widow who always swears at the little boys sticking their noses against the window and has bright pink hair and pops gum, hanging it to the children who sweep her floors for a few shillings\nnext door is the indian takeaway and at diwali lights line the entire street thanks to mr nandika\nmother’s line up at the supermarket, babies on hips and in prams, baskets balanced on arms as they talk about eastenders and whether or not frank is going to propose to susie\na redhead runs down the road, skipping towards the hill a few streets back\nfondly named wendy’s crescent thanks to the time wendy smith’s dress blew up whilst she was climbing a tree\nbefore the hill is the park with swings and a seesaw and a roundabout\nmore marriages and fights and secrets and friendships happen there than anywhere else in the town combined\nonce a week everyone on the street piles into mrs nash’s living room because she’s the only one with a colour tv\nchildren dare each other to climb to the top of the abandoned mill, stories of ghosts and strange happenings encouraged by parents who’d rather their children believe in the supernatural than a failing industry\nteenagers who think they’re a little harder than everyone else carry around cans full of paint and ride up and down the dirty river, whilsting and calling at the passersby\nno one questions the flashes of a pretty floral dress that brightens the dank streets, not when they know it’s headed towards the house that’s full of shouting and hatred\ntwo buses a day run through the town, one a week heading to london\npretty girls with bows in their hair haul suitcases onto the buses, ready for the trip to secretarial school where they’ll meet handsome, educated men\nmen who didn’t attend cokeworth primary school and don’t know rumours about what goes on behind the bike shed and who really broke the cane and how to sneak into the teacher’s car park\non a sunday all the children with scabs on their knees and dirt beneath their fingernails are forced into their finest clothes and the whole town sits in pews or stands at the back of the church listening to the new sermon from father jeoffrey\nat the end of the service cake is served and the cleaning rota is talked about and the children run back home to change\nthe parish hall hosts parties for the children and union meetings and bingo nights and dances and serves beer because the only way to get the men to turn up is to promise some sort of alcoholic beverage\neveryone defends janey ford from down the road who lost her first two children and managed to keep her third just to have her cheating husband leave her\nno one talks about the time mr peterson knocked out mr twain after labour won the election\ncokeworth is full of secrets and rumours and broken walls which children run along but when you think of it you think of boys in shorts and girls in sandals running after the ice cream van and women laughing as they hang their washing out and the men swinging toddlers onto their shoulders\nmost of all you think of home\nbecause, for most people, and especially lily evans, even with the fighting and the anger, cokeworth is exactly that\n“I did the coal walk! Just, I did it. Michael, you couldn’t even do that. Maybe I should be your boss. Wow I feel really good right now. Why didn’t any of you come to my art show? I invited all of you. That really sucked. It’s like sometimes some of you act like I don’t even exist. Jim, I called off my wedding because of you. And now we’re not even friends. And things are just like weird between us. And that sucks. And I miss you. You were my best friend before you went to Stamford. And I really miss you. […] there were a lot of reasons to call of my wedding. But the truth is, I didn’t care about any of those reasons until I met you. The thing that I’m just trying to say to you Jim, and to everyone else in the circle, I guess, is that I miss having fun with you. Just you, not everyone in the circle. Okay. I am gonna go walk in the water now.”\nShonda has worked with Bellamy Young before. That is HER GIRL. She would walk on coals for BY. Remember when Shonda changed her wallpaper to feature BY? She didn’t do that for Kerry or Darby or Katie. She did it for BY. That is her girl. She is writing her as lead. All the white critics know it and won’t call out Shonda as it benefits a white actress.\nShonda acts like she cares about diversity while she is putting together a new show for BY and is using Scandal as a launching pad. Kerry Washington knows how Shonda feels about BY, which is why she stays sucking up to Shonda and being friendly with BY in the hopes that some crumbs will be thrown her way.\nShonda is setting up Kerry/Olivia and her fans to look like fools. Watch and see how this season ends. Bellamy/Mellie will be on top. Shonda can’t stand Kerry. She uses her for publicity, but her goal is to set up BY with her own show. Hell, she’s already rewritten Scandal to be about Mellie. When the show first aired, we were getting the story from Olivia’s perspective. Olivia is the one who had people to confide in, like Steven and Harrison. Olivia had her own company. Most of the characters helped highlight Olivia’s story. It was Olivia’s scenes with Fitz that was slowed down while every thing else and everybody else spoke fast. Now, notice how the few scenes between Olivia and Fitz are fast paced while the ones between Mellie and Fitz are always slowed down to emphasize their connection, their team work. They get to really talk, to have discussions, to share their dreams, and talk about Olivia - like she’s an object. A nothing. A secondary character with no feelings or point. Think back to Fitz and Olivia scenes from season two and compare them with Fitz and Mellie. I know Olitz fans don’t like to hear the truth, but Shonda is writing for Mellie because she supports Bellamy Young. And because BY wants more airtime with Tony Goldwyn and more power for her character, she’s getting it. BY knows that Tony helps her scenes come off well while Kerry’s with Scott Foley comes off as weak. Bellamy Young is just as shady as Shonda. She is very entitled.\nYou are dangerous\nbecause I fell in love with you\nwith a love so deep\nthat I would walk on coals\nand run through traffic\nfor a chance to hold your hand.\nI would let you drag me to hell and never back\nif it meant staying with you.\nAnd you were a distraction\nwhen I needed to focus.\nFocus? Focus on what?\nWhy focus on anything if its not you?\nThe exact sort of thinking I had trained myself to ignore\nbut you, and a simple smile of flowers and feathers and sunshine and love\nmanaged to break me deep\nand the walls came crumbling down\nand I loved you\nand that left me vulnerable\nbecause you are dangerous\nwith the way that you made me love you.\nThis is nothing like the movies\nthis isn’t beautiful\nthis isn’t the tragic girl crying on a bathroom floor only to be comforted by the lover who broke her heart\nthis is blood staining favorite sweaters\nthis is walking on coals because you like the way it feels\nthis is picking wings off flies and selling them at a garage sale as antique mirrors\nthis is digging yourself a grave so you don’t have to face the sun anymore\nthis is not seeing the sun anymore\nyou haven’t left your room in a week\nyour phone is dead but your hands still tremble when the light catches it\nyou think it’s his name lighting up the screen\nbut it isn’t\nthere’s not enough life in it for that but that doesn’t matter, he’s not texting you anyway\nthe last voicemail you left him goes like this\n“oh my fucking god there’s blood everywhere please help me please help me. im so sorry please come back.”\nthe last text you sent to him goes like this\nread 3:43 a.m– “i don’t know what this is but it feels like dying. it feels like I’m dying.”\n“Hey, I want to say something. Ive been trying to be more honest lately and I just need to say a few things. I did the coal walk! I just did it. Michael, you couldnt even do that. Maybe I should be your boss. Wow, I feel really good right now. Why didnt any of you come to my art show? I invited all of you. That really sucked. Its like sometimes some of you act like I dont even exist. Jim, I called off my wedding because of you and now were not even friends. And things are just weird between us and that sucks. And I miss you. You were my best friend before you went to Stamford and I really miss you. I shouldnt have been with Roy. And there were a lot of reasons to call off my wedding, but the truth is I didnt care about any of those reasons until I met you. And now youre with someone else and thats fine, its whatever, thats not what Im OK, my feet really hurt. The thing that Im just trying to say to you, Jim, and to everyone else in the circle I guess, is that I miss having fun with you. Just you, not everyone in the circle. OK, I am going to go walk in the water now. Yep. Good day.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "July 11, 2012\nLoyola University Maryland women’s basketball rising senior Katie Sheahin spent two weeks traveling in Europe with the university, visiting various companies and doing some sightseeing.\nSheahin visited four countries: Germany, Austria, France and Italy, with several other Loyola students. The students were able to visit many different types of companies in each of these countries, while taking in many of the major sites.\nIn Germany, the group visited BLM, BMW and Adobe, while experiencing the German cuisine and visiting a beer garden.\nWhile in Austria, they made two company visits to Innsbruck Tourist Board and Fiedel Glass. The group also had time to take a cable to the top of the Alps, and then went canyoning through the mountains.\nThe trip to France featured company visits to Fragonard Perfumerie and Ask. S.A. The group took a quick trip to Monaco before going to the race in Monte Carlo, while also finding time to walk along the beaches in Nice.\nThe group wrapped-up the trip in Rome, making visits to Skin High Fashion Leather and Johnson and Johnson Medical. Sheahin was able to explore all the main tourist attractions and enjoy all different types of pasta and gelato.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|Name of walk||A Circuit of Ennerdale Water|\n|Date of walk||2010-04-22|\nI arrived at Bowness Knott for 10am and took a walk up the first hill to look over to Crag Fell and Angler`s Crag, my lunch spot. The weather was perfect blue skies and unlike Tuesday, no wind.\nLooking down the lake from the shore towards Pillar and Steeple.\nTree reflections in the lake.\nThe bridge across the River Liza. You take the track ahead and turn off right through a gate just before the trees and head off along a grass track to the head of the lake.\nLooking towards the lake from the bridge.\nA cute black lamb!\nHeading down the rough track towards Angler`s Crag.\nLooking back to the head of the lake.\nI took this bottom track along the face of Angler`s Crag, then I would go on to the top from the other side. Two people making their way towards me.\nIt was quite precipitous in places!\nNow on the track that goes up to Angler`s Crag. Great Borne and Bowness Knott on the left..\nLooking past The Pinnacles up to Crag Fell.\nI found a rock to lean against and this was the sedentary view whist I had lunch.....Starling Dodd, Red Pike, High Stile, High Crag and Haystacks on the left. Pillar, Scoat Fell, Steeple and Haycock on the right. Not a bad spot to stop!\nHeading back down the track towards the weir.\nView up the lake from the bridge. The water is too low to come over the weir. The track up Angler`s Crag can easily be made out from here.\nFrom the path at the head of the lake.\nMountain close-up. Pillar, Scoat Fell, Steeple.\nThree swans in the middle distance.\nA nice wide path.\nThe gorse is blooming.\nBowness Farm from the green track that leads back to the car park.\nFrom the car park I climb the hill again for the view back down the lake.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Responses by Nueve Estudio\nBackground: The purpose was to redesign the brand of the Municipal Libraries, a network with a total of 31 libraries spread throughout the city of València, Spain. We wanted to renew the image of the library from being the “cathedral of silence” to living spaces where people can become active parts of the community and an agent of change. With this rebranding, we wanted to let all Valèncians—whether living in urban or suburban locations—know about these public libraries and all the activities, services and values that comes with it.\nReasoning: We wanted to make a brand that can work alone and fit with the València City Council logotype. Most importantly, we wanted to inform citizens that the library is a public square for shelter, leisure or work. For this reason, we placed a letter B (for Biblioteca) and surrounded it by four brackets that delimit the space as the main symbol of this new concept.\nChallenges: We think that the most challenging aspect was to create a brand that adapts itself according to the different items it’s used for, whether it be for stationery, corporate and communications pieces or signage. We wanted to create an identity program that is totally suitable for a wide range of ages, household incomes and educational stages.\nFavorite details: The fact that we created a visual identity that is recognizable even without the logo, just with the use of black and white, bold typography and pure yellow to highlight the headlines. All the pieces—brand, stationery and campaign—are connected.\nSpecific demands: We had to create communications/corporate templates for librarians, who then, in order to be self-sufficient, have to communicate all the activities that they have in the libraries. For that reason, those templates had to be easy to use and distinguishable for the communication purposes.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A story with a talking Hoopoe, I had my reservations. But this charming Chinese-flavoured fantasy with stories inside stories about the empress In-Yo, her servant Rabbit and visiting cleric Chih, grabbed my attention after the first chapter. I find it so worthwhile to immerse myself in a totally different world from mine.\n'In those days you could say a thousand things with your choice of ink and paper even before someone read a word of your poetry.'\nChih looked at the object in Rabbit’s hand, wondering why the hair and dark feather looked suddenly so grim.\n'I thought it was just trash.'\n'It is trash,' she said shortly, 'but if you want to understand people who have gone, that’s what you look at, isn’t it? Their offal. Their leavings.'\nChih waited patiently. It was the bulk of their training, learning how to wait for a story rather than chasing after it, and soon enough, it came to them.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ilevathadi is a village positioned in Tirunavalur Block of Viluppuram district in Tamil Nadu. Placed in rural region of Viluppuram district of Tamil Nadu, it is one among the 65 villages of Tirunavalur Block of Viluppuram district. As per the government records, the village number of Ilevathadi is 633745. The village has 95 homes.\nAccording to Census 2011, Ilevathadi's population is 399. Out of this, 209 are males whereas the females count 190 here. This village has 57 children in the age bracket of 0-6 years. Among them 36 are boys and 21 are girls.\nLiteracy rate in Ilevathadi village is 61%. 245 out of total 399 population is literate here. Among males the literacy rate is 68% as 144 males out of total 209 are literate while female literacy rate is 53% as 101 out of total 190 females are educated in this Village.\nThe Negative part is that illiteracy rate of Ilevathadi village is 38%. Here 154 out of total 399 people are illiterate. Male illiteracy rate here is 31% as 65 males out of total 209 are uneducated. In females the illiteracy rate is 46% and 89 out of total 190 females are illiterate in this village.\nThe count of occupied people of Ilevathadi village is 230 while 169 are un-employed. And out of 230 working people 53 persons are completely reliant on cultivation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "use the following search parameters to narrow your results:\ne.g. subreddit:aww site:imgur.com dog\nsubreddit:aww site:imgur.com dog\nsee the search faq for details.\nadvanced search: by author, subreddit...\n4 users here now\nNon sexual photos of people licking their lower lips. SFW posts only.\nthe front page of the internet.\nand subscribe to one of thousands of communities.\nI think this is Darrel on the walking dead (media0.giphy.com)\nsubmitted 1 year ago by HyperverseThe Boss.\nMarco Rubio (youtu.be)\nThis collie (media3.giphy.com)\nThis guy looks like a politician (media0.giphy.com)\nA baseball player staring at the camera (media1.giphy.com)\nREDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc.\nπ Rendered by PID 25164 on r2-app-06b65a1f84651971f at 2018-10-17 16:52:08.733842+00:00 running 9b19b55 country code: US.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "As many students have heard by now, the 2021 commencement ceremonies will take place virtually. Remember to check the commencement website and Newsline for updates.\nShare what you're up to and see what others are doing over spring break while the community is At Home with DePaul!\nUndergraduate Undocumented or DACAmented DePaul students who are in need of emergency relief funds can now be referred and refer themselves for the new Rising High Fund. Read more in Newsline.\nTune into Wellness Wednesdays to discuss ways to take care of yourself as final exams approach!\nDuring the temporary closure of our physical offices due to Covid-19, the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs is accessible for live questions, referrals, and assistance via a virtual office using Zoom. The virtual office will be staffed Monday-Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. (CST).\nA DePaul education encompasses both the scholarship and research of classroom learning and the intellectual, spiritual, moral and personal growth of campus life. This site is designed to acquaint students, faculty and staff with the programs, services, resources and opportunities of the Division of Student Affairs. Through these programs, we strive to develop students into well-rounded individuals who will have a positive impact on their communities and our world.\nReporting Cases of COVID-19 Student Handbook Faculty Guide to Student Affairs Title IX Information Departments\nAs winter quarter comes to an end and final exams begin in just a couple of weeks, it is important for students to take care of themselves. Make sure to drink plenty of water, exercise, eat healthy and get plenty of rest as final project due dates and exams approach. Students can tune into the final two Wellness Wednesday sessions to address new topics and ways of taking care of oneself, which is important during final exams when most students are experiencing higher levels of stress.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "This was the first weekend that B and I were in town without any commitments/events/trips/weddings/etc. since August, so I was pretty excited when Friday came. What would the weekend hold? Relaxing? Going out? Running? (I know – sounds like every other weekend)\nFriday night was Halloween! B and I were still pretty tired from a late night Thursday watching the Cavs home opener, so we decided to stay in and make dinner and watch Halloween movies. I can’t remember a Halloween where we did this and I must admit – it was a lot of fun! We’ve dressed up a lot throughout the years and not having to find a costume and instead just eating candy on the couch (as well as an amazing meal) while watching SCREAM was awesome. (Yes, likely another sign I’m getting old … I’m super happy watching movies and eating candy on Friday nights)\nSaturday B and I had planned to get in one last decent run before our half marathon this weekend (eek!) but we woke up to 30ish degree temps, super speedy winds and pouring rain. So I decided to just hang out on the elliptical and lift weights. We decided to just take advantage of the gloomy weather and spend nearly the entire day inside – watching college football (BC WON!!) and more scary movies (including the Purge!), drinking pumpkin beers and spiked cider, and eating some more candy corn.\nThe Purge preview. I don’t mind a good scary movie with a plot – and this is it 🙂\nWe did, however, make it out for the evening – we decided to get a few drinks at Parnells and enjoy inner at Noodlecat. I discovered one of my new favorite beers – Southern Tier Warlock! It’s got sweetness and spice like a holiday or pumpkin beer but dark. Yum!\nSunday we woke up somewhat early thanks to Daylight Saving (yay!) so B and I had time for an 8+ mile run before our fun day began – B had scored us two tickets to the Browns game and we had club seats. It was not only a great day for a game (a little chilly but beautiful and sunny out) – but the Browns won! A great way to cap off our weekend.\nHow was your weekend?\nDid you dress up for Halloween?\nHave you ever seen the Purge?\nWhat’s your favorite scary movie?\nCandy corn – yay or nay?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What makes us put up with violence? Why, when we see abuse around us do we pretend it’s not abuse. This is a question that as a sociologist and parent of two school age children I find myself asking a lot. Why don’t we see the violence that our kids are subjected to on a daily basis? Why do we normalize, minimize, and ignore abuse? What’s even more of a concern, why can we see it for what it is in some situations, but be totally oblivious in another. Inquiring minds, research scientists, and concerned parents want to know.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We help over 100,000 dedicated people every year to help protect the coastlines they love.\nOur schools programme is engaging and inspiring the next generation of environmental champions.\nWe're campaigning for clean water, an end to plastic pollution, recovery of the ocean, and action on climate change.\nPlastic pollution is the ‘new sewage’ of the sea.\nWe're highlighting the connection between global climate change, how this impacts the ocean, and how the ocean can play a key role in tackling the climate crisis.\nWith the Ocean Conservation APPG we’re taking the voice of the ocean to Westminster.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Jeff Dunham performs at 8 p.m. in the Pacific Amphitheatre at the\nO.C. Fair. Tickets start at $39.50\nand include fair admission. For\nmore information, visit http://www.ocfair.com.\nHouston Person Quartet\nThe Sunset Jazz series continues with the Houston Person Quartet at the Newport beach Marriot Hotel & Spa in the Rose Garden for a summer night of jazz and oceanfront views. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the music begins at 6 p.m. Tickets begin at $10. Sunset Jazz in Newport is a weekly event that goes on every Wednesday until July 25. For more information, call (949) 759.5003 or go to http://www.westcoastjazzparty.com.\nBloomingdale's at Fashion Island hosts Lunch and Learn with Lisa at 1 p.m. in the Culinary Kitchen, 401 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach. For more information call (949) 729-6854.\nOC Look Party\nThe third annual OC Look Party, benefiting the Dream Guide of Orange County, invites guest to enjoy a night of fashion, beauty and an exclusive preview of menu items from the Capital Grille. The event will be housed within a new 14,000 square foot home in Pelican Crest. For tickets and more information, call (949) 553-0363.\nHoag Movie Night\nThe annual Hoag Movie Night, which as raised more than $1.4 million for the Hoag Cancer Center since its inception in 1988, is at 5 p.m. at the parking lot of the Big Newport Edwards Theatre in Newport Beach. The event features food from some of the finest restaurants in Orange County and a private screening of \"Inception.\" For more information, visit http://www.hoagmoviewscreening.org.\nAndrea Ristorante at the Resort at Pelican Hill, 22701 Pelican Hill Road South, Newport Coast, will open for lunch, offering an express menu with a three-course meal in 30 minutes. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. For more information, call (949) 467-6800.\nA group of Costa Mesa Chamber members meets from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of each month at the Costa Mesa Country Club, 1701 Golf Course Drive, to exchange leads. Visitors are welcome. Cost is $17; no reservation is necessary. For more information, call (714) 885-9093 or visit costamesachamber.com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Stroll the streets of Mykonos on a guided walking tour, and experience the cosmopolitan vibe of the most fabulous island of the Aegean. Marvel at the natural beauty of the island, and stroll down streets filled with boutique stores and stylish bars.\nAbout this activity\n- Free cancellation\n- Cancel up to 24 hours in advance to receive a full refund\n- Covid-19 precautions\n- Special health and safety measures apply. Learn more\n- Mobile ticketing\n- Use your phone or print your voucher\n- Duration 3 hours\n- Check availability to see starting times.\n- Instant confirmation\n- Live tour guide\nSelect participants and date\nKnow before you go\n- Children must be accompanied by an adult", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Though it had over 9,000 stores at its peak, only one of Blockbuster's video rental stores remains in Bend, Oregon.\nThe Art Institute of Colorado’s future is uncertain after it’s prior parent company filed for bankruptcy, teachers being laid off…\nAccording to several reports, the data firm filed for voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the U.S. on Thursday.\nThe company is accused of gathering data from as many as 87 million Facebook users without their explicit consent.\nGibson Brands Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday, but the decision won't affect the guitar-making side of the business.\nJennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Quentin Tarantino and other stars filed objections to the sale because they say the studio owes them money.\nThe Weinstein Co. filed for bankruptcy in Delaware and struck a deal to sell its assets.\nDespite a filing for bankruptcy in September, the store said it will have its shelves stocked for the holiday season.\nScott Allen Ostrem, the man accused of shooting and killing three people at a Walmart in suburban Denver Wednesday evening, usually kept to…\nThe CEO says the company is going to focus more on its in-store customer experience after filing for bankruptcy.\nTakata is seeking bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and Japan and will sell most of its operations to Key Safety Systems.\nMile High Stadium district board approves new payment plan for Denver Broncos, which still plans to sell naming rights.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The 2018 NBSTRN Annual Network Meeting: Newborn Screening, Pilots, Genomics and Discoveries is held in Bethesda, MD on July 31st and August 1st. This meeting will feature cutting-edge research across the newborn screening research spectrum. Each year stakeholders from all facets of newborn screening attend to share ideas, including the researchers working to develop novel technologies and treatments, the public health team members who screen the 4 million babies each year, and the clinicians deliver lifesaving treatments to diagnosed newborns. NIH representatives will share exciting updates and plans for investigations related to maternal and fetal health, and key issues before, during and after the birth of a newborn.\nPlease note that this meeting will be broadcasted live via webinar. Slides will be made available after the meeting. Please see the meeting agenda below.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "in an octopus's garden with you\nThis was one of my Dad's favorite songs. I still remember listening to it when I was about 10 and we were driving home from visiting my grandfather and he let me shift his car for him on the empty road.\nI always loved when I was allowed to do the gear shift. What a sweet memory.\nPost a Comment", "label": "No"}
{"text": "BOURNEMOUTH BIGGEST MULTI GENER NIGHT IS BACK.\nExpect a night filled with garage, break and jungle with an incredible Line up if you’ve been to a left handed events you know it’s one not to miss out on, this one will sell out.\n4Am Kru Live\nMinus two B2B Blackboard jungle\nLeft handed B2B Steptwice.\nGrab a ticket before the price increases.\nTICKETS will SELL OUT\nNewly formed London production duo 4am Kru have been making waves in the UK jungle scene since emerging post lockdown, showcasing their immersive brand of 1994 flavoured jungle through their raucous live shows. This is live jungle like you’ve never experienced before.\nWhile her origins lie in the raw energy of classic rave sounds, she effortlessly traverses\nacross a broad spectrum of genres, crafting sets that resonate with both purists and\nRecognized as a versatile force in the UK underground scene, Mixtress has lit up the\ndecks at eminent spaces like Boomtown, Corsica Studios, Printworks, Fabric, and\nHer dynamic range has also been showcased on platforms such as Boiler Room, HÖR,\nand a good handful of Keep Hush streams. With her genre-blending mixes gracing her\nresidency on Rinse FM, Mixmag, and BBC Radio 6, Mixtress continues to captivate global\naudiences, blurring the boundaries between the past and present of electronic music.&t=177s&t=1815s", "label": "No"}
{"text": "EUR/CHF’s choppy rebound from 1.1478 extended higher last week but stayed below 1.1656 resistance. Initial bias remains neutral this week first. On the upside, break of 1.1656 will resume the corrective rise from 1.1366 short term bottom. EUR/CHF should target 61.8% retracement of 1.2004 to 1.1366 at 1.1760. But we would expect strong resistance from there to limit upside. We’d still expect at least one more falling leg before the correction from 1.2004 completes. On the downside, break of 1.1478 will turn bias to the downside for 1.1366 first.\nIn the bigger picture, EUR/CHF was solidly rejected by prior SNB imposed floor at 1.2000. Considering bearish divergence condition in daily and weekly MACD, 1.2004 should be a medium term top. And price action from 1.2004 is correcting the up trend from 1.0629. Such correction is expected to extend for a while and therefore, we’re not anticipating a break of 1.2004 in near term. Another decline cannot be ruled out yet. But in that case, strong support should be seen at 1.1198 (2016 high), 61.8% retracement of 1.0629 to 1.2004 at 1.1154 to contain downside.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Every partner in the channel dreams of closing those lucrative deals that continue to pay huge commissions far into the future. But in reality, those sales are few and far between. With so much competition chasing after the same big sales, at the end of the day, many ambitious providers are going to end up empty-handed. That’s why it’s important to not only focus on the large enterprises in your area but to also pay attention to the smaller businesses in need of reliable cable connections. While it’s easy to dismiss small businesses as insignificant sources of revenue, selling cable deals to these companies actually offers far more than most MSPs might initially think. Here are three of the top reasons why channel partners shouldn’t pass on small cable deals.\nIf you’re ready to start taking small businesses seriously, count on Innovative Business Solutions to help you close more deals and rake in more revenue. Call us today to get started.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Praise the Lord! We received some measurable rain Sunday afternoon. The pavement is still wet and conditions are cloudy. I haven’t mowed in 3 weeks now. There is nothing to mow. Our grass is laying dormant on the ground. Plants have had to be watered from the water hoses. God’s blessings of rain far surpass any garden hoses. He just hasn’t seen fit to send much our way yet. Our temperature was 94 degrees around 3:00 pm yesterday and when the front blew in, it was 74 degrees. The temperature stayed there all night. I got out and watered the plants this morning, anyway. We desperately need rain around Ryan. The grasshoppers have really begun to move into town again.\nI went over to see Mom Saturday afternoon after going to Wichita Falls. I spent some time with her and was on my way back to Ryan on Highway 81 just north of Ringgold and I could see an animal beginning to cross the highway. It’s body was slim and low to the ground, and I assumed it was a coyote. I was getting closer to the animal and it was slowing down and so was I when we met, face to face, on the highway. It was a tiny baby deer, and I saw no sign of its’ mother. It just stood there looking at me. My car was dead still, and I honked at the baby deer, it didn’t even move at first, then I honked again, and it began running back from the direction it had originally started crossing. Its’ little feet were slipping on the pavement of the highway as it was trying to move quickly to get away from this foreign object that it was facing. I know there are an abundance of deer around our area, but, my heart went out for this little guy or gal. I hope it found a safe place and still has its’ mother to care for it somewhere out there.\nKim’s news for this week:\nYes, it is true Ruffy Tuffy got a straw hat, too.\nEvery morning I go ride with Foxy by my side.\nThen Foxy and I go to the ball park, where she can play ball and bark.\nEveryone have a blessed week, a safe 4th of July and please remember to keep praying for rain and for each other.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "§ 2. Hugh Bayley (City of York) (Lab)\nWhat recent discussions she has had with other countries' Trade Ministers about the Doha trade round. \n§ The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Ms Patricia Hewitt):\nSince the ministerial meeting in Cancun last September, I have met or spoken to a wide variety of Trade Ministers about how we can more forward on the Doha round, including Commissioner Lamy, colleagues in other European Union member states, Minister Amorim from Brazil, Minister Erwin from South Africa, Minister Jaitley from India and Minister Zhang from China.\n§ Hugh Bayley\nDoes my right hon. Friend agree that one way to restart the stalled World Trade Organisation negotiations on trade and agriculture would be to revive the proposal to eliminate export subsidies? Our Government have made that proposal on many occasions, and even President Chirac of France floated it when he held his Africa summit one year ago. Might that not provide a way to put energy back into the talks and get people moving towards agreement once again?\n§ Ms Hewitt\nMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The point is enormously important because part of the European Commission's negotiating mandate, which we helped to construct, is an offer to end export subsidies on all products of interest to developing 1042 countries, which have not started negotiations. I have recently written to Trade Ministers in a number of developing countries, and reinforced the point in discussion, to say that the offer is not a negotiating trick from the European Commission. If those developing countries produce a list of products on which they want an end to export subsidies, it will be negotiated. I am delighted that Agriculture Commissioner Fischler said in public on Monday that it is up to developing countries to say which products they are interested in, and that if they say \"all products\", we must discuss that too. That is how to abolish those appalling export subsidies, which are so damaging to developing countries.\n§ Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con)\nIn their response to the Select Committee report on Cancun, the Government said:We agree the EU needs to work harder to explain to many countries the longer term impact of the CAP reforms agreed last year\".Is it the Secretary of State;s view that the European Union has done enough on agriculture and common agricultural policy reform, and that it is simply a matter for others—notably, the United States—to reform; or do the Government take the view that there is more work to be done in the EU on CAP reform if we are to have a successful development round?\n§ Ms Hewitt\nMuch has been done since December, when the European Union agreed its position post-Cancun. I welcome the fact that Commissioner Lamy has gone to so many countries and talked to so many Trade Ministers around the world to set out in detail the implications of the CAP reform package that we agreed last year, and the offer on export subsidies to which I have just referred. There is, however, more to do. I know that the hon. Gentleman takes a close interest in those issues, and he will know that we are already engaged in discussions within the Agriculture Council on further reforms on cotton and, in particular, sugar, which are crucial to developing countries and which must form part not only of Europe's reform programme, but of a successful conclusion to the Doha round.\n§ Mr. Martin O'Neill (Ochil) (Lab)\nIs my right hon. Friend aware that the stalling of the Doha agenda has led not only to problems for developing countries, but to a number of countries entering into free trade agreements, almost as an expression of frustration? Last week, when I was in south-east Asia with my colleagues on the Select Committee on Trade and Industry, we visited Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore, which have entered into such agreements. There is a worry that the EU's trade agenda is being lost in respect of such countries. Moreover, there is a danger that the bigger Europe created by the accession process will have a \"fortress Europe\" tendency that ignores certain countries that are not developing countries, but mature economies from which we could benefit a great deal through improved trade relations.\n§ Ms Hewitt\nMy hon. Friend makes a series of extremely important points. I pay tribute to his work on this issue as Chairman of the Select Committee. I told the House in the wake of Cancun that there was a real 1043 danger of bilateral agreements taking the place of making the right efforts on the Doha round. That has happened to some extent, although not as much as many of us feared. In reality, it is only through the World Trade Organisation that we can deal with some of the most difficult issues, including agriculture, which was exempted from the recent free trade agreement between the United States and Australia because they simply could not reach agreement on it.\nI welcome the fact that Commissioner Lamy is focusing his efforts on reviving the Doha round. That will be difficult, but I share the view expressed by Commissioner Lamy, Ambassador Zoellick and several Ministers in developing countries—that we can move the talks forward and agree by July the framework that we should ideally have reached at Cancun last September.\n§ Malcolm Bruce (Gordon) (LD)\nI congratulate the Secretary of State on her recent robust Mansion House speech in which she warned of the dangers of US protectionism. In the spirit of her remarks about the Doha round, will she do more to end the intransigence over cotton that is having such severe consequences in west Africa? Will she press for greater flexibility on, or indeed the abandonment of, the Singapore conditions, which are causing great concern among G77 countries? On agriculture, will she insist that, in ensuring that the United States and Europe have viable farming economies, we do not do so at the expense of destroying the livelihoods of subsistence farmers in developing countries through unfair and devastating export subsidies?\n§ Ms Hewitt\nI agree with the hon. Gentleman and thank him for his opening comments. On cotton, we are in the process of negotiating with our European partners a significant decoupling of income support to farmers from production subsidies. That will make a great difference. However, I share the hon. Gentleman's view that the real challenge is to the United States, which has enormous cotton subsidies. More generally, if the European Union is to deliver its share of the phasing out of export subsidies, the United States, too, must deal with the food aid and export credits that fulfil the same damaging purpose.\nI made it plain last year that the Singapore conditions were not UK priorities, but I welcome the fact that the European Commission wants to decouple the four issues. There is general agreement that we should proceed with discussions on trade facilitation, and some, but a little less, agreement on transparency in Government procurement, investment and competition. My view is that those matters should be put to one side for the moment while we get on with the really important issues in this round.\n§ Ms Julia Drown (South Swindon) (Lab)\nI have received letters from constituents who are worried that one result of the trade talks will be that developing countries have to privatise water services. The Government deny that, but non-governmental organisations keep campaigning on it. Can my right hon. Friend tell the House whether informal pressure on developing countries is making them privatise water to 1044 the detriment of poor people? Will she support any developing country that is under pressure to do that but does not want to?\n§ Ms Hewitt\nI have repeatedly tried to make it clear in this House, and in correspondence with my hon. Friend and other hon. Members, that there is nothing whatever in the general agreement on trade in services—GATS—that would require any country to privatise its water industry or anything else. The same non-governmental organisations that make that accusation also say that GATS would require the privatisation of the national health service, which is also nonsense. When we speak to Ministers in developing countries, we hear that they welcome the opportunity that GATS gives, because it gives them the power to decide which sectors to open up and which not to open up.\nThe reality is that in some developing countries, it is the judgment of their Government that the only way to get the massive investment that they need to provide clean, affordable water and decent sanitation is to bring in private capital. That is a judgment for those countries to make, not for us and, frankly, not for the NGOs. Our advice to developing countries, however, is that if they seek to open up water industries in that way, they need a strong framework of regulation to make sure that they protect affordable water for their poorest communities. We stand ready to assist with that process, particularly through the Department for International Development.\n§ Mr. James Arbuthnot (North-East Hampshire) (Con)\nDoes the Secretary of State agree that there is nothing more important for lifting poorer countries out of poverty than a successful conclusion of the Doha round? Does she agree that it is not just the elimination of export subsidies in the developed world that is important for that, but the elimination of domestic subsidies, and that while free trade is important for rich countries, it is often a matter of life and death for poorer countries? What prospect does she see of completing the development round, a very important round indeed, by the target date of 1 January next year?\n§ Ms Hewitt\nI welcome the right hon. Gentleman's support for all our efforts to get the round and the negotiations back on track. The potential gains for developing countries are enormous. An ambitious round could boost the incomes of developing countries alone by some £150 billion, dwarfing the amount that they receive in aid and bringing hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty. The prize is enormous.\nThis of course requires progress not only on agriculture but on market opening and the tariff escalation that prevents developing countries from moving into much higher value-added production. It also requires the larger developing countries to open their markets to the smaller developing countries—in the way, to be fair, the European Union has done for the least developed countries with the \"Everything but Arms\" agreement. The timetable has clearly slipped, and the crucial issue now is to agree, I hope by July—before the United States moves into its election campaign—a framework for the round so that we can make the necessary progress to move forward to completion next year. Our Government, holding both 1045 the presidency of the G8 and the presidency of the European Union next year, will make that a very high priority.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Greetings & Stationery\nExperienced graphic designer and coloured pencil artist, Jessica Hennig, of JVH Fine Art joins BCTF for the first time with her fine art business. Jessica\nWhen it comes around to the anniversary of the death of a loved one, it can be a time that is full of mixed emotions.\nA leading British online consumer goods retailer is calling for an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority into the ‘cartel’ run among international freight", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Well, it originally came form online games, when a 'newb' or 'newbie' (i.e. someone who was new to the game) was someone you wanted to avoid playing with, because they ruined the game by being rubbish at it. That evolved to 'noob' or 'n00b' (so as to emphasise it among the other text).\nHowever, through extensive use, it evolved from specifically meaning someone that was new, to someone who was naive or inexperienced. This probably came about as gamers started to use it on the Internet in non-gaming contexts, so when someone asked a stupid quesiton, for example, they would be branded a 'n00b!'.\nThen it came to be used as a wider, general insult, when someone had made any kind of gaff. It really isn't related to tenure anymore.\nHope that helps darling", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Nova Scotiables have built a reputation across western Canada as a high energy maritime revue unmatched by their peers. Bringing an unconventional approach to traditional, original and contemporary maritime music, these musicians have become a hit – not just on the maritime circuit but across a wide range of events.\nFearless leader Captain Hodgie steers the ship on lead vocals while bashing the bodhran and drums. AJ Baragar makes crowds swoon with sweet lead vocals and energetic guitar. Eric Minden’s enthusiastic bass playing gets him dancing madly into the middle of audiences. Heidi Pittman’s soulful fiddle and backing vocals invoke joy, sorrow, and the East Coast spirit. Together, this crew really brings the party!\nIn February 2019, the Nova Scotiables released their newest single and music video, “Never Going Home.” The track highlights the band’s creative songwriting, infectious energy, and unique style.\n1, 2, 3… Nova Scotiables!\n- Club Performance: Concert – The Sea Bound Coast", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|I am wise quote (Source: Google.com)|\nWho has never made mistakes before??? Anyone???\nThis month end, in one of the days of the month-end closing, I found out that I'd made a careless mistake when posting the invoice. The posting was done just a week before, when the work volume was unusually high, as everyone would submit their invoices, in order to close their deals and generate as much revenue as they could.\nFyi, I currently work at MNC (multinational company) where I handle posting invoices from many different countries. So, it was purely accidental mistake when I found out, after receiving email from the other region's manager, that I posted the invoice using the wrong currency (I posted it in US dollar instead of Thailand Baht). So imagine the difference it made in the price between these two currencies.\nI was feeling very bad as I didn't do my job well. And I had this feeling that everyone would doubt and underestimate my capability, thinking that I was not capable enough in doing my work, in which it was very important to be detailed, accurate, and correct in regards with money related matter. Sigh...\n|We were born not to be perfect (Source: Google.com)|\n|Every mistake is a progress quote (Source: Google.com)|\nHmm.... his words soothed me a little bit. He was right. I'd tried my best. And who in the world never made any mistakes? No one blamed me anyway. My boss didn't scold me. She just checked with me if I made a mistake when posting it. What I did next was to rectify the mistake and make it right, then apologise to the region's manager for the mistake that I'd done. She was replying me, \"It's OK.\" She even added the 'smile' emoticon behind it.\n|Mistakes are always forgivable quote (Source: Google.com)|\nLater on in the evening when I was checking my work, suddenly I found unusual currency posting in one of the invoices too. All the previous invoices were posted in Euro, but the last one was posted in US dollar. After checking it, I found out that the invoice was posted by my boss. So I went over to her office and checked with her if the invoice that she posted was given in which currency. And true enough. After checking it, it turned out that she too posted it in wrong currency. It was supposed to be posted in Euro. So, what she did next was to rectify the problem and post it correctly.\n|It is how we correct them that defines us quote (Source: Google.com)|\nI immediately felt much better right after that, because if someone who was more capable than me would even make the same mistake, then why I took it so hard? I felt even much much better when the next day I received email from my boss to do a task that I'd never done before. I asked the other colleague who also received the same email. When he opened, he told me that this email was not for me, but it's for someone who had the similar name with me :P\nHahaha.... Even after working here for almost 3 months, my boss could send the email to the wrong name. So what it was when I sent the wrong message to her instead of my colleague just days after I started working there? Read about the incident here :D\n|Learn from mistake and move on quote (Source: Google.com)|\nIn the end I realize that all of us makes mistake once in a while in our life. Well, we may feel bad about it. However, don't let it drag our mood so low as people know that mistake is unavoidable and nobody is perfect in doing their thing. It is forgivable anyway as what you should do next is to acknowledge your mistake and rectify the problem. That's more important than just grieving about it for days, weeks, even months, and later on you end up making a regrettable decision (such as to quit your job) as you feel that you are not capable enough.\n|Making mistake is a part of life quote (Source: Google.com)|\nLike what my friend said, your efforts would definitely outnumber your mistakes. So, cheer up! Learn from the mistake and move on! Jia you! ;)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By St. Baldrick’s Foundation\nTo everyone who supported St. Baldrick’s in November, please accept our sincerest thanks. On Giving Tuesday alone, we raised over $130,000 for childhood cancer research and clinical trials that can save the lives of kids like Zach.\nMISSED OUT ON GIVING TUESDAY?\nNot to worry – you can contribute today and give hope to kids and their families this holiday season.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There’s nothing quite as nice as winding down the car window and feeling the cool, salty air on your skin while you’re cruising along the seaside. Bring along some snacks and spend a few hours checking out one of the gorgeous beaches near Lama. Popular options include:\n- Ostriconi Beach (8 miles away).\n- Saint-Florent Beach (9 miles away).\n- Loto Beach (10 miles away).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Genre: Drama, Law\nPremise: Annabeth Chase (Jennifer Finnigan) is a young, aggressive prosecutor in the Indianapolis area with a near-perfect conviction record who tries the cases that take place in her own backyard. Returning to work after the birth of her first child and, later in the series, the death of her construction worker husband, Annabeth is ready to take on the most difficult cases -- fueled by her passion to protect her community and her family. Jerry Bruckheimer serves as an executive producer of the crime drama.\nTop TV Shows |\nAll TV Shows |\nYour Favorite Movies |\nLicense Our Content | Media Kit | About Us | © 2015 TMS | Zap2it TV Listings", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Parkinson Voice Project’s founder developed The LOUD Crowd®. This maintenance program consists of speech therapy groups to help patients maintain the strength of their voices. The LOUD Crowd® provides ongoing vocal practice, accountability, support, and encouragement. By participating in LOUD Crowd®, patients have been shown to maintain their SPEAK OUT!® results for more than five years and counting. This program is for those who have previously participated in a Parkinson’s voice therapy program.\nThe LOUD CROWD® is free of charge.\nPlease contact NeuroRecovery (3105 Independence Drive, Suite 105, Birmingham, AL 35209) @ 205-803-2210 ext 2 or email at email@example.com to learn more.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In the face of mortality, we feel…whatever we feel. We feel a lot of things, and no one feels the exact same way in the exact same sequence as anyone else. And yet, we all seem to make our way to sadness–sometimes inconsolable sadness–and silence, because sometimes there just isn’t much to say.\nWhere is God in all this?\nWe say Jesus establishes that God is with us. But what does that mean? A key to this is exploring the emotions of Jesus as he faced mortality. In his humanity–his mortality–Jesus felt.\nHe felt everything. With us. To shepherd us to a place where we weep no more.\nSunday message from January 15, 2017:\nImage: Statue of Jesus weeping. Placed by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City across the street from the Oklahoma City Memorial. Photo by Ron Hendricks. Via http://www.sadlier.com/religion/we-believe-and-share/bid/89716/Slaughter-of-the-Innocents-Newtown-Connecticut", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The lady on the left side of the street was moving on past me. I was on the right side, sticking to the sidewalk. She was running up the shoulder, sticking close to the bike path. I felt much safer, but watched as she continued to leave me behind. I was running in the third state in almost as many days, and I started making excuses almost immediately. The air was thin here in Boulder. The altitude was playing havoc with my senses, and I was weary from the long flight just the day before. I figured I should get some credit for all the miles I had covered on land, sea and air over the past couple of weeks.\nOr maybe she was just in better shape than I was. Whatever the circumstance, I took a bigger breath of the available oxygen and kept my legs moving. I thought about how I used to run out of my one-bedroom apartment, so many years ago, and keep going until I found myself up in the canyons to the west, across the city and back again. Rain, sleet, snow, dark. Scurrying about without any mail to deliver, just keeping myself busy by running.\nThat was a long time ago. It was even longer ago that I used to ride my five speed Schwinn up the nearly vertical incline on top of which stood my junior high. I ran down that hill and was surprised to see how shallow the slope had become over the years. Maybe I was shorter then. Maybe the earth had leveled itself substantially in my absence. Some things hadn't changed. The chain link fence around the house on Nineteenth Street was still there. The fence was notable primarily because it helped me remember the spot where a passing bird had deposited his mark on my swinging arm. Eighth grade. A long time ago. I thought of all the times I had walked, run, driven and otherwise moved up and down that street. Now I was running down the hill, only to turn a couple more corners to run back up a hill. And watch as the lady in purple moved on ahead of me. That's okay. She's probably new to the area.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Paper Boi attends a celebrity event for the youth and is outwitted by a more famous hip hop artist. Earn faces a case of mistaken identity. Darius runs into trouble at the shooting range.\nDid You Know?\nWhile Earnest is getting a drink from the bar, one of the wine bottles is titled \"Joshua Tree.\" This episode was aired the same day that Donald Glover announced a concert in Joshua Tree (located in California). See more\nReferences Space Jam\nAlways Be 17\nPerformed by Rex Schnelle See more", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Chinmoyee Das is a Doctoral fellow in the Centre for South Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She did her masters in Political Science from Gauhati University, Assam and her M.Phil. from CSAS, SIS, JNU. She has presented research papers in various national and international seminars. Her research interests are in international relations which include maritime diplomacy, naval diplomacy, politics and government in South Asia, India’s Foreign Policy, India’s interests and strategies in the Indian Ocean. The topic of her doctoral thesis is ‘India’s maritime diplomacy in the Indian Ocean, 2004-2018’ and has presented papers involving India’s diplomatic and security concerns in the Indian Ocean.\nSubject Area Keywords\nDiplomacy, International relations, National security, Security policy, Strategy\nBeing a maritime nation with considerable economic and military power, India has shown keen interest in demonstrating its role as a major security provider in the IOR. In the Southwest Indian Ocean too, India has sought to develop a security presence and strengthen its position by capitalising on its historic ties with the littoral nations of the region through provision of military training, defence equipment and security advisors. India’s efforts are mostly directed at making the Indian influence more visible in the strategic affairs of the region that seem to be clouded by the increasing Chinese forays into the region.\nThe paper evaluates the strategic relationships through the maritime dimensions of India’s engagement with these littoral nations. The intensity of India’s efforts to be seen as an important maritime security providing power of the region and the response of these littoral states to India’s call for greater cooperation forms an important thrust of the paper. The article argues that India’s national security concerns and great power ambitions manifest itself in India’s engagement in the region. However, greater exploitation of its strategic ties with Mauritius and Seychelles hold the key for greater maritime strategic influence in the region.\nDas, Chinmoyee. \"India’s Maritime Diplomacy in South West Indian Ocean: Evaluating strategic partnerships.\" Journal of Strategic Security 12, no. 2 (2019)\nAvailable at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol12/iss2/3", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Wanna see my newest stash additions? One of the Thursday night knitters decided she had too much yarn on hand and gave the rest of us a chance at it before she passed it on to Good Will. I almost never say no to yarn. Well, there was some stuff from Target that I passed on a couple of weeks ago, but that's really the only time I can remember.\nSixteen skeins of Berroco X-Press.\nFifteen skeins of alpaca/cashmere blend.\nThirteen skeins of GGH T ribbon.\nIt's too soon to tell what any of this will become. Right now I'm just enjoying having it stacked up on the buffet so I can admire it.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The moon will be directly underfoot at midnight on Wed night...that mean's the lunkers will be out with the best bite of the month!!! If you ever had a chance to catch the trophy, it will be Wed night from 11p to 1a. Black worms, black jitterbugs, black spinner baits!!! Hope everyone gets a chance to get out Wed night!!!\nBig Pete in Ashdown is wearing the lunkers out with the 1/4 oz black blue jig. Millwood is slam full of swamp donkeys and all they seem to want in that jig. Plastic lizards are also working, but the bb jig is bearing the fruit!!! Come on, new moon, Big Pete is ready to rock!!!\nGoing big and going deep this weekend looking for the lunker on the new moon weekend. Fishing the late morning, early afternoon time with a black and blue 1/4 oz jig in 20 foot water. Anyone else out there believe in the new moon theory?", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Partly cloudy with isolated thunderstorms possible. High 87F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.\nScattered clouds with the possibility of an isolated thunderstorm developing overnight. Low around 70F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I believe this was our last camping trip in Florida – it was New Years weekend ushering in 2009. At the time we did not anticipate that it would be our last year in Florida. This was also a cold weather trip but not quite as cold as the O’Leno trip. We were at Payne’s Prairie State Park. No kayaking on this trip but we took the bicycles and explored this unique area. Darryl and I enjoyed our sandwich lunch watching a bald eagle perched high above us. This was just one of the several eagles we observed that weekend.\nAnother Florida, New Years camping trip.\nHmmm, wine and potato chips – camp cuisine. Notice the touch of class on the table next to Darryl.\nRubber spider hung from a tree. Somebody’s idea of a joke – I love it!\nAnother chilly night ahead.\n“Portrait of an old man as a turtle.”\nHappy New Year! Time for bed.\nBikes and Spanish moss.\nAny snakes in there Darryl?\nEagle surveying the lake.\nI believe these are grebes, which is no big deal. However, when this pair started swimming toward us we were also watching a small gator that they were headed straight toward. It was easy to see when the first one noticed the gator and quickly changed course, avoiding a “circle of life” moment for us.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "BayWa AG plans to support the future growth of BayWa r.e. renewable energy GmbH through a capital increase.\nThe capital increase will be carried out directly at BayWa r.e. with the participation of third parties. Regardless of the outcome, BayWa will continue to hold a majority stake in BayWa r.e.\n“BayWa r.e. has been a true success story for us over the past ten years,” said Klaus Josef Lutz, Chief Executive Officer of BayWa AG. Since 2009, BayWa r.e. has built and marketed solar, wind power and biogas plants with an output of 2.5 gigawatts. Today, BayWa r.e. is a leading company in the renewable energies sector. With over €72 million in EBIT, the company made a substantial contribution to the Group’s total earnings of roughly €173 million in 2018.\n“We plan to further promote the tremendous, profitable growth of BayWa r.e. in cooperation with a suitable partner in the years ahead,” Lutz said.\nThanks to the acquisitions of the past two years, the project pipeline is well filled – primarily in Europe, the US and Asia – and currently stands at roughly 10 gigawatts, Lutz added. Projects involving some 660 megawatts (MW) are slated for construction and sale in 2019 alone.\n“We imagine a partner who will allow us to do an even faster job of launching and completing projects in the medium to long term while continuing to increase BayWa r.e.’s earnings significantly,” Lutz explained.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It's been over a MONTH since the blog was updated!! Egads!! I've been promising Grandma pictures of the kids on their new bikes. I finally got the camera out there today. Although, it took THREE tries!! I have two cameras with dead batteries. I had to use the camera that isn't working well. These aren't great, but hopefully they're better than the nothing I have been posting.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Got the post-holiday blues? Sad that celebrations are over? Don’t worry! You can get excited about another holiday coming up very soon – National Call a Friend Day on Dec. 28!\nThe meaning of the holiday\nPeople are so incredibly busy these days. Between work and other responsibilities outside of the office, there’s very little time to connect with the important people in our lives. It’s easier now than ever to stay connected with people – text, email, social media. Yet somehow relying solely on those means of communication can be almost isolating in a way. This holiday reminds us to dial back to old school communication by picking up the phone and have a good chin wag with a friend. It’s an encouragement to stay connected through voice and not just rely solely on text-based ways of communicating!\nThe importance of talking to human beings\nIn a world of increasing automation and reliance on text, email and bots, it’s getting harder and harder to talk to a human being to have your needs met. Having to go through a dozen prompts just to speak to someone on the phone can be incredibly frustrating, right?\nThat’s why live answering services have become an increasingly more attractive option to businesses. Instead of routing callers through an automated system, live virtual receptionists will answer calls. It’s bringing back the human touch that consumers are seeking more and more in a digital world.\nHow live answering works\nWhen you sign up for a live answering service, you forward your calls to the answering service. Live operators answer every call and, at the most basic level, will take a message. The message is then sent instantly through email, text and/or a mobile app and online dashboard to the business owner or appropriate employee. There is also the option to have callers routed to voicemail instead. A great answering service will also provide the following:\n- Call patching. This is when a call is connected from the operator to the recipient.\n- Order processing. Operators will help walk customers through completing an online order.\n- 24/7 service. An answering service that offers call answering day and night, weekends and holidays means your business will always be open.\n- Bilingual operators. This means your business can properly serve Spanish-speaking customers.\nIf you’re interested in an answering service, check out which features are included in your plan and what features may come at an additional cost to you.\nLet an answering service handle your business calls while you call your friends\nAt VoiceNation, we love handling calls so people can focus on what’s most important to them, like running their business. But there are times during the year where business takes a backseat and business owners want to focus on family and friends – such as the holidays, even one like today! We offer the best service in the industry, the highest trained operators and simple, transparent pricing. Our plans are all inclusive of our features, at no extra cost to you. Want to learn more? Give us a call at 877.679.3777. Then go call your friends!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation\nWe exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of colonization strategy was, at least in part, determined by whether Europeans could settle in the colony. In places where Europeans faced high mortality rates, they could not settle and they were more likely to set up worse (extractive) institutions. These early institutions persisted to the present. We document evidence supporting these hypotheses. Exploiting differences in mortality rates faced by soldiers, bishops and sailors in the colonies in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries as an instrument for current institutions, we estimate large effects of institutions on income per capita. Our estimates imply that differences in institutions explain approximately three-quarters of the income per capita differences across former colonies. Once we control for the effect of institutions, we find that countries in Africa or those farther away from the equator do not have lower incomes.\nDocument Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w7771\nPublished: Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. \"The Colonial Origins Of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,\" American Economic Review, 2001, v91(5,Dec), 1369-1401. citation courtesy of\nUsers who downloaded this paper also downloaded* these:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hike high for the reward of fields of flowers. Wildflowers are blooming strong at elevations between 8,500-10,000,’ such as Mt. Ely, above Ski Lake, Rendezvous Mountain, and other subalpine habitats of the Grand Tetons. You can find lupines, little sunflowers, geraniums, stonecrops, milfoil, mountain dandelions, and mountain bluebells that we observed at lower elevations a few weeks ago, along with new flowers found only at these higher elevations.\nWhere to Look\nTopography makes a difference as to the lushness of flowers. How the mountains collected snow over the winter and how fast it has melted is determined in large part by the shape of the land, as well as its aspect: which way the slope is facing.\nSteep south-facing slopes and high ridge lines have less snow to begin with and face the hot sun. Their flowers may be past bloom or be different species, as is seen south of Mt. Ely: Wyoming Paintbrush, Sedum, Milfoils, and Harebells are still blooming.North facing, bowl-shaped terrain—Cody Bowl and the bowl above Ski Lake–captures more snow and holds it longer. Lupines and Sulphur Paintbrush grow luxuriantly. Areas of recently melted snow and streams coming down the north side of Rendezvous Mountain still have Mountain Bluebells and Fernleaf Lovage.Jackson Hole receives little predictable rain in summer—typically from spotty, if often intense, thunderstorms–so snow in winter is the main source of moisture for the growing season.\nBelow are some freshly flowering species frequently seen at high elevations later in the growing season.\nBlue Composites Keep on Coming\nThe Daisy, Aster, or Sunflower Family—technically Asteraceae—flourishes. Traditionally, this large group has been called “composites” because each “flower” is in fact a “head” of many flowers on a platform. Individual flowers may be “ray”flowers—which look like petals or the rays of sun, and/or “disk” flowers, which are small flowers usually in the center. Each flower head is surrounded by protective, usually green “bracts.” These bracts help in separating out the different genera. Below are pictures of bracts!\nShowy composite flowers attract different pollinators. At this time of year butterflies – particularly Fritillary – find room to land and sip nectar from the cups of disk flowers. Flies and bees also poke and prod about the flower heads. Observing pollinators adds a new dimension to understanding the ecology of flowers and insects.\nFleabanes or Daisies – Erigeron spp – (people use the names interchangeably) look like asters; however, their “involucral bracts” that encompass the heads of the composite flowers are more or less even in length and are arranged in only one, maybe two, rows like a palisade fence. Often, their ray flowers are thinner and more plentiful than in asters.\nTwo large fleabanes/daisies are in bloom right now:\nOregon Daisy – Erigeron speciosus -is frequent at lower elevations and very showy now at higher elevations. They grow to 1-2.5’ high, with elliptical leaves alternating up the stem to a cluster of purple flower heads.\nSubalpine Daisy – Erigeron peregrinus – is a bit smaller than Oregon Daisy and is limited to higher elevations. It also has many oval to elliptical leaves up the stem, but the lavender ray flowers are broader and fewer than in Oregon Daisy.\nAnother look-alike, Alpine Leafy-bract Aster – Symphiotrichum foliaceum – has a similar color and many relatively broad ray flowers. However, looking at the bracts beneath, you will see they are green and leafy looking. As the name indicates, these are also typically at high elevations.\nThickstem Aster – Eurybia integrifolius – is about the same size as those species above. The thick, slightly zigzag stems are sticky hairy all the way up to the flower heads. Flowers have a few deep-violet ray flowers. The sticky bracts splay outwards. They grow at higher and lower elevations in meadows.\nEnglemann (Chaffy) Aster – Eucephalus engelmannii – stands tall to 3-4’. Unbranching stems are clad in large elliptical leaves alternating up the stem, with showy sprays of white flower heads near the top. White ray flowers are relatively long and few compared to daisy fleabanes. Look under the flower heads at the arrangement of bracts: they look like pointed shingles on a roof—one easy way to distinguish asters from fleabane daisies.\nNuttall Aster – Eucephalus elegans – is shorter than its cousin, but it too has the shingled effect of the bracts. The flowers are a lovely violet blue. This species is just coming into bloom and more sporadic in its appearance.\nA third species Blue-leaf Aster – Eucephalus glaucus – has distinctly bluish leaves and grows in 1-2’ tall sprawling, rhizomatous patches. Flowers are light lavender.\nSpiny-bracted Aster/Hoary Tansy Aster – Machaeranthera canescens – grows on much drier slopes, such as along Teton Pass. Rarely a foot tall, the plants have relatively few stems, with few leaves. The violet flowers catch the eye. Look for the spine-tipped, outward-arching bracts surrounding the flower head.\nA Few Yellow Composites\nThickstem Groundsel – Senecio crassulus – is adapted to a variety of moist to dry meadows, varying its height according to level of moisture – taller to 3’ with more water, or stunted at 8” or less. The slightly succulent, elliptical leaves may be toothed. The lower ones are stalked, the upper sessile. The shiny green bracts are neatly aligned in one row and are black tipped. A few ray flowers surround the yellow disk flowers.\nLow Goldenrod – Solidago multiradiata – is common in rock edges and along trails at many elevations. The tiny flower heads have about 13 ray flowers each and the heads are held in clusters mostly near the top of 6-12″ stems. To distinguish this species from look-alikes, find the ciliate – stiff hairy – margins to the elongate leaves at the base of the plants.\nPaintbrushes are intriguing and confusing members of the Orobanche or Broomrape Family (formerly placed the Figwort or Schropulariaceae Family). Species in the genus Castilleja have unique attachments to other plant species, depending more or less on their hosts for extra carbon, water, nutrients and even chemical defenses. As such, they are termed hemiparasites. They can survive on their own but grow larger, produce more flowers and seeds, and have less predation if they attach to their host’s roots using special haustorium. Plant hosts include grasses, sagebrush, lupines, and larkspurs.\nPaintbrushes have wide variation in color and shape due to polyploidy and hybridization. For identification pay attention to the shape of the leaves and shape and color of bracts–colored leaf-like appendages below each flower. In paintbrushes, sepals are fused to form a lobed tube and are colorful like the bracts. The petals are relatively inconspicuous. They are fused to form a tube called a galea which hides and protects the stamens and stigma within.\nHere are four species you can see up high right now. Hopefully the description and the photos will help you distinguish to species—never easy. Once identified you can find more information on their hosts and their predators.\nWyoming Indian Paintbrush – Castilleja liniarifolia – is the most angular of the species we see right now. Its bright red to orange calyx splits to the side and back but most deeply in front where the green galea extends way out. The bracts and leaves are also often deeply lobed and linear and widely spaced on the stem.\nScarlet Paintbrush – Castilleja miniata – is blooming at mid to subalpine elevations. It is common along the trail south of Teton Pass right now. It is often two feet tall and branching with wands of bright red flowers. The bracts and calyx are often lobed and sharply pointed. They cover the green corolla or petal tube (galea) which extends out when mature. Overall flower color ranges from red to scarlet to orange. This is our most wide ranging and variable species. Polyploidy and occasional hybridization with C. rhexifolia and C. sulphurea confound strict identification.\nAlpine or Rosy Paintbrush – Castilleja rhexifolia – puzzles me often, especially in comparison to Scarlet Paintbrush. References say they are crimson, rose-red to pink. Bracts are relatively broad and rarely lobed. Calyx lobes are relatively blunt. Often the parts are quite hairy. Plants are typically about one foot or less and rarely branch. They grow only at high elevations.\nSulphur Paintbrush – Castilleja sulphurea – Although yellow, this species is very similar and closely related to Rosy Paintbrush – C. rhexifolia. Look for broad, only slightly lobed, colorful bracts. The bracts and calyx lobes are rounded, not sharp. It is also sticky hairy. Look for larkspurs and lupines nearby. Sulphur paintbrushes are often connected, obtaining carbohydrates and alkaloids from their hosts.\nHosts Plants of Paintbrushes\nLupine – Lupinus argenteus – is a proven host plant of several species of paintbrush. Lupine is a source of carbon, water, and nutrients. It also provides a toxic alkaloid which helps protect the paintbrush from herbivory, such as from larvae of the plume moth – Amblyptilia pica. This chemical defense in not found in the petals or nectar of paintbrushes, therefore, allowing their pollinators, such as broad tailed and rufous hummingbirds to proceed unharmed.\nTwo Creamy, Coiled Louseworts\nLouseworts are also in the Orobanche or Broomrape Family. They have highly evolved flowers. Bumblebees pollinators just fit amidst the lower lip and upper coil. The stigma, protected by the upper petal, sticks out when ready and tags the pollen from where the bees can’t glean it. Flowers contain no nectar reward.\nLouseworts, like their relatives paintbrushes, also have hemiparasitic relationships with nearby host plants.\nParrot’s Beak – Pedicularis racemosa – grows 8-20” high. The leaves are lance-shaped with small teeth and are arrayed up the stem. The lower lip of the flowers is three lobed, and the upper lip is arched into a beak.\nWhite-coiled Lousewort – Pedicularis contorta – looks very similar to Parrot’s Beak but the leaves grow mostly from the base and are deeply, pinnately lobed.\nA Few More Subalpine Specialties\nFound often in shade or meadows where snow melts late at high elevations, Mountain Bog Gentian – Gentiana calycosa – is a treat to find. Leaves are egg-shaped and paired up the 5-12” stems. Flowers are deep blue and are decorated to direct pollinators deep.\nMany other flowers are blooming high. Go in search! Let us know what you find at firstname.lastname@example.org.\nFrances Clark, Wilson, WY\nJuly 31, 2016, update Aug. 2 after hiking down from Rendezvous Mountain via Granite Canyon.\nNote: What we once called “asters” and were in the Aster genus have been sorted by scientists into many new genera: Eucephalus, Eurybia, Symphiotrichum, Oreostemma, etc. However, the common name of “aster” remains attached to many. Indeed “Aster” is much easier to remember than the new scientific names. If you are frustrated by all this, just enjoy looking at the remarkable, if confounding, variation of this group of composites.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "New fossil evidence suggests that modern humans arrived in Sumatra, Indonesia, between 73,000 and 63,000 years ago, before the catastrophic eruption of Mount Toba, reports a paper published online in Nature this week. Although previous genetic studies indicated that there was a modern human presence in southeast Asia more than 60,000 years ago, actual fossil evidence has been scant and circumstantial.\nLida Ajer is a Pleistocene cave in the Padang Highlands of Sumatra with a rich rainforest fauna, which was originally excavated in the late 19th century, yielding two human teeth. Kira Westaway and colleagues reinvestigated Lida Ajer, providing a secure identification that the teeth are characteristic of modern human and establishing a robust chronology using three different dating methods to determine the age of the fossils. They determined burial ages by dating the sediments using red thermoluminescence and post-infrared infrared-stimulated luminescence techniques, and bracketing ages using U-series dating of the associated cave formation.\nLida Ajer represents the earliest evidence of modern humans occupying a rainforest environment. The longstanding preferred route of modern humans migrating out of Africa had been along the coast, as marine environments would have offered favourable conditions for human sustenance. By contrast, rainforests - with their highly spaced, seasonal resources and nutritionally insufficient food - would have presented serious difficulties for human colonization. The successful exploitation of the rainforest environment would have required complex planning and technological innovations, which the authors’ data indicate existed in Asia well before 70,000 years ago.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Story of an hour gender analysis it is not often that an author is able to magnify the human perception of a society as well as kate chopin did in the. We will examine the plot and characters of kate chopin's most widely read short story, 'the story of an hour of marriage and gender roles and. There's not much room in 'the story of an hour' to create a detailed setting or to introduce a litany of is a representation of traditional gender roles at the time. A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a changing gender roles in marriage over the years, gender roles have continued to change and have a significant impact on the institution of. Get an answer for 'how is gender defined in kate chopin's the story of an hour' and find homework help for other the story of an hour questions at enotes. In kate chopin's the story of an hour, the oppression of women isn't super blatant there is a woman who is unhappy in her marriage, and has a rather unusual.\n“the story of an hour by kate chopin represents a negative view of marriage by presenting the story of an hour • gender and social. The role of the wife and mother in the later nineteenth century things for women began to change no doubt this had something to do with modernity and its intrinsic insistence on change. The window in the story could symbolize an escape from these traditional gender roles to 'feminist theory on “the story of an hour. Controlling the female psyche: assigned gender roles in “the yellow wallpaper” by elizabeth carey april 2011 “the yellow wallpaper,” a tale of one woman’s descent into madness, is charlotte. View essay - 615123 from mbad 504 at cofc apa: comparion of themes comparion of themes: gender roles in the story of an hour and the necklace gender roles that are.\nGender roles and marriage in the secret life of walter mitty by james thurber and the story of an hour by kate chopin. Role of women in society (the story of an this story is based on the role of women in marriage and protagonists of “the story of an hour,” by kate. Story of an hour by kate chopin was written in 1894 which during this time, being a woman meant being a housewife women during this time and up to the mid.\nKate chopin’s short stories questions and answers the question and answer section for kate chopin’s short stories is a great resource to ask questions, find. Please use this space to formulate your thoughts about women's roles in marriage, and their ways of contesting their the story of an hour, and desiree's baby this blog will be due. Category: comparative literature title: gender roles in the story of an hour and the necklace.\nFeminism in the story of an hour by kate chopin and the yellow wallpaper by charlotte perkins gilman and the poem “poem in praise of menstruation” by lucille clifton. “the story of an hour” is kate chopin’s short story about the thoughts of a woman after she is told that her husband has died in an accident. Marriage was as much about “the story of an hour” at first reminded me of “a very short story” in the way that it leaves his role seems so.\nRough draft “the story of an rough draft “the story of an hour 'the necklace' has focused on the gender roles in marriage and 'the story of an hour. Marriage equality in story of an hour from her unhappy marriage moreover, the story does not tell us roles are shown wisely throughout the story. People invited to a presentation do not need a prezi to women's roles in society gender roles late 1900's story of an hour she was of marriage freedom was.\nRead this literature essay and over 88,000 other research documents kate chopin's story of an hour critical analysis of 'the story of an hour' analyzes the. The role of the wife and mother marriage and independence, freedom and restraint - these are themes of her work distinctively realized in story after story. This section emphasises the importance of clear and coherent introductions and conclusions which gender roles story of an hour most. Gender roles in the the story of an hour and the necklace essays: over 180,000 gender roles in the the story of an hour and the necklace essays, gender roles.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This article needs additional citations for verification. (July 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nSemiconductor devices are electronic components that exploit the electronic properties of semiconductor materials, principally silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide, as well as organic semiconductors. Semiconductor devices have replaced thermionic devices (vacuum tubes) in most applications. They use electronic conduction in the solid state as opposed to the gaseous state or thermionic emission in a high vacuum.\nSemiconductor devices are manufactured both as single discrete devices and as integrated circuits (ICs), which consist of a number—from a few (as low as two) to billions—of devices manufactured and interconnected on a single semiconductor substrate, or wafer.\nSemiconductor materials are useful because their behavior can be easily manipulated by the addition of impurities, known as doping. Semiconductor conductivity can be controlled by the introduction of an electric or magnetic field, by exposure to light or heat, or by the mechanical deformation of a doped monocrystalline grid; thus, semiconductors can make excellent sensors. Current conduction in a semiconductor occurs via mobile or \"free\" electrons and holes, collectively known as charge carriers. Doping a semiconductor such as silicon with a small proportion of an atomic impurity, such as phosphorus or boron, greatly increases the number of free electrons or holes within the semiconductor. When a doped semiconductor contains excess holes it is called \"p-type\", and when it contains excess free electrons it is known as \"n-type\", where p (positive for holes) or n (negative for electrons) is the sign of the charge of the majority mobile charge carriers. The semiconductor material used in devices is doped under highly controlled conditions in a fabrication facility, or fab, to control precisely the location and concentration of p- and n-type dopants. The junctions which form where n-type and p-type semiconductors join together are called p–n junctions.\nSemiconductor devices made per year have been growing by 9.1% on average since 1978 and shipments in 2018 are predicted for the first time to exceed 1 trillion, meaning well over 7 trillion has been made to date, in just in the decade prior.\nA semiconductor diode is a device typically made from a single p–n junction. At the junction of a p-type and an n-type semiconductor there forms a depletion region where current conduction is inhibited by the lack of mobile charge carriers. When the device is forward biased (connected with the p-side at higher electric potential than the n-side), this depletion region is diminished, allowing for significant conduction, while only very small current can be achieved when the diode is reverse biased and thus the depletion region expanded.\nExposing a semiconductor to light can generate electron–hole pairs, which increases the number of free carriers and thereby the conductivity. Diodes optimized to take advantage of this phenomenon are known as photodiodes. Compound semiconductor diodes can also be used to generate light, as in light-emitting diodes and laser diodes.\nBipolar junction transistors are formed from two p–n junctions, in either n–p–n or p–n–p configuration. The middle, or base, region between the junctions is typically very narrow. The other regions, and their associated terminals, are known as the emitter and the collector. A small current injected through the junction between the base and the emitter changes the properties of the base-collector junction so that it can conduct current even though it is reverse biased. This creates a much larger current between the collector and emitter, controlled by the base-emitter current.\nAnother type of transistor, the field-effect transistor, operates on the principle that semiconductor conductivity can be increased or decreased by the presence of an electric field. An electric field can increase the number of free electrons and holes in a semiconductor, thereby changing its conductivity. The field may be applied by a reverse-biased p–n junction, forming a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) or by an electrode insulated from the bulk material by an oxide layer, forming a metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET).\nThe MOSFET, a solid-state device, is the most used semiconductor device today. The gate electrode is charged to produce an electric field that controls the conductivity of a \"channel\" between two terminals, called the source and drain. Depending on the type of carrier in the channel, the device may be an n-channel (for electrons) or a p-channel (for holes) MOSFET. Although the MOSFET is named in part for its \"metal\" gate, in modern devices polysilicon is typically used instead.\nBy far, silicon (Si) is the most widely used material in semiconductor devices. Its combination of low raw material cost, relatively simple processing, and a useful temperature range makes it currently the best compromise among the various competing materials. Silicon used in semiconductor device manufacturing is currently fabricated into boules that are large enough in diameter to allow the production of 300 mm (12 in.) wafers.\nGermanium (Ge) was a widely used early semiconductor material but its thermal sensitivity makes it less useful than silicon. Today, germanium is often alloyed with silicon for use in very-high-speed SiGe devices; IBM is a major producer of such devices.\nGallium arsenide (GaAs) is also widely used in high-speed devices but so far, it has been difficult to form large-diameter boules of this material, limiting the wafer diameter to sizes significantly smaller than silicon wafers thus making mass production of GaAs devices significantly more expensive than silicon.\nOther less common materials are also in use or under investigation.\nSilicon carbide (SiC) has found some application as the raw material for blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and is being investigated for use in semiconductor devices that could withstand very high operating temperatures and environments with the presence of significant levels of ionizing radiation. IMPATT diodes have also been fabricated from SiC.\nVarious indium compounds (indium arsenide, indium antimonide, and indium phosphide) are also being used in LEDs and solid state laser diodes. Selenium sulfide is being studied in the manufacture of photovoltaic solar cells.\nAll transistor types can be used as the building blocks of logic gates, which are fundamental in the design of digital circuits. In digital circuits like microprocessors, transistors act as on-off switches; in the MOSFET, for instance, the voltage applied to the gate determines whether the switch is on or off.\nTransistors used for analog circuits do not act as on-off switches; rather, they respond to a continuous range of inputs with a continuous range of outputs. Common analog circuits include amplifiers and oscillators.\nCircuits that interface or translate between digital circuits and analog circuits are known as mixed-signal circuits.\nPower semiconductor devices are discrete devices or integrated circuits intended for high current or high voltage applications. Power integrated circuits combine IC technology with power semiconductor technology, these are sometimes referred to as \"smart\" power devices. Several companies specialize in manufacturing power semiconductors.\nThe type designators of semiconductor devices are often manufacturer specific. Nevertheless, there have been attempts at creating standards for type codes, and a subset of devices follow those. For discrete devices, for example, there are three standards: JEDEC JESD370B in United States, Pro Electron in Europe and Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) in Japan.\nThis section does not cite any sources. (October 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nSemiconductors had been used in the electronics field for some time before the invention of the transistor. Around the turn of the 20th century they were quite common as detectors in radios, used in a device called a \"cat's whisker\" developed by Jagadish Chandra Bose and others. These detectors were somewhat troublesome, however, requiring the operator to move a small tungsten filament (the whisker) around the surface of a galena (lead sulfide) or carborundum (silicon carbide) crystal until it suddenly started working. Then, over a period of a few hours or days, the cat's whisker would slowly stop working and the process would have to be repeated. At the time their operation was completely mysterious. After the introduction of the more reliable and amplified vacuum tube based radios, the cat's whisker systems quickly disappeared. The \"cat's whisker\" is a primitive example of a special type of diode still popular today, called a Schottky diode.\nDuring World War II, radar research quickly pushed radar receivers to operate at ever higher frequencies and the traditional tube based radio receivers no longer worked well. The introduction of the cavity magnetron from Britain to the United States in 1940 during the Tizard Mission resulted in a pressing need for a practical high-frequency amplifier.\nOn a whim, Russell Ohl of Bell Laboratories decided to try a cat's whisker. By this point they had not been in use for a number of years, and no one at the labs had one. After hunting one down at a used radio store in Manhattan, he found that it worked much better than tube-based systems.\nOhl investigated why the cat's whisker functioned so well. He spent most of 1939 trying to grow more pure versions of the crystals. He soon found that with higher quality crystals their finicky behaviour went away, but so did their ability to operate as a radio detector. One day he found one of his purest crystals nevertheless worked well, and it had a clearly visible crack near the middle. However as he moved about the room trying to test it, the detector would mysteriously work, and then stop again. After some study he found that the behaviour was controlled by the light in the room–more light caused more conductance in the crystal. He invited several other people to see this crystal, and Walter Brattain immediately realized there was some sort of junction at the crack.\nFurther research cleared up the remaining mystery. The crystal had cracked because either side contained very slightly different amounts of the impurities Ohl could not remove–about 0.2%. One side of the crystal had impurities that added extra electrons (the carriers of electric current) and made it a \"conductor\". The other had impurities that wanted to bind to these electrons, making it (what he called) an \"insulator\". Because the two parts of the crystal were in contact with each other, the electrons could be pushed out of the conductive side which had extra electrons (soon to be known as the emitter) and replaced by new ones being provided (from a battery, for instance) where they would flow into the insulating portion and be collected by the whisker filament (named the collector). However, when the voltage was reversed the electrons being pushed into the collector would quickly fill up the \"holes\" (the electron-needy impurities), and conduction would stop almost instantly. This junction of the two crystals (or parts of one crystal) created a solid-state diode, and the concept soon became known as semiconduction. The mechanism of action when the diode is off has to do with the separation of charge carriers around the junction. This is called a \"depletion region\".\nArmed with the knowledge of how these new diodes worked, a vigorous effort began to learn how to build them on demand. Teams at Purdue University, Bell Labs, MIT, and the University of Chicago all joined forces to build better crystals. Within a year germanium production had been perfected to the point where military-grade diodes were being used in most radar sets.\nAfter the war, William Shockley decided to attempt the building of a triode-like semiconductor device. He secured funding and lab space, and went to work on the problem with Brattain and John Bardeen.\nThe key to the development of the transistor was the further understanding of the process of the electron mobility in a semiconductor. It was realized that if there were some way to control the flow of the electrons from the emitter to the collector of this newly discovered diode, an amplifier could be built. For instance, if contacts are placed on both sides of a single type of crystal, current will not flow between them through the crystal. However if a third contact could then \"inject\" electrons or holes into the material, current would flow.\nActually doing this appeared to be very difficult. If the crystal were of any reasonable size, the number of electrons (or holes) required to be injected would have to be very large, making it less than useful as an amplifier because it would require a large injection current to start with. That said, the whole idea of the crystal diode was that the crystal itself could provide the electrons over a very small distance, the depletion region. The key appeared to be to place the input and output contacts very close together on the surface of the crystal on either side of this region.\nBrattain started working on building such a device, and tantalizing hints of amplification continued to appear as the team worked on the problem. Sometimes the system would work but then stop working unexpectedly. In one instance a non-working system started working when placed in water. Ohl and Brattain eventually developed a new branch of quantum mechanics, which became known as surface physics, to account for the behaviour. The electrons in any one piece of the crystal would migrate about due to nearby charges. Electrons in the emitters, or the \"holes\" in the collectors, would cluster at the surface of the crystal where they could find their opposite charge \"floating around\" in the air (or water). Yet they could be pushed away from the surface with the application of a small amount of charge from any other location on the crystal. Instead of needing a large supply of injected electrons, a very small number in the right place on the crystal would accomplish the same thing.\nTheir understanding solved the problem of needing a very small control area to some degree. Instead of needing two separate semiconductors connected by a common, but tiny, region, a single larger surface would serve. The electron-emitting and collecting leads would both be placed very close together on the top, with the control lead placed on the base of the crystal. When current flowed through this \"base\" lead, the electrons or holes would be pushed out, across the block of semiconductor, and collect on the far surface. As long as the emitter and collector were very close together, this should allow enough electrons or holes between them to allow conduction to start.\nThe Bell team made many attempts to build such a system with various tools, but generally failed. Setups where the contacts were close enough were invariably as fragile as the original cat's whisker detectors had been, and would work briefly, if at all. Eventually they had a practical breakthrough. A piece of gold foil was glued to the edge of a plastic wedge, and then the foil was sliced with a razor at the tip of the triangle. The result was two very closely spaced contacts of gold. When the wedge was pushed down onto the surface of a crystal and voltage applied to the other side (on the base of the crystal), current started to flow from one contact to the other as the base voltage pushed the electrons away from the base towards the other side near the contacts. The point-contact transistor had been invented.\nWhile the device was constructed a week earlier, Brattain's notes describe the first demonstration to higher-ups at Bell Labs on the afternoon of 23 December 1947, often given as the birthdate of the transistor. What is now known as the \"p–n–p point-contact germanium transistor\" operated as a speech amplifier with a power gain of 18 in that trial. John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for their work.\nBell Telephone Laboratories needed a generic name for their new invention: \"Semiconductor Triode\", \"Solid Triode\", \"Surface States Triode\" [sic], \"Crystal Triode\" and \"Iotatron\" were all considered, but \"transistor\", coined by John R. Pierce, won an internal ballot. The rationale for the name is described in the following extract from the company's Technical Memoranda (May 28, 1948)  calling for votes:\nTransistor. This is an abbreviated combination of the words \"transconductance\" or \"transfer\", and \"varistor\". The device logically belongs in the varistor family, and has the transconductance or transfer impedance of a device having gain, so that this combination is descriptive.\nShockley was upset about the device being credited to Brattain and Bardeen, who he felt had built it \"behind his back\" to take the glory. Matters became worse when Bell Labs lawyers found that some of Shockley's own writings on the transistor were close enough to those of an earlier 1925 patent by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld that they thought it best that his name be left off the patent application.\nShockley was incensed, and decided to demonstrate who was the real brains of the operation. A few months later he invented an entirely new, considerably more robust, type of transistor with a layer or 'sandwich' structure. This structure went on to be used for the vast majority of all transistors into the 1960s, and evolved into the bipolar junction transistor.\nWith the fragility problems solved, a remaining problem was purity. Making germanium of the required purity was proving to be a serious problem, and limited the yield of transistors that actually worked from a given batch of material. Germanium's sensitivity to temperature also limited its usefulness. Scientists theorized that silicon would be easier to fabricate, but few investigated this possibility. Gordon K. Teal was the first to develop a working silicon transistor, and his company, the nascent Texas Instruments, profited from its technological edge. From the late 1960s most transistors were silicon-based. Within a few years transistor-based products, most notably easily portable radios, were appearing on the market.\nThe static induction transistor, the first high frequency transistor, was invented by Japanese engineers Jun-ichi Nishizawa and Y. Watanabe in 1950. It was the fastest transistor through to the 1980s.\nA major improvement in manufacturing yield came when a chemist advised the companies fabricating semiconductors to use distilled rather than tap water: calcium ions present in tap water were the cause of the poor yields. \"Zone melting\", a technique using a band of molten material moving through the crystal, further increased crystal purity.\nAnnual semiconductor unit shipments (integrated circuits and opto-sensor-discretes, or O-S-D, devices) are expected to grow 9% [..] For 2018, semiconductor unit shipments are forecast to climb to 1,075.1 billion, which equates to 9% growth for the year. Starting in 1978 with 32.6 billion units and going through 2018, the compound annual growth rate for semiconductor units is forecast to be 9.1%, a solid growth figure over the 40 year span. [..] In 2018, O-S-D devices are forecast to account for 70% of total semiconductor units compared to 30% for ICs.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The following is one of a series of guest posts by Mike Shelby. Mike is a former ESL teacher who has been quietly (i.e., without his own blog) disseminating his thoughts on language learning around the internet for quite some time.\nHave you noticed that interpreters have to possess the most thorough knowledge of a foreign language, especially of conversation, vocabulary and grammar? Perhaps foreign learners of English can achieve fluency in English also through oral translation from their native language into English. It is possible to check oneself this way when practicing speaking in English every sentence in ready-made materials with both native-language and English versions. I also believe that the value of oral translation from a native language into English with self-check is underestimated by English teaching specialists for self-study and self-practice of English conversation, vocabulary and grammar. Oral translation practice should cover English grammar, conversation, and vocabulary. Thematic dialogues, questions and answers on conversation topics, thematic texts (informative texts and narrative stories), grammatical usage sentences, and sentences with difficult vocabulary on various topics, especially with fixed phrases and idioms, can be used in practicing English through oral translation from one's native language into English.\nMy views on oral translation do not apply to classroom teaching and classroom learning of English when an ESL teacher teaches English to students from various ethnic backgrounds. In that setting, oral translation from a native language into English is simply impossible. All explanations of English pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary to learners from different ethnic backgrounds have to be done in English only at English classes. As you know there are English courses in English only for learning and practicing all four skills in one course in each lesson (listening, speaking, reading, and writing alongside pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary). Four-skill English courses include textbooks with audio and video recordings for all levels, including for beginners, and are suitable for self-study as well. There are also online English-learning courses in English only.\nI firmly believe that oral translation from a native language into English is effective in practicing English speaking, vocabulary, and grammar on one's own with ready-made materials using self-check in a more logical, thorough, in-depth way as to content than casual talking to native-English speakers. practicing English on one's own through oral translation into English with self-check may be a quicker way for developing fluency in speaking English than casual talking to native-English speakers with limited content.\nOf course, everyday long-term talking to native English speakers on a multitude of topics is a top priority and a paramount factor for developing good English-speaking skills by learners of English. Exercises in listening, speaking, and reading in English that also cover English pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and conversation on various topics belong to major English-learning and -teaching activities. I do not advocate oral translation into English as the only or the most important method in learning English grammar, vocabulary, and speaking.\nHowever, self-study and practicing English on one's own are indispensable and substantially accelerate success in English. Communication with native-English speakers can't encompass all aspects of mastering English adequately and thoroughly, especially vocabulary, grammar, and the potential in-depth content of conversations suitable for the real-life needs of students for using English. It's possible and effective to practice English (including listening comprehension and speaking) on one's own through self-check using transcripts, books, and audio and video aids.\nOral translation into English allows speaking a wide variety of sentences on a multitude of topics with sophisticated important content (sentences) that are rarely widely used in daily life because of limited opportunity and limited content of communication of foreign learners with native speakers of English. Oral translation from a native language into English is very important and effective for foreign learners of English because oral translation into English creates solid additional extensive practice of English that is rarely possible in terms of comprehensive content in daily communication with native speakers of English.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The NExT Digital Handbook currently contains 61 reproducible PDFs. Each PDF title is listed here according to table numbers within each corresponding chapter.\nHow to Engage the PDFs within the NExT Digital Handbook\nClick on the orange ‘table # button’ to open PDFs within each chapter.\nA reproducible (PDF) icon button is located at the bottom of each PDF. Click to download or print.\nClick the ‘X’ located at the top right corner of each PDF to return back to the digital handbook content.\nTable 1.1 - Central Tasks of Learning to Teach\nTable 2.1 - Examples of Multiple Measures of Teacher Effectiveness\nTable 3.1 - NExT Common Metrics Surveys\nTable 3.2 - Tips for Locating First Year Teachers for Survey Administration\nTable 3.3 - Template for Reporting Aligned Survey Items for Teaching Practice\nTable 3.4 - Example of Reporting Aligned Survey Items for Teaching Practice\nTable 3.5 - Making Sense of Multiple Measures\nTable 4.1 - Possible Sampling Strategies\nTable 4.2 - Teacher Recruitment Template\nTable 4.3 - Template for Principal Contacts\nTable 4.4 - Preparing for a Student Work Sample Interview\nTable 4.5 - Student Work Sample Interview Protocol\nTable 4.6 - Student Impact Rubric\nTable 4.7 - Template for Recognizing the Teacher Participant\nTable 4.8 - Focus Group on Student Impact Protocol\nTable 4.9 - Components of Quality Case Studies\nTable 4.10 - Survey of Student Engagement K-6\nTable 4.11 - Survey of Student Engagement 7-12\nTable 4.12 - Levels of Engagement - Adapted from Schlecty (2002)\nTable 4.13 - Impact on Student Learning Project\nTable 4.14 - Gathering Pre-Post Data on a Specific Strategy\nTable 4.15 - Comparative Group Studies of Student Learning\nTable 5.1 - Central Tasks of Learning to Teach\nTable 5.2 - School Assessments: Data-Focused PLCs Embedded in the School Context\nTable 5.3 - Teacher Preparation Program Assessment: Data-Focused PLCs Embedded in the Preparation Program\nTable 5.4 - Resources for Principals or Instructional Coaches about Data-Focused PLCs\nTable 5.5 - Resources for Teacher Educators about Data-Focused PLCs\nTable 5.6 - School Assessment: Communication Systems Supporting a Collaborative School Climate", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What if you’ve been asked to provide “accessible eLearning?” Either you need to build new courses that are accessible, or to re-develop existing courses to make them accessible.\nFirst step—figure out what “accessible” means. What? You mean there isn’t a cut-and-dried standard out there that says exactly what needs to be done?\nHere’s the part where I’d love to give you a simple, one-sentence answer. Actually, I can do that: “Accessible eLearning is eLearning that can be experienced by everyone, even those with disabilities.”\nUnfortunately, the simple answer doesn’t begin to capture the complexity and variation in how the term “accessibility” is applied to eLearning, so I’m going to attempt a more thorough definition here.\nAccessible eLearning involves understanding a few key factors: standards, learners, and design.\nStandards and guidelines: Compliance with standards and guidelines is a key component of accessibility, and often the one that gets the most attention. There are many guidelines to encourage compliance with various accessibility laws and regulations, but the 2 that are most often applied to eLearning are Section 508 and Web Content and Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.\nLooking at these detailed and extensive guidelines, you might think, “Oh, this is accessibility,” but accessibility is more complicated than just meeting these standards. Mainly because what qualifies as “meeting” these guidelines is often open to interpretation and in many areas it’s not even close to as cut-and-dried as many believe it is.\nThe goal of accessibility is to provide an equivalent learning experience for all learners. This involves more than checking off compliance with each technical standard. Designing for non-disabled learners and then applying accessible standards and guidelines like tags and transcripts might provide an equivalent experience some of the time, but it’s not really a reliable approach. We’ve learned that the best way to ensure a truly equivalent learning experience is to consider all learners and design for them.\nLearners: The best learning experiences are learner-centered, and accessible eLearning is no exception. Accessible eLearning means defining your audience to include those with disabilities, and then designing to meet the needs of the entire audience. You may be familiar with meeting the needs of learners with visual or hearing impairments, but the scope of learners included in the “accessible eLearning” definition is broader than that.\nFor example, some learners are not able to use a mouse, or have limited keyboard use. These differing abilities have to be accommodated in the design and construction of the course. At Fredrickson, we start by developing personas to represent each learner group—to represent both roles who are an audience for the content and different ways of accessing the courses.\nDesign: Designing for accessibility is designing for good learning. It should be thought of as more than meeting a set of guidelines—rather an approach of creating an experience for all learners. In the same way we would design to meet learning objectives, we design to meet accessibility expectations…and to do this accessibility has to be integrated into our design process.\nA key credo of accessible design at Fredrickson is, “Design accessibility from the beginning!” Understanding learners and thinking through their experience throughout design and development is key.\nWhich brings me to the point about “adding” accessibility to existing eLearning courses. Simply put, making eLearning accessible when it’s already built is essentially re-engineering. Believe me, I wish there were a magic “Easy Button” that provided a fast, cheap, and 100% foolproof way to make courses accessible by just uploading them into a tool that would then spit out an accessible version of the course, but that’s just not reality. We’ve developed best practices at Fredrickson for re-designing to create equivalent learner experiences when existing courses need to be made accessible, so we can streamline this part of the process. But then we still need to build it, so while experience and methodology can help make the process more efficient, there is no shortcut to accessible learning.\nUnderstanding these factors of accessibility will help you start to think about how to approach accessible learning at your organization.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Few details about these machines are known. I have covered the K-37 here. An article in agentura.ru says that the B-4 was built in the 1930’s and used in Spain during the civil war, in the Far East border incidents with Japan and in the Russo-Finnish war of 1940.\nA modernized version of the B-4 called M-100 was built in 1940 and installed in American busses in order to provide mobility (it weighed 141kg). By the summer of 1941 there were 96 sets of the M-100 in service.\nIn 1943 a more compact version of the M-100 was built and given the designation M-101.\nThe agentura piece does not give details on the characteristics of these machines.\nGerman interception of Soviet radio-teletype networks\nDuring the 1930’s the SU started to use radio-teletype. Since 1936 the Germans had equipment that automatically intercepted and printed this traffic.\nFrom TICOM reports it seems that the military networks used 2-channel teleprinters while the economic links used multichannel systems.\nThe 2-channel links employing cipher T/P assigned one channel for the cipher traffic and the other for operator ‘chat’.\nThere were at least three agencies that intercepted this traffic.\n1). The Army Ordnance, Development and Testing Group, Signal Branch Group IV C - Wa Pruef 7/IV C at an experimental station in Hillersleben-Staats.\n2). The Forschungsamt, an agency reporting directly to Hermann Goering.\n3). The Army’s signal intelligence agency OKH/GdNA/In 7/VI (General der Nachrichtenaufklaerung) and its Group VI - OKH/GdNA Group VI.\nForschungsamt success in 1943\nIn 1943 the Forschungsamt informed the Army agency of their success in reconstructing a Soviet cipher teleprinter used between Moscow and the Fronts. This machine was solved because during every pause seven characters of pure ‘key’ were transmitted. A meeting was held in September 1943 between Councilor Paetzel (head of the FA’s cipher research department), Councilor Kroeger (the FA’s cipher machine specialist) and the Army agency’s Dr Pietsch (head of the mathematical research department) and Doering (head of cipher machine research).\nThe Soviet machine had 6 wheels. Five enciphered the respective Baudot impulses while the sixth controlled their movement.\nThe wheels had the following positions (pins):\nwheel I – 49\nwheel II – 47\nwheel III – 46\nwheel IV – 45\nwheel V – 41\nwheel VI – 43\nThe Soviet scrambler corresponded to the left portion of the German SZ 40/42 cipher attachment. The Forschungsamt people stated that they would build a copy of this machine in order to decrypt this traffic more efficiently.\nMore details about the Forschungsamt solution of the Soviet cipher teleprinter are given by Bruno Kröger in TICOM reports DF-240 and DF-241. Kröger was the FA’s cipher machine expert and during the war he solved not only the Soviet machine but also the Swiss diplomatic Enigma K.\nThe Soviet cipher teleprinter was used on 2-channel networks and the FA’s Technical Division was able to build equipment that automatically intercepted and printed this radio traffic. The cipher text was then examined by Kröger’s department and it was discovered that during transmission pauses the Russian letter П was enciphered seven times in succession. Messages interrupted by transmission pauses were examined and their first and last seven characters analyzed in order to uncover the operating principles of the device.\nThrough this cryptanalytic procedure it was possible to find out that the machine had 6 wheels that stepped regularly, then their pin arrangement was identified and with the daily key recovered all the day’s traffic could be solved.\nThis success however turned out to be short lived since in late 1943 the Soviet cipher machine was modified and no pure ‘key’ was transmitted during transmission pauses. It seems that from then on this traffic was only examined by the Army’s Inspectorate 7/VI.\nEfforts of the Army signal intelligence agency\nThe Army agency Inspectorate 7/VI assigned its own unit to intercept and evaluate this traffic. This was Group VI operating during 1942-44 from Loetzen, East Prussia.\nUnteroffizier Karrenberg, the member of that unit assigned to work on the cipher teleprinter said in postwar interrogations that this traffic was first intercepted in 1940 in Warsaw. However it was not systematically collected and analyzed till summer 1943. They called this traffic ‘Bandwurm’ because of the non-repeating cipher.\nThere were 8 T/P links from the Army Fronts to Moscow plus 2-3 Airforce links and a link to the Far East command. It was also used by the NKVD. There was no direct T/P link between the individual Front staffs. Instead messages had to be routed through Moscow.\nAccording to Karrenberg the machine had two settings a large and a small. The large setting gave a simple substitution because the wheels did not turn. This was used for operator ‘chat’. The small setting gave an endless column substitution since the wheels moved.\nIn TICOM report I-153 he says: ‘In Autumn 1944 both the end of 'adder' and every pause in the cipher proper was preceded by seven key letters [redacted]. Then the traffic went off the air and reappeared in December with no external change except that the seven ‘residue' letters had been reduced to three, suggesting a modification of the machine’. In TICOM report I-30 he says that the attachment had 5 small wheels driven by a large one with a period of 43.\nThese were the same characteristic observed in the machine analyzed by the Forschungsamt. However another OKH cryptanalyst named Buggisch says that the FA machine and the ‘Bandwurm’ were different.\nBuggisch was assistant to Doering in the cipher machine research section of Inspectorate 7/VI. In his interrogation TICOM I-64 he says that the cycle of one wheel was 37 and the others 30-80. The machine was analyzed by the mathematics department and a cryptanalyst Troeblicher or Troebliger played a leading part. Thanks to a ‘compromise’ of 8 messages enciphered with the same settings 1.400 characters of pure ‘key’ were recovered. However they were not able to solve the machine because they lacked the manpower.\nUnfortunately Buggisch left the OKH agency in June 1944 so he did not know anything more.\nThe Germans may have failed to solve this machine but they were able to decode messages ‘in depth’ by anagramming. A machine was built that automatically printed the Baudot traffic in Hollerith/IBM cards and these were searched for repeats but with limited success.\nThe intercepted messages contained reports on Soviet and German military dispositions, statements by POW's, signal intelligence reports, reports for TASS and SOVINFORMBUREAU, letters concerning postings, transfers, promotions, weather situation reports and supply manifests.\nInformation from the War Diary of Inspectorate 7/VI\nMore details are available from the monthly reports found in the War Diary of Inspectorate 7/VI.\nIn July 1943 a report by dr Pietsch says that the examination of Russian Baudot material revealed cipher teleprinter traffic and an effort was made to copy this traffic either by LNA (Leitstelle der Nachrichtenaufklärung in Loetzen) or Staats (Wa Pruef 7/IV C). Processing was to be carried out at Referat 13:\n(2) Die eingehende Beobachtung der Baudot-Aufnahmen ergab, daß neben normalen Klar- und Chitexten auch Material anfällt, daß als eigentlicher Fernschreibschlüsselverkehr anzusprechen ist. Es wurden Maßnahmen verabredet, um das Material in einer zur Bearbeitung geeigneten Form (Lochstreifen, Einbeziehung des Verständigungsverkehrs) nach Berlin zu bekommen. Eine tiefergehende Bearbeitung dürfte nur an Ort einer Empfangsstelle (LNA oder Staats) möglich sein. Ob man jedoch beim Fehlen jeder Geräte-Kenntnis über primitive Feststellungen hinauskommen kann, bleibt abzuwarten. Über die weitere Entwicklung wird Referat 13 berichten.\nIn August ’43 the tapes with the Baudot traffic were examined but investigations could not be carried forwards due to the limited traffic and the many errors due to bad reception.\nIn September ’43 dr Pietsch and dr Doering (head of Referat 13) met with their Forschungsamt counterparts Councilors Paetzel and Kroeger (the FA’s cipher machine specialist), to discuss the Soviet cipher teleprinter problem.\nInvestigations continued and in November ’43 the analysts of Referat 13 succeeded in solving a long message and recovering the pure ‘key’:\n6. Russischer Baudot--‐Verkehr. Es gelang, für einen längeren Spruch den reinen Schlüssel zu erstellen und damit den Geheimtext zu lösen. Schlussfolgerungen über den Bau und die Wirkungsweise der Schlüsselfernschreibmaschine konnten bisher nicht daraus gezogen werden.\nIn December ‘43 the departments were renamed, with Referat 13 becoming Referat b2. A second message was solved and investigations continued:\n6. Russischer Baudot--‐Verkehr. Aus einem zweiten Spruchmaterial wurde stückweise der reine Schlüssel ermittelt. Weitere Materialen wurden laufend untersucht.\nIn February and March ’44 departments b1 (general research into cipher machines) and b2 (former 13) worked on the teleprinter problem, examining the Soviet 4-letter and 5-letter Baudot traffic and the movement of the cipher wheels of the device:\n3. Russischer Baudot--‐Verkehre: Neu in Angriff genommen wurde die Untersuchung von russischen 4B--‐ und 5B--‐Sprüchen, die in Baudot--‐Fernschreibverkehren auftreten. Die Untersuchungen befinden sich noch im Anfangsstadium.\n5. Russischer Baudot--‐Verkehr: Die Untersuchungen über die gegenseitige Abhängigkeit der einzelnen Impulse des reinen Schlüssels wurden an weiterem Spruchmaterial fortgesetzt.\nIn April ’44 department b1 stated that through analysis of the indicator groups the Soviet Baudot traffic could be subdivided into three distinct groups. The first being probably a cipher machine unlike the second and the third unclear:\n3. Russischer Baudot--‐Verkehre: Durch Kenngruppenuntersuchungen gelang Trennung des Materials in drei Gruppen, von denen die erste im Gegensatz zur zweiten möglicherweise von einer Maschine stammt, während das dritte Verfahren völlig ungeklärt ist.\nThe report of department b2 shows that there was a meeting at Wa Prüf 7 to better organize the interception of this traffic. Investigations on the recovered pure key continued.\nIn the following months investigations continued but no breakthrough was achieved. There were complaints about the limited traffic intercepted.\nIn December ’44 four messages in depth were solved and pure key analyzed:\nRussische Baudot verkehre\nAus dem anfallenden material könnte ein kompromiss von 4 phasengleichen sprüchen gefunden werden, der zum grössten Teil gelöst wurde. Mit Untersuchungen am reinen schlüssel wurde begonnen.\nIn January ’45 investigations of the recovered pure key continued and in February more in depth messages were solved:\nRussische Baudot verkehr\nAn der lösung weiterer phasengleicher sprüche wurde gearbeitet; ausserdem wurden die untersuchungen am reinen Schlüssel fortgesetzt.\nThe last report, of March ’45 says that investigations continued:\nRussische Baudot verkehr\nDie untersuchung der russischen Baudot-verfahren wurde fortgesetzt.\nThe Poets series cipher machines\nIn the immediate postwar period the Anglo-Americans were able to solve at least two Soviet cipher teleprinters. These were given the names Coleridge and Longfellow.\nColeridge was used on military networks in the European part of the Soviet Union. By March 1946 it had been solved. The Coleridge decrypts provided important intelligence about the Soviet military’s order of battle, training activities and logistical matters.\nThe other system, Longfellow, was reconstructed by July 1946 and the settings were first retrieved in February 1947.\nIt seems both machines were ‘lost’ in 1948 when the Soviets introduced emergency changes in their cryptologic systems.\nIt is not clear if Coleridge and Longfellow had a connection with the cipher machines that the Germans attacked during the war.\nColeridge may have been the system the Germans called ‘Bandwurm’.\nFrom TICOM I-2 ‘Interrogation of Dr. Huettenhain and Dr. Fricke at Flenshurg,21 May 1945’, p2\n... they also have another machine„ funkfernschreiber, which encodes during transmission. it uses the international five impulse teleprinter code.\nQ. Did the Russians use this machine much?\nA. It became increasingly important during the last 1 1/2 years.\nQ. What units used it?\nA. Only the highest staffs, press and diplomatic services.\nFrom TICOM DF-240 ‘Characteristics, Analysis and security of cryptographic systems’ - Parts III and IV, p37-39\nBoth texts indicated the pauses in transmission by - - - - - etc. The cipher tape has the peculiarity that in passing from the preliminary call-up to the transmission pause, the Russian letter Π, represented in the radio alphabet by + + + + +, occurs seven times.\nNow since it was natural to assume that in this transition to and from cipher texts the same letter Π= + + + + + likewise appeared seven times in each case but vas no longer recognizable due to the encipherment the first and last seven cipher values of all cipher texts interrupted by transmission pauses were subjected to special study. Since the machine, once the daily key had been set up, was used very frequently during the course of the day for sending cipher text with numerous pauses in transmission without any new daily key being set up, rather numerous fragments of a length of seven letters were available at known intervals of greater or lesser lengths.\nFrom this it could be concluded that the first seven and the last seven letters of each secret text came from enciphering the letter Π= + + + + + seven times and hence these fragments of cipher text represented pure key text. The following study of these fragments of pure key text led to a recognition of the fact that the first impulses show the same repeated picture in the chain of plus and minus impulses at an interval of 37, the second impulses at an interval of 39, the third impulses at an interval of 41, the fourth and fifth at an interval of 43 and 45 respectively (the intervals may have been 35, 37, 39, 41, 43). This showed the length of the five cipher wheels and their cam pattern according to the day’s setting. Each cam crest caused the inversion of the plain impulse into its opposite while a cam trough left a plain impulse unchanged. The wheels regularly moved one step after each cipher letter.\nWith this the decipherment of the cipher text had been accomplished. The reconstruction of the cam pattern of the wheels, which was set up new each day, was easily accomplished.\nFrom TICOM DF-241 ‘The Forschungsamt’- Part I, p25\n18. The Russian radio [2-channel] cipher machine with a channel for plain text and a channel for cipher text could be studied after the Technical Division had constructed a receiving device which at the same time removed the scrambling. The five elements of the radio alphabet [bands] ware enciphered singly through five wheels which move evenly. The wheels could be set up new each day corresponding to the daily key; but the period was constant and invariable. It was possible to solve this completely.\nFrom TICOM DF-241 ‘The Forschungsamt’- Part IV, p38\nIt need only be mentioned here that the 2-channel cipher machine was withdrawn from use a few days after the Forschungsamt succeeded in solving it. When the machine was put into use again some weeks later, the cipher device of the cipher channel had been so altered that solution by the previous method was no longer possible since, when switching the machine from procedure traffic to cipher text and between a pause in transmission and cipher text, the switching became effective at once and the idling period of 7 elements had dropped out. That the same machine was involved was proven only by the receiver device which still broke up the scrambled text into a clear and a cipher text in the same manner as before. Because OKH had great interest in this traffic and its own receivers did not work perfectly, and because further detailed work at this time (Autumn 1943) in the Forschungsamt was not possible, OKH received all new traffic on this machine for processing.\nFrom TICOM I-30 ‘Report on Interrogation of Uffz. Karrenberg at Steeple Claydon on 7th July 1945 at 11.00 am’, p2\nThe subject of this interrogation was confined to Karrenberg’s work on Russian Baudot letter ‘strip’, traffic known to the Germans as ‘BANDWURM’ and not to be confused with Russian 5-letter, traffic also carried on Baudot lines.\nThe Germans had not captured any of the apparatus used but considered that it consisted of two parts: 1) a Baudot-teleprinter with the letters of the Russian alphabet (excluding q and 'g') and figure and letter shift making 32 characters in all; 2) a cipher attachment consisting of 5 small wheels driven by one large wheel.\nEach of the small wheels had a pattern of positive and negative impulses and each wheel worked in conjunction with one of the five impulses produced by pressing a key of the teleprinter, the effect being to add a positive or negative impulse to each of the five impulses produced by the letter being sent. This in effect means adding a letter of key to the clear letter to produce a cipher letter.\nDepths were frequent on the traffic intercepted by the Germans, but they do not seem to have made any attempt to reconstruct the wheel patterns. In the case of the driving wheel they came to the tentative conclusion that it had a period of 43. The preambles of messages were always enciphered which resulted in stereotyped and known beginnings to messages. The machine setting for a message was indicated by means of a two figure number which presumably referred to a table of settings; a different table was used each day.\nBefore the actual start of a message a passage of operator's chat was sent enciphered by the addition of a constant letter to each letter of the clear text. This letter was then sent en clair- and repeated three times. The object of this was to see that the receiver had his machine net up correctly.\nThe system was used by the Army and Air Force and to a lesser extent by the N.K.W.D.\nFrom TICOM I-153 ‘Second Interrogation of Uffz. Karrenberg of OKH on the Baudot-Scrambler Machine (Bandwurm)’, p2\nP.W. stated that he believed the ‘Bandwurm’ traffic was first intercepted in 1940 in Warsaw. As far as he had been able to make out no interest had then been taken in it. The first actual knowledge we had of a traffic with the same external features (chat. indicators, eto.) was in summer 1943 when the first real interest was taken in it and the traffic was sent to Berlin for analysis. He understood that it went to a Dr. Pietsch and Doering.\nThere were a number of links usually varying according to the number of armies (Frontstaebe). The maximum number was 8. One end of each link was always in Moscow, the other would be mobile, and move with the armies. There were also one or two Airforce links. There was also supposed to be a link with the Far East. Traffic was heavier from the ‘outstations’ to Moscow.\nand page 3\nIn Autumn 1944 both the end of 'adder' and every pause in the cipher proper was preceded by seven key letters [redacted]. Then the traffic went off the air and reappeared in December with no external change except that the seven ‘residue' letters had been reduced to three, suggesting a modification of the machine. In general it is clear that some of the features of the key at least have not changed in the last nine months.\nFrom TICOM I-64 ‘Answers by Wm. Buggisch of OKH/Chi to Questions sent by TICOM’ , p2-3\n1. Russian Systems\nIn 1943 B heard that the Forschungsamt (no individual names given) had claimed some success on a Russian teletype machine, and had re-created the action of the machine. It was a machine with a very long cycle being not prime but the product of several smaller cycles--like the SZ42. B. did not know the cycle of all of the individual wheels or any other details. He heard this from DOERING, who was then doing his research on the T-52, but liaison with the FA was bad anyway (Major Mettig was particularly opposed to the SS taint) and the next he heard was that the traffic found by the FA had stopped. B. remembered only that the cycle of one wheel was 37; the others, he thought, varied widely from 30-80.\nLate in 1943 and increasingly in 1944 OKH itself began to intercept non-Morse, 5-impulse traffic (called ‘Hughes’ by B.). The Mathematics Referat went to work on it, with TROEBLICHER playing a leading part. At the end of 1943 the Russians created a ‘kompromiss’, giving a depth of about 8 messages with the same setting. With this they were able to recover 1400 letters of pure key and at the same time to ascertain that the traffic being passed was the 5-figure code, with regular station chat enciphered at the same time on the machine (Suggests a machine in constant motion as described by Karrenberg).Part of the depth was created within the same long message, so that the machine had a cycle, at least in this one case of about 1450 letters. The actual number was thought to be very significant by the Germans, as it was prime and so could not be the product of smaller cycles in any way that they could imagine. This differentiated it from the machine which the FA had broken. The Germans postulated either a single tape machine like the T43 or a machine in which the motions of the wheels influenced each other,1 and 2 affecting 3, 3 affecting 5, etc. as in the T52. They were never able to prove one theory or the other. (B. apologized for this. Said they did not have enough mathematicians to tackle the fascinating problem of determining what the motion must be to create this cycle. Seemed quite convinced that there would be a unique solution to the problem.) After this experience they devised Hollerith machinery to locate depths, but in fact they only found three or four more cases and none of these gave additional cycle evidence or even furnished as much pure key as the first one. B. left the section in June 1944. He thinks the traffic slumped off in the summer of 1944 and LNA took steps to try to improve the reception, as they believed the traffic was still there. TROEBLICHER was detailed to this end of the work at this time. B. stressed one fact which had surprised him, that they had never had information about either of these machines (he assumed that the one the FA broke was not the same because of the difference on cycles.) from PW or agent sources.\nB. said in passing that their own security idea on the subject of wheel machines of this sort was that the cycle should not be the product of smaller periods(as in Hagelin) even if this was long. Mutual influence of wheels should be used to avoid this, but at the same time care must be taken that too short a period was not created in the process. This in fact had apparently been done by the Russians, but the fact that it was not repeated suggested to him that they might have seen the weakness and corrected it.\nTroeblicher is mentioned in CSDIC (U.K.) SIR 1717, appendix A as Troebliger (Uffz). He worked in Group IV, Referat 1b as an analyst on Russian Baudot traffic.\nSources: CSDIC (U.K.) SIR 1717, SI-32 ‘Special intelligence report’, ‘European Axis Signal Intelligence in World War II’ vol2 and vol4, TICOM reports I-2, I-64, DF-98, I-30, I-153, I-169, I-173, DF-240, DF-241, ‘The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency’, Intelligence and National Security article: ‘Behind Venona: American signals intelligence in the early cold war’, Soviet cryptographic service 1920-1940 , Kriegstagebuch Inspectorate 7/VI\nAcknowledgments: It was Frode Weierud who first pointed to me the German interest in the Soviet teleprinter and the characteristics of the machine solved by the Forschungsamt in 1943. Credit also goes to Randy Rezabek for finding and uploading to the internet the interrogations of Karrenberg since they contain lots of information on the cipher machine.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Early Care & Education\nEarly care and education programs are crucial to a thriving economy, not only because they allow parents to work, but because the child care sector is large and purchases numerous goods and services. New economic development strategies toward enhancing child care access can improve child care financing and the business infrastructure associated with the child care sector.Additionally, significant investments in children’s well-being in the early years has enormous long-terms payoffs. Yet, quality early care and education supports in the U.S. are expensive and difficult to find, especially when compared with other developed nations.\nStudent parents make up 26 percent of community college students and many have young children, yet IWPR's research \"how-to\" manual demonstrating how other states can adapt the model to serve their specific policy needs.that child care available only meets a tiny fraction of the need. Improving child care access is not only about improving access to sources of care and education outside the home, but also requires increasing parents' ability to care for their own children. Significant investments in children's well-being in the early years has enormous long-term payoffs. IWPR has worked both national and state levels—in California, Kansas, Illinois, and the District of Columbia—to the costs of implementing early care and education expanses. IWPR also developed a\nIWPR’s work on Early Care and Education addresses:\n- Strategies for improving access to quality, affordable child care;\n- The need to integrate a range of family supports into a comprehensive early childhood system;\n- The economic development benefits of strengthening the early childhood sector;\n- System-building approaches, and costs and benefits involved with early childhood expansions; and,\n- The importance of improving job quality among early childhood educators.\nEducation and Training, IWPR\nVisit our external resources page for links to more information on this topic.\nLatest Reports from IWPR\nHigh Skill and Low Pay: The Economics of Child Care Work\nIn the midst of a debate over the cost and quality of child care and the appropriate public role in its provision, this paper documents the current situation of child care workers. Using available data from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and numerous salary surverys conducted by a variety of groups across the country, it describes who child care workers are, in terms of their gender, race, age, and education; the job titles, occupations, and settings in which they work; and the wages and benefits they receive.\n|Preview not available||\nWages of Salaries of Child Care Workers: The Economic and Social Implications of Raising Child Care Worker's Salaries\nTestimony before the Subcommittee on Children, Drugs, and Alcoholism, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U.S. Sebate, Washington, DC. Describes who are the child care workers, their salaries, reasons the salaries are so low, and teh effects of low salaries. Available by mail in limited quantities. E-mail iwpr [at] iwpr [dot] org to place an order.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Content created: 100909\nFile last modified: 180216\nThis page links to very brief summary data on the hominid fossils most likely to be of importance in any introductory course involving a small amount of human paleontology (including UCSD's MMW-11). For the most part, each species is on a separate page and includes a picture of a cast of a skull and, where available, a drawing or a picture of a waxwork reconstruction.\nSome scholars differentiate a subfamily called homininae (\"hominines\" or \"hominins\") to refer to these specimens, reserving the family name hominidae (\"hominids\") for broader range of species than previously, including chimps and gorillas. Since all hominin(e)s are hominids anyway, that term is ignored here. (Click here for a table showing the organization of classification categories.)\nA very brief glossary linked to the top of each page opens in secondary window. Except on this page, terms found in the glossary are underlined with small blue dots. They are not links —the link to the glossary is at the top of each page— but a brief definition will appear if you hold your mouse over them.\nTwo review quizzes are available for this material, Normal and Hero.\nStudents in MMW-11 are invited to use additional materials on a password-restricted page, Developments in Hominid Paleontology.\nThis set of materials takes its inspiration from a \"Hominid Guide\" devised by Dr. Nancy J. Friedlander in 1990 for use in the first quarter of \"Making of the Modern World,\" a world-civilization sequence in Eleanor Roosevelt College, UCSD. The present text is differently organized, newer, and much shorter. I have also added pictures. But the goal of an easily accessible, reasonably masterable introductory overview of the hominid fossil record for the convenience of beginning college students remains. I am most grateful for Dr. Friedlander's advice and assistance as I have sought to take account of changing information and new interpretive trends.\nReturn to top.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Recently a local reading group I attend reviewed Ayn Rand’s dystopian novelette Anthem. That book served as my introduction to Rand many years ago, and rereading it proved rewarding.\nIn our discussion, we explored a variety of topics:\n* The romance between the two lead characters, Equality and Liberty, develops as Equality becomes an independent thinker and scientist. This anticipates Howard Roark’s comment in Fountainhead, “To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I’.”\n* The way Equality values his scientific work anticipates the relationship between the heroes and their work in Atlas Shrugged. It illustrates Rand’s view that material objects are not valuable in themselves, but only in relation to individual values and consciousness.\n* For Rand, totalitarianism necessarily results, ultimately, in total economic collapse. The central reason for this is that political controls prevent individuals from acting on their own reasoned judgment, ultimately chilling reasoned thought as such. In the long run capitalism and technological progress cannot survive totalitarian controls. Contrast the primitive society of Anthem with the (in some ways) highly technical societies of other dystopias, such as Brave New World and, more recently,Hunger Games.\nBelow are the review questions used for our group (and others are free to reproduce these for purposes of discussion).\n1. What is the ego? (Peikoff’s 1994 introduction)\n2. How do the conditions surrounding the writing and publication of Anthem relate to the book’s theme? (Peikoff’s 1994 introduction, Rand’s 1946 foreword)\n3. What are the principles and laws of the story’s society, and what are the emotional consequences of Equality 7-2521 breaking them? (Chapter I)\n4. What is the connection between the collectivism and the technological regression of the story? (Chapter I)\n5. Why does Rand place the budding romance between the discovery of the tunnel and the Unspeakable Word? (Chapter II)\n6. What is the relationship between the advancing scientific discoveries and the building romance? (Chapter III, Chapter IV)\n7. Why does Equality say “our new power defies all laws?” Is he right? (Chapter IV)\n8. Why does Equality think “this wire is as a part of our body?” (Chapter V)\n9. Why does Equality believe the Council of Scholars will accept his gift? Why is he wrong? (Chapter V, Chapter VII)\n10. What is the significance of the observation that the electric light “would bring ruin to the Department of Candles?” (Chapter VII)\n11. How does Equality’s self-discovery connect to his love of the Golden One? (Chapter VIII, Chapter IX)\n12. How does Equality’s independence mesh with the Golden One’s deference toward him? (Chapter X)\n13. What is the “world ready to be born?” (Chapter X)\n14. What does Equality mean when he writes, “I am the warrant and the sanction?” (Chapter XI)\n15. What does Equality mean when he writes, “I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others?” (Chapter XI)\n16. How does Prometheus retain his independence while learning so much from others? (Chapter XII)\n17. How can one man stoke “the spirit of man?” (Chapter XII)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Through the eyes of a child investigating the aspects of society that matter to them, this title takes a visual approach to the study of the important periods for Key Stage 2 history. It includes details of where and how these civilisations lived and asks us to imagine themselves in a particular time and era. It is useful for readers aged 6-8.\n- Limba : Engleza\n- Data Publicarii : 25 May 2005\n- Format : Paperback\n- Numar pagini : 32\n- ISBN : 9781844432929", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Benefits of RCC construction over brick and mortar buildings\nFeb-09-2018 Post / benefits-of-rcc-construction-over-brick-and-mortar-buildings\nBenefits of RCC construction over brick and mortar buildingsTMT Steel Rods\nIt is the 21st century, and RCC constructions have replaced traditional brick and mortar style of buildings for most constructions. RCC stands for Reinforced Cement Concrete, which has steel cores, around which the cement-concrete matrix is poured. Bricks and mortar constructions are made with using bricks fixed to a mixture of cement, sand and water through masonry. Due to the vast technological difference in these building techniques, RCC holds obvious utilitarian profit over mortar based brickworks.\nHere are a few advantages of using RCC as a building material over brick and mortar constructions:\n- Load bearing path and capacity: RCC constructions have a longer load bearing path due to its strong Steel core while the brick structures lack this strength. When the load is multiplied for construction of higher stories, or during seismic activity, RCC constructions are practically better resilient due to their strength. This strength is multiplied due to high-quality TMT Steel rods that reinforce the cement concrete mixture. Even blocks survive better than the bricks. The mortar has to be replaced in every 5-10 years depending on exposure to moisture, loads and impacts. The RCC constructions can thus bear the loads for a large number of stories, compared to brickworks due to high load-bearing capacity.\n- Versatile Structures: The actual size of a construction is measured by the square inch area of the indoor rooms. The columns bear most of the weight, so it’s possible to minimize the number of walls in RCC, and even large halls or auditoriums are effortlessly constructed. Brickworks needs walls that bear their loads and thus results in smaller rooms’ size. Developments in lifestyle choices, construction industry, and commercial sector have resulted in preference to RCC for the same benefit of larger spaces and customized structures.\n- The depth of foundation: Brickworks need deeper trenches as a foundation to achieve better stability for their structures. RCC need lesser excavation for inserting TMT steel rods as reinforcements are over the ground, with a concrete cement mixture. This is because of the superior grip of TMT rods over concrete, then mortar has over brick. The lower brickworks also degrade over time, resulting in weaker bases and eventual failures.\n- Costs: Brickworks are cheaper compared to RCC if constructed for 2 stories or less. But overall costs including skilled labour, material costs, and wall areas result in an expensive construction for brick and mortar. The longevity of the RCC buildings makes them a cost-effective option in the long run.\n- Durable and Reliable: With the sturdiness of the Steel centre, RCC forms stronger bonds that stand strong during a catastrophe or tragic calamities. Brick and mortar structures have the deficit of a stronger core and bond that can withstand strong forces, therefore making them less reliable. RCC constructions are therefore more durable and reliable for life and property.\nThese are few of the many reasons why RCC constructions are slowly rendering brickworks extinct and only used for aesthetic appeal. The RCC is the future of construction technology, with a rapidly transforming industry to backbone its promises. India’s construction industry is a large contributor to its rising GDP and economy, and exports steel, cement, finished products, etc. Agni Steels’ is a proud manufacturer of high-quality TMT Steel rods and rebars, to strengthen the RCC constructions throughout South India. We hope to continue our service of providing strong steel bars at competitive prices for our valued customers.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The shortest distance from the East to West Coast would be 2,092 miles (3,347 km) from San Diego, CA to Jacksonville, FL.\nGeography of California\nWest Coast most often refers to coastline which is on the western side of a particular area. Many other terms refer to this initial meaning. Some of these things include:\nGeography of the United States\nCovering an area of 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km2), California is geographically diverse. The Sierra Nevada, the fertile farmlands of the Central Valley, and the arid Mojave Desert of the south are some of the major geographic features of this U.S. state. It is home to some of the world's most exceptional trees: the tallest (coast redwood), most massive (Giant Sequoia), and oldest (bristlecone pine). It is also home to both the highest (Mt. Whitney) and lowest (Death Valley) points in the 48 contiguous states.\nThe state is generally divided into Northern and Southern California, although the boundary between the two is not well defined. San Francisco is decidedly a Northern California city and Los Angeles likewise a Southern California one, but areas in between do not often share their confidence in geographic identity. The US Geological Survey defines the geographic center of the state at a point near North Fork, California.\nThe United States is a country in the Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, and the Eastern Hemisphere. It consists of forty-eight contiguous states in North America, Alaska, a peninsula which forms the northwestern most part of North America, and Hawaii, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. There are several United States territories in the Pacific and Caribbean. The term \"United States\", when used in the geographical sense, means the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States. The country shares land borders with Canada and Mexico and maritime (water) borders with Russia, Cuba, and the Bahamas in addition to Canada and Mexico.\nJacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida by population and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968. Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits; with an estimated population in 2012 of 836,507, it is the most populous city proper in Florida and the Southeast, and the 12th most populous in the United States. Jacksonville is the principal city in the Jacksonville metropolitan area, with a population of 1,345,596 in 2010.\nJacksonville is in the First Coast region of northeast Florida and is centered on the banks of the St. Johns River, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Georgia state line and about 340 miles (550 km) north of Miami. The Jacksonville Beaches communities are along the adjacent Atlantic coast. The area was originally inhabited by the Timucua people, and in 1564 was the site of the French colony of Fort Caroline, one of the earliest European settlements in what is now the continental United States. Under British rule, settlement grew at the narrow point in the river where cattle crossed, known as Wacca Pilatka to the Seminole and Cowford to the British. A platted town was established there in 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain; it was named after Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of the Florida Territory and seventh President of the United States.\nSan Diego / / is a major city in California, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 miles (190 km) south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico. San Diego is the eighth largest city in the United States and second largest in California and is one of the fastest growing cities in the nation. San Diego is the birthplace of California and is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the U.S. Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center. The population was estimated to be 1,322,553 as of 2012.\nHistorically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Cabrillo claimed the entire area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission of San Diego, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of newly independent Mexico, and in 1850, became part of the United States following the Mexican-American War and the admission of California to the union.\nFirst Coast Commuter Rail\nSouthern California, often abbreviated as SoCal, is a megaregion or megapolitan area in the southern portion of the US state of California. Large urban areas include the Greater Los Angeles, and Greater San Diego. The region stretches along the coast from about Santa Barbara to the United States and Mexico border, and from the Pacific Ocean inland to the Nevada and Arizona borders. The heavily built-up urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura, through the Greater Los Angeles Area, the Inland Empire and down to San Diego. Southern California is a major economic center for the state of California and the United States.\nSouthern California's population encompasses eight metropolitan areas, or MSAs: the Los Angeles metropolitan area, consisting of Los Angeles and Orange counties; the Inland Empire, consisting of Riverside and San Bernardino counties; the San Diego metropolitan area; the Bakersfield metropolitan area; the Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura metropolitan area; the Santa Barbara metro area; the San Luis Obispo metropolitan area; and the El Centro area. Out of these, three are heavy populated areas: the Los Angeles area with over 12 million inhabitants, the Riverside-San Bernardino area with over 4 million inhabitants, and the San Diego area with over 3 million inhabitants. For CSA metropolitan purposes, the five counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura are all combined to make up the Greater Los Angeles Area with over 17.5 million people. With over 22 million people, southern California contains roughly 60% of California's population.\nRace Across America\nThe First Coast Commuter Rail is a proposed commuter rail system serving Jacksonville, FL and northeast Florida. It is currently in the very early planning stages, having completed the first step of a fesibility study and currently pursuing an alternatives analysis.\nwest coast of united states\nThe Race Across America, or RAAM, is an ultramarathon bicycle race across the United States that started in 1982 as the Great American Bike Race.\nRAAM is among the best-known and longest annual endurance events in the world. All entrants must prove their abilities by competing in any of several qualifying events, completing a course within a specified time period. RAAM is sanctioned by the UltraMarathon Cycling Association (UMCA).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "STATUS IN THE WILD: Least Concern\nRANGE: South America\nPHYSICAL FEATURES AND CHARACTERISTICS\nBlack howler monkeys are one of the few primate species that have sexual dimorphism, which means that the males and females have different coat colors. The males have a black coat, while the females are blonde. Juveniles of both genders will also appear blonde until they reach sexual maturity. These primates have a prehensile tail that has no hair on the bottom side; this helps them grasp onto branches during locomotion. They have five fingers and five toes, which also help when climbing. They typically weigh between fifteen and twenty-two pounds and are around two to three feet in height. The males are usually taller and heavier than the females.\nTheir upper molars have sharp, shearing crests that are used to grind leaves. Howler monkeys, like all monkeys from the Americas, have nostrils that are far apart and sideways-facing, whereas African monkeys have nostrils that are close together and point in the same direction. Their hyoid bone (Adam’s apple) is enlarged, which restricts some of their arm movement and makes them rely even more on their tail for locomotion.\nThey are named after their vocalizations and can be heard most often around sunrise. The “dawn chorus” sounds more like roaring than howling and announces the howler’s position to other howlers. This call can be heard up to three miles away. The males have large throats that are specialized, with shell-like vocal chambers that allow their call to be heard far away.\nLIFESTYLE AND REPRODUCTION\nMale members of the group wake each morning at dawn with a “chorus” that is answered by other males. Since the howlers do not have exclusive territory and share parts of their range with others, this morning call helps them defend, define, and clarify the group’s home range. The weaker troops can identify the strong troops and avoid those areas while looking for food. These troops are usually between ten to twenty monkeys, with more females than males. When two different howler groups meet, they use a lot of energy in howling, leaping, running, and fighting. In order to not waste too much energy, the males spend a lot of time howling to defend their range.\nHowlers spend a lot of their day resting. Because they can only extract limited calories from their food, they have to be very cautious about how much energy they use. They do not like to jump from tree to tree and prefer to always have a hand, tail, or foot holding onto a tree as they reach to the next tree. They have been seen linking together hand-to-tail with multiple monkeys in order to make a bridge for the young howler monkeys to cross. Males handle all the disputes and defend the group from various predators. This allows the female to spend more time and energy on reproduction and caring for the young.\nFemales typically give birth every other year, resulting in one offspring after a one hundred eighty day gestation period. The young will reach sexual maturity around eighteen months of age. Tongue flicking is a ritualized display of sexual solicitation. Their tongue is pink with black bordering, which makes it easy to spot.\nBlack howler monkeys can be found in southern Brazil, Paraguay, eastern Bolivia, and northern Argentina. Since they do not have to travel far to find leaves, they stay in a small home range for most of their life.\nHowler monkeys spend almost all of their time in trees. They can be found in primary, arid deciduous, and broadleaf forests.\nThese primates are herbivores, mainly consuming tree vines, leaves, flowers, and tropical forest fruits. Howlers mainly eat leaves and greens, and spend little time eating the flowers and fruit since they are less abundant. When available, they will sometimes eat the eggs from birds’ nests. They get all their liquid they need from their fruits and plants; therefore, they are seen drinking little water.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The former Trakehnen is now situated in the Russian part of the former East Prussia and is called Yasnaya Polyana.\nOne year after the border opening in 1992 more than 60,000 visitors came to Kaliningrad, the former Koenigsberg, to see “Trakehnen”. For more than four decades this hadn’t been possible and the yearning was strong. There are no horses left in Yasnaya Polyana and the compounds of the former main stud farm, once rich in tradition, are threatened to fall apart after their more than 250 year long history. But the myth of the former stronghold of horse breeding still enchants horse and history aficionados alike.\nIt is the declared aim of the Association of friends and patrons of the former Trakehnen main stud farm to preserve two significant historic buildings. By means of contributions and membership fees alone the Association tries to save Trakehnen from falling into ruins. In accordance with the local population and the Russian authorities the cultural heritage is to be preserved. Thanks to the active support and help of many friends of Trakehnen the foundation walls could be dried and eaves and downspouts were replaced. The back of the Equerry’s house was renovated and freshly painted. Two museum rooms have been installed in the eastern wing and also the Trakehnen gate shines anew. Since the end of the 1940s a Russian school has been using the Equerry’s house.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "German mathematician and instrument-maker. In 1518, during a visit to Italy, struck up a friendship with Andreas Copernicus, Nicolaus's brother. Hartmann sought to measure magnetic declination, for which he computed relatively good approximations in several localities including Nuremberg and Rome. Made many high-quality mathematical instruments including sundials, astrolabes, globes, armillary spheres, and astronomical compendia, but also military instruments such as gunner's calipers. In 1533, published a manual on the construction of diptych dials. Other, unpublished works contain drawings of scientific instruments such as sundials and astrolabes.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Food Systems Project works to increase residents’ access to healthy, affordable food while educating residents about ways to eat healthy.\nGarden-Based Nutrition Education\nThe Food Systems Project offers a school garden based nutrition education program that partners with four Lansing schools to provide quality, effective nutrition education programming for elementary aged students (5-12 years old). Our program offers several components: in-school classroom lessons, an after-school garden club, a summer garden camp program, and community-based food sampling. These three programs reach over 1,000 students in grades K-6, working to promote healthy habits and increase student’s consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables!\nWe partner with four Lansing schools: Riddle Elementary, Willow Elementary, Gier Park School and Sheridan Road School. Each partner school has a garden which is used as an educational tool to teach students about growing, harvesting and preparing healthy, nutritious food! Students are engaged in the school gardens in many ways, participating in every step from choosing what to grow and preparing the soil, to harvesting, cooking, and eating the food. We visit over 40 classrooms for 1 hour visits each month", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Azaleas, with their stunning and vibrant blooms, hold a special place in the hearts of garden enthusiasts and nature lovers alike. These beautiful flowering shrubs have captivated people for centuries with their colorful displays and delicate petals. However, to fully appreciate the spectacle of azaleas in full bloom, it is essential to understand when these enchanting flowers come to life. In this article, we will delve into the fascinating world of azalea blooming, exploring the factors that influence their flowering patterns and discovering the optimal times to witness their breathtaking beauty. Whether you’re an avid gardener or simply an admirer of nature’s wonders, join us as we uncover the secrets of when azaleas bloom.\nWhen Do Azaleas Bloom?\nAzaleas typically bloom in the spring season, although the exact timing can vary depending on factors such as climate, location, and specific azalea varieties. In general, early-blooming azaleas can start flowering as early as late winter or early spring, while mid-season varieties typically bloom in mid to late spring. Late-blooming azaleas can extend the blooming season into early summer. It’s important to note that specific regions and microclimates can influence the exact timing of azalea blooms. To get a better understanding of when azaleas bloom in your area, consult gardening resources specific to your location or reach out to local horticultural experts for guidance.\nHow Do Different Climate Zones Affect The Blooming Time Of Azaleas?\nDifferent climate zones have a significant impact on the blooming time of azaleas. The primary factors influenced by climate zones include temperature, winter hardiness, and the length of the growing season. Here’s a breakdown of how different climate zones affect the blooming time of azaleas:\nCold Climate Zones:\nIn colder climates, where winters are harsh, and temperatures drop below freezing, azaleas often enter a dormant phase. They require a certain number of chilling hours to break dormancy and initiate blooming. Springtime bloom is delayed in cold climate zones due to prolonged winter conditions.\nTemperate Climate Zones:\nTemperate climate zones, characterized by mild winters and moderate temperatures, offer favorable conditions for azaleas. They typically bloom in spring when temperatures warm up, and frost risk diminishes. Spring-flowering varieties are well-suited to temperate regions.\nWarm Climate Zones:\nIn warm climate zones, where winters are mild, and temperatures rarely reach freezing levels, azaleas may bloom earlier or have an extended blooming period. These regions, such as the southern United States, can experience azalea blooms as early as late winter or early spring.\nMediterranean Climate Zones:\nMediterranean climates, characterized by mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers, can support azalea growth and bloom. Azaleas in these regions often bloom in the spring season when temperatures are moderate and moisture is available. However, careful water management is necessary during the dry summer months.\nThe Relationship Between Temperature And The Blooming Cycle Of Azaleas.\nTemperature plays a crucial role in the blooming cycle of azaleas. Here’s an overview of the relationship between temperature and the blooming cycle of azaleas:\nChilling Requirements: Azaleas, like many other plants, have specific chilling requirements. They need a certain number of cumulative hours of exposure to cool temperatures (typically between 32°F to 45°F or 0°C to 7°C) during their dormant period to break dormancy and promote blooming. This chilling period allows the plant to undergo necessary physiological changes and prepare for the upcoming blooming season.\nBud Development: After the chilling requirement is met, azalea buds develop. The timing and duration of bud development depend on the temperature conditions. Warmer temperatures stimulate faster bud development, while cooler temperatures slow down the process. Optimal temperatures for bud development usually range between 45°F to 55°F (7°C to 13°C).\nBloom Initiation: Once the buds have developed, azaleas require a specific temperature range to trigger blooming. For most azalea varieties, temperatures between 55°F to 65°F (13°C to 18°C) are conducive to bloom initiation. Warmer temperatures can accelerate blooming, while cooler temperatures may delay it.\nFlowering: As the buds transition into flowers, temperature conditions continue to influence the duration and intensity of blooming. Mild temperatures within the preferred range (around 60°F to 70°F or 15°C to 21°C) are ideal for promoting vibrant and prolonged blooming. Extreme heat or cold spells can negatively impact blooming, leading to shorter durations or less impressive flower displays.\nAzalea Bloom Periods By Region\nAzalea bloom periods can vary by region due to differences in climate, temperature, and local growing conditions. Here’s a general overview of azalea bloom periods based on different regions:\nIn Northern regions with colder climates, such as northern parts of North America, Europe, or Asia, azaleas typically bloom later in the spring. Blooming may occur from late spring to early summer, depending on the specific variety and local weather conditions. These regions often experience delayed blooming due to extended winter conditions and a shorter growing season.\nIn temperate regions with moderate climates, including many parts of North America, Europe, and Asia, azaleas tend to bloom during the spring season. The bloom is generally in mid to late spring, around April to May, when temperatures are milder and frost risks decrease. This is when a wide range of azalea varieties showcase their vibrant flowers.\nIn southern regions with warmer climates, such as the southern United States, parts of Australia, or Southeast Asia, azaleas may bloom earlier and have an extended blooming period. Some azalea varieties can bloom as early as late winter or early spring, taking advantage of the milder winter conditions. Blooming can continue into spring and early summer, depending on the specific variety and local temperatures.\nMediterranean climates, found in areas like California, Southern Europe, or parts of South Africa, offer favorable conditions for azalea blooming. Azaleas in these regions often bloom in the spring season, similar to temperate regions. However, it’s essential to manage water availability during the dry summer months to support healthy blooming.\nHow To Prune Azaleas For Optimal Blooming?\n- Prune azaleas immediately after they finish blooming. This allows the plant to recover and produce new growth before setting buds for the next season’s blooms. Pruning at the wrong time, such as fall or winter, can remove potential flower buds and reduce blooming.\n- Start by removing any dead, damaged, or diseased branches. Cut them back to healthy tissue, making clean cuts just above a leaf node or bud. This helps maintain the overall health of the plant and improves air circulation, reducing the risk of diseases.\n- Azaleas can become dense and overcrowded over time. Thin out the interior branches to improve light penetration and airflow within the plant. Remove some older, woodier branches, focusing on opening up the shrub’s center. This encourages new growth and enhances blooming potential.\n- Azaleas can be pruned to maintain a desired shape and size. Use hand pruners or shears to trim long or unruly branches to a desired length. Take care not to remove more than one-third of the plant’s growth in a single pruning session to avoid stressing the azalea.\n- While pruning is essential, avoid excessive or aggressive pruning, as it can reduce blooming. Azaleas form flower buds on old wood, so removing too many branches can eliminate potential buds for the next season’s blooms. Focus on selective pruning rather than extensive removal.\nPruning azaleas at the right time and with proper techniques is essential for optimal blooming. Remove dead or diseased wood, thin out overcrowded branches, and shape the plant to maintain its desired size and form. However, avoid over-pruning, as it can reduce future blooming potential. Remember to prune azaleas immediately after they finish blooming and be mindful of each variety’s specific growth habits. With careful pruning, you can help promote healthy growth, improve air circulation, and encourage abundant blooms in your azaleas.\nQ: Can I prune azaleas during the blooming season?\nA: It is generally recommended to avoid pruning azaleas during the blooming season. Pruning at this time can remove potential flower buds and diminish the current season’s blooms. It’s best to prune azaleas immediately after they finish blooming.\nQ: How much can I prune off my azaleas?\nA: When pruning azaleas, avoid removing more than one-third of the overall plant’s growth in a single pruning session. Removing excessive amounts of growth can stress the plant and reduce blooming potential. Focus on selective pruning to maintain the shape and size of the azalea while preserving its overall health.\nQ: What tools do I need to prune azaleas?\nA: For pruning azaleas, you will need a pair of sharp bypass hand pruners or shears. These tools will allow you to make clean cuts and minimize damage to the plant. Additionally, it may be helpful to have a pair of loppers for thicker branches or a pruning saw for larger pruning tasks.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The search for\nultimate meaning is a thread that runs through every culture, however wedded it\nmay be to the practical and tangible. Gold and empire are greatly prized but\nalways there are individuals who look for something else. The Mughal emperor\nAkbar’s inward journey was both long and arduous. Even the Material Girl has\nher own special space for the spiritual.\nBut nowhere is it better exemplified than in the pilgrim’s quest. When the devotee sets out, like Kim’s Lama in search of the River of the Arrow, it is with a humble heart and the hope of absolution or salvation at the end of the journey. That is the end of desire. These journeys are both internal and external and in each case generate a network of guide posts to help successive generations of travellers.\nThere are all sorts of networks, visible and invisible, written and drawn. Nor are they confined to the spiritual. The notes that Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton or Galileo left behind are also signposts. They served as maps for men and women curious enough to learn more about the anatomy of the universe.\nThat is not the end of it, however, as the landscapes we inhabit are often notional and emotional, requiring a different sort of navigational aid. The Egyptian Book of the Dead, for instance, consists of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife, a map into a different sort of geography.\nSomewhat in this spirit is Diana L Eck’s India A Sacred Geography, where she provides insights into a realm that everyone has experienced but few have bothered to explore in any depth. Her concern is the Indian religious landscape, principally Hindu religious landscape, external, internal and hypothetical. That is a deliberate limit she places upon her study. It is a daunting task even with that constraint. The Indian religious tradition is more than 3,000 years old, at least the organised segment of it. Some practices are older, perhaps beyond recorded time.\nThis tradition has\ncontinued to evolve over the millennia, splitting into branches and\nsubdivisions and coming together again in some cases. In some instances,\noutside influences have modified and moderated its main features. At least two\nmajor religions and several existent minor variations on the theme have come\ninto being as a result of this process, and we are not including the tribal\nfaiths which cannot be strictly classified as Hindu. Wisely, Diana Eck makes no\nmention of them either as it would complicate her task impossibly.\nIn addition to the indigenous faiths we have an extensively recorded history of Islam and Christianity, not to speak of Judaism (a very small sample to be sure) and Zoroastrianism. Of the first two there are millions of practitioners in every corner of the land, of every conceivable school of thought. Given the wealth of material, therefore, a certain economy of effort was probably inevitable. All the same, the geography of these faiths deserves separate study.\nEveryone is familiar with the term “geography” in the sense of a description of or a pictorial representation of the landscape under the gaze of the observer. The atlas is the best example of geographic representation and there are many types, from the detailed large-scale maps of the surveyor, to the smaller maps of countries that we see in the bookshops.\nThere are in addition the population, natural resource, roadway and railway, wildlife and forestry maps. Indeed, there are as many geographies in our lives as fields of interest. Each is capable of cartographic representation, immediate instances being the charts and diagrams of weather, stock market cycles, and so on in the daily newspaper.\nThen there is Google Maps, a wondrous use of available technology to provide detailed information about every part of the planet. The first view when you click on it is the familiar outline you will see in any atlas, but zoom in on a particular area and you see increasing, richer and finer details until you can view the houses and streets in your neighbourhood. That is your personal geography and mine, paths we traverse every day in the routine of work, study, worship, leisure and errands.\nThey set out from their villages and towns, sometimes alone, sometimes in small groups and occasionally in large bands, travelling vast distances in search of God. Many never came back, lost forever to their friends and families at home. Some became wanderers, others died and some went to Kashi or Mecca or some other sacred place to die .\nNow if we bend our minds to thinking like this we will find another interesting fact. This personal geography is repetitive and highly predictable; we go more or less the same way on most days, with only minor deviations. Consciously or unconsciously, our routines define the major part of our worlds and confine them.\nTrevor Bailey, former\nEngland cricketer, was among the most travelled men of his time, having visited\nthree continents playing for his country. But he considered himself a stay-at-home\ntype. Most of his life, he said, was spent in an area approximately half a\nsquare mile (about 300 acres) in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Birth, childhood,\nschool, work, family, and retirement home, all were crowded into that little\nspace, a remarkable fact, considering Bailey was born in the Age of Mobility,\nsocial and physical.\nBut it is when we\nare confronted with the fact of pilgrimage and its antiquity that the real\nsurprises begin. Until the end of the 19th century, travel of any sort was both\nuncertain and dangerous, especially for ordinary people. As a result, few\npeople ventured out of their environment. Merchants and the nobility had their\nown armed retainers, but hostile locals were not the only problem. Disease, ignorance\nof the country, flood and famine could be equally deadly, equally final.\nThose of us who have travelled to Haridwar or Badrinath, Rameswaram or Puri by train, bus or car can have no idea of a journey without any of these conveniences. At best, you could ride a fast horse or a cart. The majority walked, day in day out, the only comfort being that every day brought them closer to the end.\nYet they set out from their villages and towns, sometimes alone, sometimes in small groups and, occasionally, in large bands, travelling vast distances to the remotest places, in search of God. Many of them never came back, lost forever to their friends and families at home. Some became wanderers, others died and some went to Kashi or Mecca or some other sacred place to die.\nRoopkund in the Garhwal Himalayas is a glacial lake 5,029 metres (16,499 ft) above sea level. It is piercingly cold, uninhabited and covered in snow most of the year. In 1942, H.K. Madhwal, a ranger from the Nanda Devi game reserve reported some 500 human skeletal remains lying at the edge of the lake. It wasn’t really news as similar reports had been coming in since the 19th century. No one knew where they had come from though rumour had added sinister overtones to a deep mystery.\nA comprehensive study of the remains in 2004 turned up some astonising results. The remains dated from approximately 850 AD, more than 1,000 years ago. DNA evidence indicated that at least one part of the group probably comprised Kokanastha Brahmins in Maharashtra.\nWhat inspired them to travel halfway across the subcontinent into completely alien terrain and climatic conditions is not known, but the remarkable fact is that they did so. Why? There is no historic evidence of trade routes into Tibet, but there is an important pilgrimage in the area, the Nanda Devi Raj Jat, once in 12 years. That is the likely explanation, but this too is speculative.\n“The footsteps of pilgrims are the point of departure in creating the lived landscape. Pilgrims leave home, and the tracks of their journeys create a circuit of meaning and connection.”\nThis is the heart of the thesis in A Sacred Geography. Diana Eck devotes an entire chapter to a Hindu “Atlas of the World” including Jambudvipa (Rose Apple Island, an old name for India) but the real focus is on the pilgrim, the sites of pilgrimage and the groups of sites that make up the various circuits, in terms of the auspicious numbers, fours, sevens, twelves, and so on.\nThe pilgrim is of necessity a humble person. Princes, potentates and plutocrats have recourse to the sacrifice and ritual, but a man alone, of humble station, cannot afford the indulgence. For him it is the tirtha, where he can make the crossing from the mundane to the sacred. The Mahabharata, in the section on sacrifice, states: “The holy practice of pilgrimage excels even the sacrifice.”\nLiterally speaking, a tirtha is a ford or crossing, as in a river ford. It is especially potent spiritually because a tirtha is a place where the gods are nearby and much more inclined to hear the pilgrim’s prayers.\nIt thus becomes a place of transcendence as well, where devotee and deity become one, for however brief a time. This is a claim hotly debated, often derided and sneered at by disbelievers, but on a pilgrimage it is hard to ignore the genuine exaltation that takes over some of the devotees. They seem to slough off the dead skin of habit. Perhaps that is why some of them never return to normal life, preferring vairagya (renunciation). These are the persons who make the tirtha, the crossing.\nThis is what makes\nthe pilgrimage so special and the pilgrim a figure of reverence. It is his\nfeet, his heart and his faith that have created all the sacred geographies on\nthis planet. It is the experience that sanctifies the geography, the lived\nlandscape, as Eck terms it. Whether it is the Char Dham, Badrinath, Dwarka,\nPuri and Rameswaram, the Sapta Sindhu, or the 12 Jyotirlingas, the lingas of\nlight, all are mediated by the lived experience of the faithful.\nAs Andrew Sinclair notes in The Discovery of the Grail, the real story is not the mystery or the breathless conspiracy theories that surround the Grail legend, but the simple faith that over the centuries moved millions of pilgrims to walk the trail the Holy Grail is supposed to have taken into Europe. In their faith they created a sacred geography every bit as evocative as the Passion of Christ. As the faith waned the trail was overgrown and then forgotten, and surely there is a lesson in that.\nIt is appropriate to ask at this point to ask if faith is a form of delusion, a fever of fancy that has no connection with reality, or is it a miraculous act of creation? Eck does not make a direct attempt to answer it, but the response is implicit. She is concerned mainly with the lived experience and that has a value no one can gainsay.\nIt has long been fashionable to devalue religion by anchoring it in community power play, or by explaining it in terms of neurosis, obsessive behaviour with strong sexual undertones. Both explanations have provided many genuine insights but they often trail off into pseudo-psychological hyperbole. They discount the possibility that their explanations are not the last word on the subject.\nEck’s position resembles that of William James, the 19th century pragmatist. He was perfectly willing to concede that the whole of religion may be delusional, but an individual’s experience still had value to him if no one else.\nHe held that all the forensic investigation in the world could not, indeed should not, devalue that experience. It was not susceptible to the usual kinds of rational analysis.\nThe deity is the\ncentre of the devotee’s world. Everything fades besides that passion and\neverything becomes possible because of it. The story of Ekalavya is one of the\nfinest accounts of unquestioning humility leading to a power that could have shaken\nthe world if he had not been betrayed by his idol, Dronacharya. The contours of\na sacred geography are defined even more clearly by this passion of devotion.\nDeity and devotee thus share in this common task.\nGeographies can be global, regional or local, as Eck reminds us time and again. The Char Dham is for all of India, but there are many of these tirthas. For instance, in the high Himalayas lie Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri, its four great pilgrimages.\n“In rural Chitrakut, where Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana are said to have halted in a forest ashram, there are also four dhams to be visited.” Then Eck goes on to speak of a village called Ghatiyali in Rajasthan where too there is a Char Dham yatra. It has nothing to do with the one we are familiar with.\nThey can also be overlapping. The statue of Gomateswara or Bahubali at Shravanabelgola in Karnataka is a breathtaking work of art, but it is also one of the great centres of pilgrimage, for Hindus and Jains, as is the temple complex of Girnar in Saurashtra, Gujarat. Girnar too has Char Dham in the needle peaks of the range.\nGaya and Kashi are sacred to Hindus, but for Buddhists they have equally great significance, both being important sites in the evolution of Gautama. The same could be said for a hundred other sites, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Ajmer Sharif in Rajasthan, Shirdi in Maharashtra, Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh and, possibly also Puttaparthi.\nOften they run parallel despite the overlap. Thus the Madhava shrines of Krishna in south Karnataka are visited by thousands of people of all denominations of Hinduism, but the sect that tends them may have nothing do with any other. This is also probably true of the Lingayats who would be unlikely to go to any temple other than Shiva’s.\nSo it is perfectly possible to have two groups of pilgrims travelling side by side for miles on end with neither having the slightest idea of or interest in the other’s object of devotion. Indians are quite used to this form of polite indifference, living as they do among so many creeds and their sub-sects.\nA Sacred Geography explores in detail some of the outstanding pilgrim circuits, the great river sanctuaries, the abodes of Shiva, Shakti, Vishnu, Krishna and Rama. Not all of them are covered, partly because that would make the work too big, but also because Eck’s task is the exposition of her idea of sacred geography. The tone is one of reverence but she is careful not to descend into hagiography.\nAt certain times of the year the road from Meerut to Haridwar is full of quiet, sunburnt men and women on their way by train, bus or on foot. They generally travel in family or village groups, all bent on the same task. They rarely speak to anyone, but if you speak to them they reply with grave courtesy.\nThey have travelled hundreds of miles from their little villages in Rajasthan for the pilgrimage to Ganga Mata. When they go back they will take some of her waters for their homes. It is a journey that has been repeated by countless generations of their forbears and it may continue for generations to come.\nIn their unquestioned devotion to the Goddess, they have created an odyssey of their own, sanctified by a passion that is larger than themselves. It is this spirit that Diana Eck celebrates and salutes.\nSacred Geography does not dodge the difficult and troubling questions raised by faith as politics in the hands of opportunists, but it also recognises the central role of that faith in our lives.\nIndia: A Sacred\nby Diana L Eck\nRandom House Publishers India.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered in California. The discovery of gold came during an era in United States history when the force of evangelical Christianity was in operation along with that of the nation's Manifest Destiny, which was a charge to expand the reach and influence of American territory and ideals. Evangelicalism and imperialism were institutions that America's experience of the previous two centuries had informed in a unique way.\nIn this paper I will begin to explore the interaction between California Gold Rush mining camps and evangelicalism; I also will attempt to discern the particular style of evangelism that prevailed in the camps and mining towns.\nAn extraordinary amount has been written about the Gold Rush, but very little of what I had access to or found referenced was concerned specifically with religion and the Gold Rush. Because of this, I have drawn upon secondary sources that describe either the gold camps in general or religion in the San Francisco Bay area, and necessarily I have done a fair amount of speculation.\nCalifornia had belonged to Mexico. The United States acquired it as a territory in 1848 at the end of the Mexican War, and in 1850 California was admitted to the Union as the thirty-first state.\nAlthough California was not an issue in the 1844 presidential campaign, apparently a sudden interest in California had come about in 1843. One commentator mentions not only the key locations of San Francisco and Monterey, but especially the ineptness of Mexican rule, the fear of possible British expansion, and Manifest Destiny as arousing American interest.1 At that time, \"the press fostered in every conceivable way the emigration to the coast.\" 2 The huge amount of underpopulated land must have drawn people, but so did deposits of silver, lead, gold and iron reputed to be abundant throughout the unexplored far Western territories.3 Here is a chart depicting California population growth from 1848 to 1860:\nSome time earlier, in 1839, John A. Sutter had arrived in California from Switzerland and had acquired about 50,000 acres of land. On January 24, 1848 one of \"Sutter's Men,\" James Marshall, a carpenter from New Jersey, discovered gold at Sutter's Mill at Colonna, a Sacramento territory on the American River.California Population\n1848. . . . . . . . . 14,000\n1849 (end). . . . 100,000\n1852. . . . . . . . 250,000\n1860. . . . . . . . 380,000\nDespite attempts to keep the discovery secret, by June many residents of San Francisco and Monterey were caught up in the quest for gold. By August, Gold Fever had reached all of California, Hawaii, Oregon and British Columbia; within the next few months it spread to Mexico, Peru, Chile and the rest of the United States. By 1849 virtually the entire known world knew about it.4\nNewspapers were important in making known the discovery of gold. Correspondence to eastern newspapers was a significant factor: as alcaldes (mayors) and ministers wrote letters to the papers, their status gave credibility to rampant rumors regarding the quantity and the reality of the gold.\nThere appears to be general agreement on characteristics of the Gold Rush population. They were male, single, and fairly young; about half of them were American-born; there were a very few wives and children of the miners, and these mainly were in the towns.5 A lot of the argonauts – or goldseekers – went to California as members of an organized company or cooperative association, but almost inevitably these companies disintegrated on the trail or shortly after arrival at their destination. Most miners lived in pairs, a few lived singly or in larger groups—the groups were made up mostly of those from \"common origins.\"6 By profession, miners were predominantly artisans, traders and unskilled laborers.\nOne writer says there were always a few school teachers and ministers;7 another, that there were a disproportionate number of ministers: \"one observer, doubtless exaggerating, estimated the preachers at one in ten.\"8 Also, California clergy were as much part of the Gold Rush as the Goldseekers: \"The Gold Rush was simply the vehicle God had chosen for the evangelization of the whole world.\"9 . . . \" [The preachers] imposed the Blue Law Gospel on mining society and prayed to strike a bonanza in souls.\"10 A goal was to \"make California the Massachusetts of the Pacific.\"11 The sources cited above make no distinction between ministers who traveled to California with Goldseekers or as Goldseekers and those who were sent by denominations or other church groups. There were missionaries: the American Home Missionary Society commissioned and sent missionaries to California shortly after the initial discovery of gold.12 13\nThis describes only those ministers and preachers who were either sent to or drawn to California by Gold Fever, because the history of Christianity in California already was close to three hundred years old by the time of the Forty-Niners! In 1579 Francis Drake's chaplain read an Anglican service in California.14 Twenty-one Franciscan missions had been established in California from San Diego in the south to Sonoma in the north.15 In 1776, San Francisco (Yerba Buena) was established by the Spanish as a mission and presidio.16 However, by the mid-nineteenth century some missions had decayed, though some still were flourishing.17\nIn 1826, the Reverend Jedidiah Strong Smith, known as the \"Bible Toter,\" was the first American to travel overland to California.18 The Reverend Walter Colton, the first resident minister in California, was Alcalde of Monterey beginning in 1846;19 in April 1847, two Methodist missionaries on their way to Oregon stopped at San Francisco and started a Sunday school.20 Also, before the end of 1847 (and prior to the discovery of gold), ministers acted as town officials, preached sermons, and started a few schools.21\nVirtually all sources affirm the popular image of the Forty-Niners and their lifestyle as being – in most cases – at least close to the way things actually were. Every mining town had a commercial district that usually included bars, casinos, hotels, brothels, restaurants and dance halls, with bars apparently the main form of entertainment! One source says, \"Unquestionably life in California's gold days was characterized by highly pathological conditions, even to the extent of social insanities.\"22 The same source mentions gambling as an obsession, says that everyone, including judges and ministers, gambled.23 Another speaks of \"the tidal wave of iniquity which was gold rush California.\"24\nThere is evidence that as the Gold Rush got underway evangelism became a major activity in the San Francisco area. In a broad, fairly inclusive sense, evangelism can be defined as any activity undertaken with the intent of bringing people to Christianity. More specifically, the evangelical movement within nineteenth century Protestant American Christianity focused intensely on the redemptive person and work of Jesus Christ, on the Bible as the Word of God, and on the individual's relationship with God in and through Jesus Christ.\nIn the goldmining areas, just as elsewhere in the United States at that time, the actual process of evangelism tended to take one of two forms: social and reform movements, such as temperance, abolitionism and sabbatarianism; and spoken proclamation of the Gospel, usually in the form of a sermon, most often in the context of a revival meeting. And quite surprisingly, in San Francisco and the surrounding area there also was an attempt to give \"The Church\" institutional forms analogous to those in the East through the building of physical facilities and the calling of ordained ministers to pastor the congregations that gathered around the buildings. Two or more congregations sharing the same building was not uncommon; surprising, too, is that seemingly most of the congregations were established under denominational, rather than independent aegis. Among these were Baptist (1849), Congregational (1849), Episcopal (1850) and Unitarian (1850) churches.25 No denominations of continental European origin appear to have been represented. Also, since the author of \"Blue Law Gospel\" cites many contemporary denominational periodicals, there must have been readers for them.\nIt was in more settled areas such as San Francisco, Monterey and Sacramento that congregations were gathered and established. The content of the ministry offered by and for these congregations is not altogether clear, though doubtless it included at least support for various reform movements, as well as preaching and more-or-less formally structured worship. In the available literature, casual references to Gold Rush towns seem to indicate that it was just a short ride from one town to another, although that was by no means the case, given that the actual physical distance from one locale to another made a journey for the purpose of attending worship out of the question.\nHere are mileages between some points:\nAs one might expect from the evangelical tradition that had developed a convention of calls to individual repentance and conversion within the context of the revival meeting, it appears revival meetings were the chief form of evangelism within the Gold Camps, as well as a popular form of entertainment. And with the goal of bringing individuals – and through them, the whole society – into the kind of \"right living\" subscribed to by the assorted reform movements, representatives of reform movements, particularly of Sabbatarianism (dedicated to proper observance of the Sabbath, or Sunday), were quite active within the mining camps. Injunctions were directed against vices such as drinking, gambling, swearing, card-playing, prostitution, smoking, dancing and theater-going, primarily because of the tendency of people to break the Sabbath with these particular sins.26 Martin Marty says \"they usually spoke first in terms of rescue (to save men from sin and a corrupt society) to be followed by repair of society through rescued individuals and finally through reform.\"27Mileages between some points\nMonterey – Sacramento . . . . . 198\nMonterey – San Francisco . . . . . 124\nMonterey – Stockton . . . . . 139\nSacramento – San Francisco . . . . . 85\nSacramento – Stockton . . . . . 55\nSan Francisco – Stockton . . . . . 81\nIn the camps six day weeks were the rule, a practice that was a response to the fourth commandment!28 Sunday was a day for various chores and amusements, as well as for attending camp meeting. John Walton Caughey describes camp congregations as \"rough-looking but remarkably alert, attentive, and openhanded.\"29\nThe text of a diary highlighting the journey of a gold-seeker from Indiana to California refers to \"Sabbath\" a total of eighteen times. The entry for September 23, 1849, describes a Sabbath in one camp:\nThis is the first Sabbath I have been in the gold mines of California and I must acknowledge that the morals of the people are much better than I expected to find and we have been permitted to spend the day in peace & quietness though many are at work in the mines they are two or three miles from the encampment and do not appear to wish to disturb those who wish to observe the day; . . . the trip coming together with one years residence here will impair the constitution as much as ten years residence in any of the States . . . I am now convinced that I done very wrong in coming here with the hope of bettering my pecuniary condition alone and I now declare and humbly ask God to enable me to perform my promise that if I am again permitted to return [to] a land of peace and quietude that with the proceeds of honest industry I will strive to be content.30It appears that many argonauts were responsive to being evangelized and \"saved\" but many were not. There is one reference to preachers preaching in bars in an effort to spread the Gospel,31 but in contrast, an argonaut is quoted as saying, \"We are not burdened with religion here in California.\"32\nWithout differentiating between circuit riders and those called to serve a gathered local congregation, one writer says, \"The pioneer preacher was far more than a preacher . . . It was incumbent upon him to become a public servant, with humane instincts, benevolent heart, ready to respond to any call for help from people of every station in life.\"33\nThere is no evidence of evangelism directed specifically toward any of the many ethnic groups that were part of the Gold Rush population.\nGoldseekers and evangelists each seem to represent a major aspect of the nineteenth-century American ethos. There is an stereotypical image of the American citizen – whether native-born or foreign-born – as one more concerned with ideals and \"self-fulfillment\" than with establishing roots in a given place.\nAlthough early American colonists indeed were concerned enough with ideals to uproot themselves and move to a place in which they envisioned the fulfillment of their dreams, much of the driving force of early colonization actually was toward social cohesion and community—exemplified by the concept of covenant: the will of God and of the group for the common good. Although many of the miners were employed by others, the Forty-Niners' overriding passion appears to have been for personal (and private!) wealth, with no thought given to any larger, more extended community—least of all in the style of their lives in the gold camps. However, by the mid-nineteenth century the American ideal had gradually turned from the group to the individual and the Goldseekers almost perfectly exemplified this idea of individual fulfillment.\nFrom the beginning, imperialism had been a major force and factor in American history, and whether to expand actual land holdings or to expand the influence of their own economic, religious or social ideals, Americans had a long history of believing their own ideas and ideals superior, and therefore of being justified in visiting them upon others. And for the most part, especially at mi-nineteenth century, Americans believed their mission was identical to that of establishing God's reign upon earth.\nAt the time of the Gold Rush, those who felt called to evangelize and convert the Goldseekers possessed, or were possessed by, a variety of imperialistic fervor that seems natural for that particular moment in American history: the tradition of imperialism and expansion had been unbroken since early colonial beginnings, and the Second Great Awakening (1800-1830 – an evangelical movement that informed virtually every aspect of culture in the United States) had been recent enough that its effects still were operative, particularly in the way conservative evangelical Christianity was fused with American nationalism. The far West was seen as another part of the Western Hemisphere to be explored and claimed for God by Protestants (Catholicism was not evangelical in style; therefore it didn't have the kind of authenticity Protestants attributed to their type of Christianity). The fruits of the Awakening also had generated many social and reform movements.\nHere, too, there was continuity with an earlier, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century spirit and departure from it. In both these cases there is a consciousness of the \"rightness\" of Christianity, but although earlier the covenant community had been the focus and goal of bringing people into right relationship with God, in 1850, although revivals and evangelism were group phenomena, individuals and individual salvation were quite clearly the goal. This reflects the nineteenth-century Jacksonian ideal of freedom of the individual in contrast to the earlier concept to liberty for the community.\nThere is also an interesting relationship of gold-seekers and of evangelists to the dominant contemporary culture. At that point in time, America was starting to become an urban-industrial nation, its \"becoming\" fed by factors such as large and increasing labor supply, an increasing supply of production capital, and free enterprise. Undoubtedly, in the Jacksonian spirit, individual gain and profit would be a prime motivational factor in any entrepreneurial undertaking. Argonauts were caught in this spirit, and with the intention of short-circuiting all of the in-between steps and becoming instantly rich! Although there probably were people whose dream of immediate wealth was allied with a dream of using the wealth to finance industrial production or social good, we don't read about those individuals but only about those for whom gold was an end in itself.\nSince even goldseekers who lived in groups or communally seem to have been solitary, and since the pursuit was almost inevitably that of the individual, the argonaut seems to have formed a caricature of the American of the era: a working-class or underclass self-starter who believed wealth was the answer to every problem and question.\nThe evangelists also appear to have formed a caricature – not so much as they related to American culture as a whole, since their style was so \"American\" for the time – but a caricature of the biblical Christian ideal for the Christian to be \"in but not of the world.\" Although interpreting Christianity of past centuries can be problematic, one classical Christian stance has been that of interaction with the dominant culture, often in the form of social activism (another has been that of separatism and pietism).\nGold Rush evangelists saw themselves as social reformers, and they believed preaching the Gospel and reform activities were God's call to them, but their activities were inseparably yoked with the rest of American culture. On one side, as they saw the evangelical imperative to spread the Gospel as part of the American vision and of the American imperative to extend American control and influence, there was little differentiation between evangelicalism and contemporary culture. On the other side, because the social and culture milieu of the Forty-Niners was perceived as needing reform, evangelists in the Gold Rush were given reason to be and to act because of the particular conditions in the mining areas. Thus, evangelists formed a complement to the mining culture as well as being in alliance with the general American ethos. But this may not be particularly significant, since historically Christianity has tended to become allied with, and not infrequently identified with, the dominant culture, while still retaining some form of \"prophecy\" in order to justify the name Christian.\nThe California Gold Rush evangelists' brand and style of Christianity existed both because of customs and evolution in American life and because of the lifestyle in the mining camps. The form they gave their interpretation of biblical Christianity was definitely American, although probably informed to an extent by biblical ideals. Nonetheless, social reform movements, revival meetings, denominations, and the autonomous local congregation all were exclusively American institutions, as was voluntarism in all these undertakings.\nBoth argonauts and evangelists were part of the American conviction that life, and this world, can be better. Goldseekers were looking for an out-of-the-ordinary experience; evangelists tried to draw them out of the out-of-the-ordinary and back into the American way.\nCaughey, John Walton. The California Gold Rush. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1948.\nGhent, Jocelyn Maynard. \"The Golden Dream and the Press: Illinois and the California Gold Rush of '49.\" Illustrated. Journal of the West, 17:17-27, April 1978.\nGraebner, Norman A. \"American Interest in California, 1845.\" Illustrated, bibliographical footnotes. Pacific Historical Review, 22:13-27, February 1953.\nHanchett, William. \"The Blue Law Gospel in Gold Rush California.\" Bibliographical footnotes. Pacific Historical Review, 24:361-368, November 1955.\nHunt, Rockwell D. \"Pioneer Protestant Preachers of Early California.\" Pacific Historical Review, 16:84-96, February 1949.\nKirkby, Dianne. \"Gold and the Growth of a Metropolis.\" Illustrated, map. Journal of the West, 17:3-15, April 1978.\nMann, Ralph. \"The Decade after the Gold Rush: Social Structure in Grass Valley and Nevada City, California, 1850-1860.\" Pacific Historical Review, 41:484-504, November 1972.\nMarty, Martin E. Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America. New York: The Dial Press, 1970.\nMattes, Merrill J., editor. \"Alexander Ramsey's Gold Rush Diary of 1849.\" Pacific Historical Review, 18:437-468, November 1949.\nMcLoughlin, William G. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform. An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.\nPaul, Rodman Wilson. Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.\n1 J.M. Ghent, \"Golden Dream and the Press,\" Journal of the West, volume 17, pages 13-14.\n2 Ibid., page 23.\n3 R.W. Paul, Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), page 23.\n4 Ibid., pages 12-14.\n5 R. Mann, \"The Decade after the Gold Rush,\" Pacific Historical Review, volume 41, page 500.\n6 Ibid., page 487.\n7 Paul, op. cit., page 17.\n8 J.W. Caughey, The California Gold Rush (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948), page 272.\n9 W. Hanchett, \"The Blue Law Gospel in Gold Rush California,\" Pacific Historical Review, volume 24, page 363.\n12 R.D. Hunt, \"Pioneer Protestant Preachers of Early California,\" Pacific Historical Review, volume 18, page 87.\n13 Hanchett, loc. cit.\n14 Caughey, op. cit., page 270.\n15 Hunt, op. cit., page 86.\n16 D. Kirkby, \"Gold and the Growth of a Metropolis,\" Journal of the West, volume 17, page 4.\n17 Caughey, op. cit., page 272.\n18 Hunt, op. cit., page 85.\n19 Caughey, op. cit., page 270.\n20 Ibid., pages 270-271.\n21 Ibid., page 271.\n22 Hunt, op. cit., page 84.\n24 Hanchett, loc. cit.\n25 Hunt, op. cit., pages 87-95.\n26 Hanchett, op. cit., page 362.\n27 M.E. Marty, Righteous Empire (New York: Dial Press, 1970), page 95.\n28 Caughey, op. cit., page 187.\n30 M.J. Mattes, editor, \"Alexander Ramsey's Gold Rush Diary of 1849,\" Pacific Historical Review, volume 18, pages 466-467.\n31 Caughey, op. cit., page 274.\n32 Hanchett, op. cit., page 364.\n33 Hunt, op. cit., page 87.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Music is a language that is universally understood and appreciated. It’s a form of art that embodies culture, tradition, emotion and skill. It has the ability to touch the lives of people in many ways. Besides serving as a career option, it has also found a place in alternative medical therapy as well. Musical careers that are backed by advanced degrees can soar to great heights. That is perhaps the reason for the increasing number of people opting for online masters in music education courses.\nWhat you will learn in a program of this nature\nWhether you are a student of music, a teacher, a professional or even a community musician, taking a master of music education online course will give your career the push it needs to get to the next level. The coursework is generally a blend of music theory and research. This is coupled with performances and classroom attendance as well. There are several online courses that give you the option of choosing a specialization as well. These courses give you an understanding of the history of music, theoretical knowledge and the ability to compose. You will be able to perform and critically analyze your work as well. Communication skills will also see an improvement with performances, presentation and quality written work being requirements.\nWhy should someone pursue this degree?\nOne of the main reasons to opt for such courses is the convenience, especially if you are a professional as you do not have to worry about the course cutting into your work time. You will be able to access it at your leisure in your home without having to commute each day to a campus at a specific time. You could choose programs that have established platforms of teaching, are further enhanced with video based lectures, etc. Many courses are tailored in such a way that they give you the same exposure and hands-on experience as your counterparts taking more mainstream courses.\nThe basic courses that are available\nThere are a range of subjects that you can choose to study in your online masters in music education. It depends on your chosen career path. Some of the options you have are Orchestration, Choral or Instrument arrangements, Folk music and their instruments, Technology in music, various ensembles in choir, guitar, string, percussion, brass, etc. You can also consider learning about the philosophy or history of music and the psychology behind it. There are also course subjects that are more academic in nature and will involve the research and submission of a thesis. Each of these are designed to give you an in-depth understanding of the music world.\nCareer prospects upon completion of course\nThe main advantage with gaining a Master’s degree in music is your ability to earn a higher salary. K-12 music teachers can earn anywhere fro $29,000 to $76,000 a year depending on their skills and the school as well. You can also look at positions such as that of music education administrators, teaching in a private school or even being a music teacher in a community college. Besides the educational set up, you also have the choice of working in churches as a choir director. You could try your hand at the opera as a conductor or begin to teach music privately.\nWhy should someone pursue this degree online?\nThere are several plus points to such online master’s courses. For one, they can be done at your convenience, allowing you to pursue other commitments simultaneously. They also provide you with all the advantages that a full time student enjoys, with the added flexibility that online courses offer. These online courses can be of two types — completely online, or a hybrid that involves classroom and practical sessions. This flexibility is something that a regular course will not accommodate.\nEligibility for the course\nThe eligibility for each course will vary depending on the kind you choose. You could opt for a masters degree that can train you for an elementary school music teaching post, vocational instruction, instrument instruction, career guidance and more. The general requirements are as follows:\nA Bachelor’s Degree in Music for a recognized university or college\nGPA of 3.0 or more\nRecent classroom teaching exposure\nOfficial transcripts for all educational courses you have attended\nCompleted application form\nLetters of recommendation\nLetter of purpose for pursuing the course\nSince there is a high demand for online masters in music education courses, there are a number of universities that have begun to provide it. It is important that you do your research and settle on one that will best service your purpose. Make sure they are accredited to the right institutions and that the certification they provide in the end is valid.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How will climate change affect your creature’s habitat? How will it adapt to its new surroundings? What kind of shelter will it seek? What traits will be selected for in order for it to survive?\nBody structures like spikes, horns, or sharp claws, help protect and defend animals against any creature that threatens them. What kinds of defensive body structures will help your creature look tough? How will your animal use these structures to fight off another animal?\nWhen an environment changes, finding food can be harder. Whether your animal eats veggies or meat, it has specialized structures for obtaining food and eating food. What anatomy changes will your creature evolve to help it find food? Will your creature change its diet, if so, why?\nAnimals need to be able to get from place to place to find shelter, food, and friends. Depending on where they live, they can develop structures to help them get around. How will your creatures’ body change to help it move through this new environment? Will its limbs get longer or shorter? Will it have wings, fins or a tail?\nCamouflage is an adaptation that allows animals to blend in with their environment. This is useful when hiding from predators or hunting for food. What physical color or pattern will your creature have? Will it camouflage in its new environment? Why or why not?\nTemperature regulation is vital to an animal’s survival. How will your creature adapt to higher temperatures? Will its structures change to need less insulation? Or will it need more protection from the hot sun? Be sure to consider if your animal is warm or cold blooded.\nFuture Engineers hosts online contests and challenges for K-12 students, including the recent Mars 2020 \"Name the Rover\" contest. This challenge platform was developed with support from the US Department of Education and all challenges are free for student/classroom participation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Overview Of Nose Injuries\n- Nose injuries regularly happen during fights, falls, sports, and accidents.\n- Pain, inflammation, and bruising are expected, even with slight injuries. Home treatment can generally help alleviate your symptoms.\n- It might be hard to determine if your nose is broken. Inflammation can make your nose look bent even if it is not cracked.\n- When the inflammation goes down, it is easier to determine if your nose is actually damaged. Most GPs prefer to examine an injured nose soon after the inflammation has decreased.\nSeverity Of A Nose Injury\nA nose injury is more severe when:\n- You are experiencing a nosebleed that you can’t stop.\n- The skin on your nose is cut or pierced, particularly if you think your nose might be broken. This may lead to infection.\nProblems With A Broken Nose\nMost broken noses heal without complications. When complications develop, they can consist of:\n- A change in the dimension or form of the nose, or a twisted or bent nose. Several nose injuries, particularly during childhood, increase the risk of injury to the tissues and bones in the nose. This can cause long-term complications.\n- Problem breathing or nasal congestion.\n- An infection within the nose.\n- A defect in the tissue that divides the nostrils.\n- If your nose is cracked and distorted, it might need to be realigned. Most GPs like to wait for any inflammation to go down before realigning a broken nose.\n- Most inflammation decreases after 3 days but could take up to 14 days.\n- Once the nose is realigned, nasal packing can be placed and a splint can be applied. You might be given antibiotics to help avoid infection.\n- Your GP might want to re-examine your nose and take out the packing in 2 to 3 days.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - View original article\n|Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns|\n|Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List|\n|Criteria||i, ii, iii, iv, vi|\n|UNESCO region||Europe and North America|\n|Inscription||1999 (23rd Session)|\n|Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns|\n|Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List|\n|Criteria||i, ii, iii, iv, vi|\n|UNESCO region||Europe and North America|\n|Inscription||1999 (23rd Session)|\nMycenae (Greek Μυκῆναι Mykēnai or Μυκήνη Mykēnē) is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90 km southwest of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 11 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north. From the hill on which the palace was located, one can see across the Argolid to the Saronic Gulf.\nIn the second millennium BC, Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae.\nAlthough the citadel was built by Greeks, the name is thought not to be Greek, but rather one of the many pre-Greek place names inherited by the immigrant Hellenes. According to John Chadwick, the name of Mycenae is of pre-Greek origin. The pre-Greek language remains unknown, but there is no evidence to rule out a member of the Indo-European superfamily. (See Pelasgian, Minyans)\nAncient Greek etymological speculation connected the name to the Greek word \"μύκης\" (mycēs), 'mushroom'. Thus, Pausanias ascribes the name to the legendary founder Perseus, who was said to have named it either after the cap（mycēs）of the sheath of his sword, or after a mushroom he had plucked on the site.\nThe reconstructed Mycenaean Greek name of the site is Mukānai, which has the form of a plural like Athānai. The change of ā to ē in more recent versions of the name is the result of a well-known sound change in later Attic-Ionic.\nOnly scattered sherds from disturbed debris have been found datable to the Neolithic (prior to 3500 BC). The site was inhabited, but the stratigraphy has been destroyed by later construction.\nIt is believed that Mycenae was settled close to 2000 BC by Indo-Europeans who practiced farming and herding. Scattered sherds dating to 2100-1700 BC have been found, when Mycenae interacted with Minoan Crete. Other theories suggest the settling of Mycenae a thousand years earlier.\nDuring the Bronze Age, the pattern of settlement at Mycenae was a fortified hill surrounded by hamlets and estates, in contrast to the dense urbanity on the coast (cf. Argos). Since Mycenae was the capital of a state that ruled, or dominated, much of the eastern Mediterranean world, the rulers must have placed their stronghold in this less populated and more remote region for its defensive value. Since there are few documents on site with datable contents (such as an Egyptian scarab) and since no dendrochronology has yet been performed upon the remains here, the events are listed here according to Helladic period material culture.\nOutside the partial circuit wall, Grave Circle B, named for its enclosing wall, contained ten cist graves in Middle Helladic style and several shaft graves, sunk more deeply, with interments resting in cists. Richer grave goods mark the burials as possibly regal. Mounds over the top contained broken drinking vessels and bones from a repast, testifying to a more than ordinary farewell. Stelae surmounted the mounds.[not in citation given]\nA walled enclosure, Grave Circle A, included six more shaft graves, with 9 female, 8 male, and two juvenile interments. Grave goods were more costly than in Circle B. The presence of engraved and inlaid swords and daggers, with spear points and arrowheads, leave little doubt that warrior chieftains and their families were buried here. Some art objects obtained from the graves are the Silver Siege Rhyton, the Mask of Agamemnon, the Cup of Nestor, and weapons both votive and practical.\nAlan Wace divided the nine tholos tombs of Mycenae into three groups of three, each based on architecture. His earliest - the Cyclopean Tomb, Epano Phournos, and the Tomb of Aegisthus - are dated to IIA.\nBurial in tholoi is seen as replacing burial in shaft graves. The care taken to preserve the shaft graves testifies that they were by then part of the royal heritage, the tombs of the ancestral heroes. Being more visible, the tholoi all had been plundered either in antiquity, or in later historic times.\nAt a conventional date of 1350 BC, the fortifications on the acropolis, and other surrounding hills, were rebuilt in a style known as cyclopean because the blocks of stone used were so massive that they were thought in later ages to be the work of the one-eyed giants known as the cyclopes (singular: Cyclops). Within these walls, much of which can still be seen, successive monumental palaces were built. The final palace, remains of which are currently visible on the acropolis of Mycenae, dates to the start of LHIIIA:2. Earlier palaces must have existed, but they had been cleared away or built over.\nThe construction of palaces at that time with a similar architecture was general throughout southern Greece. They all featured a megaron, or throne room, with a raised central hearth under an opening in the roof, which was supported by four columns in a square around the hearth. A throne was placed against the center of a wall to the side of the hearth, allowing an unobstructed view of the ruler from the entrance. Frescos adorned the plaster walls and floor.\nThe room was accessed from a courtyard with a columned portico. A grand staircase led from a terrace below to the courtyard on the acropolis.\nIn the Temple built within the citadel, a scarab of Queen Tiye of Egypt, who was married to Amenhotep III, was placed in the Room of the Idols alongside at least one statue of either LHIIIA:2 or B:1 type. Amenhotep III's relations with m-w-k-i-n-u, *Mukana, have corroboration from the inscription at Kom al-Hetan - but Amenhotep's reign is thought to align with late LHIIIA:1. It is likely that Amenhotep's herald presented the scarab to an earlier generation, which then found the resources to rebuild the citadel as Cyclopean and then, to move the scarab here.\nWace’s second group of tholoi are dated between IIA and IIIB: Kato Phournos, Panagia Tholos, and the Lion Tomb. The final group, Group III: the Treasury of Atreus, the Tomb of Clytemnestra and the Tomb of the Genii, are dated to IIIB by a sherd under the threshold of the Treasury of Atreus, the largest of the nine tombs. Like the Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenus the tomb had been looted of its contents and its nature as funerary monument had been forgotten. The structure bore the traditional name of \"Treasury\".\nThe pottery phases on which the relative dating scheme is based (EH, MH, LH, etc.) do not allow very precise dating, even augmented by the few existing C-14 dates due to the tolerance inherent in these. The sequence of further construction at Mycenae is approximately as follows. In the middle of LHIIIB, around 1250 or so, the Cyclopean wall was extended on the west slope to include grave circle A. The main entrance through the circuit wall was made grand by the best known feature of Mycenae, the Lion Gate, through which passed a stepped ramp leading past circle A and up to the palace. The Lion Gate was constructed in the form of a 'Relieving Triangle' in order to support the weight of the stones. An undecorated postern gate also was constructed through the north wall.\nOne of the few groups of excavated houses in the city outside the walls lies beyond Grave Circle B and belongs to the same period. The House of Shields, the House of the Oil Merchant, the House of the Sphinxes, and the West House. These may have been both residences and workshops.\nCitadel facts and figures\nCircuit length: 1105M\nPreserved height: up to 12.5M\nMinimum stone required: 145,215 Cu.M or 14,420 average stones (10 tons)\nTime to move 1 Block using men: 2.125 days\nTime to move all Blocks using men: 110.52 years\nTime to move 1 Block using oxen: 0.125 days\nTime to move all Blocks using oxen: 9.9 years\nbased on 8 hour work day\nThe largest stones including the lintels and gate jambs weighed well over 20 tonnes; some may have been close to 100 tonnes.\nSomewhat later, toward the end of LHIIIB, another extension to the citadel was undertaken. The wall was extended again on the northeast, with a sally port and also a secret passage through and under the wall, of corbeled construction, leading downward by some 99 steps to a cistern carved out of rock 15 m below the surface. It was fed by a tunnel from a spring on more distant higher ground.\nAlready in LHIIIA:1, Egypt knew *Mukana by name as a capital city on the level of Thebes and Knossos. During LHIIIB, Mycenae's political, military and economic influence likely extended as far as Crete, Pylos in the western Peloponnese, and to Athens and Thebes. Hellenic settlements already were being placed on the coast of Anatolia. A collision with the Hittite empire over their sometime dependency at a then strategic location, Troy, was to be expected. In folklore, the powerful Pelopid family ruled many Greek states, one branch of which was the Atreid dynasty at Mycenae.\nBy 1200 BC, the power of Mycenae was declining; during the 12th century, Mycenaean dominance collapsed. The destruction of Mycenae is part of the general Bronze Age collapse. Within a short time around 1200 BC, all the palaces of southern Greece were burned, including that at Mycenae. This is traditionally attributed to a Dorian invasion of Greeks from the north, although some historians now doubt that this invasion caused the destruction of the Mycenean centres. Displaced populations escaped to former colonies of the Mycenaeans in Anatolia and elsewhere, where they came to speak the Ionic dialect.\nEmily Vermeule suggests that the disruption of commercial networks at the end of 13th century BC, was disastrous for Greece and this was followed by the coming of the mysterious Sea Peoples, who caused a chaos in the Aegean. According to the Egyptian records, the Sea Peoples destroyed the Hittite Empire then attacked the 19th and the 20th dynasties of Egypt, ( ca 1300-1164 ). They may be related with the destruction of the Mycenean centers (the records of Pylos mention sea-attack). However at the end of LH III B period, the Myceneans undertook an expedition against Troy, which indicates that the sea was safe, and there is no any indication of destructions in the Aegean islands.\nOther theories have been that a drought caused the Mycenaean decline, but there is no climatological evidence for this. Manolis Andronikos claimed that a social revolution caused the destruction of the Mycenean sites, but it is not sensible, because all the Mycenean centers throughout Greece were destroyed almost simultaneously. George E. Mylonas noticed that after 1200 BC, some attempt was made for recovery in Mycenea. He believes that in Argolid there was an internal fighting, and this was followed by the Dorian invasion. It seems that the Dorians moved southward gradually in small clans, until they managed to establish themselves in the land \nAmos Nur argues that earthquakes played a major role in the destruction of Mycenae and many other cities at the end of the Bronze Age. However, no conclusive evidence has been brought forward to confirm any theory of why the Mycenaean citadel and others throughout Greece fell almost simultaneously at this time.\nWhatever the cause, by the LH IIIC period (whose latest phase is also termed \"Submycenaean\"), Mycenae was no longer a major power. Pottery and decorative styles were changing rapidly. Craftsmanship and art declined. Although the settlement was much reduced in size, the citadel remained occupied though it never regained its earlier importance. A temple dedicated to Hera was built on the summit in the Archaic period. A Mycenaean contingent fought at Thermopylae and Plataea during the Persian Wars. In 468 BC, however, troops from Argos captured Mycenae, expelled the inhabitants and slighted the fortifications.\nIt seems that the state was ruled by a king who is identified with the name wa-na-ka ( \"wanax') in the Linear B inscriptions at Knossos and Pylos. In the Homeric poems he is the lord ( άναξ). Some inscriptions with a list of offerings indicate that the king was probably divine, but the term \"for the king\" is usually accompanied by another name. It is doubtful that the wanax was responsible for religious matters, but probably his title indicates that his right to rule was given by the god.  The term qa-si-re-u (cf. βασιλεύς / \"basileús\") which was later used in Greece for \"king\", seems that was used for the \"chief\" of any group of people, or for a provincial official. ( Later Homer mentions many basilees in Ithaca).\nThe land possessed by the king is usually called te-me-no (τέμενος / \"témenos\"), a word that survived in classical Greece. (the temenos placed by Hephaestus on the shield of Achilles is called \"royal\").  Other important land owners were the ra-wa-ke-ta (\"lāwāgetas\"), the leader of the people, and the te-re-ta (\"telestai\"), the officials. Lawagetas is placed next to the king and he could be the leader of the army, but it is not confirmed by the inscriptions.  Palmer suggests that the \"telestai were the men of telos- the fief holders\".  The e-qe-ta (\"equetai\"), literally, \"the companions\" or \"followers\", were a group of nobles (aristocrats), who followed the king in peace and war. From the existing evidence, it seems that the kingdom was further subdivided into sixteen districts. The ko-re-te was the \"governor of the district\" and the po-ro-ko-re-te the \"deputy\". It is possible that the real names were koreter and prokoreter. The da-mo-ko-ro (damokoros) was an official appointment but his duties are not very clear. The communal land was held at the hands of da-mo (literally, \"people\", cf. δῆμος / dễmos), or \"plot holders\", a word that survived in classical Greece (demos, democracy). It seems that ”Damo” was a collective body of men, representing the local district.  It is suggested that qa-si-re-u had a council of elders, a ke-ro-si-ja,( later \"γερουσια\" gerousia), but Palmer believes that it was an organization of \"bronze smiths\" \nMuch of the Mycenaean religion survived into classical Greece in their pantheon of Greek deities, but it is not known to what extent Greek religious belief is Mycenaean, nor how much is a product of the Greek Dark Ages or later. Finley detected only few authentic Mycenean beliefs in the eighth-century Homeric world, but Nilsson suggested that the Mycenean religion was the mother of the Greek religion. Through the oral tradition Homer transferred the beliefs during the Dark Ages, but he kept in memory the confederacy of the Greeks under the powerful king of Mycenae. when gods walked along friendly with men, and the \"heroic-age\" when great heroes dominated the scene. The belief in gods as embodiments of power, the heroic outlook inherited from a distant past together with the local chthonic cults, were later fitted into the frame of the city-states and his demands into an elastic system.\nFrom the history traced by Nilsson and Guthrie, the Mycenean pantheon consisted of Minoan deities, but also of gods and goddesses who appear under different names with similar functions in East and West. Many of these names appearing in the Linear B inscriptions can be found later in classical Greece like Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Hermes, Eileithyia and Dionysos, but the etymology is the only evidence of the cults.\nThere are several reasonable guesses that can be made, however. It seems that originally the Myceneans like many Indo-Europeans considered divine any object that inherited an internal power ( anima). Certain religious beliefs were mixed with the beliefs of the local populations as it appears in the old cults of isolated Arcadia which survived up to classical Greece. In these cults, Poseidon appears usually as a horse, representing the river spirit of the underworld as it usually happens in northern-European folklore.The precursor goddesses of Demeter and Persephone are closely related with the springs and the animals, and especially with Poseidon and Artemis who was the first nymph. Mycenaean religion was almost certainly polytheistic, and the Myceneans were actively syncretistic, adding foreign deities to their pantheon of deities with considerable ease. The Myceneans probably entered Greece with a pantheon of deities headed by some ruling sky-deity which linguists speculate might have been called *Dyeus in early Indo-European. In Greek, this deity would become Zeus (pronounced zdeus in ancient Greek). Among the Hindus, this sky-deity becomes \"Dyaus Pita\". In Latin he becomes \"deus pater\" or Jupiter; we still encounter this word in the etymologies of the words \"deity\" and \"divine.\"\nLater in some cults Zeus is united with the Aegean Great Goddess, who is represented by Hera, in a \"holy wedding\" (hieros gamos).At some point in their cultural history, the Myceneans adopted some Minoan goddesses like Aphaea, Britomartis, Diktynna and associated them with their sky-god. Many of them were absorbed by more powerful divinities, and some like the vegetation goddesses Ariadne and Helen survived in Greek folklore together with the cult of the \"divine child\", who was probably the precursor of Dionysos. Athena and Hera survived and were tutelary goddesses, the guardians of the palaces and the cities. In general, later Greek religion distinguishes between two types of deities: the Olympian, or sky, deities (including Zeus), which are now commonly known in some form or another; and, the chthonic deities, or deities of the earth. Walter Burkert warns:\nand suggests that useful parallels will be found in the relations between Etruscan and Archaic Greek culture and religion, or between Roman and Hellenistic culture\nThe pantheon included also deities representing the powers of nature and wild life, who appear with similar functions in the Mediterranean region. The \"Mistress of the animals\", later called Artemis, who was the first nymph, may be identified as the Minoan Britomartis, and has similar functions with the Sumerian Ninhursag. Poseidon is the lord of the sea, and therefore of storms and earthquakes, (the \"Earth shaker\" in Linear B tablets ). He may have functioned as a pre-Hellenic chthonic Zeus, the lord or spouse of the Earth goddess. Athena whose task was to protect the olive-trees is a civic Artemis. The powers of animal nature fostered a belief in nymphs whose existence was bound to the trees and the waters, and in gods with human forms and the heads or tails of animals who stood for primitive bodily insticts. In Arcadia were depicted animal-headed gods, indicating than in the remote past the gods were conceived as animals and birds, in a surrounding of animal-headed daemons. Later the gods were revealed in human forms with an animal as a companion or symbol. Some of the old gods survived in the cult of Dionysos (Satyrs) and Pan (the goat-god).\nThe Myceneans adopted probably from the east a priest-king system and the belief of a ruling deity in the hands of a theocratic society. At the end of the second milemnium BC, when the Mycenean city-state collapsed, it seems that the Greek thought was gradually released from the idea that each man was a servant to the gods, and sought a \"moral purpose\". It is possible that this procedure started before the end of the Mycenean age, but the idea is almost absent or vague in the Homeric poems, where the interference of the gods is not related to the rightness or wrongness of men's actions. Later, Hesiod uses a lot of eastern material in his cosmology and in the genealogical trees of the gods, and he introduces the idea of the existence of something else behind the gods, which was more powerful than they. This is the powerful Fate (Moira), who in the Homeric poems is acting in parallel with the gods and predestinates the events. Hesiod complies to the Greek desire of an order in the universe, and tries to bring the gods under a rule comparable to the rule which controls the lives of men. In Greek mythology this power is named Ananke (necessity).\nThe Olympian system is an ordered system. The Greek divinities live with Zeus at their head and each is concerned with a recognizable sphere. However certain elements in some Greek cults indicate the survival of some older cults from a less rationalized world: old cults of the dead, agrarian magic, exorcism of evil spirits, peculiar sacrifices, and animal-headed gods, In the Homeric poems, the avenging Fate was probably originally a daemon, acting in parallel with the gods. Later, the cult of Dionysos Zagreus indicates that life-blood of animals was needed to renew that of men. A similar belief may be guessed from the Mycenean Hagia Triada sarcophagus (1400 BC), which combines features of Minoan civilization and Mycenean style. It seems that the blood of a bull was used for the regeneration of the reappearing dead. Probably most of these cults existed in the Mycenean-age and survived by immemorial practice.\nA secondary level of importance was the cult of the heroes, which seems to have started in the Mycenean-age. These were great men of the past who were exalted to honourafter death, because of what they had done. According to an old Minoan belief beyond the sea there was an island called Elysion, where the departured could have a different, but happier existence. Later, the Greeks believed that there could live in human form only the heroes, and the beloved of the gods. The souls of the rest were drifting unconsciously in the gloomy space of Hades. Gods and men had common origin, but there was an enormous gap between the immortal gods and the mortal men. However certain elements indicate that the Myceneans probably believed in a future existence. Two well-preserved bodies were found in Shaft Grave VI, and Helbig believed that an embalming preceded the burial. In the shaft graves discovered by Schliemann, the corpses were lightly exposed to fire in order to preserve them\nMycenaean religion certainly involved offerings and sacrifices to the deities, and some have speculated that their ceremonies involved human sacrifice based on textual evidence and bones found outside tombs. In the Homeric poems, there seems to be a lingering cultural memory of human sacrifice in King Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia; several of the stories of Trojan heroes involve tragic human sacrifice. In the far past, even human beings might be offered to placate inscrutable gods, especially in times of guilty fear. Later sacrifice became a feast at which oxen were slaughtered. Men kept the meat, and gave the gods the bones wrapped in fat.\nBeyond this speculation we can go no further. Somewhere in the shades of the centuries between the fall of the Mycenaean civilization and the end of the Greek Dark Ages, the original Mycenean religion persisted and adapted until it finally emerged in the stories of human devotion, apostasy, and divine capriciousness that exists in the two great epic poems of Homer. It was the beginning of the religion which later the Greeks considered Hellenic, and embodies a paradox. Though the world is dominated by a divine power that the gods bestow in different ways on men, nothing but \"darkness\" lay ahead and life was sometimes frail and unsubstantial.\nClassical Greek myths assert that Mycenae was founded by Perseus, grandson of king Acrisius of Argos, son of Acrisius' daughter, Danaë. Having killed his grandfather by accident, Perseus could not, or would not, inherit the throne of Argos. Instead he arranged an exchange of realms with his cousin, Megapenthes, and became king of Tiryns, Megapenthes taking Argos. From there he founded Mycenae and ruled the kingdoms jointly from Mycenae.\nPerseus married Andromeda and had many sons, but in the course of time, went to war with Argos and was slain by Megapenthes. His son, Electryon, became the second of the dynasty, but the succession was disputed by the Taphians under Pterelaos, another Perseid, who assaulted Mycenae and losing retreated with the cattle. The cattle were recovered by Amphitryon, a grandson of Perseus, but he killed his uncle by accident with a club in an unruly cattle incident and had to go into exile.\nThe throne went to Sthenelus, third in the dynasty, a son of Perseus. He set the stage for future greatness by marrying Nicippe, a daughter of king Pelops of Elis, the most powerful state of the region and the times. With her he had a son, Eurystheus the fourth and last of the Perseid dynasty. When a son of Heracles, Hyllus, killed Sthenelus, Eurystheus became noted for his enmity to Heracles and for his ruthless persecution of the Heracleidae, the descendants of Heracles.\nThis is the first we hear in legend of those noted sons, who became a symbol of the Dorians. Heracles had been a Perseid. After his death, Eurystheus determined to annihilate these rivals for the throne of Mycenae, but they took refuge in Athens, and in the course of war, Eurystheus and all his sons were killed. The Perseid dynasty came to an end. The people of Mycenae placed Eurystheus' maternal uncle, Atreus, a Pelopid, on the throne.\nThe people of Mycenae had received advice from an oracle that they should choose a new king from among the Pelopids. The two contenders were Atreus and his brother, Thyestes. The latter was chosen at first. At this moment nature intervened. The sun appeared to reverse direction and set in the east. Atreus argued that because the sun had reversed its path, the election of Thyestes should be reversed. The argument was heeded, and Atreus became king. His first move was to pursue Thyestes and all his family - that is, his own kin - but Thyestes managed to escape from Mycenae.\nIn legend, Atreus had two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, the Atreids. Aegisthus, the son of Thyestes, killed Atreus and restored Thyestes to the throne. With the help of King Tyndareus of Sparta, the Atreids drove Thyestes again into exile. Tyndareus had two ill-starred daughters, Helen and Clytemnestra, whom Menelaus and Agamemnon married, respectively. Agamemnon inherited Mycenae and Menelaus became king of Sparta.\nSoon, Helen eloped with Paris of Troy. Agamemnon conducted a 10-year war against Troy to get her back for his brother. Because of lack of wind, the warships could not sail to Troy. In order to please the gods so that they might make the winds start to blow, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia. According to some versions of the legend, the hunting goddess Artemis replaced her at the very last moment with a deer on the altar, and took Iphigenia to Tauris (See Iphigenia en Tauris by Euripides). The deities having been satisfied by such a sacrifice, the winds started blowing and the warfaring fleet departed.\nLegend tells us that the long and arduous Trojan War, although nominally a Greek victory, brought anarchy, piracy, and ruin; already before the Greek fleet set sail for Troy, the conflict had divided the gods as well, and this contributed to curses and acts of vengeance following many of the Greek heroes. After the war, Agamemnon, returning, was greeted royally with a red carpet rolled out for him and then was slain in his bathtub by Clytemnestra, who hated him bitterly for having ordered the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia (although the life of the latter had been saved). Clytemnestra was aided in her crime by Aegistheus, who reigned subsequently, but Orestes, son of Agamemnon, was smuggled out to Phocis. He returned as an adult to slay Clytemnestra and Aegistheus. He then fled to Athens to evade justice and a matricide, and became insane for a time. Meanwhile, the throne of Mycenae went to Aletes, son of Aegistheus, but not for long. Recovering, Orestes returned to Mycenae to kill him and take the throne.\nOrestes then built a larger state in the Peloponnesus, but he died in Arcadia from a snake bite. His son, Tisamenus, the last of the Atreid dynasty, was killed by the Heracleidae on their return to the Peloponnesus. They claimed the right of the Perseids to inherit the various kingdoms of the Peloponnesus and cast lots for the dominion of them. Whatever the historical realities reflected in these stories, the Atreids are firmly set in the epoch near the end of the Heroic age, leading up to the arrival of the Dorians. There are no established stories of a royal house at Mycenae later than the Atreids, and this could reflect the fact that not much more than fifty or sixty years seem to have separated the fall of Troy VIIa (the likely inspiration of Homeric Troy) and the fall of Mycenae.\nIn fact, there was a total eclipse of the sun in the Aegean on March 5, 1223 BC, which Atreus might have twisted into a setting of the sun in the east. This date does not solve all the unknowns, however.\nA late date is implied for the Trojan War, which would, in that case, have been against Troy VIIa after all. The Perseids would have been in power ca. 1380, the date of a statue base from Kom el-Heitan in Egypt recording the itinerary of an Egyptian embassy to the Aegean in the time of Amenophis III. M-w-k-i-n-u (phonetic \"Mukanuh\"?) was one of the cities visited, a rare early document of the name of Mycenae. It was one of the cities of the tj-n3-jj (\"Tinay\"?), Homeric Danaans, named, in myth, after Danaë, which suggests that the Perseids were in fact in some sort of dominion.\nAlso in the 14th century BC, Ahhiya began to be troublesome to numerous kings of the Hittite Empire. Ahhiyawa or Ahhiya, which occurs a few dozen times in Hittite tablets over the century, is probably Achaiwia, reconstructed Mycenaean Greek for Achaea. The Hittites did not use Danaja as did the Egyptians, even though the first Ahhiya reference in \"Indictment of Madduwatta\" precedes the correspondence between Amenhotep III and one of Madduwatta's subsequent successors in Arzawa, Tarhunta-Radu. The external LHIIIA:1-era sources do, however, agree in their omission of a great king or other unifying structure behind Ahhiya and the Tinay.\nFor example, in the \"Indictment of Madduwatta\", Attarissiya, the \"man of Ahhiya\" (i.e. ruler), attacks Madduwatta and drives him from his land. He obtains refuge and military assistance from the Hittite Great King Tudhaliya. After the death of the latter and in the reign of his son, Arnuwanda, Madduwatta allies with Attarissiya and they, along with another ruler, raid Alasiya, that is, Cyprus.\nThis is the only known occurrence of a man named Attarissiya. Attempts to link this name to Atreus have not found wide support, nor is there any evidence of a powerful Pelopid named Atreus of those times.\nDuring LHIIIA:2, Ahhiya, now known as Ahhiyawa, extended its influence over Miletus, settling on the coast of Anatolia, and competed with the Hittites for influence and control in western Anatolia. For instance Uhha-Ziti's Arzawa and through him Manapa-Tarhunta's Seha River Land. While establishing the credibility of the Mycenaean Greeks as a historical power, these documents create as many problems as they solve.\nSimilarly, a Hittite king wrote the so-called Tawagalawa letter to the Great King of Ahhiyawa, concerning the depredations of the Luwiyan adventurer Piyama-Radu. Neither of the names of the great kings are stated; the Hittite king could be either Muwatalli II or his brother Hattusili III, which at least dates the letter to LHIIIB by Mycenaean standards. But neither the Atreus nor the Agamemnon of legend have any brothers named *Etewoclewes (Eteocles); this name, rather, is associated with Thebes, which during the preceding LHIIIA period Amenhotep III had viewed as equal to Mycenae.\nElsewhere, Muwatalli II (reg. 1296–1272) makes a treaty with Alaksandu (possibly Alexander), king of Wilusa (Ilium); and another document has Wilusa swearing by Appaliuna (Apollo). But the Alaksandu of the treaty is too early to be king of a city assaulted by Agamemnon, and besides, Priam was king of that city.\nThe first excavations at Mycenae were carried out by the Greek archaeologist Kyriakos Pittakis in 1841. He found and restored the Lion Gate. In 1876, Heinrich Schliemann started a complete excavation at the site. Schliemann believed in the historical truth of the Homeric stories and interpreted the site accordingly. He found the ancient shaft graves with their royal skeletons and spectacular grave goods. Upon discovering a human skull beneath a gold death mask in one of the tombs, he declared: \"I have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon\".\nSince Schliemann's day, more scientific excavations have taken place at Mycenae, mainly by Greek archaeologists but also by the British School at Athens. The acropolis was excavated in 1902, and the surrounding hills have been methodically investigated by subsequent excavations.\n|Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mycenae|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|About UNEP||UNEP Offices||News Centre||Publications||Events||Awards||Milestones||UNEP Store|\n|Table of contents\nPreface Annex 1\nOVERVIEW OF LAND RESOURCES\nLand is a primary asset for survival and development in Eastern Africa. Land supports the livelihoods of most rural people. Rural population is high: in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi, Eritrea and Uganda more than 80 per cent of the people live in rural areas; in Kenya and Somalia more than 60 per cent live in rural areas; and, in contrast, in Djibouti only 16.3 per cent live in rural areas (FAO 2005). Land also provides diverse functions in support of ecosystem processes.\nAs shown in Table 6 below, Uganda has the highest proportion of potentially arable land, whereas in Rwanda, all arable land is in use (FAO/AGL 2003) and land pressure is pushing cultivation into marginal areas. In Eritrea, 88 per cent is under cultivation. Countries such as Rwanda and Burundi face enormous challenges as they are physically small with high population densities. Burundi’s population density is 265.8 per km² and Rwanda’s 340.1 per km² (FAO 2005). Burundi has the highest rate of deforestation in Africa, and one of the highest globally, with a 9 per cent change per year (FAO 2005). Potential arable land is negligible in Djibouti because of the extremely arid conditions in the country.\nMore than one-third of the land area is covered by permanent pasture as the dominant land use is livestock grazing as shown in Figure 4 (FAOSTAT 2004). About 73 per cent of the total area is characterized by desert and dryland conditions, of which significant proportions fall in Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia.\nThough immense, the potential of irrigation is under- utilized. The current extent of irrigated land is largest in Somalia. followed by Ethiopia, Kenya and Burundi. In the Horn of Africa, less than 1 per cent of the cultivable area is irrigated (IATFUN 2000). In Ethiopia, about 214 720 ha is irrigated, while the potentially irrigable land is estimated to be 3 328 910 ha (MoWRD 2001), implying that only 6.5 per cent of the potentially irrigable land is currently under irrigation. The area currently under irrigation accounts for about 3 per cent of the country’s total food production (FDRE 2003). In Kenya, potentially irrigable land is estimated to be 540 000 ha, of which 52 000 ha or 9.6 per cent of the potential has been developed.\nENDOWMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES\nAgriculture and tourism are the main drivers of growth in Eastern Africa. Improved agriculture was a key factor in Tanzania’s growth of 6.1 per cent and Ethiopia’s growth of 11.6 per cent per year (ECA 2005).\nLand is primarily utilized for agriculture (crop and livestock production), nature-based tourism and extraction of other land-based natural resources such as metal ores and oils. By putting in place appropriate institutional and policy frameworks, and conservation- based agricultural development technologies, the breadth of opportunities to be derived from land can be immense and thus hold great potential for breaking the circle of poverty. Though variable between countries, agriculture accounts for the highest share of GDP, contributing 51.5 per cent in Burundi, 49.9 per cent in Ethiopia, 43.1 per cent in Uganda and 38.9 per cent in Rwanda. For Djibouti, Eritrea and Kenya, the GDP is derived from diverse service sectors.\nIntegrated land-use planning is an essential tool and defines an approach to land resources management. It introduces mechanisms and incentives for bringing about change in land allocation as well as for identifying suitable biophysical and economic uses, and it prescribes appropriate management practices and options to ensure that land resources are conserved (FAO/UNEP 1999). In Ethiopia, attempts have been made to formulate and implement integrated land-use plans at village, district, regional and national levels. The national land-use plan was based on a nationwide socioeconomic and physical land resources database (Henricksen 1988). There are attempts to implement local or village level integrated land-use planning using watershed or farmer’s service cooperative boundaries as planning units (Gittins and Henricksen 1986, LUPRD 1989, MoARD 2005). In Kenya, the watershed management approach has been used extensively to conserve and develop resources at a microlevel.\nThere are opportunities from agricultural research and technologies which can contribute to development, such as the use of improved seed varieties, agrochemicals and other improved agronomic practices (appropriate planting date, seeding rate, etc). This could result in substantive yield increases, as current production is often characterized by low input and management levels.\nThe sustainable use of land resources requires, among other things, a strong institutional framework at all levels. The mushrooming of multiple sub-regional institutions to manage resources, which are of an inter- country nature, is a key element in fostering economic growth. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) was put in place in 1986 with seven member counties including Djibouti, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, with the aim of strengthening regional cooperation and efforts in areas of food security and environmental protection, maintenance of peace and security and humanitarian affairs, and enhancing economic cooperation and integration of member countries.\nRecurrent drought, limited alternative sources of income, population pressure, limited technology, lack of product diversification and market integration, lack of institutional capacity, environmental degradation and poor access to credit all undermine efficient and sustainable land use. In some countries, including Ethiopia, many interlocking and reinforcing factors including poverty, misguided policies, technological stagnation, population pressure, insecurity of land rights, weak institutional support (credit, extension, etc), drought and political instability contributed to the stagnation of agriculture, food insecurity and the degradation of natural resources (Shiferaw 1994, FDRE 2003). These factors may make efficient planning and management difficult: in Ethiopia, for example, the effectiveness of the recently launched nationwide agricultural extension programme, which embraces about 40 per cent of the farming population, has been constrained by high agricultural input prices, shortage of complementary inputs and inadequate extension services (Bonger and others 2004). Access to improved technology in Ethiopia is minimal where the average rate of fertilizer (nutrient) application per hectare of cultivated land is 17.5 kg (CSA 1996). In Uganda, increased crop and livestock disease, soil degradation, lack of access to improved agricultural inputs, weak agricultural extension systems, inefficient markets, increasing land fragmentation and unreliable weather have been cited as contributing to the declining crop yield of smallholder farmers (McDonagh and Bahiigwa 2002). On the high and medium potential lands of Kenya, land productivity potential is adversely affected by soil erosion, decline in soil fertility, soil salinization, crop and livestock diseases and fragmentation of landholdings. In the lowlands, where pastoralism is the predominant farming system, a combination of physical, environmental and socioeconomic factors constrain production efficiency. Gradual resource shrinkage, tenure insecurity and inadequate livestock watering may also be major problems in pastoral areas, as they are in Ethiopia (Arsano 1999, Sisay 1999).\nLand degradation is a serious problem as shown in Table 7. The total area suffering from severe to very severe degradation is about 14 per cent (FAOSTAT 2005). In particular, Burundi and Rwanda face a serious threat of land degradation, where about 76 and 71 per cent of the respective country’s total area encounters very severe degradation problems (FAOSTAT 2005). They are followed by Eritrea, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia, where areas with severe to very severe degradation constitute about 63, 53, 30 and 26 per cent respectively of total land area (FAOSTAT 2005). In Djibouti, wind erosion is the principal form of erosion but is mainly viewed as “natural” due to the absence of agricultural land (FAO/AGL 2003).\nThe pressures and driving forces that are attributable to land degradation are similar across the countries of the sub-region. Typical proximate causes include overcultivation, overgrazing and deforestation. The process of soil degradation is affected by poverty, population dynamics, insecure tenure, weak institutional support (eg extension, credit, etc), political instability and factors related to physical land attributes such as topography, soil and rainfall conditions. Topography is an important consideration, as many countries are mountainous. In order of magnitude, Rwanda, Burundi and Ethiopia encounter the highest potential erosion risk due to steep topography.\nThe areas with the most severe land degradation are also those with the highest population density. The high population density, in the central and northern highlands of Eritrea, Rwanda and Burundi, is an important consideration. Rwanda has the highest population in Africa, with 340 people per km²; its population is growing at 2.1 per cent per year (FAO 2005). Burundi, with a population density of 265.8, is growing at 3.1 per cent per year (FAO 2005).\nLand tenure is profoundly political, and it continues to be a critical factor in the development of African politics and economies (Bruce and others 1996). Land tenure, and in particular ownership and access rights, has been widely recognized to have important bearings on effective, efficient and sustainable management and production regimes. The topography of land tenure varies from country to country and includes freehold tenure, state leasehold and community-based tenure (legally recognized indigenous tenure and community-based). A combination of freehold, state leasehold and community-based tenure prevail in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda (Bruce and others 1996). In Burundi and Djibouti, freehold and community-based tenure, including pastoral systems, occur extensively (Bruce and others 1996). In Ethiopia and Eritrea, state leasehold and community-based tenure, including pastoral regimes, dominate. Overall, the tenure situation assessment in most of the sub-region’s countries (Uganda, Somalia, Kenya and Rwanda) reveals that compulsory and systematic tenure conversion to individual ownership offered little benefit to smallholder farmers (Bruce and others 1996). In Ethiopia, tenure insecurity is described as being one of the major problems associated with the existing land system (Rahmato 2004, EEA/EEPRI 2002). In Kenya, where formal titles to land are held by many farmers, the lack of any significant relationship between land title and crop yield is perhaps explained by the limited use of land titles in obtaining formal credits (Migot-Adholla and others 1994).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Giving women the power over resources is essential for any development to take place. This is lieu of the fact that women are the mainstay in farming and yet they have no decision-making power. Through mutual help groups (MHGs), there is a method of organizing the energy, contribution and activeness of grassroots women. The MHGs are developed around activities such as developing a grain bank or taking up a tree planting program. Two short case studies are given below.\nThese tools give the women a level of self-sufficiency in which they can come together and participate in the larger struggle for rights. Otherwise they do not have the facility to do this.\nStrengthening women’s role by setting up the (Ekta Mahila Manche) Women’s Wing: An exclusively women’s formation within Ekta Parishad was started in mid-2001 as a way to bring more women leaders and decision-makers into the senior echelons of the organization. Their main focus is the women and land related issues i.e. joint pattas (document stating joint land rights between men and women), are issued in the names of husband and wife both. The campaign to get joint pattas issued in the names of both the husband and wife was carried out by Ekta Parishad on the understanding that women’s empowerment can be possible only by ensuring women’s rights on land. (Singh 2005) The tool used here is to motivate women to get into the land rights movement by starting with seeing their own life change and realizing that change is possible within the home, community and society.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Atheism is based on faith\nApologists often claim that atheism is based on faith — that is, not believing in a god requires just as much faith, if not more, than belief. Norman Geisler expressed this argument in the title of his book, I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist.\n- \"To be a [sic] Atheist one would have to be omniscient, knowing all things, having a perfect knowledge of the universe, to say they absolutely know God does not exist. For one to do this they would have to personally inspected all places in the present known universe and in all time, having explored everywhere seen and unseen.\"\n- The definition of \"Atheist\" in the argument above is an overly broad straw man: an atheist is one who either lacks positive belief in a god or who believes that no gods exist, not one who claims to know absolutely that no gods exist (see Atheist vs. agnostic).\n- While a person would need perfect knowledge of the universe to be absolutely certain that no gods exist, such knowledge is not required for disbelief. And, in fact, individual theists disbelieve all kinds of claims (that various mythical beings exist, or that Earth is being regularly visited by aliens from space) without having complete knowledge even of the relevant subject areas.\n- The use of the word \"faith\" is often an attempt to mislead based on the equivocation fallacy. As the article on faith discusses, the two primary meanings of the word are: (1) confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing; and (2) belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. One may reasonably claim that certain forms of atheism are based on \"faith\" using the first definition. However, the way this claim is often made implies that the second definition is being used, which is usually incorrect.\n- Disbelief based on lack of evidence does not require faith. In fact, disbelief does not require evidence of any kind. Someone who has never heard of the concept of \"gods\" would not believe in them. Under the broader definition of atheism, they would be an atheist and yet not have faith that no gods exist. Similarly, someone who has been given evidence and simply finds it lacking (the classic narrower definition of atheist) would also not be relying on faith for his or her lack of belief.\n- It is quite possible to obtain evidence discouraging belief in the existence of specific gods (i.e., \"evidence-based atheism\"). For example, if the god is defined sufficiently well, one may examine the definition for logical contradications. If the god is not logically consistent, then disbelief is justified. If a god is invoked to explain a certain phenomenon, then that explanation can be compared to the best scientific explanation of the same phenomenon. If science leads to a better explanation or a deeper understanding of the mechanisms involved, then why is belief in the god necessary?\n- The argument equates non-belief in a proposition due to a complete lack of evidence and good reasons to suppose otherwise to the psychological leap of faith needed to believe such a proposition.\n- Theists tend to treat belief in their particular god as the default position, and they will often back this up with some variation of the argument from design. But since theists make a positive claim of their god's existence, they have the burden of proof. In fact, their claim is quite extraordinary (e.g., a being that can create whole universes), so their burden of proof is all the greater for that.\n- There is often an unspoken premise in this kind of argument that being an atheist is dangerous and therefore should not be entered into lightly. This is a classic appeal to emotion. (Not to mention the ironic implication that faith is not a good reason to disbelieve something; if that's true, then why should faith be a good reason to believe something?)\n- Theists commonly consider faith to be a virtue. It seems odd, then, that they would criticize atheism for being based on faith. Moreover, the argument implies that the more faith a proposition needs, the less one should accept it as true, a position that many counter-apologists would welcome.\n- Tu quoque! This argument attempts to defend faith-based religious claims by insisting that the atheist position falls into the same category. It also often serves as a non sequitur, and tends to derail the discussion about the merits of positive god claims.\n- Theists often backslide and have trouble maintaining faith in their god. Atheists occasionally convert to theism, but do not tend to slip into various god-beliefs due to the \"strain\" required to maintain no belief in any gods. If atheism were an identity based on faith, one might expect atheists to share the same difficulties the religious have in maintaining their faith.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Environmental Impact of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in Modern Electric Power Systems\nBy Daniel Akinyele and Yoash Levron\nThe role of distributed energy resources (DERs) in realizing a smart electricity grid cannot be overemphasised. DERs, such as solar PV, wind, and biomass, are small-scale energy production units that can be operated in either a grid-integrated mode and/or a grid-independent (islanded) mode. These sources help to improve the electricity system efficiency and reliability by supporting peak power demands, and providing active generation and ancillary services, such as stabilizing the frequency and voltage profile.\nThe increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in modern power grids poses many challenges, several of these are purely technical, and several are associated with other factors such as social impact, environmental impact, and policy. These factors should be taken into account when designing, planning, and operating power grids and distributed sources. To address these challenges, a STEEP (S- Social, Technical, E-Economic, E- Environmental, P- Policy) framework can provide a comprehensive analysis of DERs in future electrical systems.\nIn this light, this article focuses on the environmental impact of DERs in electric power systems, with emphasis on renewable energy technologies. A common assumption is that renewable energy-based DERs are eco-friendly, however, it is currently unclear to what extent they are. Finding an answer to this question can serve as a basis for comparing the environmental performance of these systems with the conventional energy option based on fossil fuels. This can be achieved through a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), which guides designers, developers and policy makers in selecting the best energy resource or technology.\nThe LCA approach helps to assess the environmental impact of various technologies, and provides an opportunity for ascertaining the environmental sustainability of different energy resources by examining both energy and emissions-related aspects. Certain indicators are computed when LCA is being conducted, such as the cumulative energy demand (CED), energy payback time (EPBT), net energy ratio (NER), the life cycle emission rate (LCEr) and/or the global warming potential (GWP). While the first three factors are part of the energy related aspect of the LCA, the last two represent emissions-related aspects.\nThe CED represents the total primary energy required for manufacturing, transporting, installing, operating and decommissioning an energy technology, and is measured in MJ-eq. The EPBT indicates how long an energy technology is required to operate to recover the primary energy requirement over its life cycle, measured in years. The NER, also referred to the energy return on investment (EROI), shows how many times the energy technology is able to produce the primary energy requirement over its life cycle. The LCEr represents the life cycle emissions per unit energy generated by the technology (gCO2-eq/kWh), while the GWP is defined as the life cycle greenhouse gases (GHGs) measured in (kgCO2-eq). The emissions are evaluated as the equivalent quantity of CO2 that has equal GWP computed over an integrated time of 100 years, considering the most recent GWP factors published by the IPCC for carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), dinitrogen oxide (N2O) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). The greatest percentages of primary energy requirements and the life cycle emissions for renewable energy technologies are usually obtained during manufacturing (e.g. ~90% for solar PV technology).\nEnergy generation technologies are required to fulfill two major requirements: meeting acceptable techno-economic and environmental performance levels, and achieving a net energy yield that is greater than zero. A positive energy yield implies that the energy output is greater than the energy input (i.e. CED) over the system’s life cycle, meaning that its NER > 1. On the other hand, a negative energy yield practically signifies that the technology consumes more energy than it is able to produce over its lifetime. This means that it is not a renewable energy system because its NER< 1. This explains why one energy technology cannot be sustainable for all geographical locations, as a result of disparities in climate, resource and material availability, social and local conditions etc. Therefore, it is crucial to consider the environmental impact of energy technologies from the perspective of LCA, to also ensure that the expected energy yields over their life cycle are carefully evaluated.\nThe LCA, as defined by ISO 14040, compiles and assesses the environmental burden or consequences of an energy technology at all stages over its life cycle, i.e. cradle-to-end-of-life analysis. Practically, such an analysis should consider all the components of the technology. For instance, in a solar PV technology, the environmental impact analysis should consider both the PV array and the balance of system (BOS). The BOS includes the battery, inverter, cable, circuit breakers etc. This way, a better analysis of the DERs’ environmental impacts is achieved. The comparison of the CED, EPBT, NER, LCEr and GWP measures for renewable energies to those of fossil-fuel options will also be useful with compliance to standards, e.g. IEA methodology guidelines on life cycle assessment of photovoltaic electricity.\nAchieving detailed environmental impact analysis of DERs in power systems requires new ways of thinking. For instance, the carbon emissions saved/avoided by a renewable energy technology is assumed in several research works to be equal to the emissions that would have been produced if a diesel or petrol plant were used. While the total life cycle impact of the grid-independent technology needs to be considered as the sum of the impacts of its individual components, the total life cycle environmental impact of the grid-integrated system will be a sum of the impact of the existing grid and the impact of the connected DERs. This point of view can assist researchers, developers and decision-makers around the world, in planning DERs for grid-connected and off-grid applications, and encourages a careful examination of the environmental sustainability of the entire electricity infrastructure.\nDaniel Akinyele holds a National Diploma (Distinction) and a B.Sc. (First class) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Osun State Polytechnic and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, respectively. He also holds an M.Sc. (Distinction) in Renewable Energy Systems Technology and a Ph.D. in Renewable Energy from the Loughborough University, United Kingdom and the Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand, respectively. Daniel was a senior engineer at the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Abuja, Nigeria – the only Federal government of Nigeria's Agency with the mandate to create science and engineering infrastructure. While at NASENI, his tasks included solar photovoltaic system design and energy efficiency analysis. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Covenant University, Nigeria, as an assistant lecturer before he proceeded to VUW for his doctorate degree program. He was also a teaching and research assistant while at VUW. His research interests include renewable energy systems application, microgrid design and planning, energy efficiency, energy transitions, life cycle analysis, and sustainability. He is registered with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).\nYoash Levron received a B.Sc. (summa cum laude) degree in electrical engineering from the Technion in 2001, and the M.Sc. and Ph.d. degrees in electrical engineering from Tel-Aviv University in 2007 and 2013, respectively. In the years 2013-2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Colorado Power Electronics Center, at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Dr. Levron has received several awards, including the group award of ‘Israel Security’ in 2008 and 2010, the Technion Viterbi fellowship for nurturing future faculty members (2013-2014), and the Taub fellowship for leaders in science and technology (2015).\nTo have the Bulletin delivered monthly to your inbox, join the IEEE Smart Grid Community.\nTo view archived articles, and issues, which deliver rich insight into the forces shaping the future of the smart grid. Older Bulletins (formerly eNewsletter) can be found here. To download full issues, visit the publications section of the IEEE Smart Grid Resource Center.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "RMIT researcher Dr Torben Daeneke said converting CO2 into a solid could be a more sustainable approach.\n“While we can’t literally turn back time, turning carbon dioxide back into coal and burying it back in the ground is a bit like rewinding the emissions clock,” Daeneke, an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, said.\n“To date, CO2 has only been converted into a solid at extremely high temperatures, making it industrially unviable.\n“By using liquid metals as a catalyst, we’ve shown it’s possible to turn the gas back into carbon at room temperature, in a process that’s efficient and scalable.\n“While more research needs to be done, it’s a crucial first step to delivering solid storage of carbon.”\nHow the carbon conversion works\nLead author, Dr Dorna Esrafilzadeh, a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in RMIT’s School of Engineering, developed the electrochemical technique to capture and convert atmospheric CO2 to storable solid carbon.\nTo convert CO2, the researchers designed a liquid metal catalyst with specific surface properties that made it extremely efficient at conducting electricity while chemically activating the surface.\nThe carbon dioxide is dissolved in a beaker filled with an electrolyte liquid and a small amount of the liquid metal, which is then charged with an electrical current.\nThe CO2 slowly converts into solid flakes of carbon, which are naturally detached from the liquid metal surface, allowing the continuous production of carbonaceous solid.\nEsrafilzadeh said the carbon produced could also be used as an electrode.\n“A side benefit of the process is that the carbon can hold electrical charge, becoming a supercapacitor, so it could potentially be used as a component in future vehicles.”\n“The process also produces synthetic fuel as a by-product, which could also have industrial applications.”\nThe research was conducted at RMIT’s MicroNano Research Facility and the RMIT Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility, with lead investigator, Honorary RMIT and ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh (now UNSW).\nThe research is supported by the Australian Research Council Centre for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES).\nThe collaboration involved researchers from Germany (University of Munster), China (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), the US (North Carolina State University) and Australia (UNSW, University of Wollongong, Monash University, QUT).\nThe paper is published in Nature Communications (“Room temperature CO2 reduction to solid carbon species on liquid metals featuring atomically thin ceria interfaces”, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08824-8).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This graphic organizer is a great way for your students to respond to informational texts to show what they have learned. It could be used for independent reading, reading centers, listening to reading, or whole group reading.\nCommon Core Standards:\nCCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.2 With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.\nCCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.2 Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.\nCCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.5 Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text.\nCCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.7 Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.\nCCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.5 Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.\nCCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.6 Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.\nCCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.10 By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tag Archives: musical form\nIn preparation for a musicology lecture this week, I began to think about the importance of students having an awareness of the general conventions in popular music. Factors such as an awareness of the commonality of eight bar sections (verses … Continue reading\nHere is a podcast of an introductory lecture on ways we can think about popular music analysis, and the differences between Song, Arrangement and Track.\nThis podcast is on the relationship on the elements of music and form. It considers the ways in which elements such as musical texture, time signatures, and harmony can interact to create expectations in a listener. In popular music, these … Continue reading\nThis weeks musicology lecture examined ways in which it is possible to analyse popular music melody – specifically from a horizontal perspective. As will be seen in the PowerPoint and the audio stream of the lecture – I get some … Continue reading\nMy last musicology session discussed the various ways in which the elements of music impacted our appreciation of music. Factors such as dynamics, texture, timbre, harmony, melody etc are interesting – as they can be discussed with all age groups … Continue reading\nThis weeks musicology session focused on the relationship of the Elements of Music to Musical Form. I have asked students to consider the following questions – Examples of pieces of music with unusual bar numbers between sections Examples of how … Continue reading", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Valle Valerio, Nicaragua\nWater Distribution Project\nABOUT THIS PROJECT\nWithin the Jinotega region of Nicaragua, the community Valle Valerio lacks sufficient drinking water throughout the year. That is about 620 men, women, and children who do not have reliable access to water. The current water system in the community is well beyond its useful lifetime. Some families have to walk 2 miles to a river for water. Additionally, the quality of the water accessible has high levels of nitrates and fecal coliform. High nitrate levels can cause infants to become seriously ill with blue-baby syndrome. The University of Houston chapter aims to fix that.\nValle Valerio currently has an infrastructure that is capable of withstanding the system that the chapter would like to implement. The community has an existing water distribution system that includes a well, an electrical water pump, a storage tank, and basic distribution piping that services a few locations across the community. The final goal is to construct a new tank on community land, expand the distribution network, and replace the electrical pump.\nThe University of Houston Chapter plans to build an entirely new storage tank that will be located in a more accessible and centralized location, repair the existing electric submersible well pump, enlarge the distribution network to service an additional 300 people with water, and treat the water source to ensure the quality standards. The chapter will collaborate with the community as well as the in-country Engineers Without Borders office to complete this project. This open line of communication serves to maintain trust between the chapter and the community as well as making sure the design is tended to directly fit the community’s needs.\nIn collaboration with the non government organization (NGO), and the community of valle valerio. Constructing a new, larger storage tank on community-owned land will allow the community to easily maintain the tank while granting constant access to clean water. Expanding the distribution network will bring clean water to 300 people who previously had none at all. Filtering the water will increase water quality ,and replacing the electrical pump will ensure the longevity of the system.\nelectric submersible water well pump system – $4,000.00\nConcrete Masonry Tank – $8000\nGravity-fed water distribution system – $12,000\nEvery Drop Counts\nCurrently, EWB-UH is working with Valerio, another small community in Nicaragua, on a project to redesign and improve their wells, water pumps, storage capacity, and distribution system. We have established community contacts, specific community needs, and community demographics. The next phase of the project is to conduct an assessment trip to the community itself to gather survey data, logistics research, design input, and objective clarification, as well as providing the opportunity to build community relationships. Once the data is gathered, we will begin working to design a water distribution system that will meet all of the community’s needs.\nAll together, this project has the potential to provide approximately 900 people with constant access to clean water using a simple and sustainable system.By completing this project, much needed water will be distributed to a total of 900 community members right To their doorstep. The families of the community will be able to use this water to drink, wash their hands, and bathe just as we all are able to. The need of this water distribution project has been a top concern of the community. However, the community lacks the resources and technical skills to tackle their problem. That is where the University of Houston Chapter comes in. Working alongside the community, the University of Houston Chapter strives to make this dream, a reality.\n- A total of about 900 people\nwith reliable access to water\n- Safer water to drink\n- Healthier Community\n- Better quality of life\n- Community equipped with\nskills to manage system", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Fall is a great time of year to study seeds. Many seeds have a way to travel to a new spot instead of staying right near the plant which made them.\nHow would this help the plants which will grow from the seeds?\nSome seeds are in fruits which are adapted to fly on the wind. Can you find any of the fruits below? Note: the pictures on this page are not all in scale.\nSome seeds are in fruits which travel on water:\nSome seeds are in fruits which hitch a ride on the fur or clothes of animals:\nSome fruits are machines which shoot their seeds away from the plant which they grow on:\nSome fruits are eaten by birds or other animals so the seeds travel inside the stomach of a bird or mammal:\nSee if you can find other fruits and seeds which travel by wind, water, fur or stomach.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "'Repair' in the Bible\neach priest is to take from his assessor and repair whatever damage to the temple is found.”\nSo King Joash called Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said, “Why haven’t you repaired the temple’s damage? Since you haven’t, don’t take any money from your assessors; instead, hand it over for the repair of the temple.”\nSo the priests agreed they would not take money from the people and they would not repair the temple’s damage.\nthe masons, and the stonecutters—and would use it to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple and for all spending for temple repairs.\nIt is to be put into the hands of those doing the work—those who oversee the Lord’s temple. They in turn are to give it to the workmen in the Lord’s temple to repair the damage.\nThey are to give it to the carpenters, builders, and masons to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the temple.\nThey dedicated part of the plunder from their battles for the repair of the Lord’s temple.\nSo he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all Israel to repair the temple of your God as needed year by year, and do it quickly.”However, the Levites did not hurry.\nThen the king and Jehoiada gave it to those in charge of the labor on the Lord’s temple, who were hiring stonecutters and carpenters to renovate the Lord’s temple, also blacksmiths and coppersmiths to repair the Lord’s temple.\nIn the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the temple, Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, along with Maaseiah the governor of the city and the court historian Joah son of Joahaz, to repair the temple of the Lord his God.\nThey put it into the hands of those doing the work—those who oversaw the Lord’s temple. They gave it to the workmen who were working in the Lord’s temple, to repair and restore the temple;\nThough we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our slavery. He has extended grace to us in the presence of the Persian kings, giving us new life, so that we can rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.\nWhen Sanballat, Tobiah, and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they became furious.\nI searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.\nYour wealth, merchandise, and goods,your sailors and captains,those who repair your leaks,those who barter for your goods,and all the warriors within you,with all the other people on board,sink into the heart of the seaon the day of your downfall.\nIn that dayI will restore the fallen booth of David:I will repair its gaps,restore its ruins,and rebuild it as in the days of old,\n- Amend (15 instances)\n- Bushel (15 instances)\n- Compensate (7 instances)\n- Doctor (6 instances)\n- Fix (44 instances)\n- Fixing (15 instances)\n- Haunt (14 instances)\n- Mend (6 instances)\n- Mending (3 instances)\n- Quicken (18 instances)\n- Recompense (86 instances)\n- Rectify (1 instance)\n- Remedy (8 instances)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "1 John 5:7\nIn the middle of the fifteenth century, seeking to protect the lands they were discovering in their relentless progress south, the Portuguese court petitioned the Vatican for a declaration that they alone were charged with the role of converting and subjugating their discoveries. While the effect of such a declaration would be political, assuring Portuguese primacy in Africa and the Indies, its wording placed it squarely within the spiritual dominion exercised by Rome, and accordingly, despite the protests of the Spanish king, the Vatican issued a series of papal bulls: Dum Diversis 1452; Romanus Pontifex 1455; and finally, the notorious Inter Caetera 1456. Taken together these gave the Portuguese a license over all lands south of the Canary Islands from Cape Bojador to the Indies.\nThen in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed west in search of a passage to China. Columbus, Genoese by birth, had lived most of his life in Portugal. Columbus' brother was a mapmaker in Lisbon, his business buoyed by the voyages of Portuguese captains, while his wife was the daughter of a Portuguese captain. But Columbus, his vision of a westward route to Cathay spurned by King João of Portugal as too expensive, turned to the Spanish for support, and it was under their flag that he sailed west.\nWhen Columbus returned, only seven months later, bringing with him stories of a fertile and friendly land to the west, Portugal suddenly found herself with a rival. Unable to match Spain's military might she instead turned to the Inter Caetera, but Spain responded by declaring that since the lands Columbus had discovered lay to the north of the Canaries the Pope's ruling did not apply. Like Portugal forty years earlier, Spain now turned to the Pope for support, arguing that she should be granted exclusive rights to bring spiritual salvation to the inhabitants of these new lands to the west.\nThe Pope of the time was Alexander VI, a Borgia and a friend of the Spanish court. Not surprisingly the Spanish request was granted, and at Columbus' suggestion a line was drawn approximately one hundred leagues from the westward tip of the Azores, dividing the Atlantic in half. Whether or not Portugal already knew of Brazil (and it is likely that the outward journeys of her captains had already led her to the shores of South America several years before Columbus' journey), she undoubtedly had considerable fishing interests to the northwest of the Azores, and as a result the Portuguese court protested against the terms of the papal decision. And so, in 1494, after much posturing by both sides, a new treaty, the Treaty of Tordesillas, was brokered between Spain and Portugal, which agreed:\n--James Bradley, Wrack631\nSome sermon material when taken from the NIV, not the Authorized Version, could be compared to teaching political history without considering the spiritual authority of the Pope. That is, by (1 John 5:7-8) \"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one,\" there is a counsel of heavenly witnesses as well as witnesses on earth. The NIV mutilates verses 7-8 by excluding the heavenly witnesses of verse 7, i.e., \"For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.\" My NIV at home includes a footnote:\n7,8 Late manuscripts of the Vulgate testify in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. 8And there are three that testify on earth: ...The NIV copy of the person nearest me in the pews didn't even include the footnote. The NIV started putting material back in footnotes when people complained they had left too much out, calling it therefore \"the NON-Inspired Version,\" NIV. With or without footnote, having to sort out a skipped verse tripped up my ability to follow the preacher's line of development and I had to get him to clarify it later.\nHere is the argument for including the omitted verse, from Ed Hills, King James Bible Defended, Chapter 8:\n3. The Johannine Comma (1 John 5:7)\nIn the Textus Receptus 1 John 5:7-8 reads as follows:\nThe words printed in capital letters constitute the so-called Johannine comma, the best known of the Latin Vulgate readings of the Textus Receptus, a reading which, on believing principles, must be regarded as possibly genuine. This comma has been the occasion of much controversy and is still an object of interest to textual critics. One of the more recent discussions of it is found in Windisch's Katholischen Briefe (revised by Preisker, 1951); (26) a more accessible treatment of it in English is that provided by A. D. Brooke (1912) in the International Critical Commentary. (27) Metzger (1964) also deals with this passage in his handbook, but briefly. (28)\n(a) How the Johannine Comma Entered the Textus Receptus\nAs has been observed above, the Textus Receptus has both its human aspect and its divine aspect, like the Protestant Reformation itself or any other work of God's providence. And when we consider the manner in which the Johannine comma entered the Textus Receptus, we see this human element at work. Erasmus omitted the Johannine comma from the first edition (1516) of his printed Greek New Testament on the ground that it occurred only in the Latin version and not in any Greek manuscript. To quiet the outcry that arose, he agreed to restore it if but one Greek manuscript could be found which contained it. When one such manuscript was discovered soon afterwards, bound by his promise, he included the disputed reading in his third edition (1522), and thus it gained a permanent place in the Textus Receptus. The manuscript which forced Erasmus to reverse his stand seems to have been 61, a 15th or 16th-century manuscript now kept at Trinity College, Dublin. Many critics believe that this manuscript was written at Oxford about 1520 for the special purpose of refuting Erasmus, and this is what Erasmus himself suggested in his notes.\nThe Johannine comma is also found in Codex Ravianus, in the margin of 88, and in 629. The evidence of these three manuscripts, however, is not regarded as very weighty, since the first two are thought to have taken this disputed reading from early printed Greek texts and the latter (like 61) from the Vulgate.\nBut whatever may have been the immediate cause, still, in the last analysis, it was not trickery which was responsible for the inclusion of the Johannine comma in the Textus Receptus but the usage of the Latin-speaking Church. It was this usage which made men feel that this reading ought to be included in the Greek text and eager to keep it there after its inclusion had been accomplished. Back of this usage, we may well believe, was the guiding providence of God, and therefore the Johannine comma ought to be retained as at least possibly genuine.\n(b) The Early Existence of the Johannine Comma\nEvidence for the early existence of the Johannine comma is found in the Latin versions and in the writings of the Latin Church Fathers. For example, it seems to have been quoted at Carthage by Cyprian (c. 250) who writes as follows: \"And again concerning the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit it is written: and the Three are One.\" (29) It is true that Facundus, a 6th-century African bishop, interpreted Cyprian as referring to the following verse, (30) but, as Scrivener (1833) remarks, it is \"surely safer and more candid\" to admit that Cyprian read the Johannine comma in his New Testament manuscript \"than to resort to the explanation of Facundus.\" (31)\nThe first undisputed citations of the Johannine comma occur in the writing of two 4th-century Spanish bishops, Priscillian, (32) who in 385 was beheaded by the Emperor Maximus on the charge of sorcery and heresy, and Idacius Clarus, (33) Priscillian's principal adversary and accuser. In the 5th century the Johannine comma was quoted by several orthodox African writers to defend the doctrine of the Trinity against the gainsaying of the Vandals, who ruled North Africa from 489 to 534 and were fanatically attached to the Arian heresy. (34) And about the same time it was cited by Cassiodorus (480-570), in Italy. (35) The comma is also found in r an Old Latin manuscript of the 5th or 6th century, and in the Speculum, a treatise which contains an Old Latin text. It was not included in Jerome's original edition of the Latin Vulgate but around the year 800 it was taken into the text of the Vulgate from the Old Latin manuscripts. It was found in the great mass of the later Vulgate manuscripts and in the Clementine edition of the Vulgate, the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.\n(c) Is the Johannine Comma an Interpolation?\nThus on the basis of the external evidence it is at least possible that the Johannine comma is a reading that somehow dropped out of the Greek New Testament text but was preserved in the Latin text through the usage of the Latin-speaking Church, and this possibility grows more and more toward probability as we consider the internal evidence.\nIn the first place, how did the Johannine comma originate if it be not genuine, and how did it come to be interpolated into the Latin New Testament text? To this question modern scholars have a ready answer. It arose, they say, as a trinitarian interpretation of I John 5:8, which originally read as follows: For there are three that bear witness, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. Augustine was one of those who interpreted 1 John 5:8 as referring to the Trinity. \"If we wish to inquire about these things, what they signify, not absurdly does the Trinity suggest Itself, who is the one, only, true, and highest God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, concerning whom it could most truly be said, Three are Witnesses, and the Three are One. By the word spirit we consider God the Father to be signified, concerning the worship of whom the Lord spoke, when He said, God is a spirit. By the word blood the Son is signified, because the Word was made flesh. And by the word water we understand the Holy Spirit. For when Jesus spoke concerning the water which He was about to give the thirsty, the evangelist says, This He spake concerning the Spirit whom those that believed in Him would receive. \" (36)\nThus, according to the critical theory, there grew up in the Latin speaking regions of ancient Christendom a trinitarian interpretation of the spirit, the water, and the blood mentioned in 1 John 5:8, the spirit signifying the Father, the blood the Son, and the water the Holy Spirit. And out of this trinitarian interpretation of 1 John 5:8 developed the Johannine comma, which contrasts the witness of the Holy Trinity in heaven with the witness of the spirit, the water, and the blood on earth.\nBut just at this point the critical theory encounters a serious difficulty. If the comma originated in a trinitarian interpretation of 1 John 5:8, why does it not contain the usual trinitarian formula, namely, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit? Why does it exhibit the singular combination, never met with elsewhere, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit? According to some critics, this unusual phraseology was due to the efforts of the interpolator who first inserted the Johannine comma into the New Testament text. In a mistaken attempt to imitate the style of the Apostle John, he changed the term Son to the term Word. But this is to attribute to the interpolator a craftiness which thwarted his own purpose in making this interpolation, which was surely to uphold the doctrine of the Trinity, including the eternal generation of the Son. With this as his main concern it is very unlikely that he would abandon the time-honored formula, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and devise an altogether new one, Father, Word, and Holy Spirit.\nIn the second place, the omission of the Johannine comma seems to leave the passage incomplete. For it is a common scriptural usage to present solemn truths or warnings in groups of three or four, for example, the repeated Three things, yea four of Proverbs 30, and the constantly recurring refrain, for three transgressions and for four, of the prophet Amos. In Genesis 40 the butler saw three branches and the baker saw three baskets. And in Matt. 12:40 Jesus says, As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. It is in accord with biblical usage, therefore, to expect that in 1 John 5:7-8 the formula, there are three that bear witness, will be repeated at least twice. When the Johannine comma is included, the formula is repeated twice. When the comma is omitted, the formula is repeated only once, which seems strange.\nIn the third place, the omission of the Johannine comma involves a grammatical difficulty. The words spirit, water, and blood are neuter in gender, but in 1 John 5:8 they are treated as masculine. If the Johannine comma is rejected, it is hard to explain this irregularity. It is usually said that in 1 John 5:8 the spirit, the water, and the blood are personalized and that this is the reason for the adoption of the masculine gender. But it is hard to see how such personalization would involve the change from the neuter to the masculine. For in verse 6 the word Spirit plainly refers to the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity. Surely in this verse the word Spirit is \"personalized,\" and yet the neuter gender is used. Therefore since personalization did not bring about a change of gender in verse 6, it cannot fairly be pleaded as the reason for such a change in verse 8. If, however, the Johannine comma is retained, a reason for placing the neuter nouns spirit, water, and blood in the masculine gender becomes readily apparent. It was due to the influence of the nouns Father and Word, which are masculine. Thus the hypothesis that the Johannine comma is an interpolation is full of difficulties.\n(d) Reasons for the Possible Omission of the Johannine Comma\nFor the absence of the Johannine comma from all New Testament documents save those of the Latin-speaking West the following explanations are possible.\nIn the first place, it must be remembered that the comma could easily have been omitted accidentally through a common type of error which is called homoioteleuton (similar ending). A scribe copying 1 John 5:7-8 under distracting conditions might have begun to write down these words of verse 7, there are three that bear witness, but have been forced to look up before his pen had completed this task. When he resumed his work, his eye fell by mistake on the identical expression in verse 8. This error would cause him to omit all of the Johannine comma except the words in earth, and these might easily have been dropped later in the copying of this faulty copy. Such an accidental omission might even have occurred several times, and in this way there might have grown up a considerable number of Greek manuscripts which did not contain this reading.\nIn the second place, it must be remembered that during the 2nd and 3rd centuries (between 220 and 270, according to Harnack); (37) the heresy which orthodox Christians were called upon to combat was not Arianism (since this error had not yet arisen) but Sabellianism (so named after Sabellius, one of its principal promoters), according to which the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were one in the sense that they were identical. Those that advocated this heretical view were called Patripassians (Father-sufferers), because they believed that God the Father, being identical with Christ, suffered and died upon the cross, and Monarchians, because they claimed to uphold the Monarchy (sole-government) of God.\nIt is possible, therefore, that the Sabellian heresy brought the Johannine comma into disfavor with orthodox Christians. The statement, these three are one, no doubt seemed to them to teach the Sabellian view that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit were identical. And if during the course of the controversy manuscripts were discovered which had lost this reading in the accidental manner described above, it is easy to see how the orthodox party would consider these mutilated manuscripts to represent the true text and regard the Johannine comma as a heretical addition. In the Greek-speaking East especially the comma would be unanimously rejected, for here the struggle against Sabellianism was particularly severe.\nThus it was not impossible that during the 3rd century amid the stress and strain of the Sabellian controversy, the Johannine comma lost its place in the Greek text, but was preserved in the Latin texts of Africa and Spain, where the influence of Sabellianism was probably not so great. In other words, it is not impossible that the Johannine comma was one of those few true readings of the Latin Vulgate not occurring in the Traditional Greek Text but incorporated into the Textus Receptus under the guiding providence of God. In these rare instances God called upon the usage of the Latin-speaking Church to correct the usage of the Greek speaking Church. (38)\nWell, looking at it from an earthly perspective, we see three elements in the escape of the Israelites from Pharaoh's Egypt. First there was the blood on the door mantel so the destroying angel would pass over them. Next, Pharaoh, as you recall, was not about to let them just waltz on out of there even after he'd permitted them under duress. No, he came after them. The Israelites' escape was accomplished by two more actions: (Exodus 14:19-30) \"And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians. And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them. But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.\"\nUnless all three mechanisms happened here on earth, the Isralites just wouldn't have made it. This helps us Christians today understand the necessary mechanisms of our salvation: First we have to acknowledge the blood sacrifice of Jesus the spotless lamb of God for our sins. We gird ourselves to forsake our old sinful life as the Israelites were girded for immediate departure at their first Passover.\nThen there is the work of regeneration of the Spirit which leads us as did the cloud lead the Israelites. It stood between the Israelites and Pharaoh's army until the former could reach the sea, as does the Spirit protect us from our old man until we reach the waters of baptism.\nWhen we come out of the waters of baptism risen a new creature in Christ, we've made an actual break with that past life, as did the Israelites from Egypt.\nClick here to bookmark this page.\nRefresh this page to see the new bookmark below:\nView My Guestbook\nSign My Guestbook\nCopyright © 2005, Earl S. Gosnell III\nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.\nPermission is hereby granted to use the portions original to this paper--with credit given, of course--in intellectually honest non-profit educational material. The material I myself have quoted has its own copyright in most cases, which I cannot speak for but have used here under the fair use doctrine.\nI have used material from a couple of sources for teaching, comment and illustration in this nonprofit teaching endeavor. The sources are included in the text or in a notes file. Such uses must be judged on individual merit, of course, so I cannot say how other uses of the same material might fare.\nAny particular questions or requests for permissions may be addressed to me, the author.\nScripture quotations marked NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION or NIV are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.\nWeb page problems?\nvisitors since 8/1/2006", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By Zubeida Mustafa\nIn the UK, Allotments – small plots of lands given to a number of individuals for cultivation — are said to have been around for centuries. But it was only in the nineteenth century when this concept was regularized by law to give industrial workers land to grow their own food. In 1908 the Small Holdings and Allotments Act made it mandatory for the local authorities to provide allotments to the people when a demand exists.\nThe Berridale Allotments in the heart of Glasgow that I visited were launched in their present form in 1939. Before that the land had been used as a playground until it was sold to Laidlaw’s to build houses in 1937. The construction work was stopped when it was feared that there might be flooding from the river nearby. Hence Laidlaw’s Trust rented out the land to the Allotments committee which was formed in 1937. The committee later on purchased the land from the Trust in1947-48. The development of the infrastructure was incremental.\n- 1964 The Royal Naval base at Abbotsinch contributed the hut and members added the kitchen and toilets.\n- 1965-66 Water pipes and stands were instated. Previously water was used from the river.\n- George Ronald, treasurer and secretary until 1965, was presented a long service plaque which is displayed in the hut and the trophy for which members compete on “Open Day” is named after George Ronald.\nThe constitution of the Berridale Allotments & Gardens Association defines its aim to be the cultivation of vegetables, fruits and flowers by the allotment holders.\nThe Association is run by six office bearers plus nine committee members elected for three years by the Annual General Meeting. It lays down comprehensive rules regulating pets, children, delivery of goods, sale of products, sanitation and so on.\nBased on material provided by Robert Spiers", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tantalum and its alloys are midway between tungsten and molybdenum in density and melting points. Tantalum can be worked easily at room temperature. Its thermal conductivity is one-fourth that of molybdenum and its coefficient of expansion is one-third greater. Its elevated temperature strength is low compared with tungsten and molybdenum.\nTantalum is attractive for refractory environments because of its high melting point and corrosion resistance. Substances that can affect tantalum are fluorine, hydrofluoric acid, sulfur trioxide (including fuming sulfuric acid), concentrated strong alkalis, and certain molten salts. The corrosion resistance of tantalum is comparable to glass, although tantalum withstands higher temperatures and offers the machinable advantages of a metal. Tantalum is frequently used in conjunction with glass, glass-lined steel, and other nonmetallic materials. Due to its high cost and lack of strength, tantalum is usually used as a lining over a stronger, less expensive base material.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Your sister has been forced to borrow money to pay her tuition this year. If she makes annual interest payments on the loan at year end for the next three years, and the loan is for $2,500 at a simple interest rate of 6 percent, how much will she pay each year?\nAnswer to relevant QuestionsA new Internet bank pays compound interest of 0.5 percent per month on deposits. How much interest will Khalil’s summer savings of $1,200 earn in one year with this online bank account?Public corporations have no fixed lifespan; as such, they are often viewed as entities that will pay dividends to their shareholders in perpetuity. Suppose a firm pays a dividend of $2 per share every year. If the discount ...Suppose that, several years ago, the Canadian government issued three very similar bonds; each has a $1,000 face value and a 10-percent coupon rate and will mature in five years. The only difference between the bonds is the ...Calculate the cash price of the following bond, sold on September 21: par = $1,000; coupon rate = 4 percent, paid on January 1 and July 1; quoted price = $956. Explain why the cash price is different from the quoted price.Sapna would like to receive a real return of 5 percent per year on a bond investment at a time when the expected inflation rate is 2.5 percent. How much would she be willing to pay for a bond maturing in two years if it pays ...\nPost your question", "label": "No"}
{"text": "An essay is a short piece of writing which allows a student to present his point of views and arguments on a single topic. Essays are written in formal as well as in an informal way. We can write an essay for literary criticism, political manifests and reflections of the author. There are lots of countries in which essays have become a major part of formal education. That’s why before getting admission in a college or university, the students are asked to write an admission essay. Here, experts of cheap essay writing services will discuss the difference between essay writing in college and university.\nThere is no big difference between the essay writing at the college level and university level. As we know that an essay consists of five paragraphs. At the college as well as at the university level, it is necessary for us to write an essay which consists of five paragraphs. In the first paragraph, it is necessary for the students to add some information about the topic, thesis statement and hook. After that, there comes the body of an essay. In the body of an essay, it is also necessary for the students to add some examples and evidence in favour of the arguments of the thesis statement.\nAt last, there comes the concluding paragraph of an essay. In the concluding paragraph of an essay, it is also necessary for us to sum up all the main points of an essay. In the concluding paragraph, there is no need to add some additional information that is not written in the body of an essay. To write an essay, it is necessary for us to conduct effective research. At the university level, if we want to write an essay, we will have to conduct more effective research than a college-level essay.\nIt is necessary for us to write an essay with the help of unique and original content. At the university level, there are some hard and fast rules about the plagiarism of an essay than at the college level. Therefore, we should try to write novel arguments and unique content while writing a university level essay. We can also see a little bit difference between the language of a college level essay and a university level essay. At the college level essay, we can use non-academic language. On the other hand, at the university level, we can use only academic language.\nAt the university level, usually, the students have to write an essay on a difficult topic. That’s why they face lots of difficulties to complete an essay. On the other hand, at the college level, the students have to write an essay on an easy topic. As a result, they face fewer difficulties to write an essay. We can also observe some differences in the lengths of these two types of essays. At the college level, the length of an essay is usually shorter than a college-level essay. While writing a college level essay, you will have to be more concise and precise than a university level essay.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Aristotle describes “Time” as the amount of motion. For Aristotle, time as the Eternal Image as it is the case for Plato has no signification. The Aristotle’s perspective is also incompatible with that of Plotinus who considers time as dynamism and motion of soul. Aristotle considers time as the amount of motion on a continuum of pre and post (before and after) other than the motion itself. The Medieval and modern philosophers, also examine time from special points of view in line with their own empirical and rational approaches. Not only, does Aristotle examine time from a natural and physical perspective, but he also addresses aspects of time, particularly the moment of “Now”. He considers the moment of “Now” as the live and real time moment. Aristotle maintains that time is a phenomenon depending on the soul. The Aristotle’s perspective, in fact expresses a kind of dependency between time and the identifier subject (subject); i.e. Aristotle is concerned with examination of time from a subjective view.\nSupport the magazine and subscribe to the content\nThis is premium stuff. Subscribe to read the entire article.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In the modern world, you can easily cultivate existing passion as well as explore new interests so that you get to find a major that will direct your career path. Here is a list of degree programs, covering the job prospects and their popularity. It is a closer look that will help you see some of the unique challenges associated with various popular courses, and it will help you develop skill sets applicable in the profession.\n1) Computer Science\nComputer science is one of the 12 most popular college majors by degree type. You will not just learn about computer programs and hardware, but you will also get to know the application of that knowledge, readying for the competitive job market. Once you complete, you will be fixed to areas like artificial intelligence, image recognition programs, numerical analysis, and gaming technology.\nThe course is typically a favorite for great storytellers, personalities with quick wits as well as people with fiery personalities. You will earn speech writing skills as well as the art of formulating scripts. You will be focusing on business, advertising, public relations, and media.\n3) Government And Political Science\nThe major usually deals with those current events. You will be focusing on the politics of the government and a significant concentration on the American government; you will possibly end up being a lawyer or a politician.\nA business major will involve grounding in theories as well as principles in accounting, finance, economics, and statistics. You will learn to budget, organize, as well as control various kinds of organizations. You will also be thinking about multiple issues in ethics, politics, among others.\nYou will be able to focus on the human mind and the way they react to certain prospects from time to time to the environment. You will focus on human features for instance emotions, motivations, and personalities among others.\nEngineers will harness various kinds of activities to ensure that they come up with something that people want. It is a broad field that covers mechanical, chemical, biochemistry engineering. You will have a high chance of getting a job in big companies that carry out manufacturing.\n7) Nutrition And Dietetics\nThis often revolves around human nutrition, and depending on the particular education, you will be able to find healthy links for dieting, food preparation, as well as client education\nMarketing is usually a popular college major for millennials. Modern skills you will earn involve learning how to formulate social media ad campaigns or just regular ad account management. If you are a people’s person or you can create content that quickly grabs the attention of the people, this will be a great choice for you.\n9) Arts And General Studies\nMany people who are in colleges will often consider arts aside major while they are focusing on other disciplines. Liberal Arts has even been recognized by many college graduates since it is popular and hence appreciated by a high number of people.\nIf your passion has always been working with kids and would like to make a significant difference in their lives, it would be wise to pursue an education course. We all have one person who taught us, and we appreciate for the time.\n11) Nursing And Health\nGraduates in nursing have been identified to come close to the list of being the most popular, in the states. If you appreciate human health and would like to make a difference in the lives of people, taking a course in science would be of great benefit.\n12) Social Sciences\nIn case you happen to be graduating with a degree in social science, you will have great prospects in management consultancy media and economic-related job sets.\nYou need to ensure that you schedule one-on-one meetings with your college admission counselors so that you can apply and get a slot in your dream school.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Development and evaluation of Fingu: a mathematics iPad game using multi-touch interaction\n2012 (English)In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, New York: ACM Press, 2012, 204-207 p.Conference paper (Other academic)\nWe describe the design background of the mathematics game Fingu for iPad aimed at 4 to 8 year old children. We first describe how Fingu theoretically can support children's development of fundamental arithmetic skills, focusing on conceptual subitizing, the embodiment of numerosity, and finger gnosis. Then we present the results of an exploratory micro-longitudinal study of the game with 11 5- and 6-year old children playing the game for several weeks and being filmed at three occasions. We discuss how their behavior with the game develops over time and can be related to the development of arithmetic skills. Finally we discuss how we will proceed testing the effectiveness of Fingu in a larger controlled study.\nPlace, publisher, year, edition, pages\nNew York: ACM Press, 2012. 204-207 p.\nComputer Uses in Education, Design, Human Factors\nIdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-9494DOI: 10.1145/2307096.2307126ISBN: 978-1-4503-1007-9OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hkr-9494DiVA: diva2:537906\nInteraction Design and Children", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Planning for calving is a lot like formulating a battle plan. It can fall apart when the first shot is fired, but preparation and planning for contingencies often makes for the most optimum results.\n\"Successful calving seasons are planned in advance, with consideration for minimizing the risks of the known hazards of this phase of cattle production,\" says Dave Smith, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Extension veterinarian. These include minimizing the risks of birthing, environment and disease.\nMinimize birthing risks. \"Successful calving occurs when a live calf is born without complications to the calf or the dam,\" Smith says.\nThe calf factors in dystocia are generally related to size, posture and presentation of the birthing calf. The consequences can be metabolic or physical injury, which can result in death during or after birth.\nMeanwhile, the dystocia factors related to the dam are her age, pelvic size and metabolic health. Heifers tend to have more problems with dystocia owing to their more immature stage of development.\nThere are long- and near-term strategies for preventing birthing problems, Smith says. The long-term strategies include selecting for calving ease and pelvic size, and implementing sound heifer breeding and development programs.\nNear-term strategies include:\n- Providing exercise and balanced nutrition to heifers and cows prior to and after calving,\n- frequent monitoring of calving progress;\n- early and appropriate calving assistance;\n- ready access to the appropriate tools for calving assistance;\n- copious use of lubricants; and\n- attention to sanitation (e.g., use of soap and water) during birthing.\nEvaluate the environment. Among the environmental factors presenting dangers to new calves are weather extremes, crowding, predators and physical sources of injury, Smith says.\nAt birth, calves have limited ability to regulate their body temperature. Thus, extremes of heat or cold present a risk for hyperthermia, or hypothermia, respectively. That's especially true when accompanied by wet and muddy or dry and dusty conditions.\n\"In addition, crowded conditions increase chances for injury from trampling or butting by other cattle, as well as increased opportunities for pathogen exposure,\" he says.\nPhysical hazards in the calving environment are another source of calf injury. These include protruding nails, broken posts, loose wire, holes, steep embankments, standing water, various sources of electricity, and toxins (such as from lead batteries or chemical containers discarded in or near calving facilities or on pastures), Smith says.\nWhile cows are less susceptible to weather stresses than their calves, dystocia or metabolic disease increase their risk of hypothermia or hyperthermia. At the time surrounding calving, cows also may be more likely to slip and fall, a likelihood exacerbated by floor surfaces with steep slopes or slippery traction due to snow, ice or mud.\n\"In addition, cows calving near ditches and streams or other low spots are at risk to fall or not be able to rise after lying down,\" Smith says. \"As with calves, cows may be injured by a variety of physical hazards that may be present in the calving environment.\"\nThe risk of injury to cow or calf can be minimized, however, by paying attention to environmental conditions. Long-term strategies include breeding so that calving occurs during favorable weather conditions, and planning for calving facilities with minimal physical hazards. Near-term strategies include a pre-calving survey of the facilities for potential sources of injury, as well as routine surveillance of the herd during the calving season.\nMinimize disease risks. Diarrhea, commonly called scours, is one of the most likely causes of sickness and death in young calves. It's a complex disease -- an interrelationship between agent, host and environmental factors.\nEven calves that are immunologically well-protected can be overcome by a sufficient level of exposure to a pathogen. That's why keeping the environment clean has long been recognized as important for controlling calf diarrhea, Smith says.\nWhile adult cows are likely the source of scours pathogens from year to year, the average dose-load of pathogen exposure to calves tends to increase over a calving season. That's because calves infected earlier serve as pathogen-multipliers and become the primary source of exposure to younger, susceptible calves.\n\"This multiplier effect can result in high calf infectivity and widespread environmental contamination with pathogens,\" Smith says. That's why \"biocontainment\" is important in controlling calf diarrhea.\nThat's the idea behind the UNL-developed Sandhills Calving System (SCS). Named after the Sandhills area of north-central Nebraska where it was tested, SCS utilizes a series of calving pastures to minimize newborn calves' contact with disease agents. The idea is to minimize both the disease load and newborns' exposure to the disease agents until their immune systems have sufficiently matured to better withstand them.\n\"We're trying to recreate the conditions of the first week of calving season during each of the remaining weeks of the calving season. We want a clean calving area without the presence of older calves that may be shedding pathogens,\" Smith says. \"I like to say we're creating eight, one-week seasons rather than one, eight-week season.\"\nSCS consists of a series of large contiguous pastures. Learn more about the SCS system at: vetext.unl.edu/publications.shtml?to=Beef. Here's how it works:\n- Cows are turned into the first calving pasture as soon as the first calves are born, and calving continues for two weeks.\n- After two weeks, the cows that haven't calved are moved to Pasture 2, with cow-calf pairs remaining behind in Pasture 1.\n- After a week of calving in Pasture 2, the cows that haven't calved are moved to Pasture 3, and cow-calf pairs born in Pasture 2 remain in Pasture 2.\n- With each subsequent week, cows that haven't calved are moved to a new pasture, and pairs remain in their pasture of birth.\nThis age segregation prevents transfer of pathogens from older to younger calves. Meanwhile, moving pregnant cows to new calving pastures minimizes the pathogen load in the environment, as well as a newborn calf's contact time with those pathogens.\n\"Ranchers using the system have observed meaningful and sustained reductions in sickness and death due to calf scours, and greatly reduced use of medications,\" Smith says. He adds that although SCS was tested and initially adopted in ranches typical of the Nebraska Sandhills, the principles on which it's based are widely applicable.\nSmith says the SCS principles of limiting calf exposure to pathogens also apply to calving barns. \"A good strategy is to be judicious in their use. Try not to use them when the weather is favorable for outside calving,\" he says.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I recently led a few photo tours to Iceland to photograph the northern lights, and our groups each had the good fortune to experience several nights of clear skies and brilliant displays of aurora.\nIt's an amazing experience, both to photograph and simply to see. One of the high seasons for aurora is nearly upon us, so I chose to write a primer on how to tackle this exciting genre of night photography.\nWhere and When to Find Aurora\nThe aurora borealis, as the northern lights are also known, occurs when electrically charged particles from the sun are carried by solar wind toward Earth and collide with gases in the upper atmosphere. Those gas particles—most commonly oxygen (green aurora) and nitrogen (pink aurora)—are “excited” by the collisions, and release photons of light.\nEarth’s magnetic field deflects most of the solar particles, but that field is weakest at the poles. This is why the aurora is mainly seen near the polar regions. (Toward the South Pole, they're called the aurora australis, or southern lights.) In general, the chances of viewing the aurora in the Northern Hemisphere are best at latitudes above 55° N, and between the months of September and March. Historically, March and October are the best months for aurora viewing.\nThere are a number of apps to help locate the aurora. The one we at NPAN have used the most is Aurora Forecast. Some of the newer apps seem to have more favorable reviews, and may be worth trying. Whichever app you choose, set the preferences to send you an alert for a Kp rating of 5 or higher, for middle latitudes if you live at or below 55° N latitude, and high latitudes above 55° N. Kp is the unit of measurement for geomagnetic conditions responsible for the aurora.\nThe frequency of clear skies is also a big a factor in seeing the aurora, but broken cloud cover can add a lot of visual interest in aurora photographs. The phenomenon can appear at any time when the sky is dark, but the best viewing times are typically from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.\nSolar activity peaks and falls on an 11-year cycle. The winter of 2012-13 was the peak of the current cycle, which was theoretically the best chance to see auroral activity for the next decade. Luckily for us though, there has been plenty of auroral activity every winter since 2012.\nIceland lies between 64° and 66° N, and is ideally suited for viewing and photographing the aurora. Despite being so far north, its position on the Gulf Stream keeps the winters relatively mild compared to other good aurora-viewing places such as Scandinavia and Alaska. During my two Iceland tours in 2015, we had good viewing conditions and good sightings for nine out of 17 nights, and really spectacular displays on three of those nights.\nPhotographing the aurora is relatively straight-forward once you understand the basics. The remainder of this article is intended to provide the basic information required for aurora photography.\nPrepare for the Cold\nIt’s obvious that you’ll be photographing in cold weather conditions, and there are a few things you can do to protect yourself and your equipment from the cold.\nDress in layers, making sure that your innermost layer is synthetic rather than cotton. Synthetic fibers wick moisture away from the body, keeping you warm and dry. Dress as if it will be colder than it really will be. Standing around for hours on end will make you feel much colder than if you were active or if you were outside for only a short while.\nYour best options are:\n- heavyweight merino wool and synthetic-blend socks\n- insulated boots with wool or sheepskin liners\n- long underwear\n- lined pants, wind pants or long underwear with ski pants\nMake sure your neck is covered, and find just the right hat. The best bet for your hands is flip-top mittens with chemical hand warmers and potentially thin, form-fitting glove liners. (We particularly like the Trigger Mitt by our friends at Vallerret.) If you’re going to Alaska, or somewhere frigid, extreme cold weather clothing can be expensive, but is essential.\nCamera gear for Aurora Photography\nPhotographing the aurora tests the limits of our gear, so this is a case where using the best equipment really makes a difference in the quality of your images.\nCameras and Lenses\nCameras with full-frame sensors are ideal, as are fast, ultrawide-angle lenses. Cameras such as the or D750, Pentax K1, Sony A7R2 or A7S2, and Canon EOS 6D or EOS 5D Mark IV are particularly well-suited to this work. The next best option is an APS-C camera, such as the Nikon D500. But if you will be using an APS-C camera, I recommend sticking with newer models that perform better at high ISOs.\nFast, wide to ultrawide angle lenses in the 14mm to 24mm range are the most useful for full-frame cameras, and those manufactured by Samyang under the brand names of Samyang, Bower and Rokinon offer a great value for about one-third the price of the comparable Canon and Nikon lenses, and they suffer less from coma at wide apertures. It’s recommended to test these lenses thoroughly after purchase, as quality control is notoriously inconsistent.\nThe best zoom lenses for this type of photography are the Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 and Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8. A lens hood is helpful not only for preventing flare, but also for protecting the front element from frost and condensation.\nA sturdy tripod is essential of course, and those with three leg sections are generally more stable than those with four or five. One exception to the three-section leg rule is the Gitzo Series One Traveler. This is one of our favorite travel tripods, as it packs small and is incredibly sturdy. A more economical alternative is the Manfrotto 190Go! Carbon Fiber Tripod Kit with Ball Head.\nInsulated leg sections are easier to handle, especially on aluminum tripods. Ball heads are better suited for this work than traditional pan-tilt heads because they can be adjusted quickly to track quickly changing aurora.\nSince exposures are generally 30 seconds or less, a remote release or intervalometer is helpful, though not required. In fact, the cables can freeze and break in extremely cold weather, so if the temperature is below zero F, you’re better off without one. If you are working without a remote release of some sort, be sure to use the 2-second delay on the self-timer to avoid camera movement when depressing the shutter button.\nThe only other equipment you’ll need is an extra camera battery or two. You’ll want to keep your extra batteries close to your body in an inner pocket, as they will not last as long in the cold. You can also consider connecting to an external power supply with the Tether Tools Case Relay Camera Power System.\nRemove any filters from your lenses, and be sure to use your lens hoods, which will help minimize frost or condensation buildup on the front element. A neoprene beer/soda cozy with the end cut off can be used to hold one or two chemical warmers to your lens, which also can prevent the lens from fogging over.\nLastly, you'll want some flashlights. We recommend carrying at least two: a dim or preferably red one (such as Coast's FL75 headlamp) for finding things in your bag or making adjustments to your camera, and a very bright flashlight to use as a focusing aid or for light painting. (As usual, we can't recommend the Coast HP7R enough. Use the coupon code “parksatnight” for 25 percent off of all merchandise at CoastPortland.com.)\nAmbient Light and Aurora Photography\nAmbient light from towns and cities will obscure all but the brightest aurora displays, so make sure you are well away from urban areas. That said, the distant glow from streetlights or the last glow of a fading sunset on the horizon can add another element of color to your photographs. Sodium-vapor streetlights reflecting off of low clouds is another possibility to add contrasting color to aurora photos.\nLunar phase and lunar elevation in the sky both have a profound impact on night photography in general, and on aurora photography in particular. Photographing without any moonlight will mean primarily silhouetted foregrounds, and longer exposures at higher ISOs. Photographing under a full moon will mean much brighter foregrounds (especially if there is snow on the ground), shorter exposures at lower ISOs and fainter aurora in your photographs.\nYou can photograph the aurora at all phases of the lunar cycle, and the results will vary fairly dramatically; it’s just a matter of what kind of images you are looking for. My preference is to photograph between the first quarter and waxing gibbous phases, as there is sufficient moonlight to illuminate the landscape without overpowering the aurora. The first-quarter moon rises around noon, sets around midnight, and then rises about 45 minutes later each day until it is full. The full moon rises at about sunset and sets at about sunrise.\nIf you include interesting foreground elements, you may want to add light painting, especially when there is little or no moonlight present.\nCamera Settings and Exposure for Aurora Photography\nAurora photography pushes the limits of even today’s best DSLR cameras. Because of the low light levels, and the need to keep exposures relatively short due to the moving nature of the aurora, you’ll be photographing at the highest usable ISO of your camera and the widest aperture that will yield sufficient sharpness and depth of field.\nDetermining your highest usable ISO is simply a matter of testing your camera by making a series of low-light exposures at increasing ISOs, and then scrutinizing the shadow areas of each exposure, preferably by making final-size prints of the images. (See Matt Hill’s post, “Keep the Noise Down: How to Take an ISO Test with your Camera.”) For me, 1600 is the highest ISO I use for print-quality images and 6400 for web-quality with my 5D Mark II.\nSimilarly, you’ll want to test your lenses for coma at wide apertures. A form of optical distortion, coma causes stars to appear as if they have “tails” like a comet, or sometimes like a bird in flight. Test your lenses by shooting starry skies at maximum aperture and then stopping down in half- or third-stop increments until you get to f/5.6, and then looking at the resulting images at full magnification for signs of coma. It’s generally found near the edges of the frame in images shot at or near maximum aperture. The Canon and Nikon 24mm f/1.4 lenses both suffer from fairly severe coma problems. (Coma is another topic we will discuss in more detail in the future.)\nExposures for aurora photography range from approximately 30 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 6400 for faint to average aurora on a moonless night, to 4 seconds, f/4, ISO 800 for bright coronal aurora on a full-moon night. The intensity of the aurora can vary dramatically—sometimes it’s barely visible to the naked eye but shows up nicely in photographs, and sometimes it can be so bright as to illuminate the landscape.\nDetermining exposure is accomplished by viewing a combination of the RGB histogram and the blinking highlight indicator. At a minimum, you should have a histogram that shows no shadow clipping—it can be a left-biased histogram, but the histogram should not be touching the left edge of the graph. Images with more exposure will have cleaner shadows with less noise. Ideally, you should not have to lighten your image in post-processing. Use the blinking highlight indicator to make sure that you are not overexposing the aurora or any highlights created by light painting. Use the LCD image preview primarily for confirming composition and focus.\nKey camera settings\nHere’s a rundown of the camera settings most important to photographing aurora, and my recommendations for how to set them.\n- Set file quality to RAW.\n- Use your camera’s highest usable ISO setting, hopefully between 1600 and 6400.\n- Set white balance to between 3700 K and 4100 K when shooting under moonlight, or between 4000 K and 5500 K when there is no moon.\n- Set your camera’s Long Exposure Noise Reduction (LENR) to Auto (if available) or on.\n- Enable your camera’s RGB histogram to use as the primary exposure determinant in natural light.\n- Enable the blinking highlight indicator to ensure that you do not clip the aurora.\n- Set the LCD brightness to “auto” or reduce it manually to almost the lowest setting.\n- Set exposure mode to Manual.\n- Set focus to Manual.\n- Turn off IS/VR lens functions\n- For focusing, use magnified Live View with the assistance of a flashlight to illuminate your focal subject, or use conservative, well-executed hyperfocal distance.\nFor more information and a complete list of camera settings, download my PDF “Basic Camera Settings for Milky Way and Aurora Photography.”\nGetting Out There\nAs with any type of photography, you’ll get better results with experience and practice. It’s very helpful to have a basic understanding of night photography, and to be completely familiar with your equipment before departing toward one of the poles. Simply working in the cold and darkness complicates photography exponentially, so do your homework, and be prepared. Don’t expect to get perfect results on your first attempt.\nPhotographing the northern lights can be like photographing a close friend or family member’s wedding: You’re so focused on the task at hand that before you know it, the event is over and you’ve completely missed out on the experience! Make sure that you take some time to simply step back, look up, and enjoy the magnificence of this special phenomenon.\nNote: National Parks at Night's 2017 Westfjords, Iceland, Photo Tour is sold out, but there are at least a half a dozen U.S. national parks with opportunities to photograph aurora borealis, (and a few national parks in Iceland that we won't get to on this year's trip). 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{"text": "We are searching data for your request:\nUpon completion, a link will appear to access the found materials.\nThis painting was a sketch for the large canvas \"Religious procession in the Kursk province\", Repin wanted to cover the whole of Russia, and he succeeded.\nHere we see two ordinary women. They make a pilgrimage. It can be assumed that there are praying mantis for a long time and are very tired. They are dressed very simply.\nRepin depicts an endless Russian road. We do not see where it begins. Striking the breadth of the landscape. Repin portrayed women against the backdrop of the valley. Behind them lies a green and yellow carpet. Here and there you can see rare trees. The sky, as if scorched. Its color is not blue, but greenish. It seems that the earth merges with it, forming a single space.\nRepin pays maximum attention to two heroines. He details the features of their coarse faces. Before us are women who have gone through a lot. They are not afraid of adversity. They survived and were able to bear everything. And now they are quietly walking along the road, as necessary. We do not see discontent on their faces. They are fully focused. Mantis seems to be lost in thought. What are they talking about? We can only guess. It is possible that about their fate or about their homeland.\nRepin is a true master. The picture is dominated by gray, brown and green tones. But, despite this, it is quite bright. The artist skillfully combines colors. Everything depicted by him is as realistic as possible.\nThe painter deliberately does not prescribe the background in detail and does not specify it. The action of this canvas could take place anywhere in Central Russia. We feel the monotony of the landscape that the praying mantis see every day. At the same time, Repin admires nature.\nHis relation to the one depicted is ambivalent. On the one hand, he emphasizes the poverty of these women and their bleak existence. On the other hand, he seeks to convey the beauty of the vast expanses and pride in his country.\nComposition By Painting In The Blue Expanse", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Studying for the A+, Network+ or Security+ exams? Get over 2,600 pages of FREE study guides at CertiGuide.com!|\nJoin the PC homebuilding revolution! Read the all-new, FREE 200-page online guide: How to Build Your Own PC!\nNOTE: Using robot software to mass-download the site degrades the server and is prohibited. See here for more.\nFind The PC Guide helpful? Please consider a donation to The PC Guide Tip Jar. Visa/MC/Paypal accepted.\n|View over 750 of my fine art photos any time for free at DesktopScenes.com!|\nDrive Power Connectors\nThe power supply provides power to internal hard disk, floppy disk, CD/DVD and other drives directly, through four-wire connectors that are designed to attach to the rear of each drive. The four wires provide +5 V and +12 V power, along with two grounds, to the various drives that use them.\nThe connectors themselves come in two basic styles. The larger size, often called a Molex connector (after the name of one of the big connector companies) is keyed by virtue of the connector itself being \"D-shaped\", and is used on most internal drives, including hard disk, CD/DVD, Zip and other removable media drives, and the older 5.25\" floppy disk drives. The smaller size, typically called a \"mini-plug\", is used for the newer style of 3.5\" floppies. It is also keyed, but in a different way than the larger connector, and actually secures to its mating connector with a retention clip of sorts.\nThe number of connectors that come with each power supply varies considerably. In general, the bigger the supply, the more devices the manufacturer expects you to run, so the more connectors are included. Totals can range from 3 or 4 connectors to as many as a dozen. Another factor is just general quality; some makers skimp on the connectors to save money, and make you buy adapters to let you run additional drives. These adapters, usually called \"Y-splitters\" or \"Y cables\" after their general shape (sort of :^) ) contain one male and two female large-style hard disk connectors, cost around $2-5 in the U.S,. and are available in most electronics or computer stores. They are increasingly needed in modern systems, because not only do newer systems have more drives, they also have more fans and cooling devices, which also often attach using a disk drive power connector. Do remember, however, that adding a Y-splitter doesn't magically increase your power supply's output capacity! It just gives you more connectors.\nWarning: It is best to avoid\nY-splitters if possible, for a few reasons. First, there have been reports of incorrectly\nwired Y-splitters. Watch out for them, as they have the potential to damage your\nequipment. (It's pretty easy to see if the adapter has been wired correctly by inspecting\nit carefully. Using an ohmmeter to test for correct connectivity is even better.) Second,\nthey are an additional potential source of failure in the system, and are often cheaply\nmade and hard to align and plug in properly. Third, they can further clutter the inside of\na busy case. Fourth, every time you share two devices on a single connector, all the power\ndrawn by the two devices has to travel down the same set of wires from the power supply.\nIf you chain three or four drives off the same connector using multiple splitters you may\nexceed the current rating for the wires and/or connector. See the discussion of wire size\nand resistance in the section on the\nmotherboard connectors for more details.\nMost systems only come with a single mini-plug connector--because most systems come with only a single floppy drive that uses it--but some may come with two. If you need an additional mini-plug connector in a system with only one, or if the first one breaks, you can employ a simple adapter to change a large style into a small style. (They may make them the other way as well, but I am not sure.) You may also on occasion see mini-plugs, or mini-plug adapters, that only use two wires instead of the standard four. They omit pins 1 and 2 because newer floppies may use only the +5 voltage. This won't cause problems in most cases, but beware.\nA couple of final thoughts. The power supply fan in your PC runs directly off a connection within the supply itself, but additional fans within the case are growing in popularity, and typically each of these requires a drive connector. They don't draw very much power (but fancier electrothermal coolers can draw quite a bit). Finally, the hot-swappable drives used with RAID in newer server boxes typically do not use standard drive connectors for their drives. They make use of a technology called single connector attachment (SCA). In this scheme, special bays are installed in the system, which take either standard power connectors from the power supply, or a special wiring harness. The drives themselves plug into the bays and draw all their power and signals from a single mated connector, one half on the back of the drive and one half inside the bay. This allows them to be easily removed while the system is still operating.\nNext: Power Supply Fan", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Structuring the Speech\nOrganizing speeches serves two important functions. First, organization helps improve clarity of thought in a systematic way. Second, organization increases the likelihood that the speech will be effective\nAudiences are unlikely to understand disorganized speeches and even less likely to think that disorganized speakers are reliable or credible. Speeches are organized into three main parts: introduction, body, and conclusion.\nThe introduction of the speech establishes the first, crucial contact between the speaker and the audience. For most classroom speeches, the introduction should last less than a minute. The introduction needs to accomplish three things:\nFocus your audience's attention. Speakers must have an “attention grabber” to interest the audience—a joke, astonishing fact, or anecdote. (Rhetorical questions like “Haven’t you ever wondered how…” are notoriously ineffective.) The introduction is the place where the main claim or idea should be stated very clearly to give the audience a sense of the purpose of the speech. Speakers need to orient the audience and make connections between what they know or are already interested in and the speech topic.\nEstablish goodwill and credibility. Many people believe the most important part of persuasion was ethos, or the character the speaker exhibited to the audience. The audience needs to see the speaker as someone to listen to attentively and sympathetically. Ethos is generated by both delivery style and content of the speech. Making eye contact with the audience and displaying confidence in voice and body are two important ways to establish ethos. In addition, if you express ideas that are original and intelligent, you will show what “intellectual character.” Audiences pay attention to habits of thought that are interesting and worth listening to.\nGive a preview. Mentioning the main points to be covered in the body prepares the audience to listen for them. Repetition is an important aspect of public speaking, for listening is an imperfect art, and audience members nearly always tune out in parts--sometimes to think about previous parts of the speech, sometimes for other reasons. The preview should end with a transition, a brief phrase or a pause to signal to the audience that the speech is moving out of the introduction and into the body.\nThe body follows and is itself structured by a mode of organization, a logical or culturally specific pattern of thinking about ideas, events, objects, and processes. Having a mode of organization means grouping similar material together and linking the component parts together with transitions. Good transitions show the relation between parts of a speech. They display the logic of the speech. Common transition phrases include: in addition to, furthermore, even more, next, after that, then, as a result, beyond that, in contrast, however, and on the other hand. One special type of transition is called the internal summary, a brief restatement of the main point being completed.\nIn the body, the fewer the main points the better. For short classroom speeches, under 10 minutes, speeches should not have more than three main points. For longer speeches, more than five main points ensures that audiences will have trouble following and remembering the speech. In the speech, main points should be clearly stated and \"signposted,\" marked off as distinct and important to the audience. Transitions often serve to signpost new points, as do pauses before an important idea. Additionally, speakers might number main points—first, second, third or first, next, finally. Always make it easy for the audience to recognize and follow key ideas.\nThere are several common modes of organizing the information in the body of your speech:\nTemporal organization groups information according to when it happened or will happen. Types of temporal patterns include chronological (in the sequence it occurred) and reverse chronological (from ending back to start). Inquiry order is one special mode of temporal organization useful in presenting some kinds of research: here you organize the body in accord with the unfolding processes of thinking and gathering data, taking the audience from the initial curiosity and questions to final results.\nCause-effect is a related mode of organization, showing how one event brings about another. Cause-effect, like other temporal modes, may be used for past, present, or future events and processes. Cause-effect can also be reversed, from effect back to cause.\nSpatial patterns group and organize your speech based on physical arrangement of its parts. If a speech is describing a place, a physical object, or a process of movement--downtown Mercer, a plant cell, or the Battle of Shiloh--spatial patterns can be useful.\nTopical designs are appropriate when the subject matter has clear categories of division. Government in the United States, for instance, falls into federal, state, and local categories; or into executive, legislative, and judicial branches; into elected and appointed officials. Categories like these can help divide the subject matter to organize the main points.\nCompare/contrast takes two or more entities and draws attention to their differences and/or similarities. Sometimes speakers explain a difficult subject by comparing it with an easier, more accessible one--to explain nuclear fusion with the stages of high school romance, for instance. The use of analogies often assists in audience understanding.\nFollowing a transition from the body of the speech, the conclusion follows. The conclusion should be somewhat shorter than the introduction and accomplishes two purposes: summarize main ideas and give the speech a sense of closure and completion. Good conclusions might refer back to the introduction, offer an analogy or metaphor that captures the main idea, or leave the audience with a question or a challenge of some type. Brief quotations can also make effective conclusions (just as they can make effective openings for introductions).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "August 31, 2008\nPosted: 11:14 PM ET\nAs most of us anxiously watch the path of Hurricane Gustav, satellite images show us the movement of this fierce storm. But satellites and radars are not the only tools that help forecasters predict where, when, and how strong storms will be.\nU.S. Geological Survey scientists have placed dozens of these storm surge sensors in the path of Hurricane Gustav. Photo courtesy USGS\nIn the hours leading up to Gustav's landfall, several teams of scientists slogged through southern Louisiana, deploying weather instruments to get data during the storm. It is information that can both document what this storm is doing, and help forecasters better predict future tropical storms and hurricanes.\nTwo teams from the Texas Tech University hurricane research team spent Sunday placing two dozen sensors in the path of the storm.\n\"Basically the idea is to saturate the area with observation, trying to cover south central Louisiana with these probes,\" said Ian Giammanco, field coordinator for the research team.\nThe instruments are designed to help meteorologists determine what wind speeds caused what type of damage. Their sensors, seven foot instruments known as \"stick-nets,\" function as complete mini weather stations.\n\"We hope in the future to be able to do this in real time,\" said Giammanco.\nBut for now that option is far too expensive.\nThe field research is funded by the National Science Foundation and Texas Tech University.\nAnother team of scientists, from the U. S. Geological Survey, (USGS) positioned about 90 storm surge sensors along the Gulf Coast.\n\"From those instruments we want to learn the time, the duration, and the velocity of the surge,\" said Brian McCallum, assistant director of the Georgia Water Science Center.\nThat information can help forecasters model different types of storms, to help predict their impact.\nThe USGS first placed these sensors in hurricanes Rita and Wilma in 2005.\nBoth the Texas Tech and USGS researchers are hunkering down a safe distance from the coast until the storm passes. They will recover their instruments a day or two after the danger has passed.\nFrom around the web\nAre you a gadgethead? Do you spend hours a day online? Or are you just curious about how technology impacts your life? In this digital age, it's increasingly important to be fluent, or at least familiar, with the big tech trends. From gadgets to Google, smartphones to social media, this blog will help keep you informed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Imagine billions of devices talking to one another in real time and adjusting their behavior to respond to economic signals. Imagine a planet interconnected not just by devices, but by the events taking place across it – an ecosystem aware of its oceans, land, and air, as well as its industrial inputs and outputs.\nAccess this post where it was originally posted here.\nThis so-called Internet of Things (IoT) requires a secure and efficient way to track all interactions, microtransactions, and activities of every “thing” in the network. It requires the awareness and sophistication of the network to identify its own vulnerabilities, threats, and attacks to mitigate them. It requires an architecture that is both scalable and interoperable enough to support a malleable evolution of the network itself. In the current IoT space, this does not exist.\nMeanwhile, an emerging database technology called blockchain is demonstrating capabilities previously absent from the IoT’s development. Blockchain’s role as an enabler of the IoT lies in its ability to securely facilitate interactions and transactions between devices. Blockchain technologies could aid connected devices and infrastructure in compliance activities. Blockchain may also support certain processes related to architecture scalability, data sharing, and advancements in encryption and private key technology, enhanced security, and potentially even privacy.\nWhile it is simply too early to predict its full impact, blockchain may offer device and infrastructure connectivity at least one path of acceleration. Consider the congruencies described below between the IoT and blockchain.\nOverlapping Areas of Interest and Adoption\nLike distributed ledger technologies, sensor capabilities and networked services applications cut across industries. While certain sectors are connecting products more rapidly than others, those actively adopting IoT technologies run the gamut and include:\n- Manufacturing: Discrete, process, machinery, equipment\n- Industrial: Utilities, energy, smart city infrastructure\n- Agriculture: Machinery, monitoring, infrastructure\n- Building Automation: Lighting, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), energy management, etc.\n- Aerospace: Aircraft, spacecraft, drones\n- Automotive: Cars, trucks, public transportation\n- Smart Home: Electronics, appliances, energy management\n- Healthcare: Surgical equipment, wearables, medical data\n- Logistics: Supply chain, distribution, packaging, scanning\n- Robotics: Commercial, industrial, and consumer robots\nIn industries such as automotive, logistics, or construction, suppliers often have a longer-term objective for the complete autonomous functioning of connected devices. Regardless of application, companies applying IoT technologies find themselves considering essential questions, many of which are addressable with blockchain technologies. For example:\n- If all devices share certain features, vulnerabilities, or use cases, how might we best mitigate risk, enhance security, and improve compliance adherence?\n- How and where will we manage data flow, processing, and storage: via chip-level, fog, cloud, etc.?\n- How might our autonomous devices (e.g., cars, trucks, solar panels) negotiate for themselves?\nBlockchain providers like ConsenSys working with Innogy (a subsidiary of German utility RWE) are exploring how to enable an energy marketplace fed by distributed solar and other electricity-generating devices, which are run using a decentralized power grid. While much of the buzz around blockchain technology has been in the financial sector, companies like Filament, 21.co, IBM, Microsoft, Slock.it, and others are working directly with adopters in manufacturing, supply chain management, energy and utilities, agriculture, and construction; distributed ledgers may further automate, secure, and drive new services for these industries.\nThe Shared Technical Hurdles of Standardization, Interoperability, and Scale\nWhile machine-to-machine (M2M) communications have been powering industrial automation applications for decades, the truth is that meaningful connectivity and interconnectivity between objects, people, and infrastructure, not to mention at scale across industries, are far from reality. Today, there is no shared platform that connects all devices. Limitations of network access, computing power, security, usability, standards, and how to make sense of all this data leave us in the proverbial dark ages of “ubiquitous connectivity.”\nHindrances are the result of both economic and engineering challenges associated with scale. Even current IoT solutions are expensive to adopt and maintain due to high infrastructure and maintenance costs associated with centralized clouds, adequate server support, and networking equipment. In addition, the fragmented vendor ecosystem and diversity of ownership render sharing of data, devices, cloud infrastructure, etc. limited in scope and in interoperability. Each of these technical challenges, in addition to an array of operational, regulatory, and social challenges, blurs the IoT’s immediate return on investment (ROI) and prospect of scale.\nBlockchain should not be viewed as the solution to all of these issues. In fact, today’s blockchain space is even more nascent than the IoT in areas like standardization, power consumption, and data storage. But the fact that both the IoT and blockchain focus on the same existential challenges is sure to accelerate solution development. Worldwide, engineering talent, startups, large companies, and governments are increasingly investing tremendous time, energy, and money to innovate solutions to address the IoT’s and blockchain’s shared problems.\nIn the long term, shared solutions culminating in a fully decentralized approach to IoT networking and M2M interaction could provide a standardized communication model to process microtransactions between devices, and significantly reduce costs associated with scale (e.g., installation, integration, maintenance of large centralized data centers, etc.) It could also distribute computational and storage needs across devices in the network, instead of relying on central servers.\nBlockchain Addresses Trust, One of the Internet of Things’ Greatest Challenges\nA future of billions or trillions of devices communicating with each other efficiently requires that their interactions and transactions exist on an immutable database of shared, secure, and highly permissioned access. From a technical standpoint, these requirements constitute a tall order. What the IoT requires more than any technological or architectural advancement is trust: trust between stakeholders and the devices interacting with them, their customers, or on their behalf.\nThe IoT currently suffers from a variety of trust issues that hinder its adoption among enterprises and consumers alike, including:\n- Reliability and continuity\n- Ubiquitous advertising\n- Unclear business models (ownership, access, subscription, etc.)\nBlockchain may serve as a key enabler for the IoT because it has the potential to facilitate commerce between connected devices in scalable architectures and ensure repeatable outcomes/expectations. This is required to: 1) establish value and 2) define trust between stakeholders and machines, both of which are essential for long-term value creation and sustainability.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Checking Out Currency Categories\nMoney is a medium of exchange. It’s just a tool that people use to exchange their labor for the things they want and need. If you have only euros and you want to buy something priced in rubles, you have to trade your euros for rubles. As long as you can trade your money, you’re happy. Whether — or how easily — you can make an exchange depends on the category into which a currency falls:\nHard currency: A hard currency is one that can be exchanged easily for other world currencies. The prices of hard currency are readily available, so both parties know whether they’re getting a good deal. Because hard currency can be spent outside of a country and converted to other currencies, it’s the most valuable type of money.\nThe hardest of the hard currencies are associated with the world’s most developed economies: the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, the Australian dollar, the Swiss franc, the Japanese yen, and the European Union’s euro. Some emerging-market currencies are nearly as strong as these.\nSoft currency: Currency that can’t be exchanged is known as a soft currency. A true soft currency can’t be exchanged on the open market (but quite possibly can be exchanged on the black market for either hard currency or contraband goods). When a currency is soft, international trade takes place in a hard currency, probably the U.S. dollar or the euro. This adds to the cost of doing business in a country. And a soft currency means that investors in a country may have a difficult time getting their cash out.\nSome countries have two currencies — a soft currency for domestic use and a hard currency for foreign exchange. In this situation, the hard currency is much more valuable than the soft currency. If you’re exchanging money, make sure that you know which is which.\nDollarized currencies: The U.S. dollar is the world’s numeraire, or primary currency for trade, investing, and national reserves. Many international transactions take place in dollars, no matter what currency is used by the countries involved.\nMany nations have tied their currency to the dollar in some form or another. Some use a fixed exchange rate of their currency to the dollar. Others simply choose to use the dollar rather than their own currency; the technical term for that is dollarization, and it mostly happens in very small countries or in countries that have experienced tremendous upheaval in their national economy. Countries that use the U.S. dollar include East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Panama. They don’t need any permission or approval from the United States to use the U.S. dollar, either.\nThe Australian and New Zealand dollars are also used in Pacific islands near those countries, and the British pound is still the primary currency in a handful of former British colonies.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Intercultural Competence (ICC) &\nPromoting Interculturally Competent Global Citizens for Peace and Sustainable Development\nGlobal citizens identify with being a part of an interdependent world community, respect cultural diversity and human rights, and understand their perspectives and actions impact the values and practices of the world as well as the local communities. Enriching conventional notions of identity which include nationality, religion, and ethnicity, global citizenship recognizes local cultures, practices, and knowledge systems and embraces intercultural dialogue in a manner that compliments the dignity of all human beings and preserves biodiversity.\nPeople possessing intercultural competence are capable of understanding and reconciling cultural differences, so that they can interact appropriately and collaborate effectively in international working environments with others who are linguistically and culturally different from themselves. Ultimately, interculturally competent global citizens will be able to contribute to making the world a better place to live together in harmony.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The staff of the Nashville Diocesan Tribunal offers this information to the faithful of the Diocese whose marriages have ended, and who feel that those marriages were never true and valid unions in the eyes of God. It is our hope that this information will dispel many of the common misconceptions about annulments and the nullity process.\nWhat is marriage?\nThe Catholic Church teaches that marriage is, by God's plan, a covenant between a man and a woman, which establishes an exclusive and lifelong partnership for the giving and receiving of love and the procreation and nurturing of children.\nA marriage comes into being when the bride and the groom exchange their consent to marriage through the wedding vows.\nFor those who have been baptized, a valid marriage is also considered to be a sacrament. Although not every marriage is a sacrament, every marriage, including a marriage between two non-Catholics, whether baptized or not, is presumed to be a valid and binding union.\nWhat is a declaration of nullity?\nA declaration of nullity (also referred to as an “annulment” or a “declaration of invalidity”) is a statement of the Catholic Church that despite the good intentions of both parties, on the day of the wedding, when the couple exchanged their vows, one or more of the elements which the Church considers essential for a valid marriage was lacking.\nThe Catholic Church considers a marriage to be valid when:\nIf sufficient proof is brought forward to show that one or more of these requirements was lacking from the beginning of the marriage, there is a possibility that the Church will declare the marriage invalid.\nWhat a declaration of nullity is not?\nA declaration of nullity is not a moral judgment of the parties themselves. It is not a continuation of the divorce proceedings, nor should it be seen as an approval or condemnation of the marital behavior of one or both parties. The tribunal seeks to determine whether or not the elements necessary for a valid marriage were present on the day of the wedding. A declaration of nullity is a factual statement that according to Catholic Church law, one or more of the elements which the Church considers to be essential for a valid marriage was lacking at the time the couple exchanged their wedding vows. Through-out the nullity process, it is the bond of marriage that is being judged, not the parties to the marriage.\nA declaration of nullity is not a statement of the Catholic Church that the previous relationship between the spouses never existed. They were married according to the laws of the state, they shared a life with each other, and perhaps had children together. A declaration of nullity cannot change these facts.\nA declaration of nullity has absolutely no effect upon the legitimacy of any children born of the marriage. It does not change the legal stipulations of the divorce, such as child support and visitation. A declaration of nullity does not relieve one of his or her moral obligations as a parent. Both civil law and Church law recognize the important responsibility that one assumes in becoming a parent and expects that parental obligations be fulfilled.\nWho might need a declaration of nullity?\nAnyone (Catholic, non-Catholic, baptized, or non-baptized) who is divorced, and whose former spouse is still living, may require a declaration of nullity before he or she will be permitted to marry in the Catholic Church.\nThose who are currently participating in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) and are divorced and re-married, may also require a declaration of nullity in order that their current marriage may be recognized by the Catholic Church.\nIt is a fundamental teaching of the Catholic Church that any marriage which contains those elements that the Church considers to be essential for a valid union cannot be ended by anything other than death. When those necessary elements are present, not even divorce can end the unbreakable promise that the spouses have made to each other through their wedding vows.\nBecause no person can have more than one valid marriage at a time, before anyone is permitted to marry in the Catholic Church, his or her freedom to marry must be established. Church law requires that any prior marriage(s) be investigated to determine whether or not the essential elements required for a valid marriage were present at the time that the previous marriage occurred.\nHow does one begin the nullity process?\nEither spouse may initiate the nullity process by first contacting a local Catholic priest, deacon, or designated lay person, who will provide a petition for a declaration of nullity and a brief questionnaire regarding the former marriage. A separate petition and questionnaire must be completed for each prior marriage.\nA copy of the marriage certificate, final divorce decree, and a baptismal certificate for any Catholic party will also be required.\nWithin thirty days of receiving the request for a declaration of nullity, it will be reviewed by members of the tribunal staff. If there is no indication of the possibility of invalidity, the petitioner will be so advised. If the petition for a declaration of nullity indicates the possibility that the marriage may have been invalid, the petitioner will be advised that the case has been accepted for investigation.\nWhy must the former spouse be contacted?\nCatholic Church law requires that both parties to the marriage be afforded the same rights throughout the process. The former spouse has the right to know that the tribunal has received a petition for a declaration of nullity, the grounds upon which the petition is based, and the names of the witnesses that have been proposed. Church law requires that the former spouse be given the opportunity to fully participate in the nullity process. He or she has the right to provide testimony in the case and to name other witnesses that may be knowledgeable about\nWhen the petitioner is notified that the petition has been accepted for investigation, the former spouse must also be notified that the process has been initiated. Thus, the tribunal must have an accurate and current address for both parties before it can begin to process a petition for a declaration of nullity.\nWhile the tribunal is obligated to inform the former spouse of his or her rights in the nullity process, whether or not the former spouse wishes to exercise those rights is a personal choice. If the former spouse has not responded within thirty days of being notified by the tribunal, the case will proceed.\nPlease note that it is not necessary for the petitioner to contact the former spouse. The tribunal will make the formal contact with both parties throughout the nullity process.\nWhy are witnesses required?\nChurch law requires that the facts upon which the petition for a declaration of nullity is based be corroborated by knowledgeable witnesses. Witness testimony, as well as the testimony of both spouses, provides the tribunal with a more complete under-standing of the spouses, the marriage, and the problems in the relationship.\nKnowledgeable witnesses are people who knew the spouses well. They are knowledgeable about the backgrounds of the couple and how the relationship began and developed. Good witnesses are people who knew the couple during the courtship and the early years of the marriage.\nIs the information submitted to the tribunal confidential?\nThe information gathered during the marriage nullity process is never made available or released to any person except as required by Catholic Church law. The tribunal staff will not discuss a marriage nullity case with any persons other than the spouses and the appropriate tribunal representatives.\nIs a declaration of nullity granted to everyone who petitions?\nNot everyone who petitions for a declaration of nullity receives one. The acceptance of a petition should not be interpreted or understood as a guarantee that a declaration of nullity will be granted.\nA declaration of nullity is only granted when the evidence provided to the tribunal clearly shows\nthat despite the good intentions of both parties, on the day of the wedding, when the two parties exchanged their vows, one or more of the elements which the Church considers essential for a valid marriage was lacking.\nA negative decision is possible if there is not sufficient evidence to prove that on the day of the wedding, an essential element of marriage was lacking.\nIs the decision of the tribunal final?\nThe decision of the tribunal is not final. Either spouse has the right to appeal the decision of the tribunal.\nChurch law requires that every affirmative decision, that is a decision in favor of the nullity of the marriage, must be reviewed by an Appellate Court. The affirmative decision becomes final when the Appellate Court issues a second affirmative decision.\nThe Appellate Court is not obligated to issue a second affirmative decision in any case. It is possible that the Appellate Court will not agree with the first decision.\nHow long does the nullity process take?\nThe tribunal is dedicated to processing cases as quickly as possible. However, it is impossible to accurately predict the exact length of time required to process a particular case.\nChurch law requires that cases be processed according to the order in which they are received. Current experience indicates that when the required information is readily available, ten to twelve months from the time the case is accepted is the average length of time required to process a case. This is simply an average, it is not a guarantee. Some cases require more or less time to be processed.\nIs there a charge for the tribunal services?\nThere is no charge for the services rendered by the tribunal. Together, the Bishop of Knoxville and the Bishop of Nashville, have agreed to provide tribunal services to the faithful of both dioceses completely free of charge.\nWhen is one permitted to remarry in the Catholic Church?\nArrangements for a future marriage in the Catholic Church may not be made until the nullity process has been completed. If a declaration of nullity is granted, and there are no restrictions attached, preparation for marriage in the Catholic Church may begin at the local parish.\nPlease note that the tribunal will not advance or expedite any case due to wedding plans being made before a final decision of the tribunal has been reached.\nIs a divorced Catholic excommunicated from the Church?\nThe Church does not teach that divorce is cause for excommunication. Being divorced does not affect one's status in the Church. Catholics who happen to be divorced remain full members of the Church with the same rights and obligations as any other Catholic. The Church encourages those who are divorced to continue the practice of their Faith.\nCan divorced Catholics receive the sacraments ?\nCatholics who are divorced may continue to receive the Sacraments of the Church so long as they have not entered another marriage before receiving a declaration of nullity for the previous marriage(s).\nCatholics who are divorced and have remarried without a declaration of nullity are not free to receive the Sacraments until the current marriage can be validated in the Church. However, Catholics in this situation are not excommunicated, and are encouraged to attend Mass and practice the other aspects of their Faith.\nIf a Catholic marries a divorced non-Catholic, may the Catholic party continue to receive the Sacraments?\nShould a Catholic choose to marry one who is not free to marry according to Church law, the Catholic may not continue to receive the Sacraments. In order for the Catholic to return to the Sacraments, it will be necessary for the non-Catholic party to receive a declaration of nullity regarding his or her previous marriage(s).\nA Catholic in this situation is not excommunicated, and is encouraged to attend Mass and practice other aspects of the Catholic Faith.\nFor more informantion, contact:\nDiocesan Tribunal of Nashville/Knoxville\nCatholic Pastoral Center\n2800 McGavock Pike\nNashville, TN 37214-1402", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Starting in 1918, Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co. of Port\nHuron, Mich., began manufacturing Port Huron 12-25 tractors,\nweighing 5,700 pounds and using an Erd 4-by-6-inch bore and stroke,\nvertical 4-cylinder engine. The tractor was rated to pull three\n14-inch plows. It had four wheels, with the pair of rear drive\nwheels 56 inches in diameter with a 10-inch face. The tractor’s\nweight was listed at 6,200 pounds in 1920, when it sold for $1,700.\nIt used a variable speed friction drive, which provided variable\nspeeds from 1-7/8 to 4 MPH.\nAdvertisements stated, “The Port Huron Farm Tractor has been\ndesigned for use all the year round. By this we mean it has been\ndesigned for belt power as well as drawbar service. All gears are\nenclosed and run in a bath of oil.” It was specially designed to\nburn kerosene, the advertisement added. Tractor production ended in", "label": "No"}
{"text": "John Howland, a psychology professor at the University of Saskatchewan, is researching the effects of stress on memory and cognitive functions by placing rats in boxes with touch screens.\nMy memory is failing me. It happens on a near-daily basis: a name, a face, an address. I just can’t seem to recall anything anymore, and I blame the Internet. Or perhaps my memory isn’t failing so much as it is adapting. Rather than remembering specific facts, I find myself remembering the paths I took\nMemory, among other things, is impaired when you are sleep-deprived, and having a full night of sleep maximizes the potential for accurate memory retrieval. It's not yet clear as to why this happens, but there is no denying the immense research behind these findings.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Catholic Church celebrates Christmas as an “octave.” What does this mean? It refers to extending the feast from a single day into an eight day celebration because there is just too much to fit into twenty-four hours! Octaves have a long tradition, and in the past many other feasts received this treatment (Easter is the only other Octave in the Church right now). The practice flows from a number of Old Testament feasts that celebrated the “eighth day,” as well as the eight-day dedication of the Temple. Here are some highlights from the Christmas Octave – these days help to extend the grace of the 25th, and draw out more aspects of its meaning!\nDecember 26th commemorates St Stephen, the first martyr (see Acts of the Apostles, chapter 6). This is referenced in one of my favorite Christmas carols, Good King Wenceslas, which is set “on the feast of Stephen!” Stephen shows the strength of the Gospel being put into practice, as well as a powerful symbol of forgiveness. St Paul (before he was St Paul) was present at the stoning of Stephen, and the Office of Readings on this day reflects on this in light of Paul’s later conversion. It quotes a sermon by St Fulgentius, who wrote, “Stephen went first, slain by the stones thrown by Paul, but Paul followed after, helped by the prayer of Stephen. This, surely, is the true life, my brothers, a life in which Paul feels no shame because of Stephen’s death, and Stephen delights in Paul’s companionship, for love fills them both with joy. It was Stephen’s love that prevailed over the cruelty of the mob, and it was Paul’s love that covered the multitude of his sins; it was love that won for both of them the kingdom of heaven.” (You can find the full text here towards the end of the page: http://www.liturgies.net/Liturgies/Catholic/loh/christmas/stephen/officeofreadings.htm).\nDecember 27th marks the feast St John, the Apostle and Gospel-writer. His books of scripture give a special insight into the heart of Christ, and emphasize that Jesus is the Word made flesh (born to save us and offer us the opportunity for encounter with Him). He alone among the Apostles stood faithful at the Cross, and was entrusted with/to the care of Mary, the mother of Jesus. As Stephen represents those who give their life by martyrdom, John represents those who give their life by fidelity to the end of natural life.\nDecember 28th remembers the “Holy Innocents,” the children killed by Herod in his attempt to kill the Christ-child. In a way they represent all of those that gave their life before the arrival of the Messiah, as well as all those that suffer unjustly. This event required Mary and Joseph to flee to Egypt with Jesus for a time. So, although Christmas is a joyful time, this day invites us to remember those who suffer and wait for the full peace of the Kingdom (As an interesting cultural note, in Mexico this is the equivalent of April Fools’ Day. The idea is that everyone wants to be seen as a “holy innocent” even while pulling the pranks!)\nThe Sunday after Christmas (or, December 30th if Christmas is a Sunday) is the feast of the Holy Family. We focus on the dynamics of the relationship of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. In their home at Nazareth they began to embody and live the Gospel. I always appreciate this feast as a day of gratitude for my family, and to pray for all those that are in particular need at this time. It is also a time to reflect on what I can do to support my family and those around me.\nFinally, I want to say a little about the “octave day” (January 1st). It is celebrated as the feast of Mary, the Mother of God (this day has a history of many names, which may be its own blog post at some point!). The title “Mother of God” was strongly promoted after the Council of Ephesus (431 AD) in contrast to the preaching of Nestorius (who denied the unity of Jesus as one Person, true God and true Man). We believe Mary gave birth to a Person, Jesus – who was the Son of God from all eternity, and took to himself a human nature in his birth in time from Mary. This is a key point because the whole work of redemption was to reunite fallen human nature with the abundance of the divine nature. Jesus realizes this in His person. Therefore, this feast brings us back to the beginning by reinforcing the full impact of what happened on Christmas Day; not just the birth of a good human child, but the birth of Salvation itself!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Publisher : Samantha Rodríguez\nCourse Language : English\nThis course is designed for people who want to learn the Spanish language starting from scratch, as well as for those who want to initiate and review the pronunciation, vocabulary, phrases and simple expressions.\nThe goal of Canta Español is to learn the language in a more organic and less academic way, we usually spend much time studying structures, vocabulary and so on. The only thing that we must do is just talk, talk and talk; while making more errors more will learn.\nThe course contains dictations, audio vocabulary and conversations to practice and train the ear, all in a simple and enjoyable way.\nOur first objective will be the pronunciation of particles, after that the pronunciation of words and in the practice of reading, there will have sentences with an image that represent its meaning, before you know the grammar, you can intuit the meaning.\nCurrently there are thousands of applications for learning vocabulary. The intention of this course is not to teach you much vocabulary, but the words that we will learn, we are going to use them for create several sentences and when the possibilities of create more sentences exhausted, and more grammar appear, we will add more vocabulary.\nOn the other hand, we will be getting into the Latin American culture knowing landscapes, which in this block will be in Mexico. In addition to this, there will be talks where the characters will teach us about the art and culture as you go through the course.\nWe want you to learn how to study by yourself, and the opportunity to have good bases to develop you in the language Spanish.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This course is an introduction to writing code within the context of the visual arts. It asks two primary questions: What is the potential of software within the visual arts? As a designer or artist, why would I want (or need) to write software? Software influences all aspects of contemporary visual culture. Many established artists have integrated software into their process. Prominent architects and designers not only use software, they commission custom software to help them realize their unique ideas. The creators of every innovative video game and Hollywood animated film write custom software to enhance their work.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Waste Land\nby T.S. Eliot\nThe Polluted Thames River\nFor Eliot, the Thames River is a place that's been immortalized by English poetry for centuries. But in the modern world, the Thames is just a filthy, polluted waterway whose banks are filled with litter and slimy rats (175-188). Lovely. Pollution is an image that comes up in other places in this poem, too, like with the \"brown fog\" that covers London in physical and spiritual dirt (208). Overall, the pollution represents the destruction of things that were once great. All of the objects that pollute the banks of the Thames are also disposable things that were brought in by modern culture, like sandwich papers, bottles, or cigarette butts. These items all leave traces of people who are drinking and smoking—rather than frolicking and marrying and poeting, like in ye olden times.\n- Lines 173-186: Eliot opens \"The Fire Sermon\" by painting a pretty dismal picture of London's Thames River. In line 176, he quotes the great English poet Edmund Spenser, a man who once wrote love songs about how beautiful and inspiring the \"Sweet Thames\" was. In modern days, though, Eliot only finds \"empty bottles, sandwich papers, / Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends.\" The polluting of a once-inspiring river is connected to the moral pollution that has affected a once-inspiring civilization. Maybe the most depressing image of this lost magic comes in Eliot's line, \"The nymphs are departed.\" This line suggests not only that the Thames has lost its former beauty, but that the river has lost a sense of mythological awesomeness that it can never get back.\n- Lines 266-269: When these lines talk about how \"The river sweats / Oil and tar,\" the description comes right on the heels of a beautiful images of \"Ionian white and gold\" (265). So basically Eliot's giving you a sense of how beautiful the world could be, then slapping you in the face with an image of how ugly it actually is. He also talks about the pollution of the river by slipping into the form of a popular song, drawing even more of a comparison between environmental filth and the moral pollution of pop culture.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Wolves in western America were once hunted to near-extinction but have now been reintroduced into certain territories with notable success. More wolves often means more attacks on ranchers' livestock, however, so cowboys are working to track wolf packs by computer to reduce conflicts.Read More\nClean water and healthy ecosystems are becoming increasingly difficult to come by. With floating islands and other inventions, eco-entrepreneur Bruce Kania thinks that biomimicry - such as reconstructing wetlands and growing biofilms - can tackle the toughest of water problems.Read More\nConcerned with colony collapse syndrome in honey bees worldwide, scientists, farmers and tech companies teamed up in Australia to create a micro-sensor that collects data on the bee's environment.Read More\nIn prison, most inmates are alienated from social practices and can be a tax burden for the states. The Colorado Correctional Industries is a program that positions inmates in different forms of labor such as making stuffed toys, farming fish, picking fruit, tending livestock, and creating crafts to be sold at grocery stores. The program makes inmates into taxpayers instead of tax burdens and offers skills that are useful for future employment once they leave prison.Read More\nIn Colombia, traditional cattle pastures have caused soil degradation, deforestation, and desertification. To reconcile this, several thousand acres of land in Latin America have been transformed into a silvo-pastoral system of grazing and raising cattle with agro-forestry. The Colombia-based Center for Research in Sustainable Systems of Agriculture seeks to reduce pasture land by 26 million acres while increasing cattle numbers by 2019.Read More\nThe World Conservation Union estimates that 40 percent of the more than 40,000 species it tracks on its Red List are close to extinction and this problem requires humans to change their behavior to fix it. Rare’s the Pride Campaign uses social marketing to attract attention and communicate the conservation message between local communities and government entities. The Pride Campaign has been replicated around the world for different conservation efforts to protect biodiversity.Read More\nA robust population of grizzly bears can be an indicator of healthy land; however, the bears also can destroy grain bins, consume vegetation, and kill livestock. Ranchers work with the Canadian government and local conservation groups to protect their resources with bear-proof grain bins and electric fences.Read More\nColombia’s National Development Plan for cattle ranching seeks to reduce pasture land from 94 million acres to 70 million acres while increasing cattle numbers from 23 million head to 40 million. The program focuses on planting trees on grazing land and the \"cut and carry method,\" whereby farmers grow fields of shrubs and distribute the fresh cuttings to cows in pastures. The result is greater cattle productivity and a more eco-friendly farming system.Read More\nWhen cattle die on ranches in Montana, they can attract grizzly bears that can come dangerously close landowners, ranches, and living livestock. Blackfoot Challenge, a coalition of ranchers and landowners who work with the government, collects and composts dead cattle into odorless woodchips. These woodchips are effective at repurposing carcasses into high-way side revegetation projects.Read More\nDespite significant increases in funding and advances in biomedical research, the rates of new treatments and drugs for illnesses that reach the market every year have plummeted. A group called the Myelin Repair Foundation, along with several other foundations, uses an intensely goal-directed and collaborative method to tackle the bottleneck.Read More\nCollections are versatile, powerful and simple to create. From a customized course reader to an action-guide for an upcoming service-learning trip, collections illuminate themes, guide inquiry, and provide context for how people around the worls are responding to social challenges.\nName and describe your collection\nAdd external links at any time\nAdd to your collection over time and share!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What are the Causes of Fracture?\nA fracture occurs when a bone cannot withstand an outside force.\nThe most common causes of fracture include -\nFall from a height (more common among children and elderly)\nRoad traffic accidents\nDirect blow on the bone\nRepetitive force such as that caused by running can cause stress fracture in the specific area involved such as the foot, ankle, tibia or hip\nRisk factors for fracture are -", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When students have analyzed their assigned documents, assemble each group (of three pairs) together. Arrange for each pair of students to share its document analyses with the other group members using a placemat strategy. Provide each group with a large sheet of paper. Ask students to draw a circle in the centre with one wedge-shaped space for each pair of students.\nInvite students to use their allotted space on the chart to record the key pieces of evidence from their documents for each of the causes. Once all students have summarized their ideas, direct each group to write the four main causes in the centre of the circle. Invite the groups to discuss the most significant evidence from each pair of students related to each of these causes. Explain that students will shortly be asked to reach their own conclusions about the relative importance of the causes, but for the time being they are simply to record in the centre of the circle key evidence that the group can agree on for each cause.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Classics in Irish Schools\nJunior Cycle Classics\nThere are 3 Classics subjects in Irish Schools: Ancient Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. The new Junior Cycle includes a specification is divided into three Strands: Strand 1 a core strand that examines Ancient Greek Myth and Daily Life; Strand 2 the Classical Studies option which studies the World of Achilles and the City of Rome; and Strand 3 the Ancient Languages option where students study either Ancient Greek or Latin. All students study Strand 1, the core strand, and choose between either Strand 2 or Strand 3.\nMore info can be found on JCT Classics.\nLeaving Cert Ancient Greek and Latin\nNew Leaving Cert Classical Languages specifications are currently under development. A background document has been developed and a survey on the Classical Languages in schools is currently open: Click Here.\nThe Classical Association of Ireland - Teachers is the subject association for Classics Teachers in Ireland. Our aim is to promote the teaching of Ancient Greek, Latin and Classical Studies in the Irish Education system, to support the teachers teaching the Classical subjects, and to provide as much resources, information, and guidance we can to teachers, principals, students, schools and parents who either are learning, providing, or teaching Classics or who are interested.\nClassics in Ireland\nThe Romans never came to Ireland - or so we're told! But this simply isn't true. The Romans came here through trade; Patricus - likely a Roman citizen - came here a brought us a symbol of Ireland, the shamrock, and generations of scholars and saints who would write in the Roman language and retain the traditions and writing of one of the most influential civilizations in Europe.\nSince, then the Romans - the Greeks who so influenced the Romans - have been a central part of Irish culture and identity! Whether it is through the language of Latin and Ancient Greek which was taught in the Hedge Schools of the 18th century, Bernard Shaws Pygmalion, James Joyce's Ulysses, the Neo-Classical buildings of Dublin, Castletown house, or Cork - and many other Public buildings scattered across Ireland. The Classical Myths and art have become as much a part of the Irish identity and culture as Cú Chulainn, Fionn Mac Cumhail, or Queen Meabh.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How does DS1's electrical system work?\nThere are two major sources of power on DS1: the solar panels and the battery. Power is routed from either of those two sources to the devices that use electricity on DS1, which are the science, navigation, communications equipment, and the ion thruster.\nThe wires and other equipment that carry the electricity from one place to another on the spacecraft are collectively called the bus. On DS1 the bus contains a new multifunctional structure that houses several systems at once. Power switching will be helped by the new experimental Power Activation and Switching Module (PAMS).\nSince the ion thruster uses so much more power than the rest of the equipment, it is on a different part of the bus which has a very high voltage. The rest of the equipment (science, navigation, and communication) uses a much lower voltage.\nWhen the solar panels are oriented towards the Sun, power flows from the panels to a power distribution center. The power can either be sent to the battery (to recharge it), to the low-voltage equipment, or the ion thruster, or all three at once. When solar power is unavailable, the battery takes over running the low-voltage equipment.\nWhere does DS1 get its electricity?\nWhat are batteries?\nWhat are solar panels?\nWhat DS1's battery life?\nWhat are tradeoffs between different kinds of power sources for spacecraft?\nWhat is the multifunctional structure?\nWhat components are where on DS1?\nHow much power does DS1 produce and use?\nWhat are the new low power electronics on DS1?\nWhat is the power activation and switching module?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "183/EECS 183. Elementary Programming Concepts. (4). (NS). (BS).\nThis is an introductory course for students who desire a good working knowledge of basic programming techniques using a high-level language. The course is suitable for both non-concentrators and pre-concentrators in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Suggested as a prerequisite for CS 280 for students whose programming background is not strong. Introduction to a high-level programming language, top-down design, and structured programming. Basic searching and sorting techniques. Basic data structures; arrays and records; introduction to pointers and dynamic data structures. No previous experience in computing or programming is assumed. Students will write and debug several computer programs. Computer Usage: five or six assignments are given, each requiring the student to write and debug programs using THINK Pascal on the Macintosh microcomputer. Cost:2 WL:1 (Ford)\n216/EECS 216. Circuit Analysis. Prior or concurrent enrollment in Math. 215. (4). (Excl). (BS).\nResistive circuit elements; mesh and node analysis, network theorems; network graphs and independence; energy storage elements; one- and two-time-constant circuits; phasors and a.c. steady-state analysis; complex frequency and network functions; frequency response and resonance. Lecture and laboratory.\n270/EECS 270. Introduction to Logic Design. (4). (Excl). (BS).\nBinary and non-binary systems, Boolean algebra digital design techniques, logic gates, logic minimization, standard combinational circuits, sequential circuits, flip-flops, synthesis of synchronous sequential circuits, PLA's, ROM's, RAM's, arithmetic circuits, computer-aided design. Laboratory includes hardware design and CAD experiments.\n280/EECS 280. Programming and Introductory Data Structures. Math. 115 and (CS 183 or 284 or Engineering 104, or EECS 100). Two credits granted to those who have completed CS 283. (4). (NS). (BS).\nTechniques and algorithm development and effective programming, top-down analysis, structured programming, testing, and program correctness. Program language syntax and static runtime semantics. Scope, procedure instantiation, recursion, abstract data types, and parameter passing methods. Structured data types, pointers, linked data structures, stacks, queues, arrays, records, and trees.\nUniversity of Michigan | College of LS&A | Student Academic Affairs | LS&A Bulletin Index\nThis page maintained by LS&A Academic Information and Publications, 1228 Angell Hall\nof the University of Michigan,\nAnn Arbor, MI 48109 USA +1 734 764-1817\nTrademarks of the University of Michigan may not be electronically or otherwise altered or separated from this document or used for any non-University purpose.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Kepler-42 and Jupiter comparison\n- A high resolution vector conversion of the size comparison between Kepler-42 and Jupiter.\nThis artist's concept compares the Kepler-42 (formerly known as KOI-961) planet to Jupiter.\nThe Kepler-42 planetary system hosts the three smallest planets known to orbit a star beyond our sun (called Kepler-42b, Kepler-42c, Kepler-43d; formerly called KOI-961.01, KOI-961.02 and KOI-961.03). The smallest of these planets, Kepler-42d, is about the same size as Mars. All three planets take less than two days to whip around their star.\nThe planets were discovered using data from NASA's Kepler mission and ground-based telescopes. The Kepler-42 star is a tiny \"red dwarf,\" just one-sixth the size of our sun. This planetary system is the most compact detected to date, with a scale closer to Jupiter and its moons than another star system.\nOriginal PD raster file: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler-42_System_%E2%80%93_Jupiter_System_Comparison.jpg\n- Viewed by\n- 1966 People\n- Loved by\n- 4 People\n- 639361 bytes", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Air over industrial belts in China is polluted. No big surprise. But how much more or less polluted is it compared to industrial belts in Europe, the Americas, Australia, Africa and Japan?\nChina is now the largest emitter of CO2 in the world (although you are correct that the US is much higher per capita). India generates 71% of its electricity from coal.\nA plausible estimate may be made from the vantage-point of a satellite by measuring how much light is blocked by particles, and estimating from those particles’ chemical composition the likely distribution of their sizes, drawing on data from American satellites to map out PM2.5 pollution across the entire world. “PM2.5” refers to the smallest solid particles in the atmosphere—those less than 2.5 microns across. Such dust can get deep into people’s lungs; far deeper than that rated as PM10.\nWorld Health Organisation guidelines suggest that PM2.5 levels above ten micrograms per cubic metre are unsafe. Shandong and Henan provinces are topping 50. Yet there are sharp spikes in pollution that are seen on particularly dirty days, when spot readings go much higher. Bejing, the capital’s pollution measures 35. Citizens from Beijing rarely see the sun during some months.\nAs grandparents who have the authority to solve the pollution problem, what do you say to your grandchildren?\nChina has opposing government policies:\n1) Pollution Control\n2) Subsidizing Green Energy and Technology\n3) Subsidizing green transport.\nBut on the other hand\nIt seems like there are two governments going in the opposite direction. It is similar to China’s smoking policy. China subsidies the treatment of hundreds of people dying every year of smoking related illness, but China state owned companies are the largest suppliers of cigarettes (cancer sticks) in the world.\nA Full Scale Aquaponic Tree Nursery in Africa supported by:\n- A Micro Hydro Electric System: no dams: HugENERGY.us\n- An Irrigation System: NORTHydro.com\n- A Rabbit and Fish Farm: AfriCAPITALISM.us\n- An Agroforestry Intercrop System: LivingWaterIs.com\n- The Charitable Arm: SunnyUp.net\n- God’s Loveletters: Godloveletters.com\n- Thunder of Justice: ThunderofJustice.com\nStage 1 Agricultural Mechanization of Africa\nStage 2 Today’s Tall Trees Nursery: Carbon Tax Fund\nStage 3 Micro Finance & Landlord Cooperatives\nStage 4 Irrigation in Remote Areas using kinetic energy from moving water.\nStage 5 Electricity Created in Remote Areas using moving water without the use of a dam.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Fasciola hepatica (= Distomum hepaticum), the common liver fluke (also called the sheep liver fluke) is a flatworm belonging to the Trematodes. Its final hosts are sheep, goats, cattle and other domestic and wild mammals, including horses, dogs, cats and humans.\nThe common liver fluke occurs worldwide but is particularly abundant in humid regions with temperate climate where it can be endemic.\nIt is one of the most abundant and damaging helminth parasites of grazing ruminants (sheep, goats, cattle). In endemic regions 100% of the animals can be infected. It is particularly harmful, even fatal for sheep. Prevalence and incidence in a particular region depends strongly on ecologic and climatic conditions (e.g. habitats for intermediate hosts and wild mammals, overwintering of the parasites in the environment, etc.) and on livestock management practices (stock density, grazing patterns, etc.).\nHorses and pigs kept outdoors can also be affected, but liver flukes are usually not a problem in housed pigs.\nHorses, dogs and cats can be occasionally infected, especially in rural environments, but liver fluke is usually not an issue for these animals.\nThe disease caused by liver flukes is called fasciolosis, fasciolasis, distomatosis or liver rot.\nAre animals infected with Fasciola hepatica contagious for humans?\nUsually NOT. If livestock is infected with liver flukes, it is not directly contagious for humans, neither through contact, nor when consuming meat, milk or blood of contaminated animals, nor through the feces. BUT experimental studies suggest that humans may be infected when consuming raw livers contaminated with juvenile liver flukes. The same applies to pets infected with liver flukes. Normally humans become infected through ingestion of water contaminated with infective cercariae (see below under life cycle), not by ingesting adult flukes or their eggs.\nFinal location of Fasciola hepatica\nPredilection sites of Fasciola hepatica are the biliary ducts in the liver and the gall bladder.\nAnatomy of Fasciola hepatica\nAdult liver flukes have a flat body, an oval shape, and are rather large: up to 30 mm long and 15 mm wide. The have a pink-grayish to dark red color. Liver flukes have two suckers, both in the ventral side. The body surface is covered with numerous spines. Liver flukes have no external signs of segmentation. The mouth ends in the pharynx, a muscular tube that allows sucking. The digestive system is blind (i.e. without anus: the only opening is the mouth) and not linear, as in most animals, but branched, ending in several blind ducts (called coeca). Liver flukes are simultaneous hermaphrodites, i.e. they have both male and female reproductive organs.\nThe eggs of liver flukes are about 80x140 micrometers, with an oval form, operculated (i.e. with a cap-like cover) and of a yellowish to greenish color derived from the host's bile.\nFasciola hepatica has an indirect life cycle with amphibious snails as intermediate hosts, typically from the genus Lymnaea.\nAdult flukes produce eggs in the biliary ducts of their hosts. These eggs reach the gall bladder and are passed to the host's gut when the gall bladder is emptied. They are passively transported to the anus and are expelled with the feces. A single liver fluke can produce up to 25'000 eggs a day!\nOnce outside the host, the larvae called miracidia hatch out of the eggs in 7 to 15 days. These larvae can survive for weeks off a host provided there is enough humidity. They die quickly in a dry environment. Miracidia can swim and penetrate actively into the snails where they remain for 4 to 8 weeks and develop successively to sporocysts, rediae and cercariae, the usual larval stages of most fluke species. A single miracidium can asexually produce up to 600 cercariae.\nMature cercariae leave the snail, attach to the vegetation, lose their tail and produce cysts of about 0.2 mm, the so-called metacercariae, which are infective for the final host. Such cysts can survive for months in the vegetation, even under dry conditions, even in hay! Livestock becomes infected by grazing contaminated pastures or hay, i.e. animals kept indoors can also become infected if they are fed contaminated hay.\nInside the final host young immature flukes hatch out of the cysts and within a few hours they cross the intestinal wall and get into the peritoneal cavity where they migrate towards the liver, which they reach in about 3 weeks. To reach the biliary ducts they have to cross the hepatic tissue, a particularly harmful process for the host that lasts 6 to 8 weeks. Once in the biliary ducts they complete their development to adult flukes and start producing eggs.\nThe prepatent period of Fasciola hepatica is 9 to 15 weeks, depending on the host and other factors. The entire life cycle can be completed in a minimum of 16 weeks. Left untreated liver flukes can live up to 20 years on sheep, usually not more than one year in cattle.\nLivestock grazing in regions with a high water table or frequently flooded are at high risk of becoming infected with liver fluke. The reason is that the snails acting as intermediate hosts are amphibious and need humid habitats that are periodically submerged or flooded. Relatively small humid habitats (e.g. irrigation channels, ditches, ponds, watering holes, etc.) offer suitable conditions for the development of such snails and keep the surrounding pastures infected. Permanently stabled livestock can also become infected through contaminated hay.\nHumans and carnivores such as dogs and cats are infected mainly ingesting aquatic plants or drinking water contaminated with cercariae. There is also evidence that consumption of raw liver contaminated with juvenile flukes can be contagious for humans.\nHarm caused by Fasciola hepatica\nLiver flukes are very harmful for their hosts, particularly for sheep. Young immature flukes migrating through the liver tissues and crossing the wall of the bile ducts cause the major harm. This process destroys the tissues and causes bleeding. The spines in the surface of the flukes irritate the tissues that become inflamed. All this leads to cell death and fibrosis, i.e. the formation of excessive connective tissue that replaces the dead liver cells, which impairs the normal functioning of the liver. Affected livers increase in size and become fragile. Some flukes can become encapsulated in the liver tissues and build cysts as large as walnuts. The bile ducts are also damaged: they become thickened and can be calcified and even obstructed. Infections with secondary bacteria can also happen, mainly due to the general weakness of the host that debilitates its own immune system. In addition, flukes produce own toxins that impair the normal function of the liver.\nThe bottom line is that the numerous vital physiological processes that run in the liver are disturbed and the affected animals become sick in a degree that depends on the number of flukes that infect them. Infections with liver flukes are usually more harming for sheep (fatalities are not rare) than for cattle and other livestock. Besides fatalities the major economic damage is the consequence of reduced weight gains of young animals (up to 30% less, even after slight infections) and the condemnation of livers at slaughter. Light infection can already reduce milk production in dairy cattle.\nWorlwide annual economic loss due to fasciolosis has been estimated to be over US$ 3 billion!\nSymptoms and diagnosis of Fasciola hepatica infections\nThere are no really typical and easily recognizable symptoms of a liver fluke infection in livestock or other animals. The major symptoms are related with the inflammation of the liver (hepatitis) and of the bile ducts (cholangitis) that can be also due to other disorders. Other vital organs are usually not affected. Infections with a few dozen adult flukes may not cause clinical signs other than general weakness and reduced productivity.\nChronic fasciolosis is the more common form in sheep, goats and cattle. It develops along the gradual establishment of adult flukes in the bile ducts. It is characterized by the progressive development of such symptoms as anemia (reduced number of red blood cells), edema (local swellings due to excess fluid) often as \"bottle jaw\", digestive disturbances (diarrhea, constipation etc.), and cachexia (wasting, i.e. weight loss, fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, etc.).\nAcute fasciolosis is seldom in cattle but can occur in sheep. It is caused by the sudden migration of many immature flukes through the liver, which leads to complete organ failure. It can develop in healthy animals that may be killed in a few days.\nDetection of eggs in the feces confirms the diagnosis. However, since the eggs are passed to the intestine only when the gall bladder is emptied, a negative fecal egg count is not conclusive, i.e. there can be false negatives. It is also important to distinguish Fasciola eggs from Paramphistomum eggs that have a similar aspect.\nPrevention and non-chemical control of Fasciola hepatica infections\nFasciola hepatica can infect virtually all mammal species, wild and domestic. Consequently it is almost impossible to eradicate it from a given property in endemic regions with favorable conditions. Therefore, where it is known to occur, preventive measures are a must to reduce the snail populations, the infection of pastures with infective stages, or the access to livestock to highly infested pastures.\nVector snails are amphibious and live both in water (e.g. streams, lakes, pools, swamps, marshes, irrigation channels, ditches, ponds, watering holes, etc.) as well in the humid vegetation around such places. These snails are enormously prolific: a single snail can produce more than 100'000 snails within one year.\nWhatever measures help keeping the pastures dry have to be encouraged, e.g.:\n- Ensuring an adequate drainage.\n- Building watering points on solid ground, without puddles.\n- Make unavoidable ditches or channels less attractive to the snails: make the borders steeper and/or cover them with concrete, eliminate the surrounding vegetation, drying them completely out periodically, etc.\n- Avoid even very small water points that support the snails, e.g. hardened footprints (of shoes or car tires).\nIf permanent humid environments cannot be eliminated, they have to be fenced to prevent livestock from grazing there.\nRotational grazing is highly recommended to diminish fluke infestations. Simultaneous grazing of sheep and cattle is not advisable. Alternate grazing (e.g. sheep and cattle, sheep and horses, etc.) won't help, because liver flukes can infest all livestock.\nLivestock infected with liver flukes can develop a certain level of natural immunity and become resistant, especially cattle. Animals with chronic fasciolosis may recover spontaneously. However, such natural resistance is usually associated with hepatic fibrosis, i.e. a partial impairment of the liver function that will certainly result in a reduced productivity.\nKeeping livestock healthy and well fed diminishes the harm caused by liver flukes and favors the development of the previously mentioned natural immunity.\nThere are so far no vaccines against the common liver fluke. To learn more about vaccines against parasites of livestock and pets click here.\nBiological control of liver flukes (i.e. using their natural enemies) is so far not feasible.\nYou may be interested in an article in this site on medicinal plants against external and internal parasites.\nChemical control of Fasciola hepatica infections\n- Albendazole (benzimidazole), broad-spectrum anthelmintic. Effective also against most roundworms and tapeworms.\n- Clorsulon (benzenesulphonamide), narrow-spectrum flukicide.\n- Closantel (salicylanilide), medium-spectrum anthelmintic. Effective also against some gastrointestinal roundworms.\n- Nitroxinil (halogenated phenol), medium-spectrum anthelmintic. Effective also against some gastrointestinal roundworms.\n- Oxyclozanide (salicylanilide), narrow-spectrum flukicide.\n- Rafoxanide (salicylanilide), medium-spectrum anthelmintic. Effective also against some gastrointestinal roundworms.\n- Triclabendazole (benzimidazole), narrow-spectrum flukicide.\nAs previously mentioned migrating immature flukes are the most harmful, therefore efficacy against these stages is essential. Products without efficacy against immature flukes will not protect livestock from migrating flukes and need to be administered more frequently. The tables below summarize the efficacy of these flukicidal active ingredients (at their usual therapeutic doses) against the various stages of Fasciola hepatica in sheep and cattle.\n|Age in weeks|\n|Age in weeks|\nSeveral flukicides (e.g. bithionol, brotianide, diamfenetide, disophenol, hexachloroethane, carbon tetrachloride) used in the last century have been abandoned and replaced by more effective and less toxic flukicides.\nIn many situations livestock needs to be protected not only against flukes but also against roundworms, less frequently against tapeworms as well. From all the flukicides previously mentioned only albendazole is a broad-spectrum wormer effective also against most roundworms and tapeworms, but its flukicidal efficacy is limited. For this reason mixtures are often used, typically ivermectin + clorsulon, ivermectin + nitroxinil, triclabendazole + levamisole, etc.\nFor use on livestock these active ingredients (alone or in mixtures), are mostly available as drenches for oral delivery, as injectables or as slow-release boluses. Solid formulations (e.g. tablets, pills, etc, feed additives, etc.) are rather seldom for livestock.\nThere are very few commercial flukicides approved for use on pig, poultry, dogs and cats, simply because flukes are seldom a problem for them.\nIn endemic regions strategic use (i.e. preventative or prophylactic use) of flukicides combined with the previously mentioned preventive measures is highly recommended. Delaying the treatments until the first symptoms become evident (i.e. therapeutic or curative use) is often too late: most harm has been already done and probably the pastures have been already contaminated with fluke eggs. Best timing for such preventative treatments depend strongly on local climatic and ecologic conditions that drive the snail population.\nChemical control of the snails with molluscicides (i.e. snail killers) such as copper sulphate, sodium pentachlorophenate, niclosamide, etc. can make sense for very specific purposes, e.g. for treating places where livestock congregates (water holes, feeding areas, salt licks, shade trees, etc) to keep them free of snails. However, trying to eradicate snails from a property is hopeless and useless. It is virtually impossible to treat every place where they can survive and they reproduce extremely quickly. Cleaned pastures would become re-infested very fast. In addition, it would be too expensive and very harmful for the environment. In fact, such molluscicides (mainly niclosamide) are approved only in a few countries as an aid in the prevention of human schistosomiasis (also called bilharziosis or human snail fever).\nAsk your veterinary doctor! If available, follow more specific national or regional recommendations or regulations for liver fluke control.\nResistance of Fasciola hepatica to flukicides\nThere are numerous reports on liver fluke populations resistant to triclabendazole and albendazole (both benzimidazoles) in numerous countries. The first cases were reported in 1995 in Australia, later on it has been also reported for many other countries on sheep (e.g. Argentina, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, UK) and on cattle (e.g. Argentina, Netherlands). Since than it seems to be quite widespread in these countries and most likely already present in other regions, even if no specific cases have been reported so far.\nThere are also reports on liver fluke populations on sheep resistant to rafoxanide and closantel (both salicylanilides), probably with cross-resistance to nitroxinil, and also to clorsulon. However resistance to these compounds seems not to be as widespread as resistance to benzimidazoles.\nA practical consequence of this is that if a particular product does not achieve the expected control of Fasciola hepatica, it is reasonable to consider a resistance problem, especially if that product has been used for several consecutive years. However, experience shows that many cases of product failure are due to incorrect use and not to resistance.\nTo prevent or at least delay the development of resistance it is highly recommended to periodically change the chemical class of the product used, before resistance is suspected, e.g. every one or two years. This is usually called rotation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The same familiar problems. Pick a step motor that’s too big and you’ll end up with vibration. Too small, and it’ll likely stall out. Then there’s rotor inertia. If inertia is too small, you’ll never be able to get the load moving. Truth be told, proper selection and sizing of step motors is not difficult: Just follow a few basic steps.\nThe first order of business is to determine the acceleration rate. All load motion, whether rotary or linear, must be converted into motor motion — the number of revolutions or degrees the motor must rotate. Since you already know how much time is available to achieve the desired motion, you can determine the acceleration rate and peak motor speed.\nBe sure to consider rotor inertia as well. As a general rule, load inertia should be no more than 10 times the rotor inertia. For short, quick, high-performance moves, the ratio of load inertia to rotor inertia should be closer to 1:1.\nTwo-pronged torque value\nWhen determining torque, remember that it’s actually made up of two components — constant torque and acceleration torque. Constant torque Tc usually results from friction and gravity and fights against the motor. In other words, the motor must always overcome this torque. Fortunately, it is easy to measure (applying a torque wrench to the load) or calculate (friction force is μW, where μ = coefficient of friction and W = weight of the load). Once you know the force, it is a simple matter to factor in the radius of action to convert it to torque.\nAcceleration force is harder to measure because it is difficult — not to mention dangerous — to simulate an acceleration profile while holding a torque wrench on the load. If the load needs to be up to speed quickly, say 50 msec, the torque wrench is likely to fly off.\nCalculating acceleration torque isn’t that complicated, however. Acceleration torque Ta is the product of acceleration a and load inertia Ja. Since the inertia and acceleration rate have already been determined, acceleration torque can easily be calculated.\nOnce the acceleration torque is calculated, add it to the constant torque, and multiply by a safety factor of about 1.5. You now have a torque value and a peak speed value. At this point, check the torque/speed curve to see if the selected motor can perform the move.\nTwo kinds of motion profiles\nMoves usually take the form “move x distance in y time.” The two types of motion profiles include trapezoidal and triangular. Typically, triangular profiles are used for moves of less than a second and trapezoidal profiles are used for moves greater than a second. Regardless of which type of motion profile is used, it is easy to determine the acceleration a and the peak speed Vp from the following equations where x = total movement and t = total move time.\nFor triangular profiles:\nFor trapezoidal profiles:\nAll load motion must be converted back to motor motion. Working in radians (rad) makes the math easier. There are 2π rad and 360° in one revolution. So, if you want to move 2.5 revolutions in 0.75 sec, that converts to 15.7 rad in 0.75 sec. Similarly, if you have a screw with four threads/in., and you want to move 3.2 in., that would be (3.2)(4)(2π) = 80.4 rad.\nOnce a is calculated, it is multiplied by the quantity of reflected inertia plus rotor inertia to get the acceleration torque, or TA = a(JRef + JR). All step motor rotor inertias are provided in the motor specifications. Once TA is known, add TC, multiply by a safety factor, and since the peak speed has already been calculated, the torque/speed curves can be referred to in order to see if the motor will work.\nSuppose you have a horizontal screw 30 in. long, 0.5 in. diameter, with five threads/in. Suppose also that the load is 75 lb, and you want to move 2 in. during 1.3 sec. For the following equations, c is the efficiency of the screw, (about 0.95 for ballscrews and 0.7 for others); p is pitch; and the equation for the inertia in a long cylinder (i.e., the screw) is:\nwhere L = length, ρ = material density (4.5 oz/in.3 for steel), and r = radius.\nTo convert from mass inertia to weight inertia, multiply Jscrew by g.\nScrew and load yield a total inertia of 2.03 oz-in.2\nSuppose you choose a motor with a rotor inertia of 1.5 oz-in.2 Using a trapezoidal profile, and since 2 in. equals 62.8 rad of motor movement,\nTotal inertia = 2.03 + 1.5 = 3.53 ozin. 2 = 9.14 x 103 oz-in.-sec2.\nSo, TTot = 1.5 + 6 = 7.5 oz.-in. and TReq = (7.5)(1.5) = 12 oz-in.\nWith regard to the torque/speed curve, the motor selected (based on its inertia ratio) is found to have more than adequate torque to do the job. In fact, it has a lot more torque than required. Because excessive torque can cause vibration problems, the current should be lowered, thereby lowering torque.\nCraig Ludwick is an application engineering manager for Oriental Motor U.S.A. Corp., Torrance, Calif.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Do’s and Don’ts of Understanding Nursing Theories\nItas essential to be aware that there are plenty of critics of Fowleras theories and the research that has been done to support them. The use of one theory that focuses only on a specific part of implementation isn’t very very very likely to tell the entire story. If you’re knowledgeable about a theory and wish to make and maintain a page, please get in contact with us to chat about your ideas.\nNursing is concerned with the entire essay writer individual. Please be sure to order your book when possible so you’re able to begin your course of study. There are a lot of forms of essays that are supplied to the students in their assignments.\nYou ought to choose the topic of your essay by paying attention to the sort of reader and your major objectives. english essay help If you’re given the subject, you ought to consider the sort of paper that you wish to produce. Research paper outline examples are extremely tricky for most students since they are so lengthy.\nGetting the Best Understanding Nursing Theories\nWhat’s more, it’s important that nursing leadership continue to cultivate their nursing capital. Select a nursing theory that you find useful in nursing practice. Elect for a nursing theory that you find useful in nursing practice.\nPatient advocacy is a critical part of the Registered Nurse professional function. Nursing includes using assessment, interventions and evaluation to deal with the comfort needs of the individual. Nurses may develop a http://www.umh.es/?lang=EN theory independently or in collaboration with different nurses.\nA central function of graduate education, especially an MSN degree, is to give you a theoretical framework which aids students understand how to provide care in a number of settings. An MBA in Nursing can allow you to get administrative positions within plenty of healthcare organizations. It may be overwhelming to remain informed about the many activities of routine nursing.\nAs it regards nursing, the theory of intellectual capital support from the medical organization has to be given to supply the vital means for continuing educational development of the worker. The purpose was supposed to explain the fundamental implications of the profession and to boost the condition of the profession. There are assorted assortments of nursing theories.\nJobs are vanishing as a consequence of new technology. To satisfy the requirements of patients and their families, it must be contingent on current research and the best evidence. You need to make sure your findings are accurately presented depending on the theoretical framework you’re using.\nThe https://grademiners.com/write-my-thesis second part of the website is the Oscerfolio. Half of the group will get a pain pill to control their pain symptoms while the other half will get a placebo pill. Each layer includes a five-person variable or subsystem.\nUnderstanding Nursing Theories – Overview\nIn order to acquire an entire comprehension of a problem, it is preferable to analyze the situation utilizing multiple ethical theories. For starters, you can just serve one specific person at a specific time, meaning you’re unable to advance production through technological improvements. You’ve got to wish to be the best and change a component of that progress.\nAn overarching framework will be developed to guide the evaluation of particular initiatives. Moreover, marginalized groups have a chance to take part in the planning procedure. Be certain to supply a great case of the way it can be used to boost the selected practice area.\nThrough collaboration with the NLA, our nurse leaders have the opportunity to share in courses offered throughout the nation via the web and in person. Nurse Anesthetists administer every type of anesthesia, work in every type of practice setting and supply care for all kinds of operation or procedure. She should be an independent practitioner able to make independent judgement.\nThe Hidden Treasure of Understanding Nursing Theories\nThus, the perfect purpose of education is reaching to the former limit of the person growth potential. Thus, the very best aim of education is reaching to the previous limit of the individual growth potential. Therefore, the perfect goal of education is reaching to the preceding limit of the individual growth potential.\nCertainly everything in our organizations and our company is a synthesis of current technology or current ideas. Many factors influence a person’s preferred style. 1 area where investors have to rethink their investment is really the original aim of art to check at.\nThe conventional definition of utility is the best happiness of the best number. There are quite a lot of examples of optical illusions, but they don’t manage the true character of space. It’s generalizable in such a manner that the concepts presented are at a degree of abstraction which permits them to be applied in many distinct circumstances.\nWhispered Understanding Nursing Theories Secrets\nHealth can be completely individualized. Time is frequently an excellent issue. Pregnancy is among the miracles of life.\nThere are several sorts of research theories. The critical concepts of a particular theory are its constructs. The vital concepts of a particular theory are its constructs.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Olympics and Growth Mindsets\nFollowing our 'Road to Rio' theme last term, many teachers kickstarted the new school year by discussing the Olympic Games that took place over the summer holidays!\nMany of the children watched the various events that took place and were able to discuss the skills and qualities shown by every athlete who attended the Games.\nAs the children may face different challenges in their new year groups, it was important to be able to link the Olympic Games with the idea of having a 'growth mindset' and the understanding that success comes from hard work and a positive attitude. Classes listened to interviews with different athletes and watched clips from the Olympics that demonstrated different kinds of success.\nAttached below is a PowerPoint used to guide some of the Circle Times that took place, with each photo linking to a video or news article.\nHopefully, the children will now be starting the new school year feeling inpsired!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Schisms and Sects\nWritten by: Moojan Momen\nSince the Baha'is claim to be trying to bring unity to the world, it would obviously not make a great deal of sense for the religion itself to be divided into sects. Therefore the founder of the Baha'i Faith and its successive leaders took steps to prevent the formation of schisms and sects. The successive stages in the leadership of the Baha'i Faith have been guaranteed by written documents conferring this succession. This has made it difficult for anyone else to set up an alternative leadership.\nDuring his lifetime, Baha'u'llah faced opposition from some Babi followers of his half-brother Mirza Yahya Azal (1832-1912), who claimed leadership of the Babi movement. Some individual followers of Azal played important political roles in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and after, but this group never really formed a religious community although there is a scattering of individuals who still adhere to it.\n'Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'u'llah's successor, was opposed by his half-brother, Mirza Muhammad 'Ali (1853-1937), who claimed that 'Abdu'l-Baha had exceeded his authority and station and who tried to set up an independent center of leadership in the Baha'i community. Although at first he attracted a number of prominent Baha'is to his side, this group within a few years went into sharp decline and was never able to establish an independent religious community. When Shoghi Effendi took on the leadership of the Baha'i Faith, he faced only a minor challenge from Mirza Muhammad 'Ali.\nDuring Shoghi Effendi's period of leadership, there were a number of Baha'is who objected to the administrative order that he was establishing in the Baha'i community. Some of these set up the New History Society in the United States and were successful in hosting a number of meetings and forming an international pen-pal club based on Baha'i teachings. These initiatives lapsed with the deaths of the founders.\nSince the death of Shoghi Effendi in 1957, the most significant attempt to create a schism in the Baha'i community was by Charles Mason Remey (1874-1974) who claimed to be the second guardian in succession to Shoghi Effendi. Although a number of Baha'is in the United States, France, and Pakistan followed him, Remey was never able to gain significant support and after his death, the movement split several times into a number of very small factions, some of which still survive. There have also been some smaller groups who have come out in opposition to the Baha'i administration, mainly in Germany and the United States. In summary, the small dissident groups formed over the last century have not been successful in establishing themselves as independent religious communities and most have not survived long after the death of their founders.\nThe internet has allowed some of these dissident groups to achieve a level of presence and interaction that would have been impossible before because of their small numbers and geographical spread. Despite this newfound ability to contact each other, however, none of these groups has ever grown to any appreciable extent and none has gone beyond attacking the main Baha'i community. None of them, for example, have forged a separate identity, developed a body of literature, created a viable community, or produced a distinctive way of being a Baha'i. It would not, therefore, be correct to call any of these existing dissident groups sects of the Baha'i Faith. Today more than 99.9 percent of those calling themselves Baha'is belong to the main group.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A RETROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF THE FREQUENCY OF DISTOMOLAR TEETH IN A POPULATION OF 14.250 PATIENTS\nThe supernumerary teeth that occur distally to a molar tooth described as “distomolar” teeth. Supernumerary teeth were found more often in the maxilla than in the mandible. They may erupt normally or remain impacted and appear inverted. Distomolar teeth are generally seen smaller than second or third molars and most of them are impacted The aim of this study is to determine the frequency, location, and shape of distomolar teeth in a population of urban Turkish adults.\nMATERIAL AND METHODS\nA retrospective observational study was conducted on 14.250 patients’ panoramic images, with the documentation of demographic data, the presence of distomolar teeth, their number and morphology.\nThe presence of distomolars in this population was found to be 0.32%. In total, 55 distomolar teeth were detected in 45 patients. All distomolars were found in maxilla and majority of them were impacted (n=51, 92.7% of the distomolars). 19 distomolars were found bilaterally in nine cases (0.06%). In one patient, two distomolars were detected in the maxilla in which one in left and the other in the right side.\nDistomolars, which described as a supernumerary tooth distal to the third molar, are rare occurring dental anomalies. Because of that clinicians should make a careful investigation of panoramic radiographs.\nDomínguez A, Mendoza A, Fernández H. Estudio retrospectivo de dientes supernumerarios en 2045 pacientes. Avances en Odontoestomatología 1995; 11: 575-582.\nKokten G, Balcioglu H, Buyukertan M. Supernumerary fourth and fifth molars: a report of two cases. J Contemp Dent Pract. 2003; 4: 67-76.\nFazliah SN. Supernumerary tooth: report of a case. Arch Orofac Sci. 2007; 2: 54–58.\nBatra P, Duggal R, Parkash H. Non-syndromic multiple supernumerary teeth transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait. 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Int Res Sci Stomatol. 2000; 402: 101-105.\nAlaejos C, Contreras MA, Buenechea R, Berini L, Gay C. Mesiodens: a retrospective study of 44 patients. Med Oral. 2000; 5: 81-88.\nZiberman Y, Malron M, Shteyer R. Assessment of 100 children in Jerusalem with supernumerary teeth in the premaxillary region. J Dent Child 1992; 59: 44-47.\nDehdashti M, Gugny P. A propos des polyodonties, proposition d´une approche therapeutique. Rev Orthop Dento Faciale 1990; 24: 465-471.\nArslan A, Altundal H, Ozel E. The frequency of distomolar teeth in a population of urban Turkish adults: a retrospective study. Oral Radiol 2009; 25: 118-122.\nGopakumar D, Thomas J, Ranimol P, Vineet DA,Thomas S, Nair VV. Prevalence of supernumerary teeth in permanent dentition among patients attending a dental college in South Kerala: A pilot study. Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine & Radiology 2014; 26: 42-45.\nLiu JF. Characteristics of premaxillary supernumerary teeth: a survey of 112 cases. 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{"text": "Citing your sources chicago: author-date author last name, first name year chapter/essay while you should always cite the format you used, the original. Formatting a research paper name, the course number, and the date on separate authors on it instead of in the header on page 1 of your essay. How to write an mla style heading on a literature essay the professor's name, the name of the class, and the date mla format doesn't specify how you. Format papers in standard academic format (using microsoft type your name, the date for documents following mla format, put your last name and page.\nHow to write numbers and dates in your essay there is no actual official accepted format but a good rule of is that if you use a comma in your date then you. Mla format essay name date since 1989 our certified professional essay writers have assisted tens of thousands of clients to land great jobs and advance their careers through strategically written works. Heading: in the upper left corner of the first page of your essay, you should type your name, the instructor's name, your class, and the date, as follows: your name mr rambo eng 1001-08 24 february 2017 margins: according to the mla, your essay should have a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, left, and right page numbers: your last name and the page number should appear in the upper right corner of each page of your essay, including the first page, as in jones 3.\nTypical formats for writing the date in english note that another format exists which writes the date numerically in the order year name abbreviations 1. On the first page, in the upper left-hand corner, place your name, your instructor’s name, the course, and the date on separate double-spaced lines write the date in the day month year format, as in 14 may 2010 you can write any date till the submit date. Sample mla essay page 1 adapted from samuel johnson, rambler 4 (march 31, 1750) website maintained by: mark mcdayter website administrator: mark. A quick guide to the proper essay format name of the professor, the title of course and date of submission on the first page of the paper.\nHere is an article on essay format correct essay format is a piece your last name before each number any aspect of your essay(s), including essay format. A basic guide on how properly format an essay learn how to format the title other title elements (your name, the course name, teacher's name and the due date. How to format essays using mla style instructor's name course date like the rest of the essay essay format essay format. Mla essay style format the author's name, the advisor's name, the name of the course, the date of completion, - each on a separate line.\nWelcome to the purdue owl purdue owl their sources through parenthetical citation in their essays and works name, the course, and the date. Get apa essay help on apa essay format and apa style for apa college essay format assignmnments teachers or course name, and the due date. Formatting your essay when you there may be some small differences in format that your own question title/name, due date, unit coordinator, word.\nAn introduction to essay formatting go to the ‘format’ menu reference at the end of your essay this is harvard style: name (date:.\nThis is the most common way to begin an mla essay because mla does not and paper due date here is how to format an mla name and paper due date. How to write a paper for school in mla format type your last name and then add page numbers to the title of your paper should be at the top of the essay. This document will show you how to format an essay in mla and today’s date “mla format papers: step-by-step instructions for writing research essays.\nAll essentials in an mla essay format example the instructor’s name the class or section the date referencing as you can see in the presented mla format. College essay format with style guide and you write adhering to the essay format code below the instructor’s name write the date of submission. Format 2 creating a references list 3 common references list entries 4 in-text citations 5 formatting titles of texts f chicago iv using sources. Academic essay structures & formats on the back is an example of the typical format for an write your name, the course, the and the date here.Download", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The 90th anniversary of some of the most fateful days in human history is passing almost unnoticed and unremarked:\nFIRST WORLD WAR ERUPTS:\nAugust 1, 1914\nFour days after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Germany and Russia declare war against each other, France orders a general mobilization, and the first German army units cross into Luxembourg in preparation for the German invasion of France. During the next three days, Russia, France, Belgium, and Great Britain all lined up against Austria-Hungary and Germany, and the German army invaded Belgium. The ‘Great War’ that ensued was one of unprecedented destruction and loss of life, resulting in the deaths of some 20 million soldiers and civilians.\n(via The History Channel’s “This Day in History“)\nAnd millions more in Russia via the Russian Revolution, millions more again in the Second World War, finishing what the First did not, and doubtless millions in named and unnamed consequences of both. The conflagration began burning 90 years ago.\nThere are doubtless many superb literary evocations of World War I; one I know and can recommend is Pat Barker’s trilogy: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road. The first book that brought home World War I to me is the classic work by John Keegan, The Face of Battle: Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme — as beautifully written, eye-opening, and richly researched a work of history as I’ve ever come across. From Keegan’s description of the Somme, (July 1, 1916):\nIn some battalions, the men were able to walk upright, with arms sloped or ported, as they had been expecting. In others they were soon bent forward, like men walking into a strong wind and rain, their bayonets fixed and their rifles horizontal. ‘Troops always, in my experience’, wrote Lord Chandos, whose observation this is, ‘unconsciously assume this crouching position when advancing against heavy fire.’ [...]\n[T]he last brigade [had] a mile of open ground to cover before it reached its own front line, a safe enough passage if the enemy’s machine-guns had been extinguished, otherwise a funeral march. A sergeant of the 3rd Tyneside Irish (26th Northumberland Fusiliers), describes how it was: ‘I could see, away to my left and right, long lines of men. Then I heard the “patter, patter” of machine-guns in the distance. By the time I’d gone another ten yards there seemed to be only a few men left around me; by the time I had gone twenty yards, I seemed to be on my own. Then I was hit myself.’\n(pp. 244-245 of my paperback copy)\nIf you’re interested, other books you might consider are The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman, John Mosier’s The Myth of the Great War, and Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory. Like Trotsky once said: “You may not be interested in war. But war is interested in you.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Whether this definition is accurate or not, this is what the terms “race” and “ethnicity” mean to me: Race is a term that describes a group of people with similar descent. I believe race is determined physical specifications such as color, language, eye shape, or even things such as blood types. Human beings as a whole are described as the “human race;” I believe this to be an accurate definition as human beings (despite color, language, or any other physical characteristics) are all the same. Genetically speaking, we are all made up of the same “parts. The term “race” is an all-encompassing statement used to define a large group, overall. Ethnicity defines the background of a particular person or thing. This term encompasses many backgrounds and associations. Foods can be “ethnic” if they originate or are commonly consumed in a specific country or region. The same applies to human beings. One’s ethnicity may be determined by his or her birthplace, religion, of beliefs. Ethnicity does not define physical characteristics, but rather backgrounds and traits. The United States is a melting pot.\nThis country is made up of thousands and thousands of different people from different places. The USA is home to many ethnic backgrounds; however, the population (in my opinion) is a single “race. ” We are all humans, as I have previously stated. Although our ethnic backgrounds may differ in many different ways, all in all, we are one race. This is important to bear in mind. Heritage should always be recognized, as it typically is in the United States. But acknowledging the vast backgrounds that exist in this country is the most important concept of all.\nDon’t waste your time!\nOrder your assignment!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Definition of dustbath in English:\nA bird’s rolling in dust to clean its feathers.\n- Birds need grit and places they can take a dust bath, which helps them rid their feathers of mites and other parasites.\n- Too many critics seem to treat their own writings more as a dust bath for something bothering them than as a means of slaking the thirst for knowledge of the professional or amateur student.\n- Now that most of the old undergrowth has been removed the birds are swooping to get all the insects and worms I've disturbed as well as enjoying the occasional dust bath.\nWhat do you find interesting about this word or phrase?\nComments that don't adhere to our Community Guidelines may be moderated or removed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In 1930 J.R.R. Tolkien, a veteran of the trenches in World War I and by then a professor at Oxford University, was marking student papers when he noticed that one of the exam books had a blank page at the end.\nOn that page he wrote: “In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.”\nThat began a remarkable literary adventure that seven years later produced The Hobbit. It took another 17 years for the first of the Lord of the Rings trilogy to appear.\nWhat those works and others by Tolkien showed was a vast imagination that created a world into which millions of readers would get lost.\nWhere did all that was involved in the Middle-earth realm come from? What were the roots and routes of his imagination? Serious readers have pondered those questions for many years.\nSome of the answers may be found at an exhibit of Tolkien-related artifacts — maps, drawings, manuscripts, and personal items — that will give readers a clue as to how the mind of this literary magician worked. The exhibit has opened at the Weston Library in Oxford, England. It is the first such exhibit in more than 25 years and will be open until October. After that, it’s coming to New York and then to Paris.\nThe exhibit has been reviewed by The Guardian, which you can read here: How Tolkien created Middle-earth | Books | The Guardian\nIt is all too easy to believe in the myth of the professor as the one true god of a world he knew in its entirety. The truth, however, is more complex. Tolkien was not always sure of himself. A notebook page reveals that Gandalf once had the Elvish name Bladorthin, meaning grey wanderer. Gandalf, it turns out, was the original name of Thorin Oakenshield. Tolkien flickers between names in the text, as if torn. “He spoke about sub-creation,” McIlwaine says, “and I think this tied into his religious beliefs that all talents and gifts come from God. God is the one creator, and what we do is in imitation of that. Tolkien was a very humble man.”\nSo, if you are a citizen of Middle-earth, you might want to check out these links or even try to see the exhibit yourself. You’ll probably understand a bit more about where you came from.\nGet a FREE copy of Kill the Quarterback\nGet a free digital copy of Jim Stovall's mystery novel, Kill the Quarterback. You will also get Jim's newsletter and advanced notice of publications, free downloads and a variety of information about what he is working on. Jim likes to stay in touch, so sign up today.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Moving the cursor around manually while typing is a great way to make your work take longer than it needs to. To speed up the process, move the cursor around with keyboard shortcuts. To move it to the beginning of the previous word, use Ctrl + Left Arrow. To move it to the beginning of the next word, use Ctrl + Right Arrow. In macOS you can accomplish the same using the Option key. To select words/paragraphs as you’re going, hold Shift + Ctrl + Arrow (up or down will select entire bodies of text).\nIn business management and information technology (IT) a silo describes any management system that is unable to operate with any other system, meaning it’s closed off from other systems. Silos create an environment of individual and disparate systems within an organization.\nWhy Silos Occur\nOrganizational silos typically do not share the same priorities, goals or even the same tools, so departments operate as individual business units or entities within the enterprise. Silos occur because of how an organization is structured. Managers are responsible for one specific department within an organization and each manager has different priorities, responsibilities and vision. Often, managers are not aware of the priorities and goals of other departments and there is little communication, collaboration and teamwork between these business units.\nThe Silo Mentality\nThe silo mentality is really an organizational way of thinking. It occurs when departments or management groups do not share information, goals, tools, priorities and processes with other departments. The silo mentality is believed to impact operations, reduce employee morale and may contribute to the overall failure of a company or its products and culture.\nToday, managers are tasked with breaking the silo mentality to ensure information flows freely between all departments in an organization. The goal is to change and improve the relationships between business units by advocating better teamwork. Communication and collaboration is essential to breaking down the silo mentality.\nBreaking Down IT Silos\nIn In technology centers there is a need to break down IT silos to improve the relationship between Development and IT Operations in particular. On the development side – especially for individuals working in IT operations — there needs to be better communication and collaboration to best serve the IT business needs of the organization.\nOne solution to breaking down this IT silos is DevOps (development and operations), a culture that partners developers with operations staff to ensure the organization achieves optimal running of software with minimal problems. This culture is one that supports a willingness to work together and share.\nThe ITIL Solution\nThe ITIL solution to the IT silo is the Operational Level Agreement (OLA). The OLA defines how IT groups work together to meet IT service level requirements. Successful ITIL adoption depends upon cross-silo process interaction and shared responsibilities.\nCreating a culture of cybersecurity is critical for all organizations ‒ large and small businesses, academic institutions, non-profits, and government agencies – and must be a shared responsibility among all employees. Week 2 will showcase how organizations can protect against the most common cyber threats. The week will also look at resources to help organizations strengthen their cyber resilience, including the use of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework.\nHow can you prevent cyber threats?\nForbes recently published an article stating: 97% of respondents admitted that human error causes network outages and problems, with over two-thirds stating that monitoring solutions fail to predict most issues.” Education is the best defense against cybersecurity threats. Here are a few ways you can prevent data breaches:\n- Do not share or reuse passwords\n- Do not click on links or open attachments from unknown senders\n- Enforce password policies\n- Verify requests for sensitive information\nBusinesses can reduce cyber threats with firewalls, web-filtering, email filtering, network monitoring and anti-virus protection. Zerofail Southeast is Your IT Concierge offering 24/7 monitoring and IT support services. If you are unsure whether your business has any of these please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org to schedule a consultation with one of our experts.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The rise and fall of macbeth 11092017 testimonials i purchased my first german shorthaired pointer from bob 7 months ago, and he's turning out to be the best dog ever. As she is macbeth’s wife, her role is significant in his rise and fall from royalty she is macbeth’s other half during shakespearean times, women were regarded as weak insignificant beings that were there to give birth and look beautiful. Transcript of the rise and fall of macbeth the fall of macbeth act 1, scene 2 at the start of the play macbeth is considered as a great and noble warrior after the battle with macdonwald, the sergeant retells the story of the battle to king duncan.\nMacbeth's rise and fall samantha potter ambition influenced by manipulation the route to macbeth's success and failure introduction the shakespearean play, macbeth, is a story that was based on great tragedy, power, and loss. The rise and fall of lady macbeth lady macbeth's character is one of complexity slowly, but continuously changing throughout the play what begins as a struggle for power and a longing to shred her femininity turns lady macbeth into what she fears most - a guilt ridden weakling. The illustration of this central idea is to be found in the rise and fall of lord and lady macbeth to them temptation comes in the guise of ambition, the subtlest form in which it can approach high souls. May note how macbeth is filled with the mimetic rivalries, crises of degree, and instances of undifferentiation that serve to propel shakespeare’s scotland into the throes of chaos such chaos is ultimately what constitutes both the rise and the fall of macbeth, following.\nMacbeth's rise and fall 3 pages 672 words the tragic story of shakespeare's, macbeth, shows that the outer appearance of anyone may be false macbeth is portrayed as an honest, loyal and brave subject lady macbeth is a major part of macbeth's turn for the worst. The rise and fall of lord macbeth is a fabulous one-act version of macbeth suitable for ks2 and lower ks3 pupils the language has been slightly modernised but the original story, character names and essential themes are all intact. Description: this play is shakespeare's tragedy of the rise and fall of two people corrupted by power and ambition benefits of the movie: showing a film version of the play, either before or after reading the text, will enhance students' understanding of both the art and the content of macbeth.\nThe rise and fall of macbeth in shakespeare’s macbeth, macbeth’s misinterpretation of the ambiguity and prevarication of the three weird sisters relates to the play’s theme, which states that irrational desire for power often leads to irrational and violent actions, resulting in death and or destruction. My way of life is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, i must not look to have, but in their stead curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Following the rise and fall of macbeth from soldier to king, there certainly is no petty pace to findlay's staging an urgency looms, ushered in by lady macbeth early on. Analyse the rise and fall of macbeth essay william shakespeare wrote ‘macbeth’ between the years of 1603 and 1606 - analyse the rise and fall of macbeth essay introduction this coincides with the ascension of james the sixth of scotland to the english throne whereby he became known as james i james i believed himself to have special powers because he was king and he also had an. The downfall of macbeth himself can be seen in two different lights, the first being that his rise to power and eventually his fall is the sole responsibility of the witches and his wife lady macbeth.\nThis project is about macbeth’s rise and fall of his life and loyalty macbeth was a trustworthy man that let his dark desires change his life, he was a clean hearted man that over the time his heart grew of power and ambition making bad decision and at the end he was filled with regret. Macbeth thesis statements and important quotes below you will find five outstanding thesis statements for macbeth by william shakespeare that can be used as essay starters or paper topics all five incorporate at least one of the themes found in macbeth and are broad enough so that it will be easy to find textual support, yet narrow enough to. The play has a twofold structure following macbeth’s rise to power and then his fall language, form and structure macbeth (grades 9–1) 2 tragedy the play is shakespeare’s shortest tragedy with all action focused on macbeth’s rise to power and his fall his ambition is his fatal flaw as tragic hero. Macbeth please see the bottom of the page and the highlighted text for full explanatory notes and paraphrases.\nThe downfall of macbeth macbeth, written by william shakespeare, is the tragic tale of macbeth, a virtuous man, corrupted by power and greed this tragedy can be classified by one of two theories. Macbeth starts to worry about the witch's prophecy that banquo's heirs will be kings macbeth's not about to let someone bump him off the throne so, he hires some hit-men to take care of banquo and his son, the unfortunately named fleance banquo is murdered, but fleance escapes. Of birnam rise, and our high-placed macbeth shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath to time and mortal custom yet my heart 105 throbs to know one thing tell me, if your art can tell so much: shall banquo’s issue ever reign in this kingdom macbeth that will never happen who can command the forest and make the trees pull their. Free teaching resources for ks3 english and drama teachers based on shakespeare's classic play, 'macbeth' with free activity pdfs to download.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Approaching Storm: Beach near Newport\nMartin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)\n71.12 x 148.27 cm (28 x 58 3/8 in.)\nMedium or Technique\nOil on canvas\nDr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Gallery (Gallery 235)\nLike many of the Hudson River School landscape painters, Martin Johnson Heade was highly attuned to meteorological phenomena. He produced this chilling scene of a thunderstorm at Point Judith, on the south coast of Rhode Island, as part of a series of compositions that depicted ominous weather at sea. Although Thomas Cole and the generation of artists who would follow him were intimately familiar with cloud formations and light effects link, this scene of blackened water and eerily illuminated shoreline suggests a more potent meaning. A thunderstorm accompanying a storm-tossed boat was a common metaphor throughout nineteenth-century European and American painting for an imperiled or wrecked ship of state; the scene here is rendered with deadening calm. The three boats at full sail seem caught in imminent danger and unlikely to find a safe passage to shore. For a nation amidst the upheaval of civil war, the darkened appearance of the stormy sky also brought to mind the familiar black, sulphur-laden canopy that rose above the beleaguered nation’s battlefields.\nAs the foment of war approached, popular preachers, including Heade’s life-long friend Thomas March Clark, the fifth bishop of Rhode Island, incorporated imagery of biblical deluge into their sermons, equating dark clouds lingering on the horizon with the infamy a civil war would bring. In contrast, sunlight symbolized the hope of God’s redemption. In Heade’s extraordinary scene, the blackened clouds give way to a small patch of blue sky at the upper right, and the roiling waves are juxtaposed with a supernatural glow that suffuses the promontory of Point Judith with an intense clarity.\nOf Heade’s half dozen variations on the theme of thunderstorms at the shore, this composition is the most severe and lacking in narrative details. Heade’s viewer is afforded little relief from the cloud cover and the relentless horizontality created by the ocean and the beach. Nature appears at her most terrifying and hostile, and the barrenness of the shore, which drops away from the viewer at the lower edge of the canvas, conveys the sense that there is no foothold on the edge of Heade’s abyss.\nThis text was adapted from Elliot Bostwick Davis et al., American Painting link, MFA Highlights (Boston: MFA Publications, 2003).\nLower left: M. J. Heade 186[?]\nBy 1925, Henry Goddard Pickering (1848-1926), Boston; 1926, by inheritance to his niece, Susan W. (Mrs. Richard Y.) Fitzgerald, Boston. 1940, with Harvey F. Additon, Boston; 1943, with Castano Galleries, Boston; 1943, with Charles D. Childs, Boston; 1944, with Newhouse Galleries and A.F. Mondschein, New York; Stephen C. Clark, New York; 1945, with Macbeth Gallery, New York; 1945, sold by Macbeth Gallery to Maxim Karolik, Newport, R.I.; 1945, gift of Maxim Karolik to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 1945)\nGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|The importance of Caravaggio in 17th century painting is undeniable. He has been described as the greatest Italian painter of his time. His innovative departure from the idealised style of the 16th century, when painting religious themes, brought much criticism, but was influencial in the development of many artists to come.\nMany of Caravaggio's early works are disturbingly erotic, revealing a tempestuous and volatile character. His life was indeed as much a drama as the images he portrayed in his paintings. Caravaggio had a violent temper and was uncompromising with many who crossed his path. The real life plot of his life drew to a tragic climax when his passionate behaviour led to a charge of murder. It is said that he fought over the score of a court tennis match, killed his opponent and fled.\nWith his art Caravaggio was just as uncompromising. He approached all he painted with an extreme conviction. He once said that only an artist that could \"paint well and imitate well\" deserved to be called a man. His paintings reflect the drama in his life with intense chiaroscuro effects - light often flows into dark shadowy scenes, at a dramatic angle from an unknown source, illuminating the focal point which as can be seen in one of his most famous works Supper at Emmaus, is Christ.\nThe most characteristic aspect of Caravaggio's paintings is his portraying of biblical characters as everyday, ordinary people. Described as a 'naturalist' Caravaggio prided himself on working directly from nature. He replaced conventional forms and manners with the insistance on painting entirely from the model in the studio.\nIn The Death of the Virgin we can clearly see this natural approach in the face of the virgin, usually idolised and shown in absolute perfection, in Caravaggio's piece she is a very ordinary woman. Lighting effects emphasise the shape of her body and her humanity.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Prime Minister three times from 24 September 1903 to 27 April 1904, 5 July 1905 to 13 November 1908, 2 June 1909 to 29 April 1910\nAlfred Deakin was Australia’s second prime minister. He was one of two prime ministers who held the position three times.\nDeakin was a founding father of Federation, along with Edmund Barton.\nDeakin was a lawyer who had another string to his bow — journalism. He wrote anonymous newspaper articles about federal politics for many years — even while prime minister.\nHis government introduced tariff protection and old age pensions.\nAlfred Deakin was born on 3 August in 1856, in Collingwood (now part of Fitzroy), Victoria. He was the second of two children of William Deakin and Sarah Bill, who emigrated from England to Adelaide in 1849.\nWilliam first worked as a clerk, before moving to Melbourne in 1851 during the Victorian gold rush. After prospecting for a time, William opened a coach and carting business with Sarah’s brother, then worked as an accountant and manager of coach firms, including Cobb & Co.\nAlfred was educated at the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and studied law at the University of Melbourne. He graduated in 1877 and was admitted as a barrister in 1878.\nDeakin found little work and became a journalist with The Age newspaper. Throughout his later career in federal parliament he wrote regularly (and anonymously) for the London newspaper, Morning Post, commenting on Australian politics.\nDeakin married Patti Browne in 1882. They had three children.\nDeakin was elected to the seat of West Bourke in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in February 1879. He resigned his seat soon after he delivered his maiden speech, following a press allegation that eligible voters had been excluded from voting.\nDeakin unsuccessfully contested West Bourke at the subsequent by-election, but won it again in July 1880. He held the seat until 1889, when he won Essendon, which he held until resigning in 1900 to enter federal politics.\nHe held three portfolios while a member of Victorian parliament — Solicitor-General and Minister for Public Works from 1883 to 1886, and Chief Secretary from 1886 to 1890.\nDeakin attended the colonial conference in London in 1877 with the Victorian delegation, and impressed the United Kingdom statesmen with his comments on difficulties faced by self-governing colonies in dealing with the Imperial government.\nHe attended the first Federal Convention in Sydney on March 1891 as a delegate for Victoria and was a member of the constitution committee. When the draft Constitution Bill lapsed, Deakin refused further ministerial positions.\nDeakin attended the second Federal Convention in March 1897 as the third-placed popularly elected delegate for Victoria. He participated actively in convention debates but performed his main role beyond the conference hall, talking round anti-federationist delegates to appreciate the need for federal government.\nThe compelling pro-federation speeches Deakin made around Victoria in 1897 and 1898 did much to turn public opinion in favour of federation. On 3–4 June 1898 a referendum was held to approve the draft constitution. The constitution was accepted by the required majority in South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, but not New South Wales.\nDeakin emerged as Edmund Barton’s principal fellow advocate of federation in 1899, during the campaign for a referendum on the Constitution Bill, which had been amended to try to gain New South Wales’ support for federation.\nThe second federation referendum was held in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria from April to September 1899. Voters in each colony approved the amended Constitution Bill by the required majority.\nDeakin joined Barton’s delegation of six Australian politicians who went to London early in 1900 to negotiate amendments to the Constitution Bill with the UK Government. Deakin and Barton, by now close friends, performed outstandingly in a series of conferences with Secretary for Colonies Joseph Chamberlain.\nFrom May to June 1900 the Commonwealth Constitution Bill passed through UK parliament, and was granted Royal Assent by Queen Victoria on 9 July 1900.\nDeakin won the seat of Ballarat, Victoria, at the first federal general election on 29 March 1901, and held it through the next three general elections.\nBarton, the first Australian Prime Minister, chose Deakin as a member of his first ministry, assigning him the Attorney-General’s portfolio. Deakin retained this position throughout Barton’s time in office.\nAs Attorney-General, Deakin was responsible for formulating legislation which guided the federal government up until the First World War.\nThe federal government developed policy and legislation on matters including financial relations between Commonwealth and states, the Immigration Restriction Act (1901) which became the basis of the White Australia policy, establishment of an Australian navy, and founding of the High Court of Australia.\nPrime Minister Alfred Deakin\nDeakin took over as prime minister, leading a Protectionist government, on 24 September 1903 when Barton quit politics to become a judge of the newly instituted High Court.\nDeakin retained government at the second general election on 16 December 1903 but had to rely on Labor support. He held power for another four months, until 27 April 1904, when his government was defeated in parliament over a Labor amendment to the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill.\nDeakin resigned the prime ministership, which then went to Labor leader Chris Watson.\nSecond and third terms\nDeakin became prime minister for the second time on 5 July 1905 when George Reid resigned. Deakin’s minority government survived with Labor support. He retained power at the third general election on 12 December 1906, again with Labor support.\nDeakin’s second Protectionist government fell on 13 November 1908 when Deakin resigned because he was not prepared to accept Labor’s ‘preference for unionists’ amendment.\nAfter losing office to Andrew Fisher’s Labor Party, Deakin arranged a merger of his followers in May 1909 (some were still known as Protectionists, while others were calling themselves Deakinites) with his former political foes, the Free Traders (now led by Joseph Cook, who had succeeded George Reid as leader of the group in November 1908). The new grouping was known as the Fusion.\nOn 2 June 1909 the Fusion defeated Fisher’s Labor government in parliament. Deakin was commissioned to form his third government, and Cook became his deputy. Deakin’s Fusion government was defeated at the general election on 13 April 1910.\nDeakin’s total time in office amounted to four years and 10 months, the longest time served by any of the six prime ministers to 1915. Despite relatively short and discontinuous periods in office, his governments were responsible for much policy and legislation giving shape to the Commonwealth during its first decade.\nSome achievements during Deakin’s periods as prime minister were:\n- 1904: First national defence scheme\n- 1906: Assumption of responsibility for the territory of Papua; establishment of the Bureau of Census and Statistics; Australian Industries Protection Act (linking tariffs with wages, forcing companies to pay fair wages)\n- 1907: Bill for the transfer of control of the Northern Territory from South Australia to the Commonwealth; establishment of the Bureau of Meteorology; introduction of the basic wage concept in the Harvester judgement\n- 1908: Choice of Canberra as the site for the federal capital; Old Age Pension Bill; national tariff protection policy giving 5 per cent margin of preference to UK manufactures; visit by the ‘Great White Fleet’ of USA to Australia; federal Quarantine Act replaced state acts for a uniform national quarantine system\n- 1909: Former prime minister George Reid appointed as the first Australian High Commissioner to London\n- 1910: Launch of the first Australian navy ships.\nLater political life\nDeakin’s government was defeated at the fourth federal general election on 13 April 1910, which gave the Labor Party a clear majority — the first time that any group or party had gained an absolute majority in Federal Parliament. Andrew Fisher took office as Prime Minister (for the second time) on 29 April 1910.\nIn opposition again, Deakin began unifying the main elements among anti-Labor groups into a more formal arrangement than the Fusion. The result was the formation of the Liberal Party and the emergence of the two-party system during the period 1910–12.\nDeakin himself belonged to a Victorian body called the Commonwealth Liberal Party, formed April–May 1909. Other non-Labor parliamentarians used other names, including Protectionist and Free Trader, to describe their affiliations.\nBy 20 January 1913, when Deakin resigned as Opposition Leader, most members of the Opposition were calling themselves Liberals. Joseph Cook (Deakin’s replacement as Opposition Leader) and supporters fought the fifth federal general election on 31 May 1913 as the Liberal Party.\nIn ill health, Deakin resigned as Opposition Leader on 20 January 1913. He retired from politics when the fourth parliament expired on May 1913.\nDeakin’s ill health continued and he died from a stroke in South Yarra, Victoria, on 7 October 1919. He was buried in St Kilda Cemetery after a state funeral.\nNo legislation was passed by Deakin’s first government. Legislation introduced into parliament and passed during his second term included the:\n- Census and Statistics Act 1905 to set up a federal bureau\n- Papua Act 1905 established an administration for Australian-controlled British New Guinea\n- Representation Act 1905 provided for the alteration of electoral boundaries\n- Copyright Act 1905 established a national code.\nImportant amendments were also made to the Customs Tariff Act, Immigration Restriction Act and the Judiciary Act. Legislation passed by his third parliament included the:\n- Quarantine Act 1908\n- Invalid and Old Age Pensioner Act 1908, giving pension rights to people over 65.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "* In Germany, for example, Jews went from being called and calling themselves Jews in the eighteenth century, to Israelites in the nineteenth, to German Citizens of the Mosaic Faith into the twentieth.\n* In his justly famous Essay on the Physical, Moral, and Political Regeneration of the Jews (1788), the pro-emancipationist Abbe Gregoire argued that Jews possessed a number of unique characteristics that set them off from other Europeans. For example, despite his adherence to the Enlightenment concept that the environment has the power to change people, he believed this was not really the case with the Jews: “Climate has scarcely any effect on them, because their manner of life counteracts and weakens its influence. Difference of periods and country, has, therefore, often strengthened their character, instead of altering its original traits. In vain has their genius been fettered; it has never changed; and perhaps there is more resemblance between the Jews of Ethiopia and those of England, than between the inhabitants of Picardy and those of Provence.”\nCiting Shaftesbury’s Characteristics (1711), Gregoire noted that the Jews appeared “naturally gloomy and melancholy.” On the basis of a report… Gregoire was assured that “the Jews in general had sallow complexions, hooked noses, hollow eyes, prominent chins, and that the constrictory muscles of the mouth were very apparent. There were sexual charges as well. The Jews were concupiscent because of the accumulation of many acrimonious particles in the mass of humours contained in their bodies. Moreover, Jewish women “would be very subject to nymphomania, did they not long pine in a state of celibacy,” and Jewish males were chronic masturbators.\n* Cosmopolitan ideas of universal brotherhood and inherent equality had gone out of vogue, replaced by a biological determinism that saw differences in bodily forms as the key to the unfolding of human history.\n* Despite great variations of interpretation about the meaning of such biological differences, few questioned the legitimacy of such distinctions.\n* “Science? That is what one Jew cribs from another.” (Mayor Karl Lueger)\n* [Gustav] Klemm posited that the active races were masculine, thriving in cold climates, while the passive ones, residing in warm climates, were effeminate.\n* …it was the mathematization of physical anthropology that assisted in the development of scientific racism and the reaffirmation of preexistent prejudices. For example, numbers that indicated lower brain weights or smaller cranial dimensions were cited as proof…\n* The kind of threat the Jews posed [to Germany] varied according to the ideologies of the different power groups in society… To nationalists, Jews still formed a state with a state and therefore were a potentially traitorous enemy. To groups touting a volkisch ideology, lamenting the rapid and unprecedented changes that Germany was undergoing due to unification and industrialization, the Jews were charged with being responsible for…those changes. To many on the left, the Jew represented the interests of capital and therefore, exploitation. Conversely, the Jews were often denounced as the bearers of socialism, and promoters of revolution.\n* Although they classified Jews as members of the white race, German medicine and anthropology also isolated Jews and referred to them as a group apart, thus reflecting the Jews’ dual position of being German but not being fully part of German society.\n* Fritz Lens: “Jews do not transform themselves into Germans by writing books on Goethe.”\n* Until the end of the nineteenth century, German anthropology unanimously regarded the Jews as racially pure.\n* Lord Acton: “The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.”\n* If England can be said to have had an antisemitic tradition, it is most clear in the image of the Jew in English literature. From Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale and Shakespeare’s Shylock to Rebecca in Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and Dicken’s Fagin, the Jew had been presented as an alien figure consumed by vengefulness, miserliness, and avarice.\n* Nationalities, empires, and monarchies are plastic and ephemeral, “human contrivances often held together by fraud and violence.” Races, however, are stable and permanent. Any people can become members of a nation and display its national character, but they can never…become members of a race… This type of thinking was rare among German and French race scientists who hardly distinguished between race and nationality.\n* [Joseph] Jacobs gave as the historical reasons for the prevalence of first-cousin marriage among Jews the absence of theological prescriptions against the practice (such as obtained in the Catholic church), “the existence of small communities scattered about, the rare communion between the sexes, and, above all, the absence of any ideal of pre-nuptial love.” He adduced several other reasons for its prevalence in England, whose room lay in the particular historical conditions under which English Jewry lived. These were the absence of a shadkhan (marriage broker), who would have brought people together from different parts of the country, the relative wealth of English Jews, which led the wealthier families to marry among themselves; and the practice of what he termed “shoolism” or limiting one’s circle of friends and acquaintances to one’s own synagogue.\n* “The Jewish poor have never been a burden to the general population but have been entirely supported by the Jews themselves.”\n* “Jews do not lead “dangerous” lives in the insurance sense (sailors, soldiers, firemen, miners, etc.). The trades which they do exercise, except that of tailoring, seem more long-lived. Further, the Jewish nature does not seem to require stimulants, and Jews are markedly free from alcoholism. The tranquilising effects of Jewish family life, the joyous tone and complete rest of the Sabbath and other festivals, the unworrying character of the Jewish religion, are all important in the difficult art of keeping alive. The greater care taken of Jewish women, who\nmore rarely take to manual labour, aids also in producing good results in the tables of mortality. I attribute much importance, too, to the strict regulation of the connubial relations current among Jews.”\n* Samuel Weissenberg took pride in East European Jewry’s “high sense of family,” the extraordinarily low rate of illegitimate births, the minimal amount of sexually transmitted diseases, the low infant mortality rate, the moderate alcohol intake, and the apparent immunity to many infectious diseases, but asserted that none of this was due to any particular racial qualities. These features were not so apparent in the less traditional Jewish communities of Western Europe. This was proof, for Weissenberg, that any biological benefits the Jews might have enjoyed were solely founded in their religion.\n* For the Zionists, Jewish life in Germany (and eventually the entire Diaspora) was threatened not only by the hostile mob but also by the prospects of “race suicide.”\n* A significant proportion of German Jews by WWI had “gone beyond Judaism.”\n* German socialist leader Karl Kautsky: “There is rising within Judaism, as a reaction against anti-Semitism, a similar tendency to accept and use the theory of race. It is a natural application of the principle: If this theory permits Christian-Teutonic patriots to declare themselves demi-gods, why should Zionist patriots not use it in order to stamp the people chosen by God as a chosen race of nature, a noble race that must be carefully guarded from any deterioration and contamination by foreign elements?”\n* For many Zionists who redefined Jewishness in nationalistic terms, the concept of race was an alluring device.\n* At the turn of the century, Europeans of all political and cultural backgrounds believed in the concept of race.\n* …a Jewish racial instinct whose effectiveness had ensured racial exclusiveness and therefore Jewish racial purity, was reminiscent of much of the German volkisch literature being disseminated by nationalist (and often antisemitic) groups.\n* the campaign of Jewish doctors such as [Felix] Theilhaber and [Magnus] Hirschfeld for the rights of homosexuals and women as well as those suffering from venereal diseases — all groups who at the turn of the century were labeled as outsiders — was related to their Jewishness. These men also felt themselves to be outsiders — professionally, because as Jews they were pushed to the periphery of medical science, and individually, Theilhaber because of his Jewishness, Hirschfield because of that and his declared homosexuality.\n* Theilhaber maintained that the Jews of Germany were confronted with the inexorability of their own demise due to “low fertility, conversion, intermarriage, the increase in celibacy, venereal diseases, mental illnesses, the movement from the country to the big cities, and the entrance into free and commercial professions at the expense of artisanal work.”\n* When involved in criminal activity [in 19th Century Germany], Jews were generally found to be most frequently guilty of non-violent crimes such as defamation, embezzlement, the receipt of stolen property, perjury, and the forgery of documents.\n* Zionist race scientists would not, indeed could not, be too harsh on their people’s past, especially its biological past. This meant perforce that they would take a decidedly environmentalist view. If a Jewish anthropologist had detected a “flaw” in the race and had been a biological determinist, then what was the point to the entire Zionist enterprise?\n* The origins of modern racial thinking are to be found in the eighteenth century. Continuing encounters between Europeans and aboriginals, colonialism, and the slave trade served to diminish the avowed Enlightenment commitment to human equality.\n* …in the United States [after WWI], the rejection of scientific racism proceeded more slowly [than in Britain].", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Bioenergy is a hugely valuable source of low-carbon renewable energy because it can be stored and used flexibly to produce heat, power, liquid and gaseous fuels. It has the potential to deliver negative emissions which the ETI anticipates are needed to deliver a low-carbon energy system cost-effectively.\nThe ETI has been commissioned to understand the variability in biomass feedstocks and the opportunities for pre-processing. Working with the Energy Systems Catapult (ESC), this insight suggests that producing bio-electricity or bio-hydrogen, in combination with CCS, could provide around 10% of projected UK energy demand.\nThe insight also explores how second generation crops are used to generate power and heat in the UK today but actually the market is nascent. The characteristics of these emerging feedstocks are different to commonly used wood chips and pellets and, if not managed properly, this can cause problems in boilers and other conversion technologies. To successfully integrate new feedstocks, either the end user must be able to accept greater physical and chemical feedstock variability, or feedstock production techniques and pre-processing must be used to make feedstocks more homogeneous.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Monogamy is the custom or condition of having only one mate. The word monogamy comes from the Greek word monos, which means one or alone, and the Greek word gamos, which means marriage or union.\n|This theme article is a stub. You can help Wikiquote by expanding it.|\n- Monogamy among animals is a matter of biology. So is monogamy among human beings. But in the human case, monogamy is more. It is also a matter of psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, ethics, theology, literature, history, philosophy, and most of the remaining humanities and social sciences as well.\n- Barash, David P.; Judith Eve Lipton. The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (unidentified edition ed.). pp. pp. 191-192.\n- My husband was not faithful. He thought monogamy was a type of wood. I'm like, \"Honey, no — monogamy's when you just sleep with your wife.\" He's like, \"No,— that's monotony.\"\n- Andrea Walker, comedian, Funny Ladies, Vol. 3 (2004)\n- It's foolish for society to impose the restriction of one man to the married woman. I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of [sexual] relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage.\n- Suzy Chaffee, Olympic skier, Suzy Chaffee: The Liberated Beauty, Beaver County Times, (March 17, 1975)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Imperial Ambassador, Eustace Chapuys was a staple at court during the reign of Henry VIII. Chapuys had a close relationship with both Katherine of Aragon and her daughter Mary, because of Katherine’s roots in Spain.\nWhile researching Eustace Chapuys I came across a story written by a Spanish chronicler that I had to share my take with you. It will give you a little insight into the relationship between Katherine, the Imperial Ambassador and Spain. This story should give you an idea of the politics of court-life and the relationship between Katherine, Chapuys and her fellow Spaniards in England near the end of her life.\nAround 1532, when Henry VIII requested Katherine of Aragon return her jewels to the crown she fell ill soon after. To be quite honest, Katherine was already ill. She had made a request to see her good friend the Imperial Ambassador, Eustace Chapuys. Chapuys, wanting to following court rules, requested permission from the King to see Katherine of Aragon at Kimbolton. The chronicler reported Henry VIII saying, “Yes, Ambassador, you have my permission; I will send you word when you can go.” Henry did not send word. Chapuys requested leave many times and yet received no word from the King. Eventually Chapuys sent word to the King that he was leaving – he was tired of waiting. If, while on the road, he received word from the King of England he would surely obey it.\nOn his way out of London, Chapuys gathered as many Spanish merchants as he could that would accompany him to Kimbolton. There were nearly “a hundred horses” in his company. The spirit of the group was high and they were very happy and excited to visit Katherine, their queen.\nOnce King Henry received the message from the Imperial Ambassador he was determined to not allow him to see Katherine. He understood the danger of having a Spanish Ambassador speaking to the wife he had thrown aside. The King sent a man by the name of Thomas ahead of Chapuys to arrive at Kimbolton in advance to send the message that Chapuys was not to be permitted to visit the Queen. While Chapuys was slowly traveling to the castle he saw this man (Thomas) pass him on the road – Chapuys seemed to understand what the man’s mission was and had one of his servants follow him to confirm his suspicions.\nKatherine was aware that her friend, the ambassador would soon arrive with such great company that when she received word that he could not enter it devastated her. I can only imagine how lonely she was for a familiar face, and a friendly one at that.\nChapuys was ordered to stay four miles from the castle. Why four miles? I assume that is where they were stopped from their forward progress.\nThat evening Katherine send food and wine to her Spanish friends and begged them to have good cheer. It was that night that the Spaniards told Chapuys that only HE was not allowed to see Katherine, not them. They informed him that they intended to continue to Kimbolton, which they did. The next morning about thirty men began their adventure to see the Queen. With them they brought what seems to have been the ambassador’s fool – or a fool nonetheless. This man was dressed as a fool and had a padlock hanging from his hood.\nWhen the men arrived at Kimbolton they rested for a bit until they saw ladies in the window. That is when the fool decided he had to get to the ladies immediately. Being the fool he was , he started toward the moat (getting in the water) and there was great concern from the other men in the party that he would drown. When the men pulled the fool out of moat they removed his padlock and threw it at the window with the ladies; They yelled at the ladies that next time they would bring them the key. The padlock did not make it to the window but fell to the earth on the other side of the moat. Some of the castle servants saw where the padlock had fallen and immediately went to grab it. They assumed that it had a note within it for Katherine. They immediately sent it to the King to be examined, and no note or letter was found.\nIn the meantime, back at the castle, the Spaniards had approached the gate and were welcomed inside. Katherine’s ladies were sent to greet them and they were fed a great breakfast in the lower hall. While the men were having breakfast the fool decided to visit the castle barber for a problem he was having. He made signs to the barber that indicated that he may have a toothache. The barber took pity on the man and wanted to help him. He sat the fool down and attempted to stick his fingers in his mouth to see what the problem was, this must have caused pain to the fool because he clenched his teeth and screamed out in pain – at the same time the poor barber also screamed in pain for having his fingers bitten. The ruckus that ensued aroused the attention of others having breakfast that they came to see what the problem was. When they discovered it to be the fool they all had a good laugh. They then returned to finish their breakfast before leaving the castle.\nWhen the men returned to Chapuys they told him the stories of what had happened and all had a great laugh about it – they then returned to London. Nothing more is mentioned by the chronicler of what had been discussed, or if the Queen was present.\nAbout eight or nine months later the King informed the Imperial Ambassador that Katherine was very ill and soon to die. He gave him permission to see her. Chapuys arrived at Kimbolton on New Years Eve 1535. Katherine was very pleased to see her great friend that she did not want him to leave – every time he attempted to leave she would ask him to stay. Katherine’s spirits seemed to improve. The chronicler also suggested that the fool had also accompanied Chapuys on this trip and was there to amuse Katherine. It is noted that she enjoyed his company.\nIt appears that Chapuys left after Katherine’s doctor assured him that she was better and he need not fear to leave her. She died (7 January 1536) shortly after and it is believed that Chapuys was in London at the time of her death.\nChronicle of King Henry VIII of England: Being a contemporary record of some of the principal events of the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. Written in Spanish by an unknown hand. By Martin A. Hume, Knight of the Royal Spanish Order of Isabel the Catholic, Pages 46-52", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A sailor's valentine is a form of shellcraft, a type of mostly antique souvenir, or sentimental gift made using large numbers of small seashells. These were originally made between 1830 and 1890, and they were designed to be brought home from a sailor's voyage at sea and given to the sailor's loved one or loved ones. Sailor valentines are typically octagonal, glass fronted, hinged wooden boxes ranging from 8\" to 15\" in width, displaying intricate symmetrical designs composed entirely of small sea shells of various colors glued onto a backing. Patterns often feature a centerpiece such as a compass rose or a heart design, hence the name, and in some cases the small shells are used to spell out a sentimental message.\nAlthough the name seems to suggest that the sailors themselves made these objects, a large number of them originated in the island of Barbados, which was an important seaport during this period. Historians believe that the women on Barbados made the valentines using local shells, or in some cases using shells imported from Indonesia, and then the finished products were sold to the sailors.\nIn his book Sailors' Valentines, John Fondas concludes that the primary source for sailors' valentines was the New Curiosity Shop, located in McGregor Street, Bridgetown, Barbados, a popular shop where sailors would purchase souvenirs. The shop was owned by the English brothers B.H. and George Belgrave. Fonda recounts that while an antique sailors' valentine was being repaired and reconstructed, pieces of a Barbados newspaper were found inside the backing material.\nToday, antique sailors' valentines are collectibles, valued for their beauty and unusual qualities. Collector interest has sparked a resurgence in sailors' valentines as an art form, and because of this, shell kits and patterns are now sold at craft shops. Many sailors' valentines, both new and old, can be found on Nantucket, Massachusetts.\nAffidavit by George Gordon Belgrave, Curio Dealer of St Michael, confirm that the Belgrave brothers, Benjamin Hinds Belgrave and George Gordon Belgrave, were the grandsons of Jacob Belgrave Jr. one of the earliest substantial planters from the \"free coloured\" community.\n- Fondas, John. Sailors' Valentines, Rizzoli International Publications, 2002\n- See also Norma Faria, \"Scrimshaw Art in Bequia\", Caribbean Compass, March 1998\n- Constance Marshall Miller, Mary S. Page, Ann T. Schutt, and Grace L. Madeira, Sailors' Valentines: Their Journey Through Time, Schiffer Publishing, 2006\n- RB1/414/524, 17 June 1902 and RB1/421/425. 13 June 1902.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "GABA also helps produce endorphins in the brain, which produce a sense of well-being. Excessive alcohol use causes a GABA imbalance that the brain becomes accustomed to, so it regulates its neurotransmitter production to account for the influence of alcohol. When alcohol use ends, the brain’s chemical balance is disrupted, which results in the negative physical and mental symptoms of alcohol withdrawal.\nIn some people, the initial reaction may feel like an increase in energy. But as you continue to drink, you become drowsy and have less control over your actions. The Department of Health and Human Services dietary guidelines recommend that adults of legal drinking age choose not to drink or drink in moderation. Alcohol provides this outcome by increasing the effects of GABA, a neurotransmitter responsible for creating feelings of calm and euphoria.\nSupport Our Mission\nExcessive drinking is defined by the CDC as heavy drinking, binge drinking, or drinking that’s done by anyone who is pregnant or under the age of 21. Symptoms can become severe, and it can be difficult to predict which people will develop life-threatening https://ecosoberhouse.com/article/alcohol-addiction-its-most-important-signs/ symptoms. Too much alcohol can irritate the stomach lining, cause dehydration, and lead to an inflammatory response in the body. As the alcohol wears off, these effects lead to common hangover symptoms, such as headache, nausea, and fatigue.\nWhat are the symptoms of alcohol dependence syndrome?\n- Being unable to limit the amount of alcohol you drink.\n- Wanting to cut down on how much you drink or making unsuccessful attempts to do so.\n- Spending a lot of time drinking, getting alcohol or recovering from alcohol use.\n- Feeling a strong craving or urge to drink alcohol.\nThese may include sleep disturbances, fatigue, and mood changes—that last for months. Delirium tremens (DTs) is a severe syndrome that occurs in about 2% of people with alcohol use disorder during alcohol withdrawal. A person who has a long-term dependency on alcohol will almost certainly experience uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms.\nTop doctors in ,\nThe most common substance-related cause of seizures is alcohol withdrawal. Typically seizures occur 6–48 hours after the last drink and are generalized tonic-clonic, although partial seizures can also occur. They are usually self-limiting but may give rise to status epilepticus, where alcohol dependence accounts for 9–25% of cases (Daeppen et al., 2002; O’Brien et al., 2007).\nThe treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome should be supplemented by an individualized, comprehensive treatment program, or at least as many elements of such a program as the patient can tolerate and afford. Several medications may be helpful adjuncts to benzodiazepines in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. In using the CIWA-Ar, the clinical picture should be considered because medical and psychiatric conditions may mimic alcohol withdrawal symptoms. In addition, certain medications (e.g., beta blockers) may blunt the manifestation of these symptoms.\nAlcohol Withdrawal Symptoms\nAccording to a 2017 study, the use of the Objective Alcohol Withdrawal Scale (OAWS) was more useful for treatment because it can be used as a framework and tailored to individual cases. Toxic alcohol co-ingestion should be managed with the assistance of a toxicologist. It slows down brain function and changes the way your nerves send messages back and forth.\nOne of the most severe consequences of alcohol withdrawal is called delirium tremens, or “the DTs.” Alcohol use disorder can lead to various physical and mental health conditions. In addition, vitamin supplements may be given to replace essential vitamins that are depleted by alcohol use. Once withdrawal is complete, additional medications and supplements may be needed to address complications and nutritional deficiencies that occur because of chronic alcohol use. The first goal of treatment is to keep you comfortable by managing your symptoms.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Robert Lobe’s exhibition of sculptures in Prospect Park, NY, Nature in Nature features three works, Invisible Earth, Antique Jenny and Nature’s Clock. Lobe uses a variation of the ancient metalworking technique repoussé, in which metal is hammered around an object to obtain shapes and patterns. He encases trees and boulders in malleable aluminum, and with countless mallet strikes and a pneumatic air compressor, he gathers and tools the metal snugly around their shapes. This unique process enhances the textures and shadowy contours of the life-sized sculptures, blurring the line between abstraction and realism.\nThe sculptures are sited in the heart of a masterpiece of landscape art designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Invisible Earth captures a composition of precarious balance and has been situated for maximum effect in a spectacular setting within the Lullwater—seemingly hovering over its reflective surface. Nearby at the man-made Binnen Falls, Nature’s Clock, the largest of the three sculptures, is stationed on a hillock, which mimics the sloped terrain of the Appalachian Trail, whose forest detritus originally inspired Lobe to create the sculpture. Emerging from beneath the Cleft Ridge Span, park goers will confront Antique Jenny on a grassy triangular intersection just south of the Boathouse. Located across from the park’s notable ancient tree the Camperdown Elm (made famous in the poem by Marianne Moore), the sculpture also overlooks the Boathouse and Lullwater.\nLobe celebrates nature’s resources and our reliance on them since prehistoric times. Lobe reflects on geographical, historical and mythological representations of the natural world, including the tradition of Romantic landscape painting in American art. These hollow reliefs also allude to the less bucolic 17th century vanitas or still-life paintings that addressed life’s emptiness and decay. Lobe embraces nature while using materials that contrast with his subject. He stitches together metal sheets and leaves exposed the joints, seams and bolts, revealing the underlying beauty of his sculpture’s mechanical construction.\nOn view from May 14, through November 2011. The exhibition is supported by New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation and the Prospect Park Alliance. Since 1967, collaborations with arts organisations and artists have produced hundreds of public art projects in New York City parks – previous artists to exhibit in Prospect Park, include Roxy Paine, Mark Di Suvero, Melinda Hunt, and Steve Tobin.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Boxelder bugs get their common name from the fact that they are often found on and around boxelder trees. This species is native to the western states, but can be found from eastern Canada throughout the eastern United States, and west to eastern Nevada wherever boxelder trees are found.\nThe boxelder bug population lives and thrives on maple and seed-bearing boxelder trees during the warmer months where they lay their eggs and feed on leaves, flowers and seeds. Occasionally, they will feed on the fruits of plum and apple trees.\nIn autumn, boxelder bugs become gregarious and congregate on the south side of rocks, trees and buildings where the sun hits. After large masses gather, they migrate to nearby buildings or homes to overwinter. These pests tend to hide in small cracks and crevices in walls to insulate themselves from the cold winter temperatures. In late March to early April, adults leave their overwintering sites to return to their host trees for the warmer months.\nBoxelder bugs are not known to bite, but their piercing-sucking mouthparts can occasionally puncture skin, causing a slight irritation and producing a red spot similar to a mosquito bite. When crushed or handled roughly, boxelder bugs may leave a reddish orange stain from their fecal material that can result in discoloration of curtains, drapes, clothing, etc.\n- Black with reddish or orange markings on dorsum\n- : 6\n- Elongate-oval, somewhat flattened with head narrower than pronotum\n- 1/2” (11-14 mm)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In chapter 5, Schiro (2013) introduces the social reconstruction ideology. Central to the social reconstruction ideology is the idea that the existing society is imperfect. In other words, the society in which we reside is broken. Social reconstructionists believe that education should not be used as a vehicle for merely fixing the flaws within our society, but should be used to transform the existing society into a new society that is just, moral, satisfying, and empowering for everyone. In this context, Social reconstructionists argues that the function of schools is to avoid uncritically serving and reproducing the existing society. It is important to go beyond reflecting the wishes of the existing society by teaching students to become critical, and analytical thinkers, and to also be aware of the injustices existing in our current society.\nFurthermore, social reconstructionists believe that educators have the responsibility to empower students to change what they see as a “flawed society.” The argument here is that education should not be neutral to the ills of society. I do agree wholeheartedly with this argument, although, I have doubts on how we as a society are going to agree on the vision of the so called “ideal society.” Americans are already having difficulties agreeing with issues such as planned parenthood, gay marriage, Obama-care and so many other issues. How in the world are we going to agree on issues that will change the existing power structures? The social reconstructionists idea of changing our society to a desirable society is noble, but impossible to implement under the existing power-coercive society.\nFurthermore, in chapter 6, Schiro (2013) provides a comparative overview of the four educational ideologies: the scholar academic, the social efficiency, the child centered, and the social reconstructionists and how they view teaching, learning, assessment, the child, and knowledge. I will hence forth present my opinion on the assessment discussions solely. The scholar academic ideology view assessment as a way to rank students for a future in the discipline whereas the social efficiency ideology view assessment as a way to certify to the corporate world’s a view of students’ skills that are relevant for the jobs that they offer. Furthermore, the learner centered ideology views assessment as a tool to diagnose students’ abilities and to use the obtained diagnosis as a tool to facilitate growth in student learning, whereas, the social reconstruction ideology views assessment as a measure of student progress with respect to students’ ability rather than in comparison with other students.\nI concur with the assessment views presented by both the learner centered and the social reconstruction ideologies. I see the value of assessment as a diagnostic tool for educators. The diagnosis can help educators to propel students forward to reach their potentials best according to the students’ abilities. In my views the corporate assessment environment that we are operating under is not helpful. The current testing environment greatly hinders student growth. I feel like the current testing environment does not benefit students at all but, instead it benefits the parents, the administrators, and the corporate world.\nSchiro, S. M. (2013). Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns (2nd ed). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Medical careers dominate the list of fastest-growing careers through 2020, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). However, many of these high-demand jobs require mathematical skills, which is not good news for those who are averse to crunching numbers. Fortunately, there are also medical careers that do not require math.\nSubstance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors\nSubstance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors provide advice to people who are dealing with additions, disorders and destructive behaviors. Through treatment and support, they teach their patients how to develop positive coping mechanisms. These counselors may work in a variety of settings, such as mental health centers, prisons and juvenile detention centers, as well as detox centers and halfway houses. The BLS projects a 27 percent growth increase in substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselor jobs, which is almost double the 14.3 percent national average growth rate for other jobs. The educational requirements range from a high school diploma to a master’s degree depending on state requirements, type of work, and degree of responsibility. The median annual salary for substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors is $38,120.\nHealth educators teach people how to make lifestyle changes that promote health and wellness. They may work in healthcare facilities, colleges, public health departments, nonprofits or private businesses. Health educators create programs and distribute literature on such subjects as the benefits of eating nutritious food and the health hazards of smoking and alcohol use. Demand for health educators is projected to grow by 37 percent through 2020, according to the BLS, which is more than double the growth rate of other professions. The median annual salary for this profession is $45,830, and the minimum educational requirement is a bachelor’s degree in health education or health promotion.\nMarriage and Family Therapists\nMarriage and family therapists help people understand the connection between their emotional problems -- such as low self-esteem or stress -- and their spousal or family relationships. Using therapy, they help clients discuss their feelings and work towards solutions to improve their interactions. The BLS predicts that this profession will grow by 37 percent through 2020, which is more than double the national average for other jobs. A master’s degree in marriage and family therapy is the educational requirement and the median annual salary is $39,710.\nRehabilitation counselors work with people who have physical or emotional disabilities with the goal of helping them live independently. They may work with veterans disabled in the war, elderly clients who have experienced a debilitating illness, or disabled students who need to develop strategies to transition from a school environment to an employment position. In addition to evaluating their client’s needs and devising a plan, they also locate resources, such as wheelchairs, that can help these individuals live a more independent life. Rehabilitation counselor jobs will grow by 28 percent, almost double the average growth of other jobs. To obtain a career in this profession, a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling or a related field is required. The median annual salary for rehabilitation counselors is $32,350.\n- Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Light. Most of us take it for granted during the day. And at night, we have learned to domesticate it. Light, the natural agent that stimulates our sense of sight and makes things around us visible.\nAfter graduating from Cambridge Trinity College, in 1665, and developing calculus, a major part of the physicist’s toolbox, Isaac Newton uses a glass prism to demonstrate how white light is in fact composed of a mixture of colours.\nThe Wave Equation is\nwhere is the wavelength of light and is the frequency.\nAt least, that is how it goes for visible light. But there is more to the story of light…\nLight is an electromagnetic wave. And there is light that we can see, and light that we cannot see.\nThe Optical Window\nVisible wavelengths pass through the ‘optical window’, a particular region of the electromagnetic spectrum where the wavelengths pass through the Earth’s atmosphere all the way to the ground largely unaffected.\nThe window is said to be ‘optical’ because the wavelengths we can see are all in this range, which stretches from around 300 nm (1 nanometre = 10-9 m) (UV-β) at the short end, up into the range that the human eye can use, that is roughly 400 – 700 nanometres, and goes through the visual infrared up to around 1100 nanometres, in the near-infrared range.\nThere are also infrared and radio windows that transmit some infrared and radio waves, respectively.\nWhy The Sky Is Blue\nA cloudless sky appears blue because clean air scatters short wavelengths much more readily than it does with longer wavelengths.\nSince blue light is at the short end of the visible spectrum, it is more strongly scattered in the atmosphere than long wavelength red light.\nThe human eye perceives blue when looking towards parts of the sky other than the sun – a monochromatic shade of unsaturated blue light with wavelengths of around 474 – 476 nanometres.\nWhat We Cannot See\nThe visible spectrum (380 – 740 nanometres) is merely defined in terms of human colour perception. However, many species can see light with frequencies outside this range.\nBees and other insects can see in the ultraviolet (UV) range. Birds can also see in the UV range (300 – 400 nanometres), and some have markings on their plumage that are only visible in this range.\nFrom this point on, the subjects of electricity, magnetism and optics are unified into one branch of Physics. Again, Maxwell predicts the existence of an even wider set of electromagnetic waves.\nWhat Else Is Out There?\nThough the terms remain popular throughout the 19th century, they are ultimately dropped in favour of ‘infrared’ and ‘ultraviolet’ radiations.\n1888, Hertz’s experiments confirm the existence of electromagnetic waves with wavelengths much greater than those of visible light: the radio waves, that revolutionised communications.\n1895, Röntgen discovers another set of electromagnetic waves with wavelengths much smaller than those of visible light: the X-rays, that revolutionised medicine.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The kylix is a broad and shallow cup used for drinking wine, though today it looks more like a fruit bowl. It was decorated not only on the outside but also on the interior circle of the base called the tondo, where the image became visible only when all the wine was drunk.\nNot unrelated to their function, the scenes depicted on these cups often evoke the world of symposia. The tondo of this kylix shows two female figures, perhaps hetairas. One of them is seated on a foldable stool and plays the aulos, a shrill sounding wind instrument, while her companion dances with castanets (krotalons) in her hands.\nBoth wear light, transparent chitons and jewellery. The outlines of their bodies are clearly visible beneath the folds of the drapery marked by straight and wavy lines. The woman on the right wears not only earrings, but also a necklace indicated by dots around her neck. The vase painter paid close attention to detail: a delicate line on the musician’s face emphasises that she is blowing into the instrument, while the bare foot of the dancer is highlighted by a quirked line indicating the ankle’s curve.\nThe cover photo shows Isadora Duncan (1877–1927), one of the most influential figures in modern dance. Breaking with rigid ballet technique, she championed self-expression and danced freely, with bare feet and light robes evoking ancient Greek clothing. This photo was taken in the theatre of Dionysus in Athens.\nThe title of this post was borrowed from Patti Smith – her song, too, evokes an ecstatic state induced by the power of dance.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- Characteristics of the 6 Kingdoms\n- Basic Biomolecules\n- Sexual vs. Asexual Reproduction\n- Viral \"Reproduction\"\n- Internet-capable computers (one per pair of students): PC, Mac, Tablet, etc.\nSupplemental Readings or Websites\nInteractive Notebooks - document that outlines the set-up and use of the interactive notebook & Cornell-style notes in the science class:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Brief Fact Summary. A cost-management expert for the Air Force was fired after he testified in front of Congress about cost overruns in certain military projects. The Defendant, the President of the United States Richard Nixon (Defendant), claimed that he made the firing decision.\nSynopsis of Rule of Law. The President of the United States (President) is shielded by absolute immunity from civil damages for acts done in his official capacity as President.\nIn varying scope, a qualified immunity is available to officers of the executive branch of government, the variation being dependent upon the scope of discretion and responsibilities of the office and all the circumstances as they reasonably appeared at the time of the action on which liability is sought to be based.View Full Point of Law\nIssue. Does the President have absolute immunity from suit for actions taken in his official capacity?\nHeld. Yes, the President is immune from suit from his official acts as a matter of public policy rooted in the structure of government mandated by the separation of power principle. This immunity stems from the President’s unique position in the constitution scheme and the immense importance of his duties. The Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court) is worried about diverting the President’s energies to the concerns related to private lawsuits.\nDissent. Justice Byron White (J. White) felt that this decision places the President above the law.\nDiscussion. The President must be empowered with the maximum ability to deal fearlessly and impartially with the duties of his office. If not, his visibility would subject him to numerous suits for civil damages. To keep the public safe, there is the constitutional remedy of impeachment, vigilant oversight by Congress and the press.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Arthritis signs and symptoms vary with individuals. Here we will emphasize on some of the major signs and symptoms of arthritis and joint pain problem.\n1. Pain is the first and foremost sign and symptom of arthritis. All arthritis patients suffer from excruciating joint pain. Pain due to arthritis is also termed as arthralgia. The word comes from Greek 'artho' meaning joint and 'algos' meaning pain. The root cause of the pain lies in the destructive and degenerative process involved in arthritis. In other words the cartilage degeneration and bone friction causes acute pain, as in case of osteoarthritis. Also inflammation of tissues around joints leads to pain as in the case of rheumatoid arthritis. Accumulation of fluids and uric acid crystals in between the joints also lead to pain.\n2. Swelling is another sign and symptom of arthritis. At times it is also the primary symptom of arthritis. Little amount of fluid is always present in our joints under normal conditions. In a joint attacked by arthritis, the amount of fluid increases to abnormal proportions making the joint look swollen. This excess fluid is discharged by the soft tissues lining the joint. The tissues come under the effect of arthritis and produce large amount of fluids.\n3. Stiffness or inflexibility at the joint is a symptom associated with swelling. Muscle tightness, inflammation of joint lining and calcification at the joints are triggering factors causing stiffness. In case of patients with much stiffness, the joints may become non-functional with time. Therefore stiffness if not checked may even lead to disability. The stiffness usually increases if the ailing joint is kept idle for a long time. Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by severe stiffness early in the morning just after waking up. The stiffness comes down gradually as one gets in to activities.\n4. Crepitus or a crunching or grating sound while moving an ailing joint is a common symptom of arthritis, noticeable in many. The word is derived from a Latin word meaning 'a rattle or crackling sound'. Crepitus is an indication of wearing out of cartilages in a joint. When crepitus occurs, along with the crunching sound, one feels some sensation in the affected joint. Crepitus is usually painless.\n5. Deformity at joint is another arthritis symptom. It is common in case of rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. Bony outgrowths, swan neck deformity or bending of finger base, boutonniere deformity or flexion of PIP joint in the finger are common types of deformities caused by rheumatoid arthritis. Basal joint deformity or thumb carpometacarpal hyperextension deformity causes the thumb to stretch out and bend backward. This type is seen in patients with osteoarthritis.\n6. Redness of skin around the affected joint is one sign and symptom. When some damage occurs at any part of the body, the immune system runs to destroy or eliminate the cause of damage. The same is true in case of joint damage as well. When the battle goes on, the result is redness in the external skin.\n7. Arthritis patients also suffer from constipation or colitis.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "AUTISM: Early diagnosis and treatment of autism, with Ami Klin\n- Tuesday, November 9th, 10:30 am\n- Ami Klin\nThe “holy grail” of autism research is to be able to diagnose it many months before its symptoms are clear, giving doctors time to change its course before it has seeped into and resculpted the brain of an affected child. Researchers disagree over whether this will ever be possible, but Klin has little doubt. “There is no question we will be able to attenuate autism,” he says. He is interested in the social mind — social cognition — and how it is disrupted in children with autism. One path toward possible early diagnosis of autism is to use eye-tracking studies to see and measure social engagement. How often, for example, does an infant look at the face of an interviewer? Some children have abnormalities in visual scanning in normal, social settings. Such studies could reveal vulnerabilities for autism in the first months of life, a year or two before the disease begins to become apparent. They might also help predict the degree of impairment and social disengagement that at-risk children can expect.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We trade one item for another because we believe the item we receive has more value than the item we give up. The value of something is not its price tag. Value is intrinsic, it is a personal opinion of the utility it brings us notwithstanding the amount of money it is worth. Consider this classic example, 1 coffee costs $2 and brings us satisfaction. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th coffee also cost $2 each, but bring us incrementally less satisfaction (who wants to drink 4 coffees in a row?). Theoretically, for trade to take place, the trading partners must intrinsically value the items differently, otherwise neither individual would experience an increase in value from the trade.\nValue is essentially the worth or usefulness of something. A market is a place where people meet to exchange on the basis of their beliefs of value. We exchange our money for an iPhone in the market of the Apple store. We exchange our time for money in the labour market (with the notable exclusion of unpaid internships). We exchange our money for food in the market of the grocery store. Importantly, we always tend towards exchanging up in value.\n“A sandwich is worth more to me than these 4 dollars. Hey Sandwich Dave (first name Sandwich, last name Dave) lets make a trade: My money for your food.” Both participants of a transaction value the same product differently, which allows the transaction to take place. I need food because I am hungry. Therefore, the food is more valuable to me than $4. For Sandwich Dave, $4 is more valuable to him than the sandwich (presumably because he has many more sandwiches).\nThe same product, but with different beliefs of value, led to a trade.\nThe same principal applies for financial markets. As an investor you might think of buying Apple stock. The reason you would buy the stock is that, relative to all other financial products you can buy, AAPL will give you the most value per dollar.\nThere are two reasons to undergo any barter transaction: reward and risk. Inherently, we are interested in maximizing reward and minimizing risk. Value is the combination of these two concepts. However, individual opinions of the optimal combination that results in maximum value differ. Certain investors value minimizing risk (risk-averse) over all else, others prioritize maximizing reward (risk-neutral). For someone to maximize their value extracted from a transaction, they demand the most reward for the level of risk they are willing to accept.\nRisk and reward are not just concepts for financial markets. Even when we eat our food, risk and reward are at play – our personal preferences dictate the combination of risk and reward we are willing to accept. Risk-averse eaters take small bites and check expiry dates to avoid risk of food poisoning and choking. Eaters who value reward highly may eat uncooked fish to experience the taste, without much regard for the risk of a potentially unpleasant evening thereafter.\nAn investor may buy Apple stock because he thinks that it is undervalued relative to what someone else will pay. This just means that he thinks someone else will want to buy it at a higher price; someone else values it more than he does. Buyers buy because they think they can sell higher. We go through transactions because we think we can gain value from them.\nGiven the choice to buy AAPL at $450 and then resell for 10 percent more, or buy GOOG at $500 and then resell for 8 percent more, the intelligent investor would go with Apple, Right? Not necessarily. This methodology considers only reward without regard for risk. If AAPL is more risky than GOOG, then the risk needs to be factored into the investment decision. Investors shouldn’t consider expected return in their decisions, they should refer to risk-adjusted expected return.\nFinancial markets are just like any market where transactions take place. They help people achieve higher value by trading the resources they have available for new resources. So readers, I want you to think about how you value items. The point at which one thing becomes more valuable to you than another is personal and subjective. At what price is money more valuable to you than time? At what point is happiness more valuable than money? And at what price is a sandwich more valuable to you than cash? Super Sandwich is starting to make a lot more sense, isn’t it?\nDisclaimer: I have no position in Super Sandwich and no plans to initiate any positions in the next 72 hours other than one in a line.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Fertile soils occur in valleys and plains, where silt and organic matter from eroded hills settle down. The idea behind using rock dust as a soil amendment derives from this observation.\nThe information provided here has been gathered from various sources. Not all of them have controlled studies or science backing them. Any users of rock dust as soil amendment, will have to do their own observations and testing to make sure it works for them.\nAgricultural soils have undergone heavy erosion from mechanised farming.\nPreviously most farm lands were small plots with bunds that kept rain water from flowing out. The bunds were themselves held together by the presence of grass, weeds and shrubs. These also helped in infiltration of water.\nIn some cases active erosion control measures were taken. One approach would be to create vetiver hedges on the bunds, or the borders of the farm. VETIVER GRASS A thin green line against erosion. The other is to plow on contour Contour Plowing, which makes the rain water stay in the furrows, so that it seeps in, or to create water harvesting swales, or use other Water harvesting techniques.\nThere is also no-till agriculture, where the land is not tilled. However the most common version of this practice depends on weed killers.\nUnfortunately many of these practices make it inconvenient to use machinery, and most farms have abandoned these traditional water conservation and soil preservation techniques. Erosion not only leaches the nutrients, but also destroys the structure of the soil, removing the fine silt, and leaving behind sandy, gravelly soil.\nIn villages soil from lakes and ponds was extracted and used in farms. This brought back some of the eroded soils. Organic fertilizers like animal manure, and organic matter, composted, or left to compost in the fields, also helped. Nitrogen fixing green manure crops are grown, and then plowed into the soil.\nChemical fertilizers are convenient, and quick acting. They however destroy microbial populations in the soil. Fungi, bacteria (especially nitrogen-fixing) help plants with mineral absorption from soil.\nAgricultural research with fine rock dust was started in the 19th century by Missoux (1853/54), Hensel (Bread from Stones, 1890, 1894) and others.  This is different from Von Liebig's salt fertilizer thesis, Law of Minimum, which states that plant growth is impacted by scarcest nutrient resource. Liebig went on identify the chemical elements nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) as major influencers of plant growth. Synthetic salts that provide these elements, were then used for agriculture.\nJulius Hensel's view was much broader, and he found that fertilizing with stone dust, found in primeval rocks, yield healthy, wholesome and life sustaining food from plants that were healthy and resistant to pests. Although plants take bulk of a plant's needs come from air, and water, the nutrients in rocks are indispensable for healthy crops.\nFertile valleys were usually created from silt carried down from mountains from glacial and water erosion. Trees up in the mountains, have been able to thrive in extremely rocky conditions, by using micro-organisms, bacteria and fungi, to extract minerals from rocks, and the thin layer of soil. Synthetic fertilizers may be a quick fix, but in the long run, a more complete and slow release nutrition from rock dust, was found by Hensel to be better.\nAgrogeology is broadly defined as 'geology in the service of agriculture', a study of geological processes that influence the distribution and formation of soils, and the application of geological materials in farming and forestry systems as means of maintaining and enhancing soil productivity for increased social, economic and environmental benefits (Chesworth and van Straaten 1993; van Straaten and Fernandes 1995). Once we understand the geological process that has created rich soils, we find that there is a reasonable justification in the belief that rock dust can remineralize soil.\nRock dust is most effective when mixed 50-50 with organic compost and a handful of soil to add some microorganisms. The microorganisms feed off the rock dust, taking only the nutrients they need while leaving the remainder in the sub-soil. The compost provides the medium for the microorganism growth. Optimally, the rock dust and compost mixture should be incorporated into the top few inches of soil if possible but may also be spread by broadcasting or spread by hand if you use a no-till method of gardening..\nSince micro-organisms have a role in making nutrients available to plants, use of synthetic fertilizers with rock dust, make not be effective. Panchagavya or Jiwamrita as recommended by Subhash Palekarji  can increase soil microbial activity.\nThe amount of rock dust required is something that has to be determined by testing. But there are likely to be no negative consequences in using rock dust.An application of 2 tons per acre is the minimum amount, and as much as 20 tons per acre for exceptionally poor, dry soil. Use about 7 kg of rock dust per 100 square feet of garden bed (or 2 kg per square yard)..\nGrowth of carrot with and without rock dust is compared here. A\npermaculture study found tree seedlings grew at five times the\nnormal rate in the nursery. .\nThis study also found\nQuarry dust improves water infiltration rates to the benefit of non-wetting soils.\nQuarry dust improves water retention in free draining soils.\nAdditional anecdotal evidence by Henry Homeyer is available here.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Rapeseed is one of the crops in demand in Kenya’s local markets. Agventure Limited, a conservation agriculture company is contracting farmers to grow Rapeseed also known as canola.\nCanola is a cool climate crop suitable for high altitude areas (1800 to 2400m) above sea level receiving an annual rainfall of 700mm per annum. It does well in optimal temperatures between 15 to 20 degrees Celsius in areas like Timau, Endebess, Mau Narok and central Kenya.\nThe crop thrives in drained sandy loamy soil/loam soils with a pH level of less than 5.0 to avoid phosphorus fixation. Heavy soils are prone to crusting which results in uneven germination.\nThe seed bed is prepared to a fairly level ground to a fine and firm structure to enable the crop to compete with the weeds.\nAt planting, the optimum seeding rate is at 5.5kg per acre with a depth of 1-2cm in the soil and spacing of 18cm by drill or by broadcasting.\nThe main nutrients supplied for the crop at planting are nitrogen and phosphorus. In this, first test the soil as fertilizer application will be based on the nutrient level. 100kg/ha of Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) is required at planting. A 50kg bag of DAP costs an average of Sh3,000.\nRapeseed provides an ideal environment for diseases and insect pests build up and as such it is rotated with cereal crops like maize, wheat and barley. Crop rotation improves soil fertility.\nThe crop’s yield ranges from 750 – 1500kgs/acre. Rapeseed plant matures within three months.\nThe seeds are harvested when they have a moisture content of about 35 per cent. At this stage, the seeds are firm.\nWinnowing is then done to remove unwanted materials. Dry the crop till it attains a moisture content of below 10 per cent to prevent losses.\nRapeseed is grown for its highly nutritious oil which produces omega 3, 6 and 9 fatty acids. Its cake is a by-product in livestock feeds formulation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Habermas’ conception of knowledge (positively) as constituted by cognitive interest is followed by his rejection of the mirror or copy theory of knowledge (negatively). Habermas rejects the mirror theory of truth because it is based on the naïve idea “that knowledge describes reality” (Knowledge & Human Interest, p. 69 (henceforthe referred to as KHI). The correspondence theory of truth is based on the same ‘objectivist illusion’ that is the basis of the representational theory of knowledge.\nIn KHI Habermas considered at least three promising theories but criticised all of them for ultimately succumbing to the objectivist illusion. I will briefly consider Habermas’ reasons for first praising these theories and then rejecting them as ultimately inadequate.\nHabermas observes that “Peirce” did not “succumb to the objectivist attitude of early positivism” (KHI: 91). The insight which helped Peirce save himself from the menace of positivism was “his understanding that the task of methodology is not to clarify the logical structure of scientific theories but the logic of the procedure with whose aid we obtain scientific theories” (ibid.). Concentration on the process of inquiry rather than its product enabled Peirce to arrive at his crucial insight that:\nWe term information scientific if and only if an uncompelled and permanent consensus can be obtained with regard to its validity. This consensus does not have to be definitive, but has to have definitive agreement as its goal. The genuine achievement of modern science does not consist primarily in producing true, that is correct and cogent statements about what we call reality. Rather, it distinguishes itself from traditional categories of knowledge by a method of arriving at an uncompelled and permanent consensus of this sort about our views .(ibid; emphasis added).\nRather than succumbing to the positivistic myth of science as the true mirror of reality, Peirce tried to turn the table on positivism by redefining the achievement of modern sciences not as the true mirror of reality but as emanating from the notion of inquiry whose telos was “uncompelled consensus”. Thus Peirce to that extent shifts the focus of truth (reconceptualises it) from ‘mirror’ of reality to consensus among free inquirers thus shifting away from correspondence theory of truth, which is the basis of the objectivist illusion.\nHowever, according to Habermas, Peirce does not go far enough to be able to overcome the correspondence theory of truth completely. He ultimately succumbs to the same objectivist illusion, which has been the hallmark of positivism. Peirce succumbs to the objectivist illusion despite his advancements because of his contradictory notion that the uncompelled consensus among inquirer aims at technical control, which is ultimately based on the instrumental notion of action. It is contradictory because;\nThe symbolic representation of matters of fact knowable from the transcendental perspective of possible technical control serves exclusively for the transformation of expression in process of reasoning. Deduction, induction, and abduction establish relations between statements that are in principle monologic. It is possible to think in syllogism, but not to conduct a dialogue in them. I can use syllogistic reasoning to yield arguments for a discussion, but I cannot argue syllogistically with another. Insofar as the employment of symbols is constitutive for the behavioural system of instrumental action, the use of language involved is monologic. But the communication of investigators requires the use of language that is not confined to limits of technical control over objectified natural process. It arises from symbolic interaction between societal subjects who reciprocally know and recognise each other as unmistakeable individuals. This communicative action is a system of reference that cannot be reduced to the framework of instrumental action (KHI: 137, italics in the original).\nBy reducing the telos of intersubjective inquiry to instrumental action, which according to Habermas is based on the notion of solitary subject, Peirce reaffirmed ontology with it’s accompanying objectivistic illusion and with it’s correspondence theory of truth (KHI: 131-132)* . It was essentially the notion of correspondence theory of truth that compelled Peirce to prioritise solitary subject constituted through the ‘transcendental perspective of technical control” (KHI: 137) which closely resembles the traditional line of a solitary subject engaged in the monologic pursuit for the ‘objective’ truth, over the ‘transcendental subject’ formed through the “communication of investigators” (ibid.). The dialogic model of communication was ultimately sublated since it did not suit the linear model of a solitary subject aiming at object, inherited in the correspondence theory of truth.\n* It has not been my aim here to attempt an exhaustive survey of Habermas’ assessment of Peirce. I have been only aiming at selectively surveying the central points that are related to our problematic here. For a fuller treatment cf. Swindal ((Reflection Revisited: Jurgen Habermas's Discursive Theory of Truth ). For criticism of Habermas’ reading of Peirce see Rockmore, 2002 in (Habermas and Pragmatism.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Date of Award\nDoctor of Philosophy\nJames S. Dickson\nE.coli Biotype I, Campylobacter jejuni, or Salmonella enterica were inoculated into the surface of fresh pork loins and moisture enhanced with brine. After moisture enhancement, each pork loin was sliced into 1cm thick slices. All slices were randomly vacuum packed, stored at 4yC and 10yC and finally prepared using grilling practices .Studies were conducted to evaluate the potential microbiological concern presented by moisture enhanced pork (1) translocation of bacteria from the surface into the interior of the meat (2) effects of moisture enhancement on survival of bacteria in meat during storage (3) impact of moisture enhancement on survival of food borne pathogens during cooking. Our results showed that inoculated bacteria were translocated from the surface into the deep tissues in the boneless pork following moisture enhancement and slicing. Vacuum packing under chilled conditions can prevent the growth of Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella enterica in enhanced pork. But it alone was not a substitute for safe handling and proper cooking because there were many numbers of Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella enterica in enhanced pork during storage. The USDA recommended 160 yF as the safe minimum internal temperature for intact pork maybe also adequate for assuring the microbiological safety of moisture enhanced pork that is prepared without excessive contamination of interior tissues. Results were generally agreed that Campylobacter jejuni has more fastidious growth requirements and are more sensitive to various environment stresses than Salmonella enterica, such as vacuum packing, high cooking temperature. Compared to intact pork, moisture enhanced pork does not present a greater risk to consumers than otherwise similar meat that is intact, provided that the meat is properly cooked.\nWen, Xuesong, \"Risk factors influencing the growth and survival of Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella enterica on moisture enhanced pork\" (2010). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 11867.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Speakers: Lisa Neeb and Kareem Benson-White\nMany schools located in urban districts are surrounded by hardscapes, installed decades ago in effort to reduce overall maintenance costs. Now with a focus on sustainability and outdoor education, many Milwaukee-area schools are joining the Greener, Healthier Schools movement to bring back more natural landscapes that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. Join us for a presentation focused on sharing the story, process, and impacts of undergoing a transformative urban schoolyard redevelopment project where seas of asphalt are removed and replaced with green infrastructure, native plantings, and outdoor classrooms. We will share reflections, lessons-learned, and how schools are promoting social-emotional well-being, ecoliteracy, and stewardship utilizing their inspiring, redeveloped schoolyards.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "42. Advocacy Evaluation Case Study\nDescription and Purpose:\nThis tool is an example of an advocacy evaluation case study.\nAnalyze and write up an advocacy case study, using the following questions as a guide to structure.\nThe case study should take three to five minutes to explain.\n- What was the problem?\n- Who decided to advocate on the problem (i.e. brief details of the NGOs/AW organizations involved)?\n- What was the advocacy objective?\n- Who did you advocate to?\n- What methods did you use?\n- What difficulties did you face?\n- How did you overcome any difficulties?\n- What were the results of your advocacy?\n- What factors (or activities) contributed to these results?\n- 1If appropriate: where did you obtain the evidence or information that was used?\n- 1What sources of assistance/support did you find most helpful?\n- What did you learn from doing this advocacy?\n- Why do you think this is an important example?\n- What do you think your organization could learn from this example?\nUse photos, drawings or other ‘visuals’ to provide a human/animal angle to your information. Are the people and organizations featured in your case study aware of how it might be used, and what the consequences might be?\nConsider including the following:\n- Content & Process\n- Description of change – initial situation; what has changed; how it happened\n- Explanation for choice – who was involved; why this change is meaningful/relevant\n- Lessons/recommendations – what this change tells us\n- Selected by participants as part of review process\n- Reasons for choice and lessons/recommendations for follow-up discussed as part of selection process", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Teach your students about the phases of the moon with this awesome Solar System snacking activity.\nI created this lesson plan as an alternative to the Oreo™ phases of the moon activity that we think is so clever. This science snack is a healthier alternative and will satisfy hungry students without the sugar rush.\n- Ritz™ Crackers\n- American cheese slices\n- 1.5 inch round “cookie” cutter\n- Phases of the moon chart\n- Phases of the Moon worksheet\n- Waxed paper\n- Plastic knives\n- Give each child a copy of the phases of the moon chart. Go over the different phases, and consider using our Educator How-To: We’ll See You on the Dark (and Light and Far) Side of the Moon to demonstrate the phases in an active, hands-on fashion.\n2. Distribute one slice of American cheese to each student.\n3. Instruct students to carefully use the circular cutter to cut four circles from the cheese. With careful placement, one slice of cheese will be sufficient.\n4. Using a plastic knife, students will then cut one circle of cheese in half.\n5. The second circle will be cut using the circular “cookie” cutter. Place the cutter carefully on the circle of cheese so that a crescent-shaped piece of cheese is cut from one side.\n6. The same procedure should be used to cut an additional crescent-shaped piece from the third circle of cheese.\n7. The fourth circle will remain whole.\n8. Now you are ready to go! Distribute the Phases of the Moon worksheets and have students place a Ritz™ cracker on each “moon”.\n9. Students will now arrange the cheese on the crackers to reflect each phase of the moon.\n10. When finished, students may eat the tasty moon snack!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Trunska was a cool and rocky planet with a thin atmosphere and many rivers. The Trunsks evolved there and spread out along Trunska's large network of waterways. The Trunsks eventually developed agriculture and formed cities, which grew into city states and eventually competing empires. Tyl the Deplorable finally conquered the entire world during its Information Age. His reforms led the Trunsks to new heights of technological advancement, and the species soon spread beyond their homeworld and joined the Galactic Republic.\nDuring the reign of Palpatine, Trunska came under the domain of the Empire. The Trunsks were designated a slave species. The planetary emperor, Belgoa, publicly decried the enslavement but secretly cooperated with the Imperials as long as he had final approval over who could stay or go. The Trunskan emperors were served by a large Trunskan police force.\nTrunska enjoyed brisk trade with other worlds. However, in the Imperial era, the sale of weapons was strictly forbidden there.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "(Matsuyama Castle General Office)\nMatsuyama Castle is one of few castles with a surviving donjon that was built prior to the Edo period.\nMatsuyama is the largest city in Shikoku. The city has flourished as a castle town centered on Matsuyama Castle, which was built about 400 years ago. Tourist spots include Dogo Onsen, one of the three oldest hot springs in Japan, and locations linked to poets famous for writing haiku, one of Japan's traditional cultures. In recent years, cultural facilities have been set up in urban areas to ensure that this culture is passed down to future generations.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What do you know about the Horseshoe Crab who are not crabs actually?\nWhen you look at them, their shape is that of a horseshoe. They don’t belong to the species of crabs, but spiders, scorpions and ticks. Their main diet consists of worms. In fact, the marine animals can walk as well inside the water.\nHorseshoe crabs are marine animals. It is a living fossil means similar or almost identical species were present 400 million years ago. Horseshoe crabs are not crabs, but they are related to arachnids such as spiders, scorpions and ticks. The horse crab also known as king crab and this species is declared as threatened and endangered.\nHorseshoe crabs are a strange and unique type of water animal which have three main parts of the body, such as the head region, the abdominal region and the spine like tail. The color of horseshoe crabs is greenish gray to dark brown.\nThe horseshoe crab is a quiet and calm nature of water animal. They mostly spend time searching for their food in the water. They move, walk and swim under the water to eat.\nThe horseshoe crabs are mostly spread along the east coast of North America from Maine through south Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the Yucatan Peninsula.\nThe main food of their diet is worms and molluscs. They search their food on the ocean floor and sometimes also eat crustaceans and even small fish.\nDuring the breeding season, they come to shallow coastal water’s shore to mate. The female horseshoe crabs are much larger than males. A male selects a female and clings to her back. The female digs a hole in the sand and lays her eggs. The female can lay 60,000 and 120,000 eggs at a time. The eggs take about two weeks to hatch and male fertilizes them.\n383 Total Animals,Do a search of animals and animal species, to learn more about animals\nPogona Pogonas are small and friendly lizards that have become popular as pets in the past decade. It is currently one of the most familiar species in the Pogonas team. Pogona vitticeps is the preferred species in most countries as pets. Pogona lives in the desert areas of the Australian continent. These animals are a\nHusky Husky dogs are among the most preferred dogs in the world with their impressive eye colors. Siberian husky have a docile structure behind their wild images. Husky is a dog breed that has been used for centuries in tasks like sled pulling, watchdog and reindeer shepherd. The most important feature of these dogs is\nLabrador Labrador’s real name is Labrador retriever. Labrador is known as the most popular dog in America. The Labrador breed has a very cute appearance and a wonderful character. Besides being raised as a pet animal, it also helps people in many jobs. Labrador retriever is also bred as a disabled dog, therapy dog, search", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus)\nThe taxonomic Order Lagomorpha comprises the hares, rabbits and pikas. The Brown Hare (L. europaeus) is the largest of the British lagomorphs. Since there is no evidence of their presence in Britain before Roman times, it was probably introduced by man. They are widespread on low ground throughout England and Wales. In Scotland, L. europaeus is found on farmland and rough grazing to the far north of the mainland, but is absent from parts of the North West. L. europaeus is replaced by the Mountain Hare, L. timidus, in upland areas of Scotland and central England.\nBrown hares generally live in exposed habitats, and they rely on their acute senses and running at speeds of up to 70kph (45mph) to evade predation. Hares do not use burrows, but make a small depression in the ground, known as a form, amongst long grass. They spend most of the day on or near the form, typically moving out to feed in the open at night. Tender grass shoots, including cereal crops, are their main foods. Though generally solitary, hares sometimes band into loose groups when feeding.\nBreeding takes place between February and September and a female can rear three or four litters a year, each of two to four young. The young, known as leverets, are born fully furred with their eyes open and are left by the female in forms a few metres from their birthplace. Once a day for the first four weeks of their lives, the leverets gather at sunset to be fed by the female, but otherwise they receive no parental care. This avoids attracting predators to the young at a stage when they are most vulnerable. Foxes are important predators of young hares and where foxes are common there are likely to be very few hares. Adults typically live to 3 or 4 years.\nNumbers of hares have declined substantially since the beginning of this century, though they are still locally common animals in many parts of the country. The main reason for this decline seems to be a change in the way modern agriculture is managed. Today's farms are often intensive and specialised, either growing crops like wheat and oilseed rape, or raising livestock for meat and dairy produce. A hundred years ago most farms were varied enterprises. Mixed farms have a patchwork quilt of fields, which provide year-round grazing for hares as well as long crops for them to hide in. Modern cereal farms provide little or no food for hares in late summer and autumn, and livestock farms have few crops for them to shelter. Modern farm machinery and pesticides also kill many hares.\nBjärvall, A. and Ullström, S., 1986. The Mammals of Britain and Europe. Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm Ltd., pp. 60-62.\nCorbet, G. B. and Harris, S., (eds.) 1991. The Handbook of British Mammals (3rd Edition). Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, pp. 154-161.\nThe Mammal Society (2014). Species fact sheet: Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus). Downloaded from www.mammal.org.uk on 1st May 2014.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "2) As a trainer, you will be developing a training session on cultural diversity. What assessment method might you use to evaluate the learners? What steps will you take to maintain the ethical quality of your assessment?\n1) Oral tests overall are a good method for gathering data from learners/employees because, in this form, employees and students have to answer the questions in such a way that they demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the subject in order to satisfy the requirements of the job interview, exam, or assessment (Wise Geek). It is also a way for the examiner to study the employee or student's body language to see if there is anything peculiar about it. In my opinion, it is virtually impossible for an employee or a student to cheat on an oral test, which makes the data gathering accurate, reliable, and credible.\nOral assessments or exams are given in a variety of different situations, including a job interview, showing how well a student or employee has ...\nThis solution discusses oral assessments or exams and evaluating culturally diverse learners in 442 words with three references.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I have been asked by several different people with very diverse backgrounds as to why we HOUSE chickens. People have a Disney moment every time they see a big fluffy chicken scratching around in a dusty yard, or looking ridiculous eating grass in a beautiful sunny field. These idyllic images should be the goal of “farming” everywhere, and folks wonder why on earth this doesn’t happen.\nHere, in Ontario, Canada, the most obvious reason is just making its reluctant disappearance. Winter and chickens are not the best of friends. Red Jungle Fowl, the predecessors of all laying hens, evolved as (spoiler alert: check out the name) JUNGLE fowl. Not especially tailored to cold weather. Although some breeds have been developed in the northern climates (like Rhode Island Reds, Couchons and Buff Orpingtons, to name a few), they lay far fewer eggs than the modern crosses we use now on commercial farms. Hens cannot handle cold weather well if they are selected for egg production.\nAgain, the pressures facing professional farmers is different than backyard chicken keepers. If you have 5 hens, and are used to getting 4 or 5 eggs per day, and get 3 or 4 per day in winter, you will say that they never miss a beat. This is a 20% decrease in production, and will destroy a commercial flock…..if you have 20,000 hens, you would be collecting 4,000 eggs less PER DAY. Either we would have egg shortages in the winter, (if we kept the same number of hens we have now), or a glut in the summer (if we had enough hens to supply enough eggs in the winter).\nThere are other reasons why chickens need shelter. They like it. Chickens are the ultimate prey animal….they have no weapons, they don’t have great camouflage, they are tasty and low in fat (important for predators who are watching their\nwaistlines). Chickens are NOT adventurous, brave or tough….they are, in a word, chicken. It keeps them alive. They have great vision, communicate predator presence very well, are flighty and nervous and very efficiently look for a reason to freak out. Having an enclosed shelter gives them a strong sense of security, especially if it protects them from predators from above. There have been research trials that marked hens with radio-collars that showed that hens given the choice to free-range outside of the barn actually choose not to. Over half the birds is some trials NEVER leave the security of the barn, and many of them spend a lot of time in the doorway….protected, but able to look out. Hens also have a serious aversion to wind, and really don’t like to go outside on windy days.\nHens seem exceptionally sensitive to flying threats, and really appreciate overhead protection. Some of the same studies have shown that range use increases if there is overhead shelter provided. Of course, putting a roof over the range makes it much less Disney-esque, and it is not difficult to imaging this roofed structure eventually gaining some type of walls to keep the rain and wind out….oops, now it’s a barn again.\nSpeaking of rain….it is another major drawback to range hens. Wet environments are incredible breeding grounds for bacteria, fungi and viruses that can devastate the health of a flock. Again….backyard flocks can work to keep\na range dry…shifting the area hens have access to, or shovel away the dirty, manure filled mud and replace it with dry, clean fill. Imagine trying to manage the range for a flock of 20,000 birds (I keep using 20,000 birds, since this is the average flock size in Ontario….it is a very small flock size compared to many places). Recommended range availability for laying hens is around 4 square meters per hen (right now, Canada has no explicit range size recommendations, but this number applies to other jurisdictions). For my hypothetical flock, we need 80,000 square meters of land to manage. This is 15 soccer fields to drain, clean, manage and keep attractive to the hens. It isn’t so much that it can’t be done, but it is very complicated and labour intensive.\nAnother thing that is controlled well indoors is light. Ever since pressure on laying hen farmers in the EU forced hens to be housed with outdoor access, mortality and welfare problems due to pecking and cannibalism has been one of the biggest obstacles facing the farmers and birds. In small groups (ie less than about 25), hens develop a solid “pecking order” that is mostly maintained by postures, feints and threats. In larger groups, dominance pressures more often result in physical attacks and then wounds. The other difficulty caused by daylight is the stimulation to keep birds laying throughout the fall and winter months. Chickens are encouraged to lay by increasing day length, and decreasing day length will push hens out of lay. Because our latitude causes maximum day lengths of over 15 and a half hours, it is necessary to keep the barn lights on for at least 16 hours per day. The further north you go, the longer the longest day is.\nFinally, we keep hens indoors to protect them from predators. I’ve discussed problems of predation with many small farmers and backyard keepers. Predation is a very difficult problem….owls, hawks, and eagles from the sky; cats,\ndogs, foxes, raccoons, weasels, snakes and even bears from the ground. Latches get undone, fences get burrowed under, and the assault on all the supports, wires and nettings means that there needs to be constant repair. Remember….on a professional farm of 20,000 hens, we are surrounding and covering 15 soccer fields of area. And once a predator finds access to such an easy, tasty meal, they will not leave it or forget it….in fact, in the case of birds, they often recruit friends to help with the harvest.\nSo, in summary, hens are indoors to decrease disease and discomfort from environmental stresses, reduce injuries from each other and external predators, improve the control of the environment in terms of light intensity and day length. There are other reasons, such as practicality of providing feed and water when the hens are outside, disease transmission from wild animals (Avian Influenza is a big one), and problems caused by foraging (impacted crops, nutrition dilution because of high levels of fiber intake, etc).\nI hope this gives non-farmers an insight as to why range hens are a niche market, supplied by farmers who command a significant premium for their product and usually have small farms. Shifting the majority of the professional farms to this strategy of production would be very difficult, and would lead to a lot of problems for the hens as the industry adapted.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Washington D.C., especially the \"Capital and Mall\" area, is of the most beautiful city spots on earth. But it was once a swamp, and later a housing slum, filled with disease and poverty. It is beautiful, because men of vision made it so.\nHave you ever considered the symmetry, the elegant balance, and the marvelous artwork and architecture of the city? When Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and a host of others decided to make D.C. a city of \"light\" to show the way of a new democracy to the world. They set out to make this an example to all that came to America.\nTHIS IS THE LANTERN AT THE UNIVERSITY CLUB NORTH OF THE WHITE HOUSE\nThis was to be a new nation in many ways, they did so with intellect and with skills that made them uniquely qualified. All three of them were Renaissance men, they were multifaceted, students of multiple disciplines, and had by education, vocation, and affiliation, become \"Masters\" of vision and design. They had studied the ancient arts, history, literature. Jefferson's library was considered the finest library in the world, and later became the foundation for the Library of Congress. Ben Franklin was a Renaissance man, a genius of science, literature, and practical \"public project\" development. George Washington made his reputation as an outstanding surveyor long before he was known as a soldier, or politician. He had studied the land, the stars, and also the \"mysteries\" of ancient cultures.\nThey noticed that the most ancient and notable cities on earth, were designed with care, and in balance with nature and with the heavens. So, Washington D.C.'s grid was designed in alignment with appearances of specific stars, that had historical importance. One of those stars was the representation of Isis. Isis the first and foremost of the ancient Egyptian Goddesses once said: \"I am the beginning and I am now, and eternal with no end. All that was, is and will be, is me.\" She also made a statement that was repeated by the Zoroastrians, Hebrews and Christians. \"I am the light of the world.\"\nIsis and her partner Osiris, loved each other. Evil forces killed Osiris, cut his body up, and threw it in the Nile River. Isis, in grief, walked along the Nile, holding a torch high with her outreached arm, to \"light the way\" and find her lover's body parts, reassembled them, and helped Osiris to be born again. He arose from the dead. They were considered victorious \"over the darkness\", and Isis became the Goddess of love, power, protection, redemption, and declared that she would give the earth knowledge, history, science, agriculture, and architecture. She was later called Athena, in Greece, the Goddess of protection and enlightenment, where her statue was so frightening to ships coming in, thatenemies of Greece were said to have their \"spears shake\" with fear. This became a nickname for Athena, the \"Shakespeare\". She was adopted by the Romans, and they called her \"Minerva\". Minerva, of peace, love, war, but most of all, enlightenment. Many historians and religious scholars believe that Isis became the archetype for many religions over the centuries, including Christianity. Certainly, the Egyptians taught many \"mysteries\" that have been sought and passed on by word of mouth, to an elite few people, even to this day.\nWashington D.C. has more statues of Minerva, than any city on earth. This iis not by accident.\nOur forefathers had a thing for Isis. They wanted a longer and deeper historical setting, to bless the United States. Something more ancient and classical and free of dogmas that caused conflict. Isis was also called \"Liberty\" in Rome as well as France. You don't see statues of Allah, or Moses, or Jesus atop the buildings in Washington. You see Minerva, Neptune, Hercules, images all representing classic enlightenment, and avoiding \"Dogma\". The statue that we call \"Liberty\" or \"Freedom\" atop the capital dome, is Minerva, or Athena, or Isis. She even has an Egyptian symbols on her. She blesses the Library of Congress, Supreme Court, and a host of other buildings. You see Jefferson wanted the U.S. to have a stress on enlightenment. He sought what he called aThesaurus, the ancient root word meaning \"treasure\". So the Library of Congress, a \"treasure\" of books was built on a hill slightly above the Capital building, to encourage enlightenment. The \"flame of liberty\" on so many pieces of American art, comes from the Zoroastrians, and before them Isis.\nIndeed, the Washington monument is a replica of design that symbolizes bringing in \"Rah\" the god of light. (Sun Ray). Enlightenment. The grid and design of the streets in DCis of interest. A straight line from the Capital dome to the Washington monument, if extended hits the Lincoln Memorial, and if extended further goes right to the Washington Temple Monument in Virginia, and if extended further, goes directly to the Masonic Temple in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Another street, Pennsylvania Avenue, goes to the White House. From the Lincoln Memorial, draw a line to the White House, and extend it up 16Th and it goes right over the University Club, a private club and meeting place that was founded by a Mason. Howard Taft, Mason, was it's first President. The front of the University Club has \"lanterns\" to light the way. Extend the line further and you hit the \"House of the Temple\" considered one of the outstanding structures in the USA, and houses high level meetings of the Scottish Rite. Extend the line further and you hit another \"Masonic Lodge\". Astronomists tell us that some of the streets of DC, particularly Pennsylvania Avenue, line up with stars on days that the star representing \"Isis\" is in allignment with the Capital Dome, making a perfect triangle of stars. On certain days, special stars line up with the Capital and the Lincoln Memorial.\nIn 1783, the cornerstone of the U.S. Capital was laid in Masonic ceremony by George Washington, and the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, indeed nearly all of the public buildings of D.C. were done by the Masons.\nThe images, art and design of Washington D.C. spread out to our currency, with the \"Eye\" of Isis, from Egypt on our dollar bills, that was approved by Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, and later Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt (all Masons). Indeed, tolerance and acceptance of individual freedom of religion, freedom of the press, moral and ethical values in dealing with one's fellow man, all are part of Freemasonry.\nFrederic Bartholdi built and designed the Statue of Liberty, and it was unveiled in 1886 with a Masonic ceremony. Named \"Liberty\" by the American press, the statue is the image of \"Isis\". The concept was to encourage \"Enlightenment\" as she held high the flame of light. The press called it the \"flame of liberty\". The costs of building the tower base were so high that the Freemasons of France and of the USA started a fund raising campaign that eventually paid for the statue the base and it's erection. Gustave Eiffel designed and engineered the support structure for the statue using 4 steel girders. Eiffel and Bartholdi, were both Masons.\nBartholdi, worked in Paris. The name \"Paris\" originates from \"Par-Isis\" (the Grove of Isis). There was a temple of Isis in Pares prior to 542 AD (now there is the city's' oldest church, St. Germain-des-Prs). There is a black statue of a woman there, now called \"Virgin Mary\". But prior to 1514 she was called the goddess Isis. The Black Madonnas all over Europe, were originally Isis statues. The \"Black Virgin\" of the renown Notre Dame du Puy, is really a statue of Isis. Isis was the foremost \"Goddess of Egypt\" for over 3,000 years. Her story is simple, love abounds, the hero is killed by evil people, the hero is resurrected and becomes a \"king\",a and the father all all Pharaohs to follow. The 7 sun ray spikes are from the Sun God Helios, representing the 7 seas, and 7 continents over which the sun ruled.\nIndeed there are monuments and treasures throughout the United States that are there because of Freemasons. Our nation has enjoyed and benefited so much from this fraternaty that simply wants to help men become more enlightened and better men.\nSee this video with \"on hand, up close and personal\" interviews with experts on some of the Masonic landmarks of U.S., particularly Washington", "label": "No"}
{"text": "One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.\n1Of or like earth; earthy.‘terrene dust’\nterrestrial, telluric, tellurianView synonyms\n- ‘Mark while I build from out this terrene dust, a structure that shall witness and withstand Time's ravages and rust.’\n- 1.1 Occurring on or inhabiting dry land.‘a terrene vertebrate’\n- ‘She does not speak as do elves, men, dwarves, and other mortal terrene creatures.’\n- ‘The initially created ‘globe of terrene and aqueous particles, mingled in confusion and commotion’ would naturally, under the laws of gravity, instantly begin to precipitate strata on the universal ocean bottom.’\n- ‘Myers believed that telepathy and telaesthesia ‘cannot have been acquired by natural selection, for the preservation of the race, during the process or terrene evolution’.’\n- ‘But if the doctrine of the human form brings unity to our conceptions of mankind, and sees the terrene man as a globe of societies and churches, its effects upon moral philosophy are not less important, for it embraces kindreds and tongues in one fraternal whole.’\n- 1.2 Of the world; secular rather than spiritual.\nearthly, terrestrial, temporal, mundane, mortal, human, non-spiritual, unspiritual, material, materialistic, physical, tangible, carnal, fleshly, bodily, corporeal, gross, sensual, base, sordid, vile, profaneView synonyms\n- ‘And the vagueness was because that principle of my terrene nature which was the seat of earthly sensing, and of memories of things perceived, was left with the body.’\n- ‘He declares the philosophy of the Grecians, or the ethnick philosophy, to be based only on the second, and to be terrene, animal, and diabolical, not being founded on the deific corner-stone, namely, Jesus Christ, who is the essential substance and foundation of the true science.’\nMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin terrenus, from terra ‘earth’.\nTop tips for CV writingRead more\nIn this article we explore how to impress employers with a spot-on CV.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The command module (CM) would now be required to provide the crew with a one-day habitable environment and a survival environment for one week after touching down on land or water. In case of a landing at sea, the CM should be able to recover from any attitude and float upright with egress hatches free of water. Additional Details: here....\nThe mission constraints to be used for this study were :\nFour days earlier, MSC had added specifications for an extravehicular suit communications and telemetry (EVSCT) system to the space suit contract with Hamilton Standard Division of United Aircraft Corporation. The EVSCT system included equipment for three major operations:\nCapability of the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN) to provide data for rendezvous was studied. Aaron Cohen of ASPO stated sufficient data could be collected, processed, and transmitted via MSFN to the LEM to achieve rendezvous. Dr. F. O. Vonbun of Goddard showed that MSFN data did little to improve data already available in the LEM before launch. Although five tracking stations would communicate with the LEM during ascent and the first 10 minutes of orbit, there would be only a slight improvement in spacecraft position and motion data over the data already contained in the LEM computer. No decision was made concerning the MSFN's capability.\nAlternate rendezvous methods were discussed.\nRobert C. Duncan, chief of the MSC Guidance and Control Division, presented his section's recommendations for solving these problems, which ultimately won ASPO's concurrence. Precise spacecraft body rates, Duncan said, should be maintained by the stabilization and control system. The position of the S-band antenna should be telemetered to the ground, where the angle required for reacquisition would be computed. The antenna would then be repositioned by commands sent through the updata link.\nCharles A. Bassett - operations handbooks, training, and simulators\nAlan L. Bean - recovery systems\nMichael Collins - pressure suits and extravehicular activity\nDavid R. Scott - mission planning and guidance and navigation\nClifton C. Williams - range operations, deep space instrumentation, and crew safety.\nDonn F. Eisele - CSM and LEM\nWilliam A. Anders - environmental control system and radiation and thermal systems\nEugene A. Cernan - boosters, spacecraft propulsion, and the Agena stage\nRoger B. Chaffee - communications, flight controls, and docking\nR. Walter Cunningham - electrical and sequential systems and non-flight experiments\nRussell L. Schweickart - in-flight experiments and future programs.\nBut at this smaller angle, the panels now blocked the CM's four flush- mounted omnidirectional antennas, used during near-earth phases of the mission. While turning around and docking, the astronauts thus had to communicate with the ground via the steerable high gain antenna. For Block II spacecraft, therefore, MSC concurrently ordered North American to broaden the S-band equipment's capability to permit it to operate within 4,630 km (2,500 nm) of earth.\nIt was found that no appreciable weight saving or weight penalty would result from an all USB system in the Apollo spacecraft. Also, it was determined there would be no significant advantage or disadvantage in using the system. It was noted, however, that implementation of an all S-band system at that stage of development of the design of the CSM, LEM, and astronaut equipment would incur an obvious cost and schedule penalty.\nMemorandum, Phillips to Mueller, \"Use of Only Unified S-Band Communication Equipment in Apollo Spacecraft,\" May 5, 1965.\nAfter lengthy investigations of cost and schedule impacts, MSC directed North American to incorporate airlocks on CMs 008 and 014, 101 through 112, and 2H-1 and 2TV-1. The device would enable astronauts to conduct experiments in space without having to leave their vehicle. Initially, the standard hatches and those with airlocks were to be interchangeable on Block II spacecraft. During October, however, this concept was changed: the standard outer hatch would be structured to permit incorporation of an airlock through the use of a conversion kit (included as part of the airlock assembly); and when an airlock was installed, an interchangeable inner hatch would replace the standard one.\nThe first three LEMs (LEM-1, LEM-2, and LEM-3) would be equipped with communications equipment in addition to that required in the LEM for lunar missions to provide:\nAlso, IESD attended a preliminary design review at Autonetics on the signal conditioning equipment (SCE) for the Block II CSM. IESD concurred in several modifications to the Block I design (adding a redundant power supply; hermetic sealing of equipment; and repackaging to fit the equipment bay in Block II CMs). These changes reduced the SCE's weight from 22 to 19 kg (47.5 to 41 lbs) and, because of more efficient power supply, lowered its power consumption from 65 to 35 watts. North American was studying ways of perhaps lightening the SCE even further.\nHe suggested that if an SPS failed the service module be jettisoned for a time-critical abort and both LEM propulsion systems be used for earth return, reducing the total time to return by approximately 60 hours. As an example, if the time of abort was 10 hours after translunar injection, he said, this method would require about 36 hours; if the SM were retained the return time would require about 96 hours.\nHe added that the LEM/CM-only configuration should be studied for any constraints that would preclude initiating this kind of time-critical abort. Some of the factors to be considered should be:\nLunar Module Significant Weight Changes Lunar module injected weight status March 1, 1967 (ascent and descent less propellant) - 4039.6 kg\nLunar module injected weight status September 22, 1967 - 4270.0 kg\nCommand Module Significant Weight Changes Command module injected weight status March 1, 1967 - 5246.7 kg\nCommand module injected weight status September 22, 1967 - 5679.8 kg", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Acupuncture as a method of treatment of mans' illnesses is know to have its origin amongst the ancient Chinese possibly as long ago as 4,500 years - before recorded history. Early evidence of this development of acupuncture consists of diagrams of human and animal bodies with acupuncture points identified and ancient implements used in its application.\nThe Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is often cited as the definitive history of acupuncture but was probably a compilation of observations and documents over centuries. It is thought to have been written between 300 - 400 BC. Primitive forms of acupuncture started when people began using small sharp stones to pierce or press the skin. Bone needles replaced this and when metals were discovered, gold and silver were used.\nMany myths have survived to partly explain some of the observations as the secrets of acupuncture have been slowly unravelled", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99...\nI. As an argument or reasoning process: that kind of mediate inference by which from truths already known we advance to a knowledge of other truths necessarily implied in the former; the mental product or result of that process.\nII. As a method: the deductive method, by which we increase our knowledge through a series of such inferences.\nThe typical expression of deductive inference is the syllogism. The essential feature of deduction is the necessary character of the connexion between the antecedent or premises and the consequent or conclusion. Granted the truth of the antecedent judgments, the consequent must follow; and the firmness of our assent to the latter is conditioned by that of our assent to the former. The antecedent contains the ground or reason which is the motive of our assent to the consequent; the latter, therefore, cannot have greater firmness or certainty than the former. This relation of necessary sequence constitutes the formal aspect of deduction. It can be realized most clearly when the argument is expressed symbolically, either in the hypothetical form:\nor in the categorical form,\nThe material aspect of the deductive argument is the truth or falsity of the judgments which constitute it. If these be certain and evident the deduction is called demonstration, the Aristotelian apodeixis. Since the conclusion is necessarily implied in the premises, these must contain some abstract, general principle, of which the conclusion is a special application; otherwise the conclusion could not be necessarily derived from them; and all mediate inferences must be deductive, at least in this sense, that they involve the recognition of some universal truth and do not proceed directly from particular to particular without the intervention of the universal.\nWhen, starting from general principles, we advance by a series of deductive steps to the discovery and proof of new truths, we employ the deductive or synthetic method. But how do we become certain of those principles which form our starting-points?\nThis ascent from the particular to the general is called induction, or the inductive or analytic method. Comparatively little attention was paid to this method during the Middle Ages. Apparatus for the accurate observation and exact measurement of natural phenomena was needed to give the first real impetus to the cultivation of the physical, natural, or inductive sciences. In these departments of research the mind approaches reality from the side of the concrete and particular and ascends to the abstract and general, while in deduction it descends from the general to the particular. But although the mind moves in opposite directions in both methods, nevertheless the reasoning or inference proper, employed in induction, is in no sense different from deductive reasoning, for it too implies and is based on abstract, necessary truths.\nAPA citation. (1908). Deduction. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04674a.htm\nMLA citation. \"Deduction.\" The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04674a.htm>.\nTranscription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Rick McCarty.\nEcclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.\nContact information. The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. My email address is webmaster at newadvent.org. Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback — especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tomatoe, or Love-apple Catsup—James Mease, 1812:\n“SLICE the apples thin, and over every layer sprinkle a little salt; cover them, and let them lie twenty-four hours; then beat them well; and simmer them half an hour in a bell-metal kettle; add mace and allspice. When cold, add two cloves of raw shallots cut small, and half a gill of brandy to each bottle, which must be corked tight, and kept in a cool place.”\nBefore the advent of paper advertising, information dissemination came largely from word-of-mouth and lived experience. James Mease, a scientist in Philadelphia, published the first American tomato ketchup recipe in 1812, but ketchup’s lineage can be traced back across the Atlantic (Smith, 19). Similar to the origins of spaghetti and tomatoes, what we know as ketchup today had its roots not with Europeans, but with their Asian neighbors (19). The first documented recipes found in Europe for the ancestors of today’s ketchup are known to be in British cookbooks and documents from 1727 and the early 18th century, but “British explorers first encountered it in Southeast Asia (12).” Explorers to the East found a tangy sauce made out of brine and various foods, which parallel later descriptions of English forms of ketchup. (Smith)\nVery different from the ketchup we know today, early forms of English ketchup came in three main forms: “mushroom, fish, and walnut (17).” Originating as part of the brining tradition of food preservation, using salt and other substances in a pre-refrigeration age, early ketchup is said to be similar to the garum, “a popular, fermented fish sauce consumed in ancient Greece and Rome (7).” Colonists in America predictably used predominantly British cooking techniques and recipes, so ketchup, too, made the trip across the Atlantic in the 18th century. In fact, ketchup was just as popular in North America as it was in Britain, if surviving recipes reveal anything. Just one instance of many found in early American documents, “In a Charleston, South Carolina, cookery manuscript dating to 1770, Harriot Pinckney Horry recorded a mushroom ketchup which was clarified with the whites of two eggs (17).” Even after the American Revolution, 18th century American cooks still relied heavily upon British recipes and cookbooks, and British cookbooks continued to be published in the colonies. (18) As the 18th and 19th centuries went on, ketchup, and particularly tomato ketchup, became ever more popular in the young nation, largely due to the efforts of those like Dr. John Cook Bennett and Archibald Miles, plying the consumerist depths of the 1830s American consciousness. (Smith)\n- Smith, Andrew F. The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina, 1994. Print.\n- Mease recipe: From James Mease, Archives of Useful Knowledge; a Work Devoted to Commerce, Manufactures, Rural and Domestic Economy, Agriculture and the Useful Arts. 2 vols. Philadelphia: David Hogan, 1812. Vol. 2, 306.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Balance is Crucial\nIf you push, then pull. If you pull, then push, in equal amounts. If you run, lift weights. If you lift weights, stretch too. If you stretch and do yoga frequently, lift weights. If you work hard, take time to rest and have fun.\nBalance yourself left and right, front and back, up and down, and inside and out. The principle of balance is crucial when it comes to:\n* Preventing Injuries\n* Ensuring Proper Posture\n* Improving Athletic Performance\n* Preventing \"Energy Leaks\" from inefficient movement patterns\n* Digestion, Immunity, and Pain Relief\nEverything you do should encompass a sense of balance, particularly when it comes to training. For example, most of us sit, work on computers, watch tv, drive, and use our devices in a hunched forward position. In order to balance out the inordinate amount of time spent in this poor posture position, we should frequently stretch the other way (spinal extension) and exercise the back of the body- the back of the shoulders, the lower back, and the neck.\nBalance is a crucial part of success.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.” And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. “For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, `Go,’ and he goes; and to another, `come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, `Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel! “And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. “But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour. (Mat 8:5-13 NKJ)\nThis text in Matthew can be somewhat problematic. The centurion wasn’t just any Roman soldier; he was a battle-hardened, an educated career soldier, his allegiance to Rome unwavering and his appointment was approved by the Emperor. This was a hard life, often leading his men from the front meant that many died in battle.\nMany of these young men had no real family, in fact, Emperor Augustine forbade marriage. Soldiers would then revert to using female and male slaves for their personal gratification. This may have been the case here in Matthews gospel.\nMatthew doesn’t use the traditional word for servant, doulos. Instead, he uses the Greek word pais. Pais does not mean “servant.” It means “lover.” Greek historian Thucydides, in Plutarch, in countless Greek sources, pais refers to the junior partner in a same-sex relationship. Now, this is not exactly a partnership of equals. However, we should not read too much into this story, as Jesus neither affirms or condemns the centurion’s lifestyle. Instead, his focus is upon the man’s faith.\nThe centurion didn’t need Jesus to come to his home; he knew that when Jesus spoke, as one with power and authority, it would be done. Jesus, responds, “I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!”\nThe centurion wouldn’t be the kind of person you would expect Jesus to minister to, and yet Jesus saw beyond the issues and saw great faith. Perhaps we should do the same?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This essay argues that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story “Headstrong Historian” offers a woman’s perspective on the Igbo encounter with European colonialism, a history made famous by Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart who told the story from a male perspective. Through her short story, Adichie enacts the dual-sex system that scholars argue is at the basis of Igbo societies: Adichie does this by telling the story from the perspective of her female protagonists. In the process, Adichie makes two points: firstly, there is not a single story about the Igbo past; secondly, European colonialism had significant negative repercussions for Igbo women. The women in Adichie’s short story—at least the non-Christian ones—are strong and independent individuals that take charge of their own lives. Adichie’s characterization of women in “Headstrong Historian” suggests that the intervention of Christianity and European rule had deleterious effects on Igbo women’s agency.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Enabling school students to do real science via CERN technology. Want to show kids that they can be involved in what is going on now, that science is vibrant and interesting subject.\nThe Langton Star Centre is ?at Simon Langton Grammar School, Kent, gives student change to work alongside scientists and engineers. They go to CERN every year, and one year visited the lab of Dr Michael Campbell’s Medipix lab, working on a chip for the ALICE detector. Can be used for medical imaging. Lots of research and collaboration using this chip.\nCompetition for schools to design experiment to go into space. Wanted to do a cosmic ray intensity detector using Medipix chip – called LUCID, which ?will fly in 2012. Won, but project was a bit expensive so they have an earthbound version too.\nWanted to get more schools involved, which led to CERN@School, so different schools can look at cosmic rays in space and on earth via detector in their own lab. Pick up data and then examine it in the school lab, can do particle recognition.\nFound it hard to get the money together, but got a pilot scheme in a ten other schools that take data at a set time each day. Schools pool the data, then it goes up on LSC servers and can see it on a map. But how to analyse it and get good science out of it? Now have a model using grid storage and computing. Will soon be able to do analysis of tracks.\nNext step would be linking up with other cosmic ray projects.\nExpanded project would enable sophisticated analysis and potentially useful result. If had enough schools, would have an enormous network of detectors, might be able to discover particles above GZK limit.\nCERN@School invigorates teachers as well as inspiring students. Hope to attract more scientists into schools. Doing real science, real analysis, is not only fantastic, it also shows how smart and capable these students are.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Supreme Court Decision\nMapp v. Ohio\nMapp marked the final incorporation of the Fourth Amendment into the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth. It also extended the evidence Exclusionary Rule, originally discovered in Weeks v. U.S. in 1914, to state prosecutions.\nMapp's Cleveland, OH home was entered by several police officers in search of a fugitive alleged to be hiding there, as well as for gambling paraphernalia. They claimed to have a valid search warrant, but it was not produced during the search. While they didn't find what they were looking for, they did supposedly find obscene materials, and Mapp was tried and convicted for possession of obscenity. While the judge acknowledged that the search was illegal, he admitted the evidence discovered, using as his reasoning a Supreme Court decision in Wolf v. Colorado (1949), in which the Court stated that the Weeks Exclusionary Rule did not apply to the states.\nMapp's attorneys originally appealed the case on the basis of the obscenity charge. When the ACLU filed an amicus brief, it added that the abusive search procedure should also present an opportunity to review the Wolf decision -- an opportunity it obviously felt would be well received by the Court.\nIn deciding for Mapp, the Supreme Court was able to reach a plurality decision on the outcome, but unable to present a majority opinion on the logic for reaching it. As such, while the Mapp decision is clear in its effect -- that the Fourth Amendment, through the agency of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth, requires all illegally gained evidence to be tossed out of State and Federal court proceedings -- the arguments supporting the outcome do not provide a lot of comfort that the Court was clear in its constitutional vision.\nIn his plurality opinion, Justice Tom C. Clark -- who had always believed that Wolf would be found lacking -- reiterated the arguments originally made in Weeks, pointing out Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' opinion that, without the Exclusionary Rule, the Fourth Amendment is reduced to \"a form of words\". He responded to then-Judge Benjamin Cardozo's concern that a \"constable's blunder\" would set a criminal free, with \"the criminal goes free if he must, but it is the law that sets him free.\"\nJustice Potter Stewart, who had taken the position in an earlier case that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth in and of itself should be sufficient to afford protection against illegal searches at the state level, would not join the opinion in Mapp because the exclusionary issue had not been properly briefed and argued in the case.\nThe three dissenting justices all resisted the incorporation doctrine generally and the idea of infringing the rights of state judicial systems.\nOne man -- Justice Hugo Black -- found himself as the swing vote in the case, but his was yet another line of logic. When Wolf was decided, it was Justice Black alone who wondered whether the Fourth Amendment required an exclusionary rule at all. In Mapp, he disagreed with the plurality assessment and opined that the Rule could only be justified by the Fourth and Fifth Amendment together. As a firm supporter of incorporation doctrine, he agreed to apply the Rule to the states, but not with the logic in arriving there.\nLogically, all evidence should be admitted at court, and offending police officers or detectives held accountable for their actions. This logic was not lost on the Court in Mapp, but Justice Clark noted in his opinion that states without exclusionary rules had generally failed to develop alternative methods for preventing illegal searches, and that several state supreme courts had responded by mandating their own exclusionary rules.\nRecently there has been some turbulence in the criminal justice community to roll the Exclusionary Rule back under certain conditions -- specifically as regards the 1966 Miranda decision -- regarding it as too much of an impediment to the pursuit of criminals. While there seems to be some support on the Court for the concept, how carefully the rollback is defined will of course determine whether it can pass constitutional muster. Reflecting our legal logic today, it seems foolish to punish the \"thing\" -- in this case the evidence -- rather than the actual perpetrator -- in this case the conductor of a clearly illegal search.\nComment on this Decision\nRead Comments On this decision specifically,\n... or on subject Rights of Accused\n... or on subject Search & Seizure\n... or on subject 4th Amendment\nWrite your Congressmen on this issue.\nOther decisions pertaining to Rights of Accused:\nBetts v. Brady [316 U.S. 455 (1942)] Stone Court\nBranzburg v. Hayes [408 U.S. 665 (1972)] Burger Court\nBrown v. Mississippi [297 U.S. 278 (1936)] Hughes Court\nEstes v. Texas [381 U.S. 532 (1905)] Warren Court\nGideon v. Wainwright [372 U.S. 335 (1963)] Warren Court\nMcCardle, Ex Parte [74 U.S. 506 (1869)] Chase Court\nMilligan, Ex Parte [71 U.S. 2 (1866)] Chase Court\nMiranda v. Arizona [384 U.S. 436 (1966)] Warren Court\nWeeks v. United States [232 U.S. 383 (1914)] White Court", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Poetry writing will always be a minor art, which the public holds in minor esteem. The rise and decline of the creative writer nowadays is usually something like this: He begins with verse—writes poetry, juvenile versicles, and humorous, preferably dialect, entering into the realms of rhyme.\nNext the writer promotes himself to the article. The indefinite article is a broad term, standing for a huge assortment of subjects and various modes of treatment.\nNext he elevates himself to the dignified title of “creative” writer—the sublime height of the short story. Last, if he is good, he achieves the seventh heaven of novel writing. After having reached this climax, he is privileged to write non-fiction articles, interviews and ethical pieces for well-known magazines, newspapers and websites. Again he writes articles and how-to pieces to sell to publications, and may even relapse into the second childishness and mere oblivion of poetry writing.\n“If the art of poetry,” says Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “had been a less earnest object with me, it must have fallen from exhausted hands before this day.”\nEdgar Allen Poe once declared: “Poetry has been with me not a purpose, but a passion.”\nWith every true poet it must have been either an “earnest object” or an absorbing delight—a purpose or a passion; never a mere pastime.\nNot being appreciated\nSome who write promising verse, but do not meet with prompt recognition, conclude they are not born poets, and quit too early.\nThe genuine poet is convinced of the greatness of poetry, just as the successful bridge builder is convinced that he\ndoes not need to study science but civil engineering. The real poet takes up poetry as a lifelong art, not as a pretty plaything to pass the leisure hours.\nPoet and author Franz Wright said about writing poetry: “It’s a craft. It’s an art. It’s a skill. It is not therapy, and it is not compensation for terrible things in one’s life. It is a thing in itself. You devote yourself to being an instrument of it, or you wander forever in the belief that it is a form of ‘self-expression.’”\nAspiring poets will continue to write deathless rhymes until they realize that poetry is not simply another—perhaps inferior—way of saying things that they could say in prose.\nWhen Thomas Carlyle said that poets shouldn’t attempt to write poetry which they could do in prose, he uttered a truism. Many writers can express the same ideas in verse or prose, but most writers favor prose because it is easier to execute and the pay is a lot better.\nToday’s poet faces many sacrifices to pursue poetry as an end, and not as his retired work after he has finished writing news, editorial and how-to articles for high-prized magazines and websites. These sacrifices are no greater now than they always were. The reward of fame and respect that poets desire is immeasurably greater than poets in the last century.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Dr. Marcia Chatelain, associate professor of history and African-American studies at Georgetown University, will present the Ida Wise East Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 6. The lecture, “Better Living Through the Humanities: Teaching, Research, and Social Change,” will be held in Memorial Ballroom, Hall Campus Center. The public is invited and admission is free.\nDr. Chatelain is the author of “South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration” and the forthcoming book, “From Sit-In to Drive-Thru: Black America in the Age of Fast Food.” At Georgetown, she teaches courses on African-American history, women’s activism, and food studies. She has appeared on CNN, the BBC, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, and other news outlets on segments about race, gender, social justice, and other issues.\nHer upcoming lecture will address her work on “Southside Girls” and projects regarding the police-involved deaths of Freddie Gray and Michael Brown. She also will talk about her involvement with Georgetown’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, which is working to tell the story of institution’s role in the history of African-American slavery.\n“Her research on African-American history is excellent, but I also invited her to Lynchburg because of her public history work and political activism,” Dr. Nichole Sanders, professor of history and the John Franklin East Professor of Humanities, said. “I wanted students to see how vital the humanities are to public life, and to be able to imagine how the humanities intersects with social justice work. Dr. Chatelain’s work is an amazing example of these intersections.”\nDr. Sanders added that the lecture, which is not exclusively aimed at students, “should appeal to anyone interested in humanities and social justice.”\nOn the following day, Dr. Chatelain, who was recognized by The Chronicle of Higher Education as a “top influencer” in 2016, will present at a workshop on inclusive teaching. The workshop for Lynchburg faculty and staff is sponsored by the East Professorship, John M. Turner Lecture Series, the Office of Equity and Inclusion, and the Teaching and Learning Resource Center.\n“Dr. Chatelain is an expert in inclusive teaching techniques,” Aaron Smith, diversity and inclusion officer for the Office of Equity and Inclusion, said, adding, “Being that we are building a culture of inclusion, both inside and outside of the classroom at Lynchburg, we thought that Dr. Chatelain would be a great resource for our faculty members.”\nThe Ida Wise East Memorial Lecture was established in 1979 by an endowment gift to University of Lynchburg from Mrs. Margaret East Nelson of Norfolk, Virginia, in memory of her mother, Ida Wise East, and in recognition of the lifelong interest of the East and Nelson families in the humanities. Income from the funds are used to support an annual lecture, lecture series, or seminar in the humanities.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The bavarian way of life\nThe Bavarian way of life is what is often thought to be entirely German, whereas typical elements such as the traditional Lederhosen and Dirndl attire, idyllic mountain scenery with alpenhorn blowers and beer in one litre mugs is originally mostly Bavarian.\nBavaria’s inhabitants are said to be charming, proud, self-confident, and usually sociable but sometimes stubborn. Grumbling is just part and parcel of everyday life. However, though maybe complaining about one’s own problems in life, Bavarians adopt a liberal motto of “to live and let live” (“leben und leben lassen”).\nThe state’s beautiful and often romantic scenery with its lakes, mountains, and castles, as well as the region’s history make Bavarians typically quite patriotic. Being proud of their origins, traditions are highly valued, celebrated and often form the centrepiece of the social life of the community.\nAt the same time, Bavaria is also an increasingly cosmopolitan place with 12% of its citizens already being expatriates and Munich featuring one of the biggest community of foreigners in Germany (at 28,5% of the population).\nBavaria’s versatility is reflected by its seven administrative districts, each of which has its own competencies when it comes to business, science, networks, and education. The variation in cultures and dialects (more than 60 dialects are spoken in Bavaria!) gives each region a personal charm entirely of its own.\ntradition meets high-tech\nWhat makes Bavaria stand out is its unique blend of the old and the new, of tradition and vision, its agrarian roots and its high-tech outlook. Germany’s former head of state, Roman Herzog, once famously called Bavaria the land of “laptops and lederhosen” and while laptops might not symbolize the top-notch technological achievements of our days anymore, the underlying logic stills holds true: Bavaria is a region that values where it comes from but openly embraces the future at the same time.\nSince the end of World War II, Bavaria has undergone an impressive transformative development from a poor agrarian state to one of Europe’s most prosperous and competitive regions today, an evolution that has attracted much interest near and far. Despite the significant change in its economic landscape within a short amount of time, Bavaria remains the most agricultural state in Germany and rural life continues to contribute significantly to its identity and social fabric. Simultaneously, the Free State increasingly strengthens its position as one of the leading international regions for high technology fields and only recently launched an ambitious investment plan, the so called High-Tech Agenda, that will see the mobilisation of up to €3.5 billion over the next few years to drive cutting-edge developments in key high tech industries including aerospace, IT, artificial intelligence, CleanTech, hydrogen, quantum technology, and life sciences.\nSo while in their hearts, Bavarians might always feel close to the idyllic, agricultural countryside that the Free State is famous for, they move with the times and embrace the challenges of a digital future.\nAttire, customs, and festivities\nLived traditions are an integral part of the Bavarian way of life. Be it spring, summer, autumn, or winter, there are countless customs and festivities such as Maypole Day or the St. Leonhard horse-back procession as well as the world-famous Oktoberfest and the glittering Christmas markets that are loved by locals and tourists alike. The celebrations are often connected to traditional farming culture or Christian holidays and represent real highlights in the Bavarian calendar year. They are an important part of Bavarian social fabric and help to form the unique attitude to life that reigns in the Free State.\nFor many customs and festivities, people in Bavaria wear traditional costumes that once served as work clothes but now shape the Bavarian sense of identity. Bavarians of all ages still use traditional items of clothing such as the Dirndl or Lederhosen to demonstrate their regional identity today and thus also contribute to the myth and unique external representation of Bavaria beyond its borders.\nThe Oktoberfest (or “Wies’n”, as Bavarians call it) is not only the most popular festival in Bavaria but also the largest fair in the world. It takes place annually in Munich for a period of just over two weeks – ironically starting in September, despite its name – and attracts over six million visitors who flock to rendezvous over beer, roast chicken, and pretzels. The festival has its origins in the wedding celebrations of King Ludwig I. and his wife Princess Therese in 1810 and – apart from very few exceptions – has taken place every year since then, making it a fundamental element of Bavarian history and culture. Nowadays, it is also a huge touristic highlight and many smaller versions of the Oktoberfest take place across numerous Bavarian cities and indeed around the world.\nAlmabtrieb and Viehscheid (cattle drive)\nThe Almabtrieb or Viehscheid is a major attraction in the Bavarian calendar of customs. In the alpine regions of Upper Bavaria and the Allgäu, many cows and bulls spend the summer seasons grazing in the lush mountain pastures. Each year as the summer draws to a close, the well-fed cattle with their festive decorations come down from the mountain pastures and back into the valley to join their stables for winter. The Kranzrind (crown cow) has a very special role to play in the event. The chosen animal leads the herd and wears a particularly elaborate headdress. The whole village and many tourists from near and far join in to celebrate the safe return of the cows to their farms.\nBavarian Traditional Clothing (Tracht)\nThe culture of traditional clothing – “Tracht” in German – has played a major role in rural Bavaria for more than 200 years. “Tracht” derives from the word “tragen” (to wear) and originally denoted the costume of a certain class in a certain region at the then current time. Nowadays these traditional clothes are being (re-)interpreted in many different styles and vary according to the occasion, age of the wearer and social class but all keep Bavarians connected in their very own way.\nThe best-known Bavarian attire is the Lederhosen – pants made of leather with traditional embroidery for men, – and the Dirndl – dresses with an apron and a blouse underneath for women. They are worn especially on traditional festivities or other festive occasions like marriages. And while at first glance one could think this is being considered very old-fashioned, Bavaria’s younger generations have upheld this tradition and ensured that original Bavarian attire never goes out of fashion.\nCulinary Highlights of Bavaria\nWhat would Bavaria be without its great foods and culinary highlights featuring a wide array of regional specialities? Bavarian food is usually hearty and delicious, with many excellent meat and potato-based dishes – but it also has some great vegetarian or sweet options to offer.\nBavaria is probably best known around the world for its outstanding beer. What is considered the Germans’ national drink is the staple food in Bavaria – beer, also called “liquid bread”. There are some 40 types of beer and over 4,000 brands of Bavarian beer (an overview of the principal beers can be found here). Bavarian beer has a very long tradition and was regulated in 1516 by the Bavarian beer purity law (“Reinheitsgebot”), limiting its ingredients to water, malt, hops and yeast only. Until that point, it was safe to assume that drinking beer could be considered to be a gamble since the unsuspecting guest never knew what exactly the pub was serving. The Reinheitsgebot is still in place today and constitutes the world’s oldest consumer protection law. Bavaria has the highest density of breweries anywhere in Germany, made up of well-known companies such as Paulaner, Augustiner or Löwenbräu but complemented by a large number of small, independent breweries all across the Free State.\n“Weißwurst” Sausages, Pretzels, and Sweet Mustard\nAmong the most popular Bavarian dishes features the so-called “Weißwurst”. The white sausage is made from veal with parsley in pork casing and is boiled rather than fried. It is eaten without the casing, usually together with a pretzel and sweet mustard. Surprisingly, “Weißwurst” is a late breakfast dish. This has its origin in the lack of possibilities to cool the meat back in the days when the “Weißwurst” was invented. To avoid that it goes bad, it simply had to be eaten before noon. This custom has been kept until today, despite the numerous storage and cooling possibilities available to Bavarians nowadays.\nThis Bavarian dish is loved by vegetarians and carnivores alike, thanks to its hearty, delicious taste stemming from a unique combination of spaetzle noodles, grated mountain cheese, and fried onions. Its origins lie in the southwestern regions of Swabia and the Allgäu but the popular dish can be found in nearly every Bavarian restaurant and even in the neighbouring regions of Austria and Switzerland. Even though the portions might seem small at first, this dish will most likely keep you sated all day long.\n“Schweinebraten” with Dumplings\nThis might be the best-known Bavarian dish – a roast pork with a dark sauce and dumplings and a kraut salad on the side. The “Schweinebraten” is generally particularly appreciated for its crunchy crust. The dumplings on the side are typically made from dry bread, however there is a large variety of other dumplings made from potatoes, with spinach, with cheese, or even sweet variants with apricots or plums across Bavaria.\n“Zwetschgendatschi” Plum Cake\nBavaria has also much to offer for those with a sweet tooth. One example is the traditional plum cake, which is served everywhere in the Free State in summer. The name of “Zwetschgendatschi” (try pronouncing it!) stems from the method of preparation where the plums are pushed (“datschen”) into the dough. This cake is best enjoyed on a sunny Sunday afternoon with lots of whipped cream on top and a cup of coffee on the side.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In the 19th century, corrugated cardboard was found to be not only light in quality and fast in performance but also cheaper in price than ordinary materials. Moreover, the manufacturing process was simple and the use was more extensive. Not only that, corrugated cardboard is not only as a natural role in the decomposition of wood fibers can be recycled environmentally friendly materials, but also be reused without affecting the performance of its play. So much favored by people.\nBy the beginning of the 20th century, due to the unique properties and advantages of packaging containers made of corrugated cardboard for beautifying and protecting the built-in goods, corrugated cardboard\nBegan to be comprehensively popularized, popularized and applied to become protective wrapping garments for a wide variety of goods in a variety of fields, achieving unprecedented success in competition with various packaging materials.\nIn the past two centuries, such as the flood-swell expansion of the market scale expansion and market coverage, corrugated cardboard in the true sense has become so far with the rapid development of one of the main production of packaging containers .", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Northwood in Rockingham County, New Hampshire — The American Northeast (New England)\nFirst New Hampshire Turnpike\nExtending 36 miles from Piscataqua Bridge in Durham to the Merrimack River in East Concord, this highway was originally a toll road. The first of more than 80 New Hampshire turnpikes built by private corporations in the nineteenth century, this was the only one connecting Portsmouth, the state's seaport, with the interior settlements. Chartered in 1796, the corporation began to build the road about 1801. Much of the present Route 4 follows the four rod (66 foot) right-of-way of this first turnpike.\nErected 2002 by New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. (Marker Number 181.)\nLocation. 43° 13.399′ N, 71° 15.246′ W. Marker is in Northwood, New Hampshire, in Rockingham County. Marker is on U.S. 4 just south of Old Turnpike Road. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Northwood NH 03261, United States of America. Touch for directions.\nOther nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Northwood Parade 1775 (approx. 2.6 miles away); Northwood NH WWI Honor Roll (approx. 2.6 miles away); Northwood NH War Memorial (approx. Northwood NH WWII Honor Roll (approx. 2.6 miles away); LaFayette's Tour (approx. 2.6 miles away); Major Andrew McClary (approx. 4 miles away); Site of the First Congregational Church (approx. 5.4 miles away); Major John Simpson (approx. 5.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Northwood.\nCategories. • Roads & Vehicles •\nMore. Search the internet for First New Hampshire Turnpike.\nCredits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on August 22, 2014, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland. This page has been viewed 348 times since then and 19 times this year. Last updated on October 9, 2014, by Kevin Craft of Bedford, Quebec. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 22, 2014, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The current preclinical pipeline for drug discovery can be cumbersome and costly, which limits the number of compounds that can effectively be transitioned to use as therapies. Chemical screens in zebrafish have uncovered new uses for existing drugs and identified promising new compounds from large libraries. Xenotransplantation of human cancer cells into zebrafish embryos builds on this work and enables direct evaluation of patient-derived tumor specimens in vivo in a rapid and cost-effective manner. The short time frame needed for xenotransplantation studies means that the zebrafish can serve as an early preclinical drug screening tool and can also help personalize cancer therapy by providing real-time data on the response of the human cells to treatment. In this Review, we summarize the use of zebrafish embryos in drug screening and highlight the potential for xenotransplantation approaches to be adopted as a preclinical tool to identify and prioritize therapies for further clinical evaluation. We also discuss some of the limitations of using zebrafish xenografts and the benefits of using them in concert with murine xenografts in drug optimization.\nThe zebrafish is a powerful model system for studying human cancer. The ease with which these organisms can be genetically manipulated, the opportunity for direct observation in transparent embryos, and the capacity for forward genetic and chemical screens has enabled zebrafish to be employed in the investigation of many gain-of-function and loss-of-function mutations implicated in cancer (Amatruda et al., 2002; Beckman, 2007; Beckwith et al., 2000; Berghmans et al., 2005; Dovey et al., 2009; Gutierrez et al., 2011; Yang et al., 2004). Many of the oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes that have been identified as major players in human cancers have zebrafish homologs, and important signaling pathways regulating cell proliferation, migration, apoptosis and differentiation are well conserved (Feitsma and Cuppen, 2008; Payne and Look, 2009; Stoletov and Klemke, 2008). In parallel with the basic characterization of important cancer-related genes and pathways in the zebrafish, a toolkit of experimental approaches has also been developed that has enabled cancer modeling in this species. This toolkit includes many reverse genetic approaches to generate loss-of-function phenotypes, such as TILLING (targeting induced local lesions in genomes) (Wienholds et al., 2003), morpholino oligonucleotides (Nasevicius and Ekker, 2000), and more recently, zinc-finger nucleases (Doyon et al., 2008), TALENs (transcription activator-like effector nucleases) (Huang et al., 2011) and the CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) system (Hwang et al., 2013). Gain-of-function approaches have also been developed, including transgenic techniques to introduce foreign oncogenes into the genome, which can incorporate meganucleases (Soroldoni et al., 2009), Tol2 transposons (Kwan et al., 2007) or bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) (Suster et al., 2011). Through these approaches, numerous mutant and transgenic zebrafish have been generated to model human cancers, and these have also been used in chemical screens. In addition to these cancer models, a number of mutant and transgenic zebrafish lines have been generated that facilitate the observation of oncogenic pathways in living fish, such as the casper mutant (White et al., 2008), a transparent zebrafish strain that maintains embryonic transparency through to adulthood because it lacks melanocyte and iridophore cell populations, and the vascular fluorescent reporter line tg(fli1a:eGFP) (Lawson and Weinstein, 2002). Together with advances in imaging technology, these lines have provided new opportunities to develop the zebrafish as a xenograft model with potential for in vivo drug screening.\nXenotransplantation is the transfer of living cells or tissue from one species to another (Cariati et al., 2011). The appeal of zebrafish xenotransplantation of human cancers for drug discovery and evaluation lies in the ability to directly observe the drug response of human tumor material, particularly primary patient-derived biopsy specimens that are often hard to maintain in vitro, in a cost-effective and time-efficient manner. The approach circumvents some of the current hurdles with rodent xenografts, such as those related to availability of sufficient patient material or challenges in optimizing murine hosts to enhance engraftment. Moreover, zebrafish xenotransplantation approaches have the potential to serve as a first step in a preclinical pipeline to screen for drugs before moving on to the more costly and time-consuming mouse and ultimately human trials. The zebrafish xenograft platform could also, for the first time, provide a bona fide real-time in vivo platform for personalizing cancer therapeutics.\nSmall-molecule drug screens in zebrafish\nPioneering work undertaken by several laboratories has demonstrated the efficiency of large-scale drug screens in zebrafish embryos. Arguably, these studies and the therapeutic revelations that have emerged from them represent some of the most clinically relevant contributions the zebrafish model has made in the last decade (Tamplin et al., 2012; Zon and Peterson, 2005). One of the first chemical screens using zebrafish embryos was piloted by Randall Peterson’s group (Peterson et al., 2000). They conducted a screen using a panel of structurally diverse chemical compounds and evaluated toxicity in embryonic development, including on the central nervous and cardiovascular systems. The authors identified several compounds that influenced the development of the central nervous system, altering its general morphology by significantly increasing the size of the hindbrain ventricle and producing tissue artifacts such as ‘sawtooth-like’ projections within the organ (Peterson et al., 2000). Subsequently a number of studies have demonstrated the utility of chemical screening in zebrafish embryos for identifying and evaluating the efficacy of potential anti-cancer agents (Murphey et al., 2006; Ridges et al., 2012; Yeh et al., 2009).\nZebrafish are ideally suited to high- and medium-throughput screens because their small size enables them to be arrayed in a variety of isolated well plates (12-well, 24-well, 96-well and larger) and bathed in water that contains the compound(s) of interest (reviewed in Peterson and Macrae, 2012). This approach provides a high-throughput platform that is substantially more rapid than injecting mice. Furthermore, embryo screens have the potential to reveal important information on absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion when whole organisms are exposed to a drug (Makky et al., 2008; Peterson and Macrae, 2012). However, investigating these properties in embryo screens is still in its infancy. Zebrafish embryos are transparent and develop externally, which can aid in understanding drug absorption from the surrounding medium specifically when chemicals possess inherent fluorescence to facilitate direct visualization of drug absorption into the embryo. Subsequent drug excretion following treatment can also be observed and measured by exploiting the transparency of zebrafish embryos. However, this approach requires that compounds are water-soluble. Thus, drug solubility characteristics need to be established at the outset, including maximum water solubility or drug solubility in other common delivery solvents, such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) or methanol, before undertaking these types of screens. If compounds are not water-soluble, direct injection into the body of the embryo can be performed to ensure drug uptake. Both diffusion and injection approaches can be used for toxicity screens and to evaluate specific efficacy signals.\nEvaluating drug toxicity\nSystemic drug toxicity can be investigated using overall embryonic mortality as a metric from which the working range of a particular drug can be determined. For example, embryos (one or more per well) can be arrayed in multi-well plates and exposed to a series of drug concentrations to enable the maximum tolerated dose of a compound to be determined (Parng et al., 2002; Taylor et al., 2010). These studies can uncover toxic side effects within the context of a living animal that are not discernible in tissue culture. In this way, appropriate dosing can be determined prior to performing a chemical screen to evaluate drug efficacy in order to ensure that observations are not confounded by non-specific drug toxicity.\nCandidate compounds from in vitro tissue culture screens can also be further evaluated using the zebrafish. Precise phenotypic observations can be made to determine drug-induced effects on specific aspects of development and tissue function. For example, the development of pericardial edema, changes in specific tissue or cell types made fluorescent through versatile transgenic strains, or altered growth of different organ systems (Barros et al., 2008; Eimon and Rubinstein, 2009; Sipes et al., 2011). For instance, a compound that selectively kills cancer cells in the tissue culture dish but that also causes severe central nervous system toxicity or renal damage in vivo might not be a good candidate drug for further development.\nApplications of drug screening in blood diseases and angiogenesis\nZebrafish screens have made important contributions to the study of both normal and leukemic hematopoiesis. A chemical screen in wild-type embryos conducted by North, Zon and colleagues in 2007 (Durand and Zon, 2010; North et al., 2007) revealed a previously unrecognized role for prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in the development of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Using whole-mount in situ hybridization for increased expression of the HSC markers runx1 and c-myb, ten of the effective compounds were found to modulate the prostaglandin pathway. This discovery was subsequently validated in mice and led to a recent clinical trial (Cutler et al., 2013), suggesting that the use of PGE2 can enhance HSC engraftment following cord blood transplantation. This finding represents the first time a chemical screen in zebrafish has led to a clinical trial in patients and highlights the tremendous potential of embryonic screens for drug discovery. In another study (Yeh et al., 2009), the transgenic zebrafish strain tg(hsp:AML-ETO) was used to screen for chemical modifiers of AML1-ETO, an oncogenic fusion protein that is prevalent in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that results in hematopoietic dysregulation in fish and elicits a malignant phenotype similar to human AML. An inhibitor of cyclo-oxygenase 2 (COX-2), nimesulide, was identified as an antagonist to AML1-ETO in hematopoietic differentiation. Furthermore, this screen exposed a role for COX-2 and PGE2 in the subsequent phenotypes associated with AML1-ETO expression (Zhang et al., 2013).\nOther zebrafish drug screens have been designed to identify agents targeting tumor angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is a physiological process in which normal blood vessels are formed during embryonic development to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the required tissues of the body. Tumor cells have been shown to co-opt this process and use angiogenic recruitment for cell growth and subsequent metastasis (Camus et al., 2012; Chan et al., 2002; Cross et al., 2003; Radi et al., 2012; Tran et al., 2007). Many of these studies have used a non-cancer model, the tg(fli1a:eGFP) zebrafish strain, in which the fli1a promoter drives the expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in embryonic blood vessel endothelial cells, as a surrogate assay (Lawson and Weinstein, 2002). Common readouts in zebrafish drug screens have included changes to local blood vessel and hematopoietic cell organization and formation, alterations of organ development such as the heart and kidneys, and behavior changes such as swimming and reaction responses, following exposure to a chemical agent (Burns et al., 2005; Cao et al., 2009; Kokel et al., 2010; Murphey et al., 2006; North et al., 2007; Paik et al., 2010; Peterson et al., 2004; Ridges et al., 2012; Stern et al., 2005; Yeh et al., 2009).\nAs highlighted above, some of the most successful zebrafish screens have been in the identification of a new application for an existing drug, so-called drug repurposing. This is advantageous when familiarity and available human safety data can permit rapid transition to the clinical setting, as illustrated by the prostaglandin example discussed above (Durand and Zon, 2010). However, new drugs are also being identified in this way. For example, Ridges et al. (Ridges et al., 2012) recently applied a chemical screening strategy to a panel of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) mutant embryos and identified lenaldekar, a new compound, as a selective inhibitor of lymphocyte proliferation. Over 26,000 compounds were screened for activity that could reduce overall fluorescent-tagged lymphoblast populations in mutant embryos. Lenaldekar was shown to induce remission in a zebrafish T-ALL model without causing substantial toxicity. Similar observations and drug efficacy was confirmed using murine xenograft models (Ridges et al., 2012). These studies underline the versatility and robustness of using the zebrafish in small-molecule chemical screens with similar experimental design but diverse goals. As pharmaceutical companies increasingly make available their substantial chemical library resources to academia, there is no doubt more such discoveries will be made, and the zebrafish will be prominent in their screening.\nIn summary, drug screens in zebrafish have been used for and have the potential to validate existing compounds for use in many human disorders. In drug discovery studies, promising new compounds can be identified from panels of thousands in smaller quantities than in rodent studies, which require large volumes of reagents. Zebrafish embryos can be used to identify general drug toxicity and gross developmental abnormalities caused by drugs and to prioritize agents that should be further evaluated in additional preclinical model systems.\nHuman tumor xenografts in zebrafish are an innovative approach that can take full advantage of the inherent opportunities afforded by the zebrafish but with the added benefit of addressing any lack of conservation in drug response or molecular oncogenic pathways between humans and fish, and zebrafish xenografts are gaining traction for advancing cancer drug development.\nTransgenesis has been a traditional approach to modeling human malignancies in zebrafish (Carradice and Lieschke, 2008; Chen and Langenau, 2011; Forrester et al., 2011; Jessen et al., 1999; Le et al., 2007; Leacock et al., 2012; Li et al., 2013; Project et al., 2005) but, more recently, the xenotransplantation of human cancer cell lines and primary human tumor samples has been successfully used to study human cancers in vivo (Corkery et al., 2011; Eguiara et al., 2011; He et al., 2012; Jung et al., 2012; Konantz et al., 2012; Nicoli et al., 2007; Taylor and Zon, 2009).\nXenotransplantation involves the transfer of one species-specific tissue to another animal species and has been used as a tool for many years to study human cancer (Cariati et al., 2011; Johnson et al., 1995; Merk and Adams, 1972). In particular, xenograft experiments have been extensively performed in mouse models of human disease, enabling the analysis of cancer cell proliferation, invasion, migration and induction of growth advantages such as increased angiogenic recruitment (Cheon and Orsulic, 2011), as well as enabling drug screening and evaluation (Huynh et al., 2011; Kelland, 2004; Sharpless and Depinho, 2006). Although murine models remain the ‘gold standard’ for xenotransplantation studies and drug evaluation, the time required, high cost and complexity of these systems mean that it is not always feasible to use mice. This is particularly relevant when funds to conduct such large-scale drug screens are limited. Moreover, the use of highly immunecompromised mice calls into question the actual relevance of findings in these models back to the bedside. By contrast, the ease and relative cost-effectiveness of performing these screens in zebrafish can be adapted to embryos transplanted with human cancer cells without the need for immunosuppression because, for the first month of life, the larvae have not developed an adaptive immune response (Lam et al., 2004; Traver et al., 2003).\nThe zebrafish xenotransplantation model can also be applied to drug screening and rivals transgenic approaches by allowing the direct evaluation of the most clinically relevant tissue, namely human cell lines or primary samples. This circumvents the limitations imposed by the lack of zebrafish-specific tools, such as antibodies for flow cytometry or for western blot confirmation, and the apparent absence of certain key genes that regulate human oncogenic pathways, such as the BRCA1 and INK4a/ARF tumor suppressors (Howe et al., 2013). The absence of certain genes in the zebrafish can also be exploited as a means of identifying human xenografted cells from the zebrafish embryo in ex vivo analyses and immunohistochemistry. For example, we have recently used the promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein, for which the gene is absent in the zebrafish, as a marker of human primary T-cell leukemia cells during ex vivo proliferation analyses (Bentley et al., 2013). Finally, it should be noted that the human tumor xenografts interact with, and in many instances remodel, the host tissue following engraftment; for example, host vasculature can be recruited by tumor xenografts (Zhao et al., 2011). This is a useful property of the xenotransplantation system in zebrafish, allowing analysis of tissue remodeling, innate immune cell interactions with the human tumor and neoangiogenesis (tumor-associated angiogenesis) induced by the human tumor. These changes to the host might lead to developmental toxicities, precluding analysis of tumor progression. For this reason, all zebrafish xenotransplantation experiments begin with pilot experiments to ensure that the given tumor being studied can successfully engraft and that the zebrafish embryo can survive engraftment long enough to allow meaningful observations to be made.\nTechnical advances in zebrafish xenotransplantation\nLee et al. (Lee et al., 2005) first pioneered human tumor xenotransplantation in zebrafish by engrafting human melanoma cell lines, demonstrating that human cells could survive and migrate in zebrafish. Melanoma cells were injected into the blastula stage of zebrafish embryos. These cells were tolerated within the zebrafish for the first 8 days after injection and could home to the epidermis. Human fibroblasts and normal healthy melanocytes were also injected into zebrafish and displayed similar survivability to that of the melanoma cells, but lacked the mobility of the latter. Further studies have developed and optimized the parameters for transplanting human cancer cell lines, including breast cancer, leukemia and sarcomas, into zebrafish embryos and analyzing the transplanted recipients for cellular behavior and response to drugs (Corkery et al., 2011; Pruvot et al., 2011; Haldi et al., 2006; Marques et al., 2009). Human cancer cell lines survived, formed tumors and exhibited cell migration in zebrafish embryos.\nHaldi et al. optimized transplantation parameters such as: site of injection, age of transplant recipients, injection cell quantity and post-injection incubation considerations (Haldi et al., 2006). Although numerous sites of injection were trialed, including the hindbrain ventricle and intravenous routes, the yolk sac of 2-day-old embryos was demonstrated to be an ideal site of injection because it provides a nutrient-rich environment for injected cells and is acellular, allowing cell growth and migration (achievable only through active cell motility) to be monitored. This group also showed that 35°C is the optimal temperature at which to incubate embryos following xenotransplantation. This temperature permits both natural embryonic development of the zebrafish transplant recipients and satisfactory human cell survival and proliferation. Marques et al. expanded on the field of zebrafish xenotransplantation by qualitatively capturing hallmark oncogenic events of human cancer cells post-embryonic injection (Marques et al., 2009). Patient-derived gastrointestinal tumor cells displayed cell proliferation, migration through the circulation and micrometastases within 24 hours following transplantation – events that were not observed using non-tumor cell lines (Marques et al., 2009). Injected pancreatic tumor cells transplanted into the cloche zebrafish mutant, which lacks a complete functional vasculature, displayed no cell migration (Herpers et al., 2008). These observations demonstrate that migration observed post-xenotransplantation of human cell lines into zebrafish embryos occurs via active transport mechanisms such as a circulatory route, and not by diffusion or other passive means.\nWith the establishment of these foundational parameters, xenotransplantation methods have continued to improve, with the incorporation of single-cell-based assays to quantitatively interpret in vivo human cell behavior. We have established approaches to reproducibly quantify cell proliferation rates and cell migration in zebrafish xenotransplantation, a necessity for applying xenotransplantation to determining drug responses (Corkery et al., 2011). Cancer cells are fluorescently labeled and injected into the embryos, and cell proliferation is monitored by live-cell microscopy. Embryos are then enzymatically dissociated into cells, which are stained to confirm that they are intact and then imaged to determine average cell counts per embryo (Corkery et al., 2011). Proliferation rates of several cell lines, including leukemia, sarcoma and breast cancer lines, have been measured using this assay, and proliferation rates of cells injected in zebrafish embryos demonstrate similar kinetics to those observed in vitro. When fluorescence cannot be used to mark human cells either because the cells are dividing too rapidly or the drugs being tested are inherently fluorescent (e.g. doxorubin), an immunocytochemical technique can be applied that uses a fluorescent antibody directed against a human protein not conserved in zebrafish (Bentley et al., 2013) (V. L. Bentley, C.J.V., D. P. Corkery, J. B. Pinder, M. A. LeBlanc, K. Bedard et al., unpublished results). Using these approaches, we have demonstrated the utility of zebrafish xenotransplantation for the study of specific drug-tumor interactions for both chronic myelogenous leukemia and acute promyelocytic leukemia by specifically inhibiting their proliferation in xenotransplanted zebrafish using imatinib mesylate or all-trans retinoic acid, respectively (Corkery et al., 2011). We have also utilized the zebrafish xenotransplantation assay to evaluate transcription factors that may be critical for migration and metastasis in childhood sarcomas (Veinotte et al., 2012) (A. M. El-Naggar, C.J.V., C. E. Tognon, D. P. Corkery, C. Hongwei, F. Tirode et al., unpublished results).\nMany zebrafish xenotransplantation studies performed to date have used embryos at 48 hours post-fertilization (hpf) as transplant recipients. This developmental time point is considered the optimal stage for injection because it offers a relatively large transplant site (yolk sac) and absence of adaptive immune responses. Immunosuppression is required for xenotransplantation in zebrafish older than 30 days post-fertilization (dpf), when adaptive immunity is well-established (Lam et al., 2004). Other advantages that are apparent in transplanting human cancer cells into 2- to 5-day-old (48–120 hpf) embryos include the large number of animals that can be produced for experimentation, injected and housed simultaneously.\nThe yolk sac has been considered the optimal site of transplantation because it provides a favorable acellular site of injection that can nurture a variety of human cancer cell lines prior to and/or during tumor growth and cell migration. Other anatomical locations have also been used (Fig. 1), although the yolk sac remains the most widely used site of embryonic xenograft injection to date. The site selected can influence how a tissue sample engrafts, the efficiency of drug administration and delivery to tumor-engrafted materials, and, subsequently, response to therapy. Many of the sites used for injection are not native to the tumor tissue, so heterotopic engraftment is necessary. Although the zebrafish shares homology with many of the mammalian pathways and organ systems, it does lack several tissues found exclusively in mammals, which affects the possibility of orthotopic injection. Despite the lack of orthotopic sites for tissues such as the lung, breast and prostate, it might be possible to ‘add-back’ the required cells or growth signals that would allow normal growth cues associated with orthotopic injection. For example, embryo water could be supplemented with tissue-specific growth factors (e.g. androgens or estrogens), human cells expressing growth factors could be co-injected with the cells of interest, or transgenic fish expressing human growth factors, receptors and/or cytokines could be generated to enhance engraftment and tumor growth.\nZebrafish xenotransplantation as a tool to study tumor-microenvironment interactions\nAnother opportunity afforded by zebrafish xenotransplantation is that it enables direct observation of the impact of a particular treatment on interactions between tumor cells and the tumor microenvironment. A number of studies have highlighted the impact of the tumor microenvironment on the proliferation and migration of a variety of human cancers (Gupta and Massagué, 2006; Hanahan et al., 2000; Yu and Rak, 2003). Many normal cell and/or tissue behaviors are often co-opted by and for malignant cells. Solid tumor cells harness the oxygen and nutrients needed for their survival from oncogenic-induced blood vessels sprouting from healthy normal vasculature (Kaya et al., 2009; Singh et al., 2007; Zetter, 1998). Immune cells that normally combat infection might function in either pro-tumorigenic or anti-tumorigenic ways depending on cytokines and chemokines released by tumor cells and other inflammatory mediators generated in the local microenvironment (Kees and Egeblad, 2011; Spano et al., 2012). Studying and uncovering the interactions that take place between tumor and normal cell populations is essential for understanding cancer progression and for determining new ways to therapeutically inhibit pro-tumorigenic responses and enhance anti-tumorigenic behavior.\nFluorescent transgenic zebrafish reporter lines represent a key tool that can be paired with xenotransplantation to study cancer cell progression in a living microenvironment (Fig. 2). Currently available fluorescent reporter lines include tg(fli1a-eGFP) (Lawson and Weinstein, 2002), which expresses enhanced GFP (eGFP) in endothelial cells; tg(mpx:eGFP), which expresses GFP in neutrophils (He et al., 2012; Renshaw et al., 2006); and tg(mpeg1:eGFP) (Ellett et al., 2011), which expresses GFP in monocytes/macrophages. Combining such transgenic strains of zebrafish with transparent strains, such as the casper mutant, allows for the observation and analysis of tumor cell interactions with key players in the tumor microenvironment.\nAs mentioned above, there is a large time lapse of a number of weeks between the development of innate and adaptive immune systems in the zebrafish embryo. This temporal separation in the development of neutrophils, macrophages/monocytes and mast cells, and subsequently B and T cells, provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the specific contribution of each of these lineages to cancer progression and therapeutic response (He et al., 2012). He et al. showed that neutrophil migration could control tumor cell mobility within zebrafish embryos through pre-conditioning of extracellular matrix, resulting in the formation of metastatic niches. The group also showed that vascular endothelial growth factor receptor inhibitors reduce local tumor growth of xenografted embryos and blood vessel recruitment to the tumor site. These compounds also enhanced the rate of neutrophil migration, which in turn increased the migratory potentially of the injected tumor cells, resulting in micrometastases. These observations demonstrate how zebrafish xenotransplantation can be used to study tumor cell and tumor microenvironment interactions, validate drug efficacy of compounds that directly target elements of the microenvironment to prevent cancer progression, and uncover any unwanted or harmful bystander cell effects prior to moving a compound further along the preclinical pipeline.\nLimitations of the zebrafish xenotransplantation platform for drug screening\nAlthough all of the characteristics described above enable the completion of multiple statistically robust experiments simultaneously, the zebrafish xenotransplantation platform is not without its limitations. Although the lack of an adaptive immune response is beneficial for initial transplantation and injection, it might become a limitation to translation of findings, because adaptive immune cells can play vital roles in promoting or inhibiting the progression of human cancers and the effects of certain cancer treatments (Gupta and Massagué, 2006; Kees and Egeblad, 2011; Spano et al., 2012).\nHuman and zebrafish genomes are 70% similar based on conservation of individual genes (Table 1), with several cancer-associated genes found in mammals but not in the zebrafish, including BRCA1, p16 (CDKN2A), BRCA1, LIF, OSM, IL6 (Howe et al., 2013) and PML (G.D. and J.N.B., unpublished observation). This presents several challenges when studying the functions of these ‘missing’ genes or the pathways in which they play a role; for example, senescence studies in the fish might prove to be challenging given the lack of a p16 homolog, a major marker of senescence in mammals (Salama et al., 2014). Moreover, when foreign tissue and cells are introduced into fish, there is no guarantee that all of the molecular mechanisms linking the recipient and the xenograft tissue are completely conserved, which might impact interactions between host cells and the cancer xenograft. For example, human growth factors cannot support zebrafish hematopoiesis (Stachura et al., 2009). This issue is particularly relevant for tissues such as the lung, breast and prostate for which orthotopic sites do not exist in the fish. However, as discussed above, it might be possible to ‘add-back’ the required cells or growth signals to mitigate this problem during xenotransplantation, or to ‘humanize’ the fish by creating transgenic animals that express appropriate human growth factors, receptors and/or cytokines, as has been done in mice (Brehm et al., 2013).\nClinical applications of the zebrafish xenotransplantation platform\nXenotransplantation approaches can be used for small-molecule screens using similar procedures to those employed by traditional zebrafish transgenic models, including arraying injected embryos into multi-well plates, with the added benefit of being able to measure cell proliferation and metastasis in the presence or absence of a drug.\nA recent area of growth for zebrafish xenotransplantation in chemical screens is the progression towards enhanced experimental automation and rapid high-resolution imaging (Ghotra et al., 2012). Most xenotransplantation studies require manual injection of the human cells, which can be a time-consuming technical hurdle. Although a skilled researcher can inject a few hundred embryos in an hour, the use of automated methods would greatly expedite this process.\nEfforts are now underway to apply this approach to patient-derived specimens. Primary human tumors, such as gastric cancers, prostate and primary leukemia samples, can be injected into embryos, where they proliferate and disseminate (Bansal et al., 2014; Marques et al., 2009; Pruvot et al., 2011) (V. L. Bentley, C.J.V., D. P. Corkery, J. B. Pinder, M. A. LeBlanc, K. Bedard et al., unpublished results). Murine xenotransplantation studies using primary patient samples can be very complex and relatively expensive. The total sample needed is several times greater in mice than in zebrafish xenografts (typically 100–200 cells are needed per zebrafish embryo), so zebrafish provide a key advantage when working with precious limited biopsy samples. Zebrafish engraftment can also take as little as 2–3 days, whereas, in a murine model, primary tissue grafts can take weeks to months, if engraftment occurs at all.\nGiven the speed of zebrafish xenotransplantation, it could be used as a predictive tool for patient responses to drug therapies. Transplanting malignant patient tissue or cells into hundreds of zebrafish embryos and monitoring the response to planned investigational drug treatments could yield valuable information on the most suitable drug to be administered for that particular patient. Evidence of a response to a small-molecule inhibitor might indicate effective targeting of an actionable genetic driver lesion, as we observed for a child with T-ALL who expressed a novel γ-secretase-responsive Notch mutation (Bentley et al., 2013) (V. L. Bentley, C.J.V., D. P. Corkery, J. B. Pinder, M. A. LeBlanc, K. Bedard et al., unpublished results). The ability of zebrafish xenotransplantation to provide such actionable personalized clinical information is promising and, with further validation, has the potential to find its way into future clinical trials.\nThe approach could be most readily adapted in leukemia, where the incorporation of targeted therapeutic strategies is becoming commonplace and diagnostic material is easily accessible. In contrast to current strategies where a targeted therapy could be randomly assigned to a patient who might or might not be screened to confirm the presence of a particular actionable genetic lesion, incorporation of the zebrafish xenograft platform could provide a more practical functional genomics readout with real time in vivo response data, which could be followed by genomic validation. Applicability to solid tumors is also feasible; however, here there is a need to overcome the challenges of limited availability of biopsy material and tumor heterogeneity (which could mean that the sample being engrafted is not representative of tumor genetics or behavior).\nDiagnostic leukemia or solid tumor samples can also be used to predict responses to experimental therapies that might be considered in the event of refractory disease or relapse. Anecdotally, we have undertaken these studies, which could inform the selection of a particular Phase I/II trial. In most cases the eligibility for these studies is refractory or relapsed disease without specific evidence for the presence of a particular target or activity of a given pathway. Evidence of an efficacy signal from pre-screening available Phase I/II drug options using a zebrafish xenograft model could provide timely guidance in choosing the most promising therapy. Although encouraging in its ability to more specifically tailor therapy at relapse, this strategy could be limited by clonal evolution, which has the potential to significantly alter the genetics and response of a tumor from the time of diagnosis.\nAs is the case for other embryonic zebrafish chemical screens, in addition to evaluating drug efficacy, zebrafish xenotransplantation can help determine drug toxicity. By using xenografted embryos, the value of co-administration of a toxicity-mitigating agent can be studied in the context of ongoing primary drug efficacy. Using this approach, we confirmed that two novel compounds could prevent cardiotoxicity from anthracycline antibiotics without compromising cytotoxicity in an engrafted T-ALL cell line (Y. Liu, A. Asnani, L. Zou, V. L. Bentley, M. Yu, Y. Wang et al., unpublished results). Similarly, drug efficacy and neurotoxicity could be evaluated. The optical clarity of the zebrafish embryo enables clear visualization of neural structures and there is a battery of probes that label each distinct component of the central nervous system, facilitating the evaluation of drug-induced anatomic changes. Drugs of lower molecular weights more easily cross the embryonic blood-brain barrier, a factor to be taken into consideration when evaluating the impact on brain development of a compound given systemically. Finally, myelotoxicity is inherently evaluable in the zebrafish xenograft context. By conducting xenograft drug response studies that incorporate transgenic reporter lines that label neutrophils (Hsu et al., 2004; Renshaw et al., 2006), erythrocytes (Long et al., 1997) or thrombocytes (Lin et al., 2005), the impact of a drug on cell numbers can be visually determined and subsequently quantified using fluorescence-activated cell sorting.\nTransgenic and xenotransplantation approaches have long been used in a complementary manner in mice to evaluate responses of tumors to drugs. Transgenic approaches in zebrafish have become well established, with a growing acceptance and appreciation for the tremendous efficiency of high-throughput chemical screens in genetically modified embryos to provide new indications for the repurposing of available agents and reveal the potential efficacy of novel compounds. Although still in its infancy, the zebrafish xenotransplantation platform capitalizes on many of the advantages inherent in the zebrafish system, with additional opportunities in the evaluation of patient-derived samples, tumor-microenvironment interactions and the potential ability to inform treatment decisions in an actionable time frame. Like all techniques, zebrafish xenotransplantation is not without its limitations, and additional proof-of-principle studies are needed to conclusively show that features that have made the mouse xenotransplantation model the ‘gold standard’ for preclinical studies, such as the ability for orthotopic engraftment and serial transplantation, are equally robust in the fish (Table 1). Given current pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to use more cost-effective pre-screening tools for drug discovery, and the clinical demand for more targeted and personalized therapy, we predict that the popularity of the zebrafish xenotransplantation model will continue to increase and will provide a uniquely powerful tool to improve the outcome for patients with cancer.\nThis article is part of a Special Issue, Spotlight on Zebrafish: Translational Impact. See all the articles in the issue at http://dmm.biologists.org/content/7/7.toc.\nThe authors declare no competing financial interests.\nG.D. and J.N.B. are funded by a Collaborative Health Research Project from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council CPG-12-10-29/CHRP-41-38-59. C.J.V. and J.N.B. are funded by a C17 Canadian Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Network/Ewing’s Cancer Foundation of Canada Grant and the Cancer Care Nova Scotia Peggy Davison Clinician Scientist Award.\n- © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd\nThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Whenever I’m back home in the US, I’m always grabbing books about the nation to help the kids learn more about their American side. One of my favorite books is Laurie Keller’s The Scrambled States of America, which I just read to them again today.\nIn it, Kansas decides he’d like to meet some other states, so all the states have a party to meet each other. That leads to the idea of swapping places. It’s a great, great read, with all the states deciding they want to go back home in the end. My kids are entranced by it and love parts like Nevada and Mississippi falling in love, plus some of the trivia the book has.\nEven I learned things, such as Michigan having a thumb region. That got me to thinking about the various ways I learned to remember some of the states, which I’ve been passing on to the kids.\nCalifornia is easy, in that they know it’s Daddy’s state. But I did initially remind them that if you look at it, it sort of forms the shape of a C for California. Similarly, Texas always looked like a lower case T to me, while Louisiana looks like an L.\nThen there are parts of states that have names based on what they look like, such as the Oklahoma panhandle and the aforementioned Michigan thumb. I’d love to know what some other areas of states are referred to by those who live there. It’s one of those things you don’t know if you’re from out of state. If I eventually enable comments on the blog, please post some you know of below.\nAt the end of the book, all the states are listed alphabetically. I made the mistake of singing these for the kids to the tune of Fifty Nifty United States, or what I can remember of it from learning it in elementary school. I always lose the tune near the middle.\nTurns out, the song was written by Ray Charles, which you can listen to and buy here.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "We’ve all heard of amino acids, but what exactly are they, and why are they essential to our diets?\nAmino acids are the building blocks of protein. They are organic compounds containing an amino group (-NH2) and a carboxy group (-COOH). As about twenty percent of the human body is made up of protein, amino acids make up a large proportion of our cells, muscles, and tissue.\nAmino acids are integral to to the biological processes that happen within our bodies, such as giving cells their structure, transporting and storing nutrients, as well as forming our organs, glands, arteries and muscles. They’re also essential for healing wounds and repairing tissue, especially in the muscles, skin, bones, and hair.\nThere are 23 proteinogenic (protein building) amino acids in total, and over 100 natural amino acids, which are non-proteinogenic. Of the proteinogenic amino acids, 9 are essential, 11 which are nonessential, and 3 of which are not found in the human body.\nEssential amino acids are not produced naturally by the body, so they have to be obtained from the foods we eat. The 9 essential amino acids are: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. Each of these amino acids have unique properties and play crucial roles in our working bodies.\nNon-essential amino acids are produced in the human body, so they are not essential to our diets. There are also three amino acids (selenocysteine, pyrrolysine, and N-formylmethionine) which are not found in humans, but are non-standard protein-building amino acids found in plants and other organisms.\nBranched-Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs) refers to three essential amino acids: leucine, isoleucine, and valine. These are amino acids that have aliphatic side-chains with a branch in their atomic structure. Branched-Chain Amino Acids account for 35% of the essential amino acids in our muscles.\nSo how do we get the amino acids that we need, and what exactly do they do? Here’s a quick insight into each of these powerful little molecules.\nThe 9 Essential Amino Acids\nLeucine helps to stimulate muscle strength and growth, and helps to retain lean muscle when dieting. Leucine is the main amino acid directly responsible for activating an essential compound in muscle called mTOR(mammalian target of rapamycin), which is directly responsible for up-regulating protein synthesis. Leucine provides the basic building blocks for muscle and helps to synthesise more. Leucine also helps to regulate blood sugar levels by moderating insulin into the body during and after exercise, and has a positive impact on our brain and neurotransmitters.\nIsoleucine is an isolated form of leucine that helps the body produce haemoglobin. Haemoglobin carries iron in the blood and regulates blood sugar which is burned for energy in the muscles during exercise. Whey protein isolate is naturally high in Isoleucine.\nIsoleucine also assists nitrogen growth within the muscle cells, which is a large part of our structural and DNA makeup.\nSources of Isoleucine: soy, meat and fish, dairy and eggs, cashews, almonds, oats, lentils, beans, brown rice, legumes, chia seeds.\nLysine is one of the main amino acids that is responsible for muscle repair and growth, and has also been shown to boost the body's immune system. Lysine also helps the absorption of other minerals in the body and is needed for the synthesis of collagen which is the main element needed for the formation of connective tissue and bones in the body.\nSources of Lysine: eggs, meat, poultry, beans, peas, cheese, chia seeds, spirulina, parsley, avocados, almonds, cashews, whey protein.\nMethionine is important for the growth of new blood vessels and muscle growth, and it contains sulphur, which is integral to tissue and muscle health. Without enough sulphur in the body, people can be susceptible to arthritis, damaged tissue, and have trouble healing. Methionine also aids in the production of muscle growth and the formation of creatine, which is needed for energy. Methionine can also dissolve fat within the body and reduces fat deposits in the liver.\nSources of Methionine: meat, fish, cheese, dairy, beans, seeds, chia seeds, brazil nuts, oats, wheat, figs, whole grain rice, beans, legumes, onions, and cacao.\nPhenylalanine is turned into the amino acid tyrosine within the body, which is needed to make proteins and brain chemicals such as epinephrine, L-dopa, norepinephrine, and thyroid hormones. Phenylalanine therefore has a large impact on our mood and mental health.\nSources of Phenylalanine: milk and dairy, meat, fish, chicken, eggs, spirulina, seaweed, pumpkin, beans, rice, avocado, almonds, peanuts, quinoa, figs, raisins, leafy greens, most berries, olives, and seeds.\nThreonine supports health function of the immune system, liver, heart, and the central nervous system. It is also needed to create glycine and serine, amino acids that are necessary to produce elastin, collagen, and muscle tissue. It is essential for the healthy working of the muscles, and help to keep them strong and elastic. Threonine also helps to build strong bones, and can help to accelerate the healing of wounds and tissue injuries.\nSources of threonine: lean meat, cheese, nuts, seeds, lentils, watercress and spirulina, pumpkin, leafy greens, hemp seeds, chia seeds, soybeans, almonds, avocados, figs, raisins, and quinoa.\nWhen tryptophan is absorbed by the body, it is eventually turned into serotonin - the chemical responsible for making us feel happy, is a neurotransmitter, and helps to lower stress levels and depression. Tryptophan is also known for inducing a relaxing effect on the body, and promotes healthy sleep patterns, as well as supporting brain function and nervous system function.\nSources of tryptophan: chocolate, milk, cheese, turkey, red meat, yogurt, eggs, fish, poultry, chickpeas, almonds, sunflower seed, pepitas, spirulina, bananas, and peanuts.\nValine is essential for optimal muscle growth and repair. It helps to supply the muscles with extra glucose responsible for energy production during physical activity, making it essential for endurance and overall muscle health. It also helps to smooth working of the nervous system and cognitive function, as well as curing metabolic and liver diseases.\nSources of valine include: cheese, red meat, chicken, pork, nuts, beans, spinach, legumes, broccoli, seeds, chia seeds, whole grains, figs, avocado, apples, blueberries, cranberries, oranges, and apricots.\nHistidine supports brain health and neurotransmitters (in particular, the neurotransmitter histamine). It also helps to detoxify the body by producing red and white blood cells, which are needed for overall health and immunity. Histidine can even help protect tissues from damage caused by radiation or heavy metals.\nSources of Histidine: red meat, cheese, white meat and poultry, seafood, soybeans, beans, legumes, chia seeds, buckwheat, potatoes.\nSo what is the best source of amino acids?\nThere are many amino acids on the market that are manufactured chemically. This can be done with chemical synthesis or extraction from protein sources. Synthesized amino acids differ in effect, depending on the way that they were genetically engineered. We recommend obtaining amino acids from a natural protein source, rather than a synthesized substitute.\nWhey protein is one of the few sources that naturally contain all 20 amino acids, making it a complete protein.\nBare Blends’ whey protein isolate blends have a superior amino acid profile, and are especially undenatured. They provide our bodies with the most functional protein to recover, repair and build muscles, and also boosting our immunity.\nThe convenience factor of our vegan protein blends, or whey protein blends is an important one - as with after exercise it is important to fuel our bodies with amino acids straight away so they can begin recovering our muscles immediately.\nThese blends are also extremely handy for quick, nutrient-dense breakfast smoothies when you don't have time for anything else. Blending up a serve of our WPI with dairy/nut milk or your liquid of choice, with some frozen fruit is a delicious healthy breakfast which will keep you sustained, and contain the protein and amino acids which your body needs to recover and perform optimally.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A key performance indicator refers to a measurable value which indicates how a firm is achieving its primary business objectives (Marr, 2012). In most cases, organizations use KPIs to evaluate if they have achieved their targets. Some of the financial key performance indicators include gross profit margin, net profit margin, current ratio, aging accounts receivable, and net profit. The indicators are also used to show the financial performance of a company.\nProfit is considered the most important financial performance indicator as it entails analyzing both the net and gross profit of the company to see how it is performing (Parmenter, 2007). Increased profit is an indication that the company is performing well financially. Cost is another important financial indicator to consider. The cost metric measures the cost effectiveness of the company. It also shows that the company should find the best ways of managing and reducing costs for it to make profits. The metric of cost goods sold enhances the company to get a rough idea of how the profit margin and product markup is supposed to be to ensure that the company is performing well (Marr, 2012). Furthermore, it is an important key that is used to knowing how the firm can outsell its competition. If the company can compete effectively with the competitors, then it is an indication that it is performing well. The day sales outstanding considers the accounts receivables of a company then divide them with the credit sales. The number is then multiplied by the total number of days in the timeframe of the firm. In case the number achieved after computation is low then it indicates that the company is performing well.\nTarget versus LOB revenue helps in comparing the projected revenue and the total revenue of the company. Minimizing the costs is not the only way that can be used to know if the company is performing well. The customer lifetime value should also be put into considerations when measuring the financial performance of a company as it shows if the company has a long-term relationship with the customers. According to the information provided, it is evident that 75% of the customers usually continue with the project after designing. Using this metric helps the company to get the best customers at reasonable prices. The customers retention and satisfaction are another important issues to consider when analyzing the performance of a company. According to this concept, the customers should be motivated for them to continue yearning for a firms services (Parmenter, 2007). Motivated customers usually put more efforts in ensuring that the products produced are of high quality and the customers are served well. Different performance indicators can be used to measure this metric including the number of consumers making purchases frequently.\nThe net promoter is another important performance indicator although it is used in measuring the long-term growth of the firm (Marr, 2012). Through this metric, the customers will get the chance of recommending the company to their friends, colleague, and relatives which will result to increase the sales and profits of the company. The number of customers a company is gaining or losing helps it to know if the needs of the consumers are met (Parmenter, 2007). When the company is gaining more customers, then this is an indication that it is performing well. However, when the customers are reducing then it means that the company is not performing well. Thus it should find ways of evaluating the needs of its consumers.\nThe current ratio describes the capability of the company to pay its bills. It is calculated by diving the current ratio with the current liabilities (Parmenter, 2007). Through this, the creditors of the company will easily know if their debts will be settled. Furthermore, aging accounts receivable involves sending bills to the consumers. In case some of the customers pay their bills in time while other pay their bill late, the company can find the reason for its cash flows problem. The company can resolve this issue by commencing to write off the debts or commence charging interest on the accounts that are overdue.\nThe following are the main financial indicators that determine the financial health of Royal Design Inc. the gross profit is the most important financial performance indicator used in determining the financial health of the company.\nGross profit= (revenue-the cost of goods sold)\n$10506 9245 = $1261.\nIn comparing the gross profit for the financial year 2016 and 2015, the one for the financial year 2016 is low which indicates that the company is not performing well. In 2016, both the cost of sales and revenue have decreased. All the same, the gross profit of the business is large enough to cover its fixed operating expenses. Therefore, although the profitability of the company is decreasing it has the ability to cover its fixed operating expenses. The net profit is the amount the company is left with after paying all the bills. It is computed by subtracting the total expenses from the total revenue. In 2015 and 2016, the company made a net profit of $339 and $(67) respectively. The company made losses in 2016 which is an indication that it is not performing well financially. The loss made by the firm means that it does not have enough capital to keep its operations during the slow periods as it made a loss.\nNet profit financial indicator helps in showing the company the percentage of revenue that was profit. It is computed by dividing the net profit by the total revenue. 67/10, 506 = 0.006377. The value of the profit margin is very low. Thus, it cannot assist the company to set goals and project the future profits. Most of the firms use the aging accounts receivable as an eye opener. It indicates the duration of time the consumers take to pay their debt. According to the information provided, it is evident that only 15% of your consumers proceed with their projects at a later date. Therefore, the firm does not have a large number of debtors. However, it can use the method of writing off debts or placing interest for the consumers who take a long period before repaying their debts.\nThe current ration financial key performance indicator is computed by dividing the current assets by the current liabilities. In 2015, the current ratio of the company is 2677/2168 = 1.2 while in 2016, 2487/ 1942 = 1.3. Therefore, it is evident that the current ratio of the company of the company reduced from the previous year. However, ideally, current ratio should be between 1.5 and 3. The current ratio indicates that the company has a small capability of paying its bills.\nNon-financial key performance indicators\nThe number of customers that a company has is an indication of how the company is performing. A rise in the number of customers purchasing the products of the firm is an indication that it is performing well (Parmenter, 2007). Furthermore, if the number of new customers increases then it is an indication that the needs and preferences of the existing consumers are met. Responsible investment is another non-financial key performance indicator. A company should have a good investment capability to show that it is growing. Having a high percentage of investment capabilities is an indication that the firm is performing well (Marr, 2012). The cultural entropy is also used in measuring the amount of limiting or negative values that exist in a company which can lead to unproductive work. If the cultural entropy is low, then this indicates that the firm has a healthy culture.\nDonating to the community is another important factor in determining is the company is performing well. It indicates that the company is concerned about its community and it is doing something important to give back to the community (Parmenter, 2007). Employee satisfaction and engagement allows a company to create a workforce which is engaged. Increasing the morale of the employees makes them put more effort into their activities. Therefore, when a company gives its employees incentives, and they put more effort in their different activities, then it is an indication that it is performing well.\nThe quality of work produced by a firm is a non-financial key performance indicator. It is evident that RAD is performing well in quality because 75% of the customers usually proceed with the projects after they are designed. Offering quality products may result in an increase in sales and profits of the organization. Offering good customer service to the customers helps in providing good experience as they are satisfied with the products of the firm (Marr, 2012). Making the consumers feel valued will give the firm more business in the future. Additionally, when the employees have good interactions with customers, then it is an indication that it is performing well.\nInformal conversations and surveys with the employees help the firm to assess its level of consumers service that the firm is currently providing. Public image is also used when measuring the non-financial key performance of accompanying (Parmenter, 2007). When a company improves the way the general public views it, then it is an indication that it is performing well. When the general company views a company well, then it means it can make stronger relationships with the community. The aim of every company should be to maintain its professional image (Marr, 2012). Donating funds and time to the charitable organizations helps in establishing the firm as a fixture in the society.\nReasons for decline in profitability\nThe increase in costs incurred by a company may have resulted to decrease in profit. The cost of labor per hour paid to the employees are high (Pwc, 2013). Additionally, the cost the company uses in purchasing the raw materials is high which shows that the company uses much of its capital in paying the labor costs. Additionally, the fixed costs of the company are high. Thus, the firm should produce a lot of its product for it to benefit from the economies of scale. The high fixed costs of the company are the reason why the profitability is decreasing. The decrease in the sales is another reason why the profitability of the company has declined.\nIn comparing the sales of the company in the financial year 2015 and 2016, the sales declined in 2016. The decrease in the sales of the company may be as a result of pricing issues. The prices charged by the firm on its products are low. The prices are almost similar to the cost of producing the products. On the other hand, the competitors might have dropped their prices which cause the firm to shift. In the case of this company, the competitors are a non-issue because 75% of the customers continue with their projects after the company had designed them. Creativity changes is another strategy that can be used to determine the reason for the decrease in sales (Osburg & Schmidpeter, 2013). The company might have designed its products without testing.\nAlthough the financial costs of the company declined from the previous year, the costs are still high because the company is small. The high financial costs might have need caused by increased interest rates or even increased capital expenditure (Osburg & Schmidpeter, 2013). Another reason why profitability of the company decreased may be increased competition. The market of the products the company is selling is very competitive. Thus, the consumers might have resolved to purchase products from the companies that are charging cheaply. Furthermore, in considering the type of business the company is doing, it is easy for new firms to enter the market as compared to the other industries.\nThe decline in demand for the products sold by the company resulted in declining in profitability. The decline in the demand is evident through the cost...\nCite this page\nFinancial Key Performance Indicators - Essay Sample. (2021, Mar 26). 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{"text": "|Understanding and Enhancing the Value of Female Corrections Professionals|\n|By Robert Winters, JD, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Purdue Global University|\nThe first female warden in the United States was Mary Weed, who after the passing of her husband in 1793 became caretaker of the Philadelphia Walnut Street Jail (and who enjoyed, it should be noted, an administration remarkably free of corruption). It was another quarter-century before the first female correctional officer was appointed, at New York’s Sing Sing prison in 1822. Thereafter, the growth of women in corrections slowed drastically, not improving until the late twentieth century.\nIn 1969, women made up 12 percent of the correctional workforce, and that only in facilities housing female inmates. Although a 1972 amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited gender discrimination in hiring by state and local governments, and the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals promulgated guidelines for hiring women in all correctional facilities in 1973, as of 1978 four state agencies still did not hire females for male correctional facilities. (One of those states, Texas, had no female correctional officers in 1978 but had 8,528 by 1998.) While various researchers and surveys have used different methodologies over the years, we can nevertheless obtain snapshots of the progress of women entering the field of corrections.\nBy 1995 the overall general correctional staff in the U.S. was 41 percent female. In 1999, 69,199 of 207,600 jail employees (33 percent) were female. In 2001 24.5 percent of correctional officers in male facilities were women. As of 2005 69,299 of 419,637 or 16.5 percent of federal and state officers were female. By 2007 women represented 37 percent of the adult correctional workforce and 51 percent of the juvenile workforce. The Bureau of Justice Statistics study Women in Law Enforcement, 1987-2008, published in June 2010, shows that in 1998 12 percent of Bureau of Prisons officers were female, up to 14 percent in 2008.\nWhile these numbers represent significant improvement in just over three and a half decades, the percentages seem anemic when one considers that the total U.S. labor force is about 47 percent female. Moreover, as of 2007 over one million women were under the supervision of the U.S. criminal justice system, with over 200,000 of those incarcerated, and the number of female inmates increased by 404 percent from 1985 to 2007 compared to 209 percent for males. Clearly, there will be a significant female offender population requiring oversight.\nResearch has demonstrated repeatedly that there are very real differences between the genders (although it is important to recognize that those differences represent strengths that can be complementary in a mixed-gender environment, not weaknesses of one gender or the other). Specifically, women overall tend to be more communicative, collaborative, inclusive, and skilled with people, particularly in terms of being patient, empathetic, and nurturing. They are also usually desirous of information and interested in intricate relationships, whether those involve people, processes, or data.\nIt should not be surprising, then, that research has shown that female correctional staff have a positive effect on the environment even of all-male facilities. A 1980 study reported that male offenders did not feel that female officers invaded their privacy and did not resent taking orders from females. A San Quentin warden found female officers to be more observant and more attentive—important considerations for both security and improved inmate relations. Research in a prison in the southern U.S. revealed that male offenders were less likely to engage in violence in the presence of female officers and considered those officers to be just as competent as their male counterparts. In fact, another study found that male inmates viewed female correctional officers more favorably than did male staff members.\nWith the shift toward reentry preparation, the particular strengths of female correctional staffers have significant value. For example, one study found that offenders were more likely to be open with female officers regarding medical and educational concerns. The typical female approach to interpersonal communication is less confrontational, and women are socialized to view physical aggression as a last resort; these two traits produce lower levels of violence and fewer assaults. An experiment in the late 1990s in the Israeli Prison Service found that “the presence of women helped prevent trouble; they had a sharper sense for impending problems....” Also, because women tend to have a more collaborative decision-making process, as leaders they tend to produce subordinates who are better at problem-solving and in general produce more creative solutions.\nHow, then, do we incorporate more women into corrections? One of the first areas to consider is training. Opinions do differ on whether female officers should receive gender-specific training. Many authorities, including the South Carolina Department of Corrections and the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), feel that such training is appropriate and vital. Others, such as the female warden of a 1,000-bed male facility that is manned by nearly 80 percent female staffers, insist there is no such need. It is perhaps worth considering that in promoting gender-specific training, both South Carolina and NIC refer in part to the challenges of working in a male-dominated environment. It stands to reason, then, that once the correctional workforce more nearly represents the gender composition of the general population, the need for such training might well fade away. On the other hand, training that helps both male and female staffers to understand the aforementioned differences in the genders (and more not discussed here) could be a real benefit to all concerned.\nWhile women have entered the correctional workforce, their promotion into supervisory and other leadership roles has been slower. Good mentorship is key to developing leaders, and with few female role models, women correctional professionals have suffered a dearth of mentorship. As women gradually enter the leadership ranks in greater numbers, a “critical mass” of potential mentors will develop. However, given their relative scarcity it is vital that female leaders act as mentors at every opportunity.\nAlong with the military, corrections is one of the last remaining male-dominated fields. But correctional institutions can benefit tremendously from what women have to offer, and it is important that women have the opportunity to fulfill their potential.\nCorrections.com author, Robert Winters, holds a Juris Doctorate degree and is a Professor with Kaplan University. He is also a member of the National Criminal Justice Association and serves as a Western Regional Representative, a member of the National Advisory Board and their National Elections Committee.\nOther articles by Winters\nIN CASE YOU MISSED IT", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Oatstraw: Medicine from the hills\nThe hills surrounding Yolo County are covered with oatstraw. In the coming months this annual green grass will turn to gold. As summer rolls in, the green and gold of the hills give way to a darker brown. The “golden rolling hills of California” are honored in paintings, songs and poems. Have you ever wondered which plants give us this wonderful display of changing colors? Well, one of them is oatstraw.\nOatstraw (Avena sativa) is a plant that has colonized millions of acres. It escaped the farmer’s oat fields and has naturalized throughout California. It chokes out native plants and can literally take over entire hillsides. The good thing about it is that almost everyone can benefit from drinking oatstraw tea. It grows in such abundance that unlike many other medicinal plants, it does not matter how much of it you harvest. You can pick as much oatstraw as you want without having to worry about the environmental impact of your harvest.\nOatstraw is usually ready to harvest from mid February through mid April depending on its exposure to sun and access to water. As with harvesting any herb, do not pick any plants unless you are absolutely sure that you have identified the correct plant. It is best to attend an herb walk or have a knowledgeable person introduce you to a plant. When harvesting any herb you want to make sure that you pick them in a place that is as clean as possible. Never harvest near a road, from an area that may have been sprayed with herbicides or from a place where dogs or cats frequent.\nOatstraw needs to be harvested while it is still green. If the plant is beginning to turn gold, it is past the harvesting stage and you need to wait until next year. It is important to harvest oatstraw while there is still a milk-like substance in the seed pods. Squeeze the seed pods, if they are milky, then harvest the top seven inches of the plant including the milky seed pods. Let the plant dry in a cool, dark place and then store it in a jar or a paper bag in a dark cabinet. If you are not able to harvest the herb yourself, dried oatstraw is readily available at the Davis Food Co-op.\nWhy would you want to go through all of this trouble to have a bunch of dried oat grass around your house? Oatstraw is a wonderful nourishing herb that is one of the best remedies that I know of for stress, emotional challenges, and a burned out nervous system.\nOatstraw helps with insomnia, a chattering mind, anxiety, nervous exhaustion, nerve pain, recovery from substance abuse, emotional trauma, tension, depression, P.M.S., and nervous headaches. When someone seems overwrought, on the edge, overdone, frazzled, and generally worn out, I suggest oatstraw. Oatstraw helps to regenerate and nourish the nervous system. It is gentle, calming and soothing. Oatstraw is not a quick fix herb; it is an herb that can be quite effective if used on a regular basis over time. Every person and every situation is different, but a general guideline could be to drink two to three cups of infusion, three or four times a week for several weeks.\nOatstraw is one of my favorite herbal remedies for emotional challenges and stress and it actually has a very nice taste! Hardly a week goes by without use this gentle healing medicine from my surrounding hills.\nAdd four tablespoons of dried oatstraw to one quart of water. Bring it to a boil, turn off the heat, let it sit in the pot with the lid on for four hours, then strain the herb from the infusion. Drink at room temperature throughout the day or re-heat your infusion as desired.\nKami McBride is the author of The Herbal Kitchen and has helped thousands of people learn to use herbs in their daily lives in ways that are healthy, safe and fun. She is the director of Cultivating the Herbal Medicine Woman Within, an experiential training in using herbs in the home for everyday health. An intuitive and inspiring teacher, Kami works to revive the cultural art of home herbal care and teaches herbology as a relationship with the Earth and a way of life. For a schedule of classes or herbal consultations Kami can be reached at (707) 446-1290 or sign up for her free herbal e-newsletter at: www.livingawareness.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I believe that the term “governor” and “corruption” have been synonymous since at least 70 B.C. when Cicero made the legal case against Caius Verres, the Roman governor of Sicily. Amongst a host of other allegations, Cicero charged that Verres had famously stripped the interior of that contented island of everything of value, and then forced the city of Syracuse to build and crew a new ship each year to transport Verres’ plunder back to Rome, where he kept the plunder and sold the ship - and kept the money. Before Cicero had even finished presenting his case, on the advice of his own lawyer, Verres fled Italy with a fair part of his wealth still intact. We know this because years later Mark Anthony had Verres executed, in order to steal what Verres had stolen from Sicily. The murder of corrupt Roman officials by other corrupt Roman officials had, by then, become part of the circle of life.\n- 30 -", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Availability of CCS was found by the IPCC  to lower overall climate change mitigation cost to society, based on the results of integrated assessment models. In this presentation, drawing on recent studies [2, 3], we use the integrated assessment model GCAM to explore the ways in which CCS could be used in a future carbon-constrained world, focusing on its possible roles across different sectors ─ electricity, liquid fuels (predominantly, biofuels for transportation), and industry ─ and coupled to different primary fuels (oil, gas, coal, and biomass). To generate scenarios, we assume an increasing economy-wide global price on GHG emissions high enough to match radiative forcing targets, approximating a mitigation pathway that is least cost to society for a given target.\nThe total scale of CCS deployment largely depends on the stringency of the target, with more CO2 stored with more ambitious mitigation. For example, in a RCP 2.6 scenario, GCAM estimates that about 350 Gt of CO2 would be cumulatively stored by 2100, compared to approximately 190 Gt in a RCP 4.5 scenario.\nResults show that the deployment of CCS technologies is not limited to fossil fuels, nor to power plants. There is potential for significant long-term climate change mitigation from application of CCS in the use of biomass to produce both electricity and liquid fuels [2, 3]. Moreover, in the more stringent climate change mitigation scenarios examined with GCAM (e.g. RCP 2.6 and 4.5), most biofuels and bio-electricity over the century use CCS to reduce their emissions.\nOur results (see Figure) show a near-term role for some industrial process (such as natural gas processing, and cement and fertilizer production), because of the lower cost of CCS in some instances. This could drive CCS development and technology cost reduction. However, these industrial processes currently account for only a small fraction of global GHG emissions. Thus, deployment of CCS technologies at a scale that contributes significantly to long-term climate change mitigation entails large-scale deployment in the power sector and/or coupling to production of biofuels (if biofuel production were to grow substantially in the future), simply based on the projected scale of these sectors .\nOur results indicate that the use of biomass coupled to CCS in the electricity sector could become significant (reaches 5% of the total CCS applications) around 2050 in the RCP 4.5 scenario. In the more stringent RCP 2.6 scenarios the carbon price is significantly higher, and bio-electricity with CCS is deployed as early as 2030, accounting for about 10% of the total CCS applications . In both scenarios, there is greater deployment of CCS coupled to biomass than to coal, when considering cumulative use over this century .\nThe generation of energy systems transformation pathways over this century is subject to deep uncertainty and entails numerous assumptions. The deployment of CCS technologies competes with other mitigation options on a relative cost basis in GCAM―with climate policy, fuel costs, and technology costs as key factors. The inter-sectoral deployment of CCS technologies in GCAM is found, for example, to depend on assumptions about how future CCS and biofuel technology costs evolve . In the electricity sector, CCS cost adders (i.e. the additional cost implementing CCS at a plant) are key technology parameters, whereas for biofuel production the non-energy costs (i.e. not including the cost of biomass feedstock production and transport) for producing biofuels are more relevant. CCS cost adders for biofuels represent a smaller portion of the cost increase when competing with petroleum-based fuels. By testing the sensitivity of CCS cost adders and biofuel non-energy costs we show that the share of CCS used in electricity generation and in biofuel production (for use primarily in transportation) can vary significantly, as can the share of CCS coupled with fossil fuels versus bioenergy (bio-electricity and biofuels).\n1. IPCC 2014, Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report.\n2. Muratori, M., Kheshgi, H., Mignone, B., Clarke, L., McJeon, H., and Edmonds, J, 2017. Carbon capture and storage across fuels and sectors in energy system transformation pathways, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 56, pp 34–41, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.11.026.\n3. Muratori, M., Kheshgi, H., Mignone, B., McJeon, H., and Clarke, L., 2017: The future role of CCS in electricity and liquid fuel supply, Energy Procedia, in press.\nFigure: Rate of CO2 stored via CCS technologies in a RCP 4.5 scenario, from .", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Baroque refers to a style of art, architecture, music, literature and drama popular in the 17th and 18th Centuries. It began in Italy and spread throughout Catholic Europe. The Spanish and Portuguese also exported the baroque style to their colonies in Latin America. Baroque art is sumptuous and spectacular, characterized by curved lines and surfaces. Light and shadow create strong contrasts and dramatic effects. The style is characterized by its intent to surprise and overwhelm, whether in painting, architecture, literature, theater or poetry. The origins of the word “baroque” are uncertain. It seems to come from the Portuguese words aljofre barroco, Spanish \"barrueco,\" or French \"baroque,\" all terms used to designate an irregularly shaped pearl. In the 18th Century, critics considered the baroque style strange and eccentric, and used the term pejoratively. However, baroque art was reevaluated during the 19th and 20th Centuries, and is now considered an authentic expression of 17th-century culture.\nIn the 17th Century, scientific discoveries undid the balance of the Renaissance. Man was removed from his position at the center of the universe. As a result, reality was represented in a markedly complex and articulated way. The overloaded shapes of baroque art were a testament to this new development. In baroque art, the prevailing central perspective was replaced by the use of multiple viewpoints, rendering vision more complex. One of the foremost practitioners of Baroque art was Gian Lorenzo Bernini. A sculptor and architect, Bernini mostly worked in Rome. He designed the monumental colonnade in St. Peter’s square, whose elliptical shape symbolizes the church’s embrace of its believers. Bernini’s sculpture, with their elaborate draping and dramatic effects, fully express baroque sensibility.\nDuring the same period, Pietro da Cortona decorated churches and palaces with spectacular frescos that seemed to make ceilings and walls disappear, and the interiors expand. Peter Paul Rubens’s rich colors and elaborate shapes also indicate a baroque sensibility. The famous Flemish artist spent a long time in Italy and Spain, where his extravagant style influenced local artists. Although baroque visual art was centered in Rome, Spain produced the movement’s most important literary artists. Luis de Gongóra’s poems, full of metaphors and allegories, show the same taste for wonder that characterized visual arts. Symbolic and fantastic elements recur in the comedies of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, who passionately addressed religious topics as well. The baroque style spread throughout Europe. Its powerful displays were widely supported by the church and nobility. Numerous baroque artworks can be found in churches, palaces and museums in Rome. Examples of baroque architecture can also be found in Lecce, Puglia and Noto, in Sicily.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I hope you’re enjoying this piece in print. If not, then there’s a good chance you’re reading this on a cell phone.\nTake a moment to think about that. Bytes of data are sitting in a server somewhere, getting sent through “a series of tubes,” and finally appearing as crisp text within 10 seconds. All of this is done with what we consider conventional computing, where computers use transistors as switches to step through one computation at a time.\nThrough what’s called Moore’s law, every 18 months the number of transistors we can fit on the same microchip doubles, while, as though through radioactive decay, the price continually halves. Although the law started as only an observation, it’s become a trend that industry professionals treat as a quasi-fact when they make new products. And it’s allowed us to do amazing things. You can video chat with a significant other on the other side of the world; compute the trajectory a rover takes to land on Mars; or watch all of “House of Cards” without having to leave the couch. All of this is done with what is, fundamentally, a beefed up calculator.\nBut conventional computers have their drawbacks. For one, we’re quickly approaching the limit of Moore’s law: As transistors get smaller and smaller, they’ll cease to be reliable carriers of information and generate too much heat to function properly. Computational boosts won’t be possible by simply squeezing more transistors onto a plate. Secondly, as my 10 percent battery warning reminds me, conventional computers use a lot of power. And lastly, they’re sometimes just plain bad at solving what often seems like simple problems. Compute pi to a million digits: easy as pie; have Siri identify a type of pie based solely on a photo: a scary computational problem.\nAll the while, humans have long known about and used a different type of computer. This one performs tasks such as face recognition and natural language recognition “much better and more accurately” than anything we’ve been able to make a computer do so far, according to John Harris, Ph.D, chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of Florida.\nCompute pi to a million digits: easy as pie; have Siri identify a type of pie based solely on a photo: a scary computational problem.\nIf you haven’t guessed by now, this computer is the brain.\nWith just 20 watts of power — about how much your laptop consumes — your brain can navigate you through Turlington without hitting a pedestrian on your bike. With just a tiny electrical nudge, you can find your friend’s voice from across a loud room and immediately gather from his tone that he wants to leave.\nStill, despite everyone having one, the brain remains a mystery, Harris said. In fact, we still haven’t been able to construct computers that work as well as the brain.\n“It is embarrassing,” Harris said, “that we can’t do as well as a rat running around.”\nBut a field coming into its own, neuromorphic engineering, seeks to use the brain as a biological inspiration for new computers. In his lab, Harris used neuron-like circuits to design a camera that works with less power and provides a higher dynamic range than even high-end models.\nAnother approach to this field, taken by Karim Oweiss, PhD, a professor in the ECE department, is to understand the brain not by modeling it, but by working on it directly.\nOweiss’ team focuses on developing Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI). Prior to the development of modern neurobiology, we could only learn about the brain by observing neural input and the resulting action. For example: Touch a hot pan, and your hand snaps back instantly. In Oweiss’ lab, BMIs are used as a window through which we can read the individual firings of neurons in a brain, showing us what the brain does between touching the pan and snatching your hand away.\nThis has allowed the Oweiss lab to see how neurons adapt themselves when they’re damaged or needed for other tasks — a property known as “neural plasticity.”\nIn a current project, Oweiss places a sensor into mice brains that detects when neurons fire. He then trains the rats to move robotic arms simply by thinking about which direction they would like to move their bodies.\nOweiss said this work could provide relief to paralyzed patients who are unable to move. By applying similar BMI to those patients’ brains, it would be possible to train them to independently move a robotic arm.\nIn Oweiss’ lab, BMIs are used as a window through which we can read the individual firings of neurons in a brain, showing us what the brain does between touching the pan and snatching your hand away.\nBut training requires mental gymnastics, with patients learning to think through very specific movements. Try it out yourself: To work the arm, you’d need to walk through every tiny motion required to, say, flip this page (or your phone, I’m still not going to assume). It’s not easy.\nFor this reason, Oweiss’ former Ph.D. student has attempted to train mice to move the robotic arm with higher level, ‘“goal-oriented” signals. Instead of the mouse thinking through all the necessary in-between steps — arm up, arm down, squeeze — Oweiss’ team believes it has been able to detect and act on the signal. Now they believe the robotic arm is simply acting on the urge to get food.\nIn other words: Oweiss’ team may be reading the mices’ thoughts.\nThis is why neuromorphic computing is so exciting. By trying to answer engineering questions, we are building up the necessary tools to answer what were once considered philosophical questions. And as scientists and engineers continue to explore neurobiology, we see more and more that the mind-melting innovation of science fiction could become an everyday reality.\nAnd Harris pointed out the profound possibilities best: “There is seemingly no roadblock to getting consciousness into a computer.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Why are you called “Old” Roman Catholics?\nWe are called Old Roman Catholics because a) we are the continuation of the original Roman Catholic Church descended through the authentic historic See of Utrecht and b) because we maintain the Catholic Faith as it had always been believed by Western Catholics. (The recent dogmas of the Immaculate Conception [Ineffabilis Deus 1854], Papal Infallibility [Pastor Aeternus 1870] and the Assumption of Mary [Munificentissimus Deus 1950] are taught as pious doctrine.)\nIn 1145 Bl. Eugene III granted the Cathedral Chapter of Utrecht the perpetual right to elect their own bishops. In 1215 the Fourth Lateran Council (Canons 23 and 24) confirmed this privilege. In In 1520, Pope Leo X decreed in his papal bull [Debitum Pastoralis] that the Bishop of Utrecht, his successors, his clergy, and his laity should never be tried by an external tribunal of canon law. If any such proceedings did take place they were null and void.\nThen in 1691, the Jesuits falsely accused Archbishop Peter Codde, the occupant of the See of Utrecht, of favoring the so-called Jansenist heresy. (We say so-called Jansenist heresy because no one has ever yet succeeded in finding the repudiated heretical statements, either in substance or in form in the, “Augustinus” of Bishop Cornelius Jansenius, where the Jesuits pretended to have discovered them.) Despite the Archbishop’s proved innocence of heresy, the influence of the Jesuits was so great that they persuaded the Pope to issue a secret brief suspending and deposing Archbishop Codde. Neither the names of his accusers, nor the charges made against him were ever made known to him, nor was he permitted to offer any defence. All this happened despite the special privileges granted the See of Utrecht. This created a breach which was never healed, though Pope Clement XIV was favorably disposed towards the grievously wronged Church of Utrecht.\nDespite the repeated requests and affirmed desire of the See of Utrecht to reach a canonical solution of the breach, in 1853 Pope Pius IX established another Roman Catholic hierarchy in the Netherlands. This existed alongside that of the original Roman Catholic See of Utrecht. Thereafter in the Netherlands the Utrecht hierarchy was referred to as the ‘Old Roman Catholic Church’ to distinguish it from those in union with the Pope. In the mind of the Holy See, the Old Roman Catholic Church of Utrecht had maintained Apostolic Succession and its clergy thus celebrated valid sacraments in every respect.\nThis Church is called OLD because it rejects Modernism and every recent innovation of doctrine while adhering faithfully to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of Apostolic times. She is called ROMAN because the line of her Apostolic succession from the first century until 1739 was held in common with the Roman Catholic Church and also because she uses the Roman Rite without addition or change, employing the Pontificale, Missale and Rituale Romanum with great care and exactitude as to matter, form and intention in the administration of the seven Sacraments. The Church is CATHOLIC because she is not confined to any one nation or place or time, but ministers to all men, in all places, for all time, teaching the same Faith once delivered by her Founder, Jesus Christ, to the Apostles.\nAre you connected in anyway with the Utrecht Union of Old Catholic Churches?\nIn 1870, Dr. Ignaz von Dollinger brought the “Old Catholics” into being to offer resistance to the dogma of Papal Infallibility. In 1873, the Old Roman Catholic Church of Utrecht was prevailed upon to provide these “Old Catholics” with a bishop in 1889, and an amalgamation took place between the Church of Utrecht and the “Old Catholics”. Though Utrecht was eventually to abandon Old Roman Catholicism, the Church was not to perish.\nArchbishop Arnold Harris Mathew of England was consecrated to the Episcopate by Archbishop Gerard Gul of Utrecht at a time when Utrecht was still truly orthodox (1909). At the time of Archbishop Mathew’s consecration at Utrecht, no serious inroads had been made upon the Catholic Faith by the Church of Utrecht, nor had she yet departed in any way from Catholic traditions and practices. But by the end of 1910, however, the heterodox influence of the “Old Catholics” had proved too much for Utrecht and had overwhelmed her, and so great and far-reaching were the changes which she was prevailed upon to make in her formularies and doctrinal position, that on December 29, 1910, Archbishop Mathew was forced to withdraw the Old Roman Catholic Church in England from Communion with Utrecht in order to preserve its orthodoxy intact.\nUtrecht is no longer Old Roman Catholic but simply “Old Catholic.” Thus it comes about that the ancient and glorious Church of St. Willibrord and St. Boniface has its continuation and perpetuation through the present day Old Roman Catholic Church which is compelled, in defence of its orthodoxy, to refuse to hold union with either Utrecht or the Continental “Old Catholics.”\nWhat is the difference between Old Roman Catholicism and Old Catholicism?\nThe honest inquirer must be cautioned not to confuse the Old Roman Catholic Church with those groups calling themselves “Old Catholic.” Much which, in this age, calls itself “Old Catholic” represents some compromise with Protestantism, or in wider digression, with such non-Christian cults as theosophy. Old Roman Catholicism has no affiliation with such groups as the Polish National Catholic Church, or the Utrecht Union of Churches, the Liberal Catholic Church, the Old Catholic Churches of the Continent or any of the various independent groups which abound in the United States and elsewhere. The heterodoxy of these groups makes union with them impossible.\nOld Roman Catholicism, as Archbishop Mathew (who preserved it after the apostasy of Utrecht) rightly understood it, was different from Modernist influenced Old Catholicism in the retention of ancient doctrines, formularies and praxis, yet different from Roman Catholicism by that same retention of the Catholic Faith as it had “always been believed, everywhere and by all” (St Vincent Lerins) without the additional dogmas decreed by Rome.\nOld Roman Catholicism is a continuation of the true Catholic Faith that had always existed in the West akin to that Faith which the Orthodox Catholics had also maintained since the divide between East and West in 1054. To this end, Archbishop Mathew successfully approached and achieved communion with the ancient Sees of Antioch and Alexandria (Orthodox Patriarchates). This intercommunion was the first real heal of schism between Eastern and Western jurisdictions and was based upon the mutual recognition and maintenance of the ancient Faith of the Church.\nAre you “Episcopi Vagantes”?\nAn oft misused phrase and misapplied term regarding Old Roman Catholics is the term “Episcopi Vagantes” (lit. Latin “Wandering Bishops”). This term is often used derogatively and often by those who ought to know better! The answer is an emphatic “no”! An “Episopus vagans” is a man consecrated validly but irregularly or illicitly (unlawfully) i.e. without ecclesial approbation. Old Roman Catholics claim “canonicity” (licitness/lawfullness) because:\n- The canonical dispute between the Holy See and the See of Utrecht about whether the Ultrajectine See could elect its own Bishops was never canonically i.e. legally, concluded (Bl. Pius IX ignoring due process and erecting an uncanonical hierarchy in Holland in 1853). Thus, it is only just according to Canonical principles to assume that the inalienable right granted by Papal Bull of Bl. Eugene III is still extant and in effect.\n- The rightful Archbishop of Utrecht (Geraldus Gul) in 1909 consecrated and commissioned Arnold Harris Mathew as a Bishop in accordance with the norms of universal ecclesiastical law.\n- When the See of Utrecht fell into ‘apostasy’ in 1910, Bishop Mathew justifiably declared autonomy from the Ultrajectine See on December 29th 1910 and justifiably claimed her canonical rights and prerogatives for the continuation and perpetuation of the Old Roman Catholic Church from Utrecht.\n- On August 5th 1911, [now] Archbishop Mathew was received by His Eminence the Most Reverend Archbishop Gearassimos Messara of Beirut, Syria into the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and the East and intercommunion was established between the second most ancient See of Christendom and first “cathedra” of the Apostle Peter and the Old Roman Catholic Church recognised as an “autocephalous” i.e. self-governing, jurisdiction. This occurred similarly with the Patriarchate of Alexandria in 1912. Thus making the Old Roman Catholic Church a Canonical entity in both the Western and Eastern Catholicates.\nThus the term “Episcopi Vagantes” ought not justifiably be applied to the Old Roman Catholic Church, in all her duly constituted and canonically governed ecclesial communities around the world, nor particularly her Bishops. The Old Roman Catholic Church is a recognised autocephalous and canonical ecclesial entity equal to any other so recognised Church of the East and has a legitimate claim to Canonical status within the Latin Rite.\nWhat is the difference between Old Roman Catholicism and Roman Catholicism?\nDogma and Doctrine\nContemporary Roman Catholics believe in the Immaculate Conception [Ineffabilis Deus 1854], Papal Infallibility [Pastor Aeternus 1870] and the Assumption of Mary [Munificentissimus Deus 1950] Old Roman Catholics recognise these teachings as doctrine, not as dogma. In other words, Old Roman Catholics do not belive it is “necessary for salvation” to believe in these doctrines. The reason why not, is due to a difference in appreciation of the “deposit of Faith”, for Old Roman Catholics, the Catholic Faith was imparted whole to the Apostles and all that was “necessary for salvation” was given them and the Church by Christ [33AD]. Old Roman Catholicism, like the Eastern Orthodox, do not hold to a concept called the “development of doctrine” that modern Roman Catholicism uses to justify later dogmas like those given above. For Old Roman Catholics, the Faith today must be the same as the Faith yesterday and will be tomorrow, this is what we understand by “Apostolic Tradition”, that there is one deposit of Faith that cannot be added to or subtracted from.\nThe Roman Catholic Church teaches that the Pope has “universal ordinary jurisdiction” everywhere in the world, in other words, that a Bishop is not the sole head of any diocese but is effectively an “agent” or “vicar” of the Pope. Indeed, Bishops can only be appointed with the approval of the Pope. Many are surprised to know that this is a comparatively modern understanding of the role of the Papacy, and has been Canonically so only since 1870.\nOld Roman Catholics believe that every Bishop in his own right, is an Apostle of Christ, and as such has supreme authority for that portion of Christ’s flock entrusted to his care, the Bishop and his flock are “the Church” where they are; as St Ignatius of Antioch put it to St Polycarp of Smyrna, the Church of Christ is in the Bishop, his priests and deacons with the people around the Eucharist in the true Faith. All bishops and their flocks together so comprise the “Catholic Church”, or “The Church is in the Bishop and the Bishop in the Church” as St Cyprian of Carthage wrote.\nEven so, it has long been the practise of the Church to organise herself for administrative purposes so that a church or groups of churches may be led by a Bishop, a Metropolitan or Archbishop, but essentially there is only one Sacramental rank of Bishop – not many. All Bishops are equal. The Pope then as Bishop of Rome, may historically have had authority to govern many churches as a Patriarch, but he is still only a Bishop and thus only the “first among equals” of his brothers in the Episcopate.\nThe Holy See and the Orthodox Patriarchates are currently establishing what the practice of authority was in the first millennium of the Church’s existence and how the Petrine Ministry (position of the Pope of Rome) was understood then within the context of the magisterium universally attributed to the first Seven Ecumenical Councils.\nOld Roman Catholics acknowledge the Bishop of Rome historically and spiritually as the Patriarch of the West and our priests pray for the Pope to express the desire for unity that should exist amongst Western Catholics.\nLike the Eastern Orthodox, Old Roman Catholics recognise that our understanding of doctrine may overtime become more comprehensive, i.e. an increased understanding, and this is how we interpret Christ’s words regarding the Holy Spirit to the Apostles “Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all truth…” (John 16:13) Yet, we believe that what Catholics were asked to believe fifteen hundred years ago and today, must be the same as that believed by the Apostles and first Christians.\nOld Roman Catholics recognise of course, that over time changes have been made to the externals of the faith (e.g. liturgy, devotions, habits, vestments, new feasts, Canons of ecumenical and regional Councils etc) in order to better express the same Faith to different cultures or generations, but the Faith itself cannot change.\nWith regard to this discipline, Old Roman Catholic clergy in common with our Orthodox brethren perpetuate the practice of the first millennium Church, thus they are permitted to marry before Ordination; clerical celibacy is considered a particular and individual vocation rather than a obligatory condition for the Sacred Ministry.\nAre you schismatic Roman Catholics?\nOld Roman Catholicism is not a sect or schism as some of its self-constituted enemies may claim. Old Roman Catholics acknowledge the Bishop of Rome historically and spiritually as the Patriarch of the West and our priests pray for the Pope in the Canon of their Masses to express the desire for unity that should exist amongst Western Catholics. A thorough reading of history clearly indicates that Old Roman Catholics did nothing schismatically to warrant Pius IX’s institution of another heirarchy in the See of Utrecht in 1853, nor taught anything that was not always considered to be Catholic faith and practice.\nIn 1145 Blessed Pope Eugene III granted the Cathedral Chapter of Utrecht the right to elect successors to the See in times of vacancy. This meant that, unlike most other Sees in the Roman Catholic Church, the Cathedral Chapter of Utrecht could elect bishops without permission or approval from the Pope. This had always been the practice in the early Church. In 1215, the Fourth Lateran Council (Canons 23 and 24) confirmed this privilege.\nAnother significant right granted the Church of the Netherlands was its immunity from prosecution by Roman Catholic courts of canon law constituted outside the See of Utrecht. In 1520, Pope Leo X decreed in his papal bull Debitum Pastoralis that the Bishop of Utrecht, his successors, his clergy, and his laity should never be tried by an external tribunal of canon law. If any such proceedings did take place they were null and void. This extraordinary right had been granted by Pope Leo X at the request of Philip of Burgundy, who was the reigning prince-bishop of Utrecht at the time.\nIn 1691, the Jesuits falsely accused Archbishop Peter Codde, the occupant of of the See of Utrecht, of favoring the so-called Jansenist heresy. We say so-called Jansenist heresy because no one has ever yet succeeded in finding the repudiated heretical statements, either in substance or in form, in the Augustinus of bishop Cornelius Jansenius, where the Jesuits pretended to have discovered them. Archbishop Codde was ordered to stand trial in Rome despite the special privilege and Papal dispensation from such a trial (see above re Debitum Pastoralis). Despite the Archbishop’s proved innocence of heresy, the influence of the Jesuits was so great that they persuaded the Pope to issue a secret brief suspending and deposing Archbishop Codde. Neither the names of his accusers, nor the charges made against him, were ever made known to him, nor was he permitted to offer any defence. This created a breach which was never healed, though Pope Clement XIV was favorably disposed towards the grievously wronged Church of Utrecht.\nWe believe and maintain, as we have always done since 1691, that these irregular proceedings against the Church of Utrecht, based, as they were, upon charges which were proved at the time to have been groundless, were null and void and in direct contravention of the privileged rights of the See of Utrecht for immunity from prosecution outside her territory. Add the uncanonical actions of Pope Pius IX in 1853, again contravening a privilege granted the See of Utrecht in 1145 re the election and thus appointment of her own Bishops and despite the majority opinion being in our favour of Canon lawyers and academics. Thus it is that we have remained, and are still in actual technical fact, and not according to any fanciful or far-fetched theory, part and parcel of the Roman Catholic Church.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In computing, channel I/O is a high-performance input/output (I/O) architecture that is implemented in various forms on a number of computer architectures, especially on mainframe computers. In the past, channels were generally implemented with custom processors, variously named channel, peripheral processor, I/O processor, I/O controller, or DMA controller.\nMany I/O tasks can be complex and require logic to be applied to the data to convert formats and other similar duties. In these situations, the simplest solution is to ask the CPU to handle the logic, but because I/O devices are relatively slow, a CPU could waste time (in computer perspective) waiting for the data from the device. This situation is called 'I/O bound'.\nChannel architecture avoids this problem by using a separate, independent, low-cost processor. Channel processors are simple, but self-contained, with minimal logic and sufficient on-board scratchpad memory (working storage) to handle I/O tasks. They are typically not powerful or flexible enough to be used as a computer on their own and can be construed as a form of coprocessor.\nA CPU sends relatively small channel programs to the controller via the channel to handle I/O tasks, which the channel and controller can, in many cases, complete without further intervention from the CPU (exception: those channel programs which utilize 'program controlled interrupts', PCIs, to facilitate program loading, demand paging and other essential system tasks).\nWhen I/O transfer is complete or an error is detected, the controller communicates with the CPU through the channel using an interrupt. Since the channel has direct access to the main memory, it is also often referred to as DMA controller (where DMA stands for direct memory access), although that term is looser in definition and is often applied to non-programmable devices as well.\nIn the most recent implementations, the channel program is initiated and the channel processor performs all required processing until either a \"success\" or a \"failure\" result occurs. This eliminates much of the CPU—Channel interaction and greatly improves overall system performance. If a \"success\" is posted to the CPU, the result is obvious: the channel program had run to completion and no errors or exceptions were encountered. If a \"failure\" is posted to the CPU, the result is less obvious—surely an error or exception of some kind was encountered, and the channel program was incomplete, but enough diagnostic information is provided from the channel processor to the CPU so that the channel program may be restarted with a minimum of overhead. In earlier implementations, any error, no matter how small, required CPU intervention, and the overhead was, consequently, much higher. A program-controlled interruption (PCI) is still supported for certain \"legacy\" operations, but the trend is to move away from such PCIs, except where unavoidable.\nThe first use of channel I/O was with the IBM 709 vacuum tube mainframe, whose Model 766 Data Synchronizer was the first channel controller, in 1957. Its transistorized successor, the IBM 7090, had two or more channels (the 7607) and a channel multiplexor (the 7606) which could control up to eight channels.\nLater, for larger IBM System/360 computers, and even for early System/370 models, the selector channels and the multiplexor channels still were bulky and expensive separate processors, such as the IBM 2860 Selector channel (one to three selector channels in a single box), the IBM 2870 Byte multiplexor channel (one multiplexer channel, and, optionally, one selector subchannel in a single box) and the IBM 2880 Block multiplexor channel (one or two block multiplexor channels in a single box).\nAmdahl Corporation's hardware implementation of System/370 compatible channels was quite different. A single internal unit, called the \"C-Unit\", supported up to sixteen channels using the very same hardware for all supported channels. Two internal \"C-Units\" were possible, supporting up to 32 total channels. Each \"C-Unit\" independently performed a process generally called a \"shifting channel state processor\" (a type of \"barrel processor\"), which implemented a specialized type of finite state machine (FSM). Each CPU cycle, every 32 nanoseconds in the 470/V6 and /V5 and every 26 nanoseconds in the 470/V7 and /V8, the \"C-unit\" read the complete status of next channel in priority sequence and its I/O Channel in-tags. The necessary actions defined by that channel's last state and its in-tags were performed: data was read from or written to main storage, the operating system program was interrupted if such interruption was specified by the channel program's Program Control Interrupt flag, and the \"C-Unit\" finally stored that channel's next state and set its I/O Channel out-tags, and then went on to the next lower priority channel. Preemption was possible, in some instances. Sufficient FIFO storage was provided within the \"C-Unit\" for all channels which were emulated by this FSM. Channels could be easily reconfigured to the customer's choice of IBM 2860 (selector) emulation, IBM 2870 (byte multiplexor) emulation or IBM 2880 (block multiplexor) emulation without any significant restrictions by using maintenance console commands. \"Two-byte interface\" was also supported as was \"Data-In/Data-Out\" and other high-performance IBM channel options. Built-in channel-to-channel adapters were also offered, called CCAs in Amdahl-speak, but called CTCs in IBM-speak. A real game-changer, and this forced IBM to redesign its mainframes to provide similar channel capability and flexibility. IBM's initial response was to include stripped-down Model 158s, operating in \"Channel Mode\", only, as the Model 303x channel units. In the Amdahl \"C-unit\" any channel could be any type, 2860, 2870 or 2880, without reserving channels 0 and 4 for 2870s, as on some IBM models.\nFor smaller IBM computers, System/360 Models 50 and below, and System/370 Models 158 and below, channels were implemented in the CPU's microcode, and the CPU itself operated in one of two modes, either \"CPU Mode\" or \"Channel Mode\", with the channel mode 'blocking' the CPU mode (IBM 2860, 2870 and 2880, and Amdahl channels were 'non-blocking').\nMuch later, the channels were implemented as an on-board processor residing in the same box as the CPU, generally referred to as a \"channel processor\", and which was usually a RISC processor, but which could be a System/390 microprocessor with special microcode as in IBM's CMOS mainframes.\nOne of the earliest non-IBM channel systems was hosted in the CDC 6600 supercomputer in 1965. The CDC utilized 10 logically independent computers called peripheral processors, or PPs for this role. PPs were powerful, a modern version of CDC's first 'personal computer', the CDC 160A. The operating system resided and executed in the primary processor, PP0. Since then, channel controllers have been a standard part of most mainframe designs and a primary advantage mainframes have over smaller, faster, personal computers and network computing.\nChannel controllers have also been made as small as single-chip designs with multiple channels on them, used in the NeXT computers for instance. However, with the rapid speed increases in computers today, combined with operating systems that don't 'block' when waiting for data, channel controllers have become correspondingly less effective and are not commonly found on small machines.\nChannel controllers are making a comeback in the form of bus mastering peripheral devices, such as PCI direct memory access (DMA) devices. The rationale for these devices is the same as for the original channel controllers, namely off-loading transfer, interrupts, and context switching from the main CPU.\nThe reference implementation of channel I/O is that of the IBM System/360 family of mainframes and its successors, but similar implementations have been adopted by other mainframe vendors, such as Control Data, Bull (General Electric/Honeywell) and Unisys.\nComputer systems that use channel I/O have special hardware components that handle all input/output operations in their entirety independently of the systems' CPU(s). The CPU of a system that uses channel I/O typically has only one machine instruction in its repertoire for input and output; this instruction is used to pass input/output commands to the specialized I/O hardware in the form of channel programs. I/O thereafter proceeds without intervention from the CPU until an event requiring notification of the operating system occurs, at which point the I/O hardware signals an interrupt to the CPU.\nA channel is an independent hardware component that coordinates all I/O to a set of controllers or devices. It is not merely a medium of communication, despite the name; it is a programmable device that handles all details of I/O after being given a list of I/O operations to carry out (the channel program).\nEach channel may support one or more controllers and/or devices, but each channel program may only be directed at one of those connected devices. A channel program contain lists of commands to the channel itself and to the controller and device to which it is directed. Once the operating system has prepared a complete list of channel commands, it executes a single I/O machine instruction to initiate the channel program; the channel thereafter assumes control of the I/O operations until they are completed.\nIt is possible to develop very complex channel programs, including testing of data and conditional branching within that channel program. This flexibility frees the CPU from the overhead of starting, monitoring, and managing individual I/O operations. The specialized channel hardware, in turn, is dedicated to I/O and can carry it out more efficiently than the CPU (and entirely in parallel with the CPU). Channel I/O is not unlike the Direct Memory Access (DMA) of microcomputers, only more complex and advanced.\nOn large mainframe computer systems, CPUs are only one of several powerful hardware components that work in parallel. Special input/output controllers (the exact names of which vary from one manufacturer to another) handle I/O exclusively, and these in turn are connected to hardware channels that also are dedicated to input and output. There may be several CPUs and several I/O processors. The overall architecture optimizes input/output performance without degrading pure CPU performance. Since most real-world applications of mainframe systems are heavily I/O-intensive business applications, this architecture helps provide the very high levels of throughput that distinguish mainframes from other types of computer.\nIn IBM ESA/390 terminology, a channel is a parallel data connection inside the tree-like or hierarchically organized I/O subsystem. In System/390 I/O cages, channels either directly connect to devices which are installed inside the cage (communication adapter such as ESCON, FICON, Open Systems Adapter) or they run outside of the cage, below the raised floor as cables of the thickness of a thumb and directly connect to channel interfaces on bigger devices like tape subsystems, direct access storage devices (DASDs), terminal concentrators and other ESA/390 systems.\nChannels differ in the number and type of concurrent I/O operations they support. In IBM terminology, a multiplexer channel supports a number of concurrent interleaved slow-speed operations, each transferring one byte from a device at a time. A selector channel supports one high-speed operation, transferring a block of data at a time. A block multiplexer supports a number of concurrent high-speed operations.\nA channel program is a sequence of channel command words (CCWs) which are executed by the I/O channel subsystem in the IBM System/360 and subsequent architectures. A channel program consists of one or more channel command words. The operating system signals the I/O channel subsystem to begin executing the channel program with a SSCH (start sub-channel) instruction. The central processor is then free to proceed with non-I/O instructions until interrupted. When the channel operations are complete, the channel interrupts the central processor with an I/O interruption. In earlier models of the IBM mainframe line, the channel unit was an identifiable component, one for each channel. In modern mainframes, the channels are implemented using an independent RISC processor, the channel processor, one for all channels. IBM System/370 Extended Architecture and its successors replaced the earlier SIO (start I/O) and SIOF (start I/O fast release) assembler instructions (System/360 and early System/370) with the SSCH (start sub-channel) instruction (late System/370 and successors).\nChannel I/O provides considerable economies in input/output. For example, on IBM's Linux/390, the formatting of an entire track of a DASD requires only one channel program (and thus only one I/O instruction), but multiple channel command words (one per block). The program is executed by the dedicated I/O processor, while the application processor (the CPU) is free for other work.\nA channel command word (CCW) is an instruction to a specialized I/O channel processor which is, in fact, a finite state machine. It is used to initiate an I/O operation, such as \"read\", \"write\" or \"sense\", on a channel-attached device. On system architectures which implement channel I/O, typically all devices are connected by channels, and so all I/O requires the use of CCWs.\nCCWs are organized into channel programs by the operating system, an I/O subroutine, a utility program, or by standalone software (such as test and diagnostic programs). A limited \"branching\" capability, hence a dynamically programmable capability, is available within such channel programs, by use of the \"status modifier\" channel flag and the \"transfer-in-channel\" CCW.\nIBM CCWs are chained to form the channel program. Bits in the CCW indicates that the following location in storage contains a CCW that is part of the same channel program. The channel program normally executes sequential CCWs until an exception occurs, a Transfer-in-Channel (TIC) CCW is executed, or a CCW is executed without chaining indicated. Command chaining tells the channel that the next CCW contains a new command. Data chaining indicates that the next CCW contains the address of additional data for the same command, allowing, for example, portions of one record to be written from or read to multiple data areas in storage (gather-writing and scatter-reading).\nThe following example reads a disk record identified by a recorded key. The track containing the record and the desired value of the key is known. The device control unit will search the track to find the requested record. In this example <> indicate that the channel program contains the storage address of the specified field.\nSEARCH KEY EQUAL TIC *-8 Back to search if not equal READ DATA\nThe TIC (transfer in channel) will cause the channel program to branch to the SEARCH command until a record with a matching key (or the end of the track) is encountered. When a record with a matching key is found the DASD controller will include Status Modifier in the channel status, causing the channel to skip the TIC CCW; thus the channel program will not branch and the channel will execute the READ command.\nThe above example is correct for unblocked records (one record per block). For blocked records (more than one record per block), the recorded key must be the same as the highest key within that block (and the records must be in key sequence), and the following channel program would be utilized:\nSEARCH KEY HIGH OR EQUAL TIC *-8 Back to search if not high or equal READ DATA\nIf the dataset is allocated in tracks, and the end of the track is reached without the requested record being found the channel program terminates and returns a \"no record found\" status indication. Similarly, if the dataset is allocated in cylinders, and the end of the cylinder is reached without the requested record being found the channel program terminates and returns a \"no record found\" status indication. In some cases the system software has the option of updating the track or cylinder number and redriving the I/O operation without interrupting the application program.\nOn most systems channels operate using real (or physical) addresses, while the channel programs are built using virtual addresses. The operating system is responsible for translating these channel programs before executing them, and for this particular purpose the Input/Output Supervisor (IOS) has a special \"fast fix\" function which was designed into the OS Supervisor just for those \"fixes\" which are of relatively short duration (i.e., significantly shorter than \"wall-clock time\"). Pages containing data to be used by the I/O operation are locked into real memory, or page fixed. The channel program is copied and all virtual addresses are replaced by real addresses before the I/O operation is started. After the operation completes, the pages are unfixed.\nAs page fixing and unfixing is a CPU-expensive process long-term page fixing is sometimes used to reduce the CPU cost. Here the virtual memory is page-fixed for the life of the application, rather than fixing and freeing around each I/O operation. An example of a program that can use long-term page fixing is DB2.\nAn alternative to long-term page fixing is moving the entire application, including all its data buffers, to a preferred area of main storage. This is accomplished by a special SYSEVENT in MVS/370 through z/OS operating systems, wherein the application is, first, swapped-out from wherever it may be, presumably from a non-preferred area, to swap and page external storage, and is, second, swapped-in to a preferred area (SYSEVENT TRANSWAP). Thereafter, the application may be marked non-swappable by another special SYSEVENT (SYSEVENT DONTSWAP). Whenever such an application terminates, whether normally or abnormally, the operating system implicitly issues yet another special SYSEVENT on the application's behalf, if it has not already done so (SYSEVENT OKSWAP).\nEven bootstrapping of the system, or Initial Program Load (IPL) in IBM nomenclature, is carried out by channels, although the process is partially simulated by the CPU (through an \"implied\" Start I/O [ SIO ] instruction, an \"implied\" Channel Address Word [ CAW ] at location 0 and an \"implied\" channel program [ CCW ] , also at location 0). Command chaining is assumed, so the \"implied\" CCW at location 0 falls through to the continuation of the channel program at locations 8 and 16, and possibly elsewhere should one of those CCWs be a transfer-in-channel (TIC).\nTo load a system, a 24-byte data area is loaded into main storage from the first block of the selected IPL device at location 0 and the second and third 8 byte data areas, which are Read IPL-type CCWs, are initiated from the \"implied\" CCW, and this channel program continuation causes the first portion of the system loading software to be loaded elsewhere in main storage. The first 8 byte data area contains a PSW which, when fetched at the conclusion of the IPL, causes the CPU to branch to the bootstrap loader (called \"IPL Text\") at the main storage address where it was just loaded. The IPL Text is then executed, and eventually the operating system's nucleus is loaded and is branched to, after which normal OS operations commences.\nThis IPL concept is device independent. It is capable of IPL-ing from a card deck, from a magnetic tape, or from a hard disk. For this purpose, the normal X'02' command, which is simulated by the CPU, is taken to be a standard sequential read command on card and tape media (which are inherently sequential access in nature), but a special Read-IPL command on hard disks (which are inherently random access in nature; hard disks use a related, but different, read-type command, X'06', and others, for sequential, non-IPL reads).\nHard disk controllers (IBM 2844, 3830, among others, and compatibles) accept the X'02' command, but first cause a seek to cylinder X'0000', and head X'0000', and a search for record X'01', before executing the sequential read command as if it was a X'06'. Without this special hard disk controller behavior, device independent IPL would not be possible. On a hard drive, the IPL Text is contained on cylinder X'0000', track X'0000', and block X'01' (24 bytes), and cylinder X'0000', track X'0000', and block X'02' (fairly large, certainly somewhat more than 3,000 bytes). The volume label is always contained on cylinder X'0000', track X'0000', and block X'03' (80 bytes). The volume label always points to the VTOC, with a pointer of the form HHHH (that is, the VTOC must reside within the first 65,536 tracks). The VTOC's Format 4 DSCB defines the extent (size) of the VTOC, so the volume label only needs a pointer to the first track in the VTOC's extent, and as the Format 4 DSCB, which describes the VTOC, is always the very first DSCB in the VTOC, HHHH also points to the Format 4 DSCB.\nIf an attempt is made to IPL from a device which was not initialized with IPL Text, the system simply enters a wait state. The DASD (direct access storage device) initialization program, IBCDASDI, or the DASD initialization application, ICKDSF, places a wait state PSW and a dummy CCW string in the 24 bytes, should the device be designated for data only, not for IPL, after which these programs format the VTOC and perform other hard drive initialization functions.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "AFBI study the use of lupins in diets for pigs\nSoyabean meal is the main source of protein in diets for pigs and poultry due to its high crude protein content and its good profile of amino acids. However, as soyabean meal must be imported, home grown protein sources such as lupins have been considered as alternatives.\nLupins can contain up to 44% crude protein and previous research elsewhere has shown they can be included in pig and poultry diets with no adverse effects on performance provided the diets are supplemented with expensive synthetic amino acids. There is a lack of information on the use of low levels of lupins in pig and poultry diets as a direct substitution for soyabean meal, without additional amino acid supplementation. The aims of studies conducted at AFBI, Hillsborough and Newforge and funded by DARD were to investigate the effect of substitution of a proportion of soyabean meal with lupins on pig and poultry performance.\nThe effect of lupins on pig performance\nFour diets were produced to contain 0, 4, 8 and 12% lupins and offered to a total of 240 pigs in pens of 10 from 10 to 15 weeks of age.\nFeed intake and average daily gain decreased with increasing lupin inclusion (Table 1) with the result that pigs offered the 12% lupin diet were 4.7 kg lighter at 15 weeks of age. Feed conversion ratio (FCR) tended to increase as the level of lupin inclusion increased, although the differences were not significant. Thus, the reduction in daily gain and live weight at 15 weeks with increasing lupin inclusion may be attributed to reduced feed intake, most likely caused by low levels of alkaloids in the lupins which impacted on palatability.\nThe effect of lupins on broiler performance\nThree diets were produced to contain 0, 3 or 6% lupins and offered to 300 broilers in pens of 20 from 0-35 days of age to determine performance. Apparent metabolizable energy (AME) was determined in a separate trial using 60 broilers and collecting excreta from 14 to 21 days. There was no difference in diet AME content but lupin inclusion reduced feed intake, daily gain, feed conversion efficiency and final live weight at 35 days\nAgain the reduction in performance can be attributed to reduced feed intake of the diets containing lupin.\nIn conclusion, lupin inclusion reduced feed intake and growth rate in pigs and poultry and there is limited potential for lupins to be used as an alternative protein source.\nTo comment, login here\nOr register to be able to comment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Question No. 13:\nYou professional archaeologists jaw bone a lot about federal statues and regulations that are designed to adversely impact us artifact collectors and our collecting. In easy language I can understand, can you define what you archaeologists mean when you use the words “statue” and “regulation”? I always thought the federal government had one centralized place where all federal law is made. Then once a law is made, it automatically applies to all men, women, children, and organizations across the entire United States. Is that right?\nNo. Federal law is highly complex, multi-layered, sometimes applicable to persons in one place but not in another place, and hard for a lot of people to understand. Off the top of my head, I am going to offer you some basic information about the federal legal system, mention a little bit about related state law, and throw in some archaeological information along the way. I will do that in easy language (best I can), but you will have to learn some new words along the way. My presentation is in a listing format. Here goes:\n(1) First things first—the word statue. Among artifact collectors and everyday citizens, I see this word quite often in written or oral discussions about federal law and artifact collecting. The on-line Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the word “statue” as follows:\n…a three-dimensional representation usually of a person, animal, or mythical being that is produced by sculpturing, modeling, or casting.\nThe Statue of Liberty is just what the name says—a statue. The official Tennessee State Artifact named The Ancestor is also a statue. The word statue has nothing to do with the law. The legal word you need to use instead is statute, which is something quite different entirely from a statue. Look closely and notice that third letter “t” in the word. In the American legal system, the word statute refers to a law created by a legislative body. Statute is just a fancy word that is synonymous with the simple word law. Got it?\n(2) At the federal level of government, a final statute is a law passed by vote in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate (U.S. Congress) and then signed into law by the President of the United States. The written text of a statute refers to itself as “the Act.” The overall process of voting on a proposed statute in the U.S. Congress and having the president sign it into law is called “enactment.” Statutes are enacted.\nA whole bunch of people on the street think federal statutes are short little statements of law like this ancient Jewish law from the 10 commandments in the Holy Bible. You know:\nThou shalt not kill.\nThen—all done. Right? Wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you seriously think the federal government does anything that simple, short, and inexpensive?\nIn truth, the official text of most federal statutes is long, complex, and broken down into assorted sections and subsections identified by unique numbers and letters that constitute an outline of the statute. The text of each statute is written in that famous attorney language called legalese, which is often hard to understand if you do not know certain Latin terminology and are not accustomed to reading it. Because these statutes tend to be so long, they usually begin with a formal table of contents to ease reader navigation through the text. The Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 is a perfect example of a typical federal statute.\n(3) What is a federal regulation? Federal regulations are different from statutes. Basically, a federal regulation is an administrative rule that is made by a specific federal agency to officially implement the requirements of a statute and ease management of the implementation process by employees of the federal government. The enactment of a statute is one thing, but implementing the terms of a statute within the federal government is quite another matter.\nYou might think of it like an exercise bicycle that comes to your house in a box—but you have to assemble all the parts yourself. The original engineering specifications for the bicycle are the statute. The makers of the bicycle parts have to meet those specifications according to a set and sequence of manufacturing rules inside a factory. The rules the factory workers must follow and the assembly instructions you must follow on that piece of paper in the bicycle box are the regulations.\nThe text of each statute contains within it a formal statement that legally delegates to a specific federal agency (e.g., U.S. Department of the Interior) the authority to implement the statute and create the new regulations necessary to implement, administer, and enforce the requirements of the statute. The formal word the federal government uses for the process of making new regulations, reviewing them, revising them, and issuing them in their final form is—get ready for a big new word—promulgation. Here is the proper language to use when working with new statutes and regulations:\nNew federal statutes are enacted, but new federal regulations are promulgated.\nNow, here is the most important thing to remember about all federal regulations. Because a statute (passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by the President of the United States) gives a federal agency the formal authority to create new regulations, these new regulations carry the full weight and authority of law—and they are legally enforcible by law enforcement officers and the federal courts—just like statutes. Using an automobile analogy, federal regulations are not the weak Cooper Mini of the legal world. They are just as important in the federal legal realm as the Rolls Royce statute. Federal regulations are also the law. The federal regulations promulgated by all federal agencies are available online in the Code of Federal Regulations, which you can easily Google. A particular set of federal regulations is cited according to the following alphanumeric format: 36 CFR 800. In this set, 36 is the number of the “momma” federal agency responsible for this set of federal regulations—the U.S. National Park Service. The CFR is a simple abbreviation for the Code of Federal Regulations. Number 800 is the part number that begins this set of regulations. This part has the title Protection of Historic Properties.\nIn summary, federal regulations usually have a “momma” statute that authorized their creation. A “momma” statute authorizes a specific federal agency to promulgate and administer a set of federal regulations. These regulations are the law too—just like statutes. Many different federal agencies promulgate their own very different sets of regulations. Got it? This where you say:\nWow!!! That must be a whole lot of different regulations covering all sorts of different stuff!!!\nYou are quite correct. If federal regulations were large steel bolts, there would probably be enough of them to sink a huge freight ship.\n(4) All federal statutes and regulations are not created in one centralized place—and then they automatically apply to every man, woman, child, and organization in the United States. It is not that simple. Federal statutes are created on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., but the President of the United States usually signs off on them at the White House.\nFederal regulations are written by federal employees with subject matter expertise and federal agency attorneys at widely distributed federal agency offices in Washington, D.C. and sometimes in other parts of the nation. It all depends on where the federal expertise is located for a certain type of regulation. Federal employees in different federal agency offices around the nation may help with drafting, reviewing, and revising regulations to be administered by their particular federal agency.\nThe applicability of a statute or regulation to a man, woman, child, or organization often depends on the specific subject matter and content of a statute or regulation. Some criminal statutes—like those covering theft of federal property—apply to everyone (with “sticky fingers”). No person or organization, anywhere in the nation, is authorized to steal federal property.\nOther federal statutes and regulations are more specific. For example, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1984 (RCRA) and the regulations promulgated under it apply to persons and organizations who generate, store, treat, and dispose of certain quantities of solid waste. The formal regulatory definition of solid waste includes everyday garbage and solid and liquid hazardous waste and mixed waste. Mixed waste is solid or liquid hazardous waste mixed in with low-level radioactive waste. As long as artifact collectors are not doing something incredibly weird with their artifacts and artifact collecting, the RCRA statute and the regulations promulgated under it would not apply to them. Just in case you wanted to know, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the primary “momma” agency for the RCRA regulations. A federal agency that regulates radioactive materials may serve as a second “momma” for the mixed waste regulations. Sometimes two or more federal agency mommas are better than just one.\nTherefore, some federal statutes and regulations may apply to everyone. These are often referred to as overarching statutes and regulations. Others may apply only to certain persons and/or organizations, depending on the specific contents of certain statues and regulations—and what some limited number of people or organizations are doing.\n(5) Why did I write Items No. 1 through No. 4 (above)? Well, it has been my experience that both artifact collectors and archaeology students (graduate and undergraduate) have a really hard time learning about the federal legal system, how it is structured, and the nuts and bolts of how it works. Worst of all, I have had some really Close Encounters of the Truly Weird Kind (CETWK) with artifact collectors.\nOne night a few years ago, I had a really tense encounter with an angry and highly agitated artifact collector who did not (and apparently could not) understand how federal statutes and regulations work and to whom they apply. He seemed to think that a big central law building exists in Washington, D.C. All federal statutes and regulations are created in that one building. They apply equally to every federal agency in the nation, every organization, and every person—no matter what their specific circumstances might be and no matter what the specific contents of the statutes and regulations say.\nFor example, let us say that the U.S. Congress and the President of the United States enact a federal statute pertinent to some important issue with cattle grazing that involves only the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on five large tracts of BLM land out West. The BLM then promulgates a set of regulations to implement the new statute. Of course, BLM is the “momma” federal agency for these new regulations. This highly agitated artifact collector was insisting that every other federal agency, organization, and person across the entire United States was equally affected by that BLM-specific statute and the regulations promulgated under it—and every American individual and organization had to get busy and obey them.\nEven if a nice, retired African-American man named Zach, who was allergic to beef and had nothing to do with cattle, was sitting quietly on his front porch in Dothan, Alabama, he had to get busy and comply with that BLM statute and the regulations under it. Why? Just like I said, this angry, highly agitated artifact collector apparently thought all federal statutes and regulations emerge from one building in Washington, D.C., and they all apply equally to everyone in the nation. No matter what the circumstances, Zach has to get busy and obey them. TVA has to obey them. Artifact collectors in Georgia have to obey them. Your teenage daughter in Massachusetts has to obey them—even though none of these agencies or persons ever has anything to do with those five large tracts of BLM land out West.\nBullshit!!!!! If you are not in any way grazing or supporting the grazing of cattle on those five tracts of BLM land out West, then that statute and the BLM regulations promulgated under it do not apply to you. If the BLM promulgates its own cultural resource management regulations for those five huge tracts of BLM land out West, that does not mean that those same BLM regulations apply to cultural resources on TVA lands here in the East. BLM is a separate federal agency from TVA, and it has no statutory or regulatory authority over cultural resources on TVA lands. TVA manages its own cultural resources.\nI think American artifact collectors—such as this agitated guy—would like to convince themselves that the federal legal system is very simple, easy to understand, and all encompassing. They want to believe that all federal statutes and regulations come from one central place. They apply equally to everyone—in the same way as a simple Biblical law such as: “Thou shalt not kill.” Thataway (as my dad used to say), artifact collectors at least have some hope of quickly and easily determining whether they are violating some federal statute or regulation pertinent to their artifact collecting. Unfortunately, for most artifact collectors, that is just plain not true. The federal legal system is highly complicated and difficult to navigate for the average man or woman on the street—including any artifact collector who is not an attorney.\n(6) Let us cover one last but very important thing. This is the interface of federal laws with state laws. How many of you have ever heard of the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution? It reads as follows:\nArticle 4, Clause 2. This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.\nLovely that. Can you say “crash and burn”? When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is legal, numerous states rushed to enact state-level anti-gay marriage laws to nullify the high court ruling. These efforts were sponsored by Republican state legislators who knew most of their constituents were dumber than potato peels in a trash can. These legislators full-well knew that the Supremacy Clause makes it illegal to countermand or nullify a federal law, treaty, regulation, or court ruling with a state law, state regulation, or state court ruling. They went ahead and did it anyway to fool their ignorant constituents and make it look like they were doing something important, effective, and wonderful——when they were actually doing no such thing. You know:\nAh!!!!! Honey child. I tried so very hard to protect you from those gay blades with that new state law, but somehow it just wasn’t in the cards. Knowin’ how hard I worked for you, you’ll be sure to support me come election time. Now won’t you honey child?\nWith regard to the federal statutes and regulations that apply to artifact collecting, the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution makes it illegal to enact a state law, promulgate a state regulation, or issue a state court ruling to nullify one of these federal laws or regulations. A state entity may go ahead and do so without any state official getting arrested. However, any such state action is doomed to crash and burn in the federal court system.\nHowever, it is legal for a state legislature to do one really interesting thing with a requirement in federal law. For example, with regard to ARPA, no state can nullify or overturn the ARPA statute and its regulations, in whole or in part, because of the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution. However, it is legal for a state legislature to enact a state law and for a state agency to promulgate state regulations under it that make assorted aspects of ARPA apply more stringently at the state-level of law. In other words, if a particular clause in ARPA calls for an artifact collector to be kicked hard in the butt one time for some offense, the State of Tennessee can enact a more stringent state law and promulgate state regulations under it that require five kicks in the butt for the exact same offense at the state level of government. Ouch!!! To the best of my knowledge that has not occurred so far here in Tennessee, but it can happen if a state legislature, a governor, and a state agency responsible for cultural resources want it to happen.\nAnother thing to remember is the double jeopardy clause in the U.S. Constitution (Bill of Rights). This is the famous amendment that says a person, once acquitted of a federal crime, cannot be tried again for the exact same offense by a federal court. That is true at the federal level. However, the American legal system has multiple, vertically tiered judicial jurisdictions. This means a person who kills someone in a federal building in Tennessee can be acquitted of that murder in a federal court, but that same person can be tried again at the state level of jurisdiction for the exact same crime in a state court of law because murder is illegal at the state level of jurisdiction in Tennessee. The American legal system calls this dual sovereignty. The same principle applies to any federal cultural resource protection statutes or regulations that exist at the federal level—but also exist in state statutes and regulations. You might be acquitted of an offense in a federal court room, but if the State of Tennessee has statutes or regulations that forbid that exact same crime, you could technically be nailed good for the exact same offense in a state court. Ouch again!!! To the best of my knowledge, that rarely ever happens—but it can happen.\nFinally, if you take out your digger shovel and dig deeply into the bowels of the ARPA statute, you will see some very interesting clauses stating that a person can be prosecuted under ARPA for violating a state cultural resources protection statute or regulation. For example, if you are caught removing artifacts illegally from state-owned land in your state, you can technically be prosecuted for that offense under the federal ARPA statute. A now nationally famous artifact collector by the name of Art Gerber, who is now deceased, found that out the hard way. He was prosecuted successfully under ARPA for the violation of state cultural resource laws that applied to the removal of artifacts from a prehistoric mound on private land owned by the General Electric Corporation (GE) in Indiana. You may read about that in depth, from the professional archaeologist’s perspective, by clicking on the following safe link:\nResidual Effects of Grave Desecrations: The GE Mound Case\nAs you might guess, I agree with the professional archaeology perspective on this famous federal court case.\nMany American artifact collectors hold to a wholly different perspective on The GE Mound Case. If you are interested in that alternative perspective, you may want to check out the following two items:\nThe GE Mound Case by Jim Fisher\nBuy and Read the Book Entitled: “The GE Mound Case: The Archaeological Disaster and Criminal Persecution of Artifact Collector Art Gerber”\nThere is no typographical error in that second item (above). The American artifact collector community contends that Art Gerber was not prosecuted in a federal court. To this very day, collectors maintain that the federal government applied federal law in a twisted manner to unfairly persecute Art Gerber for his role in the events that led up to The GE Mound Case.\nI hope this clears up some of the confusion American artifact collectors have about the American legal system and how it works. As always, if you insist on collecting artifacts, please be sure that you do so in total compliance with all of the federal, state, and local statutes, regulations, and ordinances that are applicable to your collecting activities. These statutes, regulations, and ordinances are not designed to make artifact collectors feel miserable or angry. They are designed to protect nonrenewable cultural resources from destruction and to conserve them for future generations of Tennesseans and Americans. I know many of you artifact collectors out there are also game hunters. You know what the word conservation means and how important it is to your game hunting activities. You would never kill off the last male and female elk in Tennessee. So, why would you kill off our last remaining archaeological sites? Yes, I know:\n‘Cause I wants me a really great artifact!!! Besides, if I killed off them last two Tennessee elks, I’d jist go a Elk huntin’ in West Virginia. Bwa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a!!!!!!!\nResponsible artifact collectors. All of you know a few artifact collectors who are just like that guy. Why do you tolerate them? Why do you keep them as your friends? Inquiring professional archaeologists would really like to know. Comments are open.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Less Party\nThere has been a bit of talk lately about what will happen if the GOP fails to curb the government after this election. The possibility (and problem) of a third party has been raised. One of the problems not being discussed is the name.\n- The Tea Party\n- The American Party\nThese are good names. You feel good just to saying them, but they are also empty vessels. Anyone can pour any meaning they want into them. What does it mean to be an American or a tea party member? Ask 100 people and you’ll get 100 answers.\nA generic name also allows the party to “evolve” over time (and we know where that always leads–to the left).\nAbolish slavery and restrict the role of government in economic and social life.\nThat was the original goal upon which the Republican party was founded. Over the decades the GOP has changed–one reason is that the word “Republican” is so generic that people just poured whatever meaning they wanted to into it.\nThe original Republican goal did have one great thing going for it: it was simple. A diverse set of people with often competing goals in other areas could work together, because they knew this simple goal would support their efforts in other areas.\nShould we form a third party, I suggest we encapsulate the goal in the name:\nThe Less Party\n- Less government spending\n- Less government regulation\n- Less laws\n- Less government involvement in citizen’s lives\n- Less activist judges\nLess is still something of an empty vessel, but it’s an empty vessel with a specific shape–you can’t just pour any idea into it. Especially if the party was founded with a goal like this:\nReduce the size of government and restrict the role of government in economic and social life.\nWhen a politician proposes a new program or law, we can simply ask “How does this harmonize with our goal of less?”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Armenian presence within the geographical area of the Ottoman Empire is a very ancient one. In reality the area that eventually became the Ottoman Empire contained the lands of ancient Armenian royal dynasties, from antiquity to the Middle Ages. These regions are mostly included in present-day Turkey’s eastern provinces – and today’s Republic of Armenia – where a dense population of Armenians lived. For this reason the Ottoman government, for a long time, in its turn gave these areas the unofficial name of Ermenistan, used until at least the 18th century.\nSince my ancestors are also from the old West-Armenia (Trabzond and Erzrum), I’d like to share some pictures of the Armenian communities of these old towns, before the Genocide has been perpetrated by the infamous nationalist Young Turk party.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Louisville and Portland Canal\nThe Louisville and Portland Canal was a 2-mile (3.2 km) canal bypassing the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky. The Falls form the only barrier to navigation between the origin of the Ohio at Pittsburgh and the port of New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico; circumventing them was long a goal for Pennsylvanian and Cincinnatian merchants. The canal opened in 1830 as the private Louisville and Portland Canal Company but was gradually bought out during the 19th century by the federal government, which had invested heavily in its construction, maintenance, and improvement. The Louisville and Portland Canal became the McAlpine Locks and Dam in 1962 after extensive modernization.\nThe Falls of the Ohio are the only natural obstruction to riverine traffic from the source of the Ohio at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the Gulf of Mexico. Some of the earliest cities in Kentucky – Louisville, Portland, and Shippingport – developed from the need for portage of cargo around the rapids, except during a few weeks each spring when water on the river was very high. Although this source of income was popular with locals, merchants invested upriver – particularly those in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati – disliked the expense and hassle. The situation caused wide fluctuations in prices up- and downstream, as there was always a glut of shipments during the few weeks of high water each year.\nThe first meeting of the trustees of the Town of Louisville on February 7, 1781, adopted a petition to the Virginia General Assembly for the right to construct a canal around the falls. Two years later, engineer and canal advocate Christopher Colles petitioned the Congress of the Confederation, promising to start a canal company in exchange for a grant comprising the necessary land. They declined.\nSerious plans for a canal circulated throughout the early 1800s, with Cincinnatians in particular advocating a northern route through Indiana in order to blunt competition from Louisville. Canal companies were chartered by the state legislatures of both Kentucky and Indiana in 1805, but nothing came of either effort. In 1808, the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin suggested national funding for a Kentucky-side canal. The United States Senate passed bills to this effect in 1810 and 1811, but both died from Democratic opposition in the House. Gen. William Lytle II, founder of Cincinnati, laid out Portland in 1811 and sold lots in order to finance his own canal project. The Indiana Canal Company, that state's second effort, was chartered in 1818 and made preliminary excavations using private and state funds. The failure of a dam and the Panic of 1819 ended the attempt. Rumors that the Indianan dam had been sabotaged arose from the risk a canal posed to much of Louisville's economy, including not only forwarding, storage, drayage, and shipping but also provisioning, financing, hotels, and entertainment. Against this, however, some locals argued for the benefit a canal would provide to local manufacturing.\nPrivately held company\nDespite the completion of the federally funded National Road in the 1810s and the state-funded Erie Canal in the 1820s (the latter of which cut transportation costs across New York by around 95%), continuing Democratic and Louisvillian opposition crippled attempts to fund a public canal in the Kentucky General Assembly. Instead, Charles Thurston of Louisville sponsored a bill to charter the private Louisville and Portland Canal Company. The charter established an initial toll of 20¢ per ton, permitted the company to operate the canal in perpetuity, and granted it powers of eminent domain over land necessary to the canal's construction. The initial estimates in 1824 called for one year of construction at a cost of $300,000.\nThe company was chartered in 1825. Its initial members included James Guthrie, John J. Jacob, Nicholas Berthoud, John Colmesnil, James Hughes, Robert Breckinridge, Isaac Thom, Simeon Goodwin, Charles Thurston, Worden Pope, William Vernon, Samuel Churchill, James Brown, and James Overstreet. Guthrie was elected president. The canal was authorized by its charter to sell up to 6000 shares of stock at a cost of $100 each, but the company required only $10 down and an additional $10 quarterly. In this way, $350,000 was raised from the initial sale of stock in March 1826, and $150,000 soon after. Much of this capital came from Philadelphia investors. This private, out-of-state ownership was praised at the time by Louisville's leading newspaper, the Public Advertiser, which said \"no one is now apprehensive of any imprudent or unjust action on the part of the Legislature\". In May 1826, the United States Congress voted to purchase 1,000 shares as well.\nConstruction began in 1826. As it became evident that the canal would have to be dug through solid rock, the cost estimate rose past $375,000, with two years of construction required. Local investors were the first to learn of the difficulties; several defaulted on further payment towards their shares, reducing the company's available capital. Abraham Lincoln is said to have worked on the construction of the canal in 1827. The course was found to require adjustment, and Congress invested an additional $133,500 in 1829. The company was still due to run out of funds by the end of 1829, and a third influx of funds from Congress was vetoed by the newly elected Pres. Andrew Jackson, who denounced the practice of giving federal funds to private corporations. The company was forced to borrow $154,000 in 1830. By this time, the stock was valued at over $1,000,000, of which the federal government held $290,000.\nThe first ship – the SS Uncas – passed through the partially completed locks in December 1830. The canal was fully completed in 1833, six years behind schedule. Its 50-foot (15 m) wide dimensions were huge in comparison with projects like the Erie Canal and intended to permit full-sized ships to pass from one side of the falls to the other. Nevertheless, the growing power and size of steamboats left the canal nearly obsolete soon after opening at the same time that the Alabama Fever and booming Black Belt cotton plantations increased demand for produce and goods from the north. The canal increased its prices to 40¢ per ton in 1834 and to 60¢ per ton in 1837 and still saw traffic increase from 170,000 tons in 1834 to 300,000 in 1839. At the same time, Louisville's \"carrying trade\" also increased to a greater volume than before and a line of the Lexington and Ohio Railroad was constructed beside the canal from Louisville to Portland in 1838.\nThe company's high tolls and disinterest in improving the canal either to enlarge it or to correct the lower end, which opened into a narrow part of the river with a swift current, provoked dissatisfaction among its customers. Ohioan and Pennsylvanian opposition in Congress sometimes passed bills in the Senate approving a full buyout of the company, but such bills were consistently defeated in the House by Kentuckians, Southern proponents of states' rights such as Rep. Jefferson Davis (D–MS), and Indianan representatives, who still hoped to build their own canal as late as 1842. The company's management opted to solve the problem on their own: instead of funding expansions, improvements, or dividends, profits from the canal were used to purchase privately held shares at a premium, gradually increasing the government's ownership stake. Despite the succession of long depressions set off in 1837 and 1843 and a reduction of the toll to 50¢ per ton in 1842, the company remained highly profitable, and the buyout was completed in 1855.\nBy the 1850s, around 40% of the steamboats on the Ohio were too large for the canal and required transshipment of their cargo around the Falls. Despite holding full ownership of the company after 1855, the federal government found it impossible to get Congress to approve taking formal control of the canal. Bills offered from 1854 to 1860 failed on grounds of constitutionality, economy, and efficiency. Sen. Lazarus Powell (D-KY) was of the opinion that \"the only reason why the government of the United States has not long taken charge of the canal, is the fear that there would be demand on the national treasury to Enlarge it\", a reasonable fear given the reasons for the buyout of the original owners.\nIn the end, the government simply directed the company to finance the needful improvements on its own. A $865,000 plan was approved and undertaken in 1860 but was almost immediately shelved by the Civil War. The facility was a target of Confederate forces in Kentucky, at least one of whom advocated destroying it so \"future travelers would hardly know where it was\", but Union control of the state rendered the threat moot. The loans involved in the original plan, however, meant that the company was $1.6 million in debt by 1866.\nRadical Republican control of Congress meant that the Army Corps of Engineers was finally allowed to take over improvements for the canal in 1867. Two new locks, each 390 feet (120 m) long and 90 feet (27 m) wide, opened in February 1872.\nIn May 1874, Congress passed a bill allowing the Corps of Engineers to take full control of the canal and authorizing the Treasury to pay off the bonds for the recent improvements. By 1877, despite the vastly increased use of railroads, traffic on the canal had tripled from any previous level. This was mostly heavy, low-value industrial supplies such as coal, salt, and iron ore. In 1880, under political pressure from upriver producers, Congress removed the canal's tolls entirely, forgoing profit and paying the entirety of its expenses from the Treasury.\nA new lock was built in 1921 as a part of Congress's plan for the \"canalization\" of the Ohio River. Further expansions in 1962, increasing the width of the canal to 500 feet (150 m), caused the canal to be known as the McAlpine Locks and Dam.\nIn the 19th century, the high toll and insufficient capacity of the canal served Louisville well, permitting high profits for shareholders without greatly curtailing the portage and related sectors of the local economy. The gradual buyout well-compensated the owners for their initial investments in the venture.\nLouisville boomed at the expense of its onetime partners Portland and Shippingport, which were relegated to backwater status. Portland, after initially continuing to grow and incorporating separately in 1834, accepted a proposal to widen the canal and annexation to west Louisville in 1837 in exchange for its wharf becoming the terminus of the Lexington and Ohio Railroad; when the western line of the railroad only managed to successfully connect Portland with Louisville before its 1840 bankruptcy, the community removed itself again from 1842 to 1852, before accepting reannexation. Much of the community was destroyed by or razed after the floods of 1937 and 1945. Shippingport, included within Louisville's borders during its 1828 incorporation and enisled by the canal, declined slowly until the government bought out the remaining families in 1958.\nAt the same time, these factors blunted the economic impact of the canal on other communities up- and downstream. Although (even at its highest tolls) the canal decreased the freight rate along the river, it did not permit significantly lower prices in commodities, which fell at a faster rate in the 25 years before the canal opened than they did in the 25 years afterwards. The 1850s and 1860s particularly saw usage of the canal merely plateau despite booming growth in river traffic.\n- Yater, George. The Encyclopedia of Louisville, p. 531. \"Louisville and Portland Canal\". University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 2001. Accessed 9 October 2013.\n- Trescott, Paul B. (March 1958). \"The Louisville and Portland Canal Company, 1825-1874\". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. Organization of American Historians. 44 (4): 686–708. doi:10.2307/1886603. JSTOR 1886603..\n- Trescott, 694.\n- Trescott, 686-687.\n- Hulbert, Archer Butler, ed. (1918). \"XVIII Colles' Petition to Improve Ohio River Navigation (1783)\". Ohio in the Time of the Confederation. Marietta College Historical Collections. 3. Marietta, Ohio: Marietta Historical Commission. pp. 92–94..\n- Trescott, 687.\n- Trescott, 687-688.\n- Trescott, 688 ff.\n- Johnson, Leland & al.Triumph at the Falls: The Louisville and Portland Canal, pp. 30 ff. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Louisville), 2007.\n- The Real Lincoln: a Portrait. Houghton Mifflin. 1922. Retrieved 30 July 2010..\n- Trescott, 695 ff.\n- Trescott, 700-701.\n- \"History of the Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad\". Retrieved 24 May 2007..\n- United States Army Corps of Engineers. Civil War Engineering and Navigation.\n- Trescott, 702-706.\n- Trescott, 706 f.\n- The Falls City Engineers: A History of the Louisville District. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 1975..\n- Burnett, Robert A. (April 1976). \"Louisville's French Past\". Filson Club History Quarterly: 9–18..", "label": "No"}
{"text": "These were the findings presented by academics in a letter to editor of the journal Biomedical and Environmental Sciences.\nThey stated a survey of 298 mid-trimester urban pregnant women in Beijing, northern China, Hefei in central China, and Nanning in southern China found that consumer awareness of fortified foods was far lower than that for supplements.\nApproximately 52.01% (155/298) of the subjects had consumed fortified foods during the past month (more than three times), mainly milk (29.87%) and milk powder (27.52%), while 71.14% (212/298) of the subjects had consumed a supplement during the past month.\nMultivitamins and minerals were the main types of food supplements consumed (81.60%), alongside moderate consumption of some single minerals or vitamins.\nWhile they found that the base diet was the greatest contributor to the total intake of calcium, iron, and zinc, with an average contribution of 68.99%, 85.97%, and 80.57% respectively, this was followed by supplements (20.88%, 10.05%, and 15.39%), whereas fortified foods contributed the least (10.13%, 3.98%, and 4.04%).\nThe academics, from several Chinese institutions, said the relatively low intake of minerals from fortified foods suggested that permitted fortification levels could be increased.\n“For urban pregnant women, consumption of fortified foods and food supplements can be an effective approach to improve the minerals intake when a calcium, iron, or zinc deficiency is encountered,” they wrote.\n“However, the contribution of fortified foods for these three nutrients was still at a rather low level, indicating that the fortified values can be higher, based on more risk analysis data.”\n“For example, more micronutrients need to be evaluated, and the database of fortified foods needs to be improved. Meanwhile, further intensive studies concerning nutrients risk assessment re-assessment and risk-benefit analysis of fortification is required.”\nWe recently reported on a cohort study that showed the top five supplements taken by Chinese pregnant women were calcium and folic acid, followed by iron, multivitamins and vitamin C.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cambodia: Education & Skills\nOver 58 million children all over the world cannot attend school despite their indisputable right to education. In many countries, school tuition is denied to children due to armed conflicts, poverty, humanitarian disasters or simply due to educational systems which practice gender-related, ethnic or medical condition discrimination.\nIlliterate or poorly educated young people lacking practical skills are vulnerable to poverty and exploitation because there is no demand for them in the labour market. Therefore they have very limited freedom when making decisions about their own lives. This presents challenges with extreme urgency in view of the fact that there is a record number of young people in the world and limited options for creating new jobs.\nPeople in Need actively attempts to tackle these global challenges. We must realise what an important role education plays in the transformation process of developing countries. Not only does it improve prospects of employment, thereby reducing the risk of poverty, hunger and illness, but it also increases the potential of men and women to fight against discrimination. It motivates them to more actively participate in public life and promotion of their interests in society. We also believe that in areas stricken by armed conflict, attending school brings some order and also happiness into the lives of children.\n- Our educational programmes aim to provide quality primary education for all children regardless of origin, religious belief, gender or medical condition.\n- We also assist with employment of young people. Through vocational education and training in entrepreneurial and other skills we assist them in establishing a business or finding a job.\n- Through our educational programmes we also encourage young people to actively engage in public life around them and assist them towards the creation of a responsible, democratic society.\nFostering the Transition to Employment for Youth (FTE 4 Youth)\nPIN is implementing the project in cooperation with the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training (MLVT), the Provincial Department of Labor and Vocational Training (PDLVT), the Provincial Training Centre (PTC), the International Labor Organisation (ILO), and numerous micro-finance institutes and industry associations. The FTE 4 Youth project, which is being piloted at the PTC in Kampong Chhnang, is staffed by 28 employees – including technical teachers and managers – and has enrolled 2,000 students. Course include mobile vocational training and other activities.\nThe project aims to improve the quality of technical vocational education within the PTCs, ensuring that courses, equipment and infrastructure are responsive to the demands of the labor market, thereby increasing young people’s participation in the TVET. It will also strive to foster entrepreneurship and build stronger partnerships between PTCs, the private sector, government agencies and other departments, ultimately resulting in new job opportunities for youths.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Selma civil rights marchers’ arrival on the steps of the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery. If you haven’t yet seen the movie “Selma,” about struggle for African-Americans’ voting rights, you should. If you have seen it, here are three books to read with your kids (or for yourself!) next.\n1. “John Lewis in the Lead,” written by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson, illustrated by Benny Andrews\nThis picture book biography provides more detail on the life of one of the main characters in “Selma”: John Lewis, a 25-year-old organizer who went on to become a U.S. Congressman representing Georgia. When watching “Selma,” it wasn’t apparent to me that Lewis had been at the lead of a range of other nonviolent resistance actions before stepping onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge. This book is a good introduction to those other events in the Civil Rights Movement. The narrative is unfortunately written rather passively, but I liked seeing illustrations by Benny Andrews, an African-American artist about whom another picture book bio was recently published.\n2. “March” by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell\nI mentioned “March: Book One” in my February diverse reading post. I haven’t read Book Two. Both are graphic novels, also about the life of John Lewis, but for older kids and adults. Book One covers Lewis’ youth, his first meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and his involvement in Nashville’s lunch counter sit-ins. Book Two focuses on his involvement in the Freedom Rides, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the March on Washington. There is supposed to be a third volume in what will then be the “March” trilogy, and I’m guessing it’ll feature the march from Selma to Montgomery.\n3. “Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom” by Lynda Blackmon Lowery as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley\nThis middle grade book tells us, in first person about the experiences of the youngest participant in the Selma march. The drama of the movie “Selma” is all about the attempts to march, but in Blackmon Lowery’s narrative we get to see details of the march itself, like where they slept and what they did when it rained. I was impressed that the voice sounded like a teenage version of the author, although she is of course far from that age now. I also liked getting to read about her impressions of some of the other participants, like Viola Liuzzo, an activist housewife who was shot by the Ku Klux Klan shortly after the march.\nYour turn: What are your favorite books about the Civil Rights Movement and its many participants?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Retreat : Dunkirk and the Evacuation of Western Europe Paperback / softback\nAt around 7 p.m. on 26 May 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave the order for Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of British troops from the harbour and beaches of Dunkirk.\nThe German forces that had attacked through the Netherlands, Belgium and the Ardennes into France on 10 May had rapidly driven to the English Channel, reaching the coast at Noyellessur-Mer on 20 May and trapping the BEF, French forces and the remnants of the Belgian army.\nBEF commander Lord Gort immediately began to plan for his forces to withdraw towards Dunkirk, the nearest location with good port facilities.\nBetween 27 May and 4 June, ships from the Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands as well as the famous Little Ships evacuated almost 340,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk and brought them back to Britain. The Dunkirk evacuation was not the end. In Operation Cycle just over 11,000 Allied troops were evacuated from the port of Le Havre between 10 and 13 June.\nLater still, in Operation Ariel, another 190,000 troops and between 30,000 and 40,000 civilians would be evacuated from ports along France's western coast including Brest, Saint-Nazaire and Bordeaux.\nHenry Buckton examines the rapid German advance, the Dunkirk evacuation, and the evacuations that came after. Henry Buckton has published a large number of books on various historical subjects.\nHis main area of expertise is the Second World War, particularly the Battle of Britain.\nHe serves in the Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency (MDPGA).\n- Format: Paperback / softback\n- Pages: 256 pages, 16 Plates, color\n- Publisher: Amberley Publishing\n- Publication Date: 15/05/2017\n- Category: Second World War\n- ISBN: 9781445664828", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A collection of tips on how to begin organic gardening, makes the perfect starting point for a beginner to emerge and hopefully, begin growing their own organic produce much easier. Below is just such a collection that will hopefully assist the eager novice into eventually, becoming a pro, when it comes to organic gardening.\nUse groundcover perennials in sunny areas. Groundcover perennials can be used as an alternative to grass where there is minimal foot traffic, or in an area where grass is difficult to maintain, such as on a slope. They are also handy in between larger perennials, as they help to suppress weeds and keep the soil moist and cool. Good choices for groundcover perennials are creeping thyme, ajuga, various sedums, alyssum and armeria.\nIf you like to plant roses, before you buy any variety, ask yourself what characteristics you would like from your roses. Different varieties have different characteristics, such as fragrance, heartiness, and size, to name a few. The traits that you want the most from a rose bush will influence your decision on what variety to plant.\nUse seedlings to run relay planting. Using seedlings can allow you to get a jump start on the growing season and improve yields to the harvest by extending time. If growing lettuce and a squash harvest is needed for summer, then after the lettuce has been harvested you can plant seedlings to get a jump start on another crop and a higher yield for the garden.\nYou can dry herbs by putting them in your car. You can neatly arrange them on a sheet of newspaper in a single layer. Then close the doors and windows and let it air dry. The warmth in the car will dry the herbs quickly. The herbs themselves will create a very nice aroma.\nWhen choosing plants for your garden, pick plants that are native to your geographic region. Plants native to your region will naturally do well in your garden because they are already adjusted to your climate. When you plant native plants, you will not be surprised by any unexpected results when your plants mature.\nA great way to keep insects and pests at bay in your garden is to spray your plants with a dish soap and water mixture. A mixture of one quart water and one half teaspoon dish detergent will kill off those pesky parasites. Be sure to respray every fourteen days.\nPay attention to the time of year that your plants bloom before you start pruning them. If you prune your flowering shrubs and trees while they have buds on them, that plant won’t flower that year. The best time to prune is just after the last season’s blooms have faded.\nHopefully, this collection of tips were enough to give you a great start on what to do and expect when it comes to growing your own organic plants. This collection was carefully constructed to be an aid in your arsenal, so that you can begin to hone your organic gardening skills into growing healthy organic produce.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Eucalyptus (From Greek, ευκάλυπτος meaning \"well covered\") is a diverse genus of trees (and a few shrubs), the\nmembers of which dominate the tree flora of Australia. There are more than seven hundred species of Eucalyptus,\nmostly native to Australia, with a very small number found in adjacent parts of New Guinea and Indonesia and one as\nfar north as the Philippines islands. Species of Eucalyptus are cultivated throughout the tropics and subtropics\nincluding the Americas, England, Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East, China and the Indian\nReforestation with Eucalyptus species together with Citrus orchards, are the basis of the migratory apiculture in\nthe state of São Paulo. The conjunction of beekeeping cultures coordinated with other farming activities and,\nobviously, together with native vegetation areas, is the natural way to be followed for the regional honey\nThe Eucalyptus species blooming lasts some months and a group of few species often blooms all year round.\nThe flowers are generally white, attractive and have a great amount of stamens (therefore they are good bee pollen\nsuppliers.) The Eucalyptus flowers produce a good quantity of honeydew of easy access to the mellifera bees and\nhave high sugar concentration, usually over 30%.\nHoney Description:Eucalyptus honey color varies from light to\ndark amber, 34 to 80 mm on the Goethe scale. It has a stronger taste than orange blossom honey. Flavor is\nvery sweet and has some floral taste, too. It crystallizes very quickly. Some species produce honeys with\nvery fine crystallization. Besides having a lighter color when it is crystallized, is also presents a change", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Every print begins with a sketch. An idea takes shape and evolves over time. Sometimes the rough draft sits for many weeks before the final concept moves forward. Other times it moves from sketch to print in days. Every time the image is drawn in reverse to produce a print which shows the opposite.\nThe beginnings of a print is with an image carved into Lino, a firm grey sheet product. This can take several hours and is often a multi-day project. To do so we use special carving tools, each with its own shape to create differing parts of the piece. The carving cuts are not reversible so each cut is considered carefully.\nINK AND PRINT\nThe completed carving block is inked using non-toxic relief ink, applied with a roller. The surface needs enough ink but not too much. Inked blocks are covered with cotton paper and rolled through a printing press to create the original print.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Audio (US) (file)\n- A cusp is a pointed end.\n- A point on a tooth is a cusp.\n- The cusp on his back tooth had broken.\n- The point on a crescent is a cusp.\n- They could see the cusp of the moon.\n- When two curved lines meet, they create a cusp.\n- A cusp is a point from which everything changes.\n- The scientist was at the cusp of a great discovery.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "… but it takes a Leader to Chart the Course.\nJohn C. Maxwell’s 4th irrefutable law of leadership is The Law of Navigation. Maxwell states:\nLeaders are navigators. Before good leaders take their people on a journey, they go through a process in order to give the trip the best chance of being a success:\n- Navigators Draw on Past Experience – every past success and failure you’ve experienced can be a valuable source of information and wisdom. Success teaches you what you’re capable of doing and gives you confidence. However, your failures can often teach greater lessons, if you allow them to. If you fail to learn from your mistakes, you’re going to fail again and again.\n- Navigators Examine the Conditions Before Making Commitments – No good leader plans a course of action without paying attention to current conditions. Good navigators count the cost before making commitments for themselves and others.\n- Navigators Listen To What Others Have to Say – Navigating leaders get ideas from many sources. They listen to members of their leadership team. They spend time with leaders of other organizations who can mentor them. They always think in terms of relying on a team, not just themselves.\n- Navigators Make Sure Their Conclusions Represent Both Faith and Fact – A leader has to possess a positive attitude. If you can’t confidently make the trip in your mind, you’re not going to be able to take it in real life. On the other hand, you also have to be able to see the facts realistically. If you don’t go in with your eyes wide open, you’re going to get blindsided. Balancing optimism and realism, faith and fact can be very difficult.\nPreparation is the key. If you are well prepared you engender trust in those around you. Great leaders are capable of taking their followers wherever they want to go.\nMaxwell used an acronym PLAN AHEAD:\nPredetermine a course of action\nLay out your goals\nAdjust your priorities\nNotify key personnel\nAllow time for acceptance\nHead into action\nAlways point to the successes\nDaily review your plan\nDo you see yourself as a navigator?\nHow skilful are you at charting the course?\nDo you always remember to PLAN AHEAD?\nThis is the 4th article in a series of 21. Previous articles can be found here:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "To write a haiku, it is helpful to know what a haiku is. A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. It is a short poem expressing a thought and contrast. The word “haiku” is both singular and plural. More than one haiku is never referred to as “haikus.”\nThe origins of haiku\nHaiku have been around for hundreds of years, originating from a Japanese game called “haikai no renga.” In this game, a group of professional poets collaboratively wrote a poem. Starting with one poet who initiated the first verse of the poem, one-by-one each poet added a verse until the poem contained 100 verses.\nThe verses were short, and the first verse (the hokku) usually referenced a season. Each subsequent verse related in some way to the previous verse following the same format, such as number of syllables or word pattern. The first verse spawned the traditional haiku as an independent poem.\nA haiku’s structure\nThe traditional haiku referenced nature or a season and contained only three lines with 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern (five syllables on line 1, seven on line 2 and five on line 3). The Japanese haiku has been mimicked by the English, but over time, the English version of the haiku has been altered to follow a number of different patterns, such as 3-5-3, 2-3-2, and so on. Some haiku writers use free-form and do not follow any type of structure.\nHaiku do not generally have titles or rhyme. The goal of a haiku is to draw an image in the reader’s mind of a subject, and then an image of an element of contrast to the subject. The relationship of the images is not always obvious at first; readers must come up with their own conclusions. See the example below:\nDarkness of night\nIn the example above, a 3-4-3 pattern was used, and three separate images drawn. Do you see the relationship between the images? Perhaps “Leaves falling” and “Birds flutter” sound the same, or “Birds flutter” cause “Leaves falling.” Perhaps “Birds flutter” is heard in the “Darkness of night.” Do you see how readers are left to their own conclusions?\nSome haiku are written with a colon or a hyphen to separate a new element of contrast. For example:\nEarly morning dew:\nPink roses open slowly\nIn morning sunshine.\nTips for writing your own haiku\nHere is a simple process to help you write your own haiku\n1. Select a pattern.\n2. Pick a subject and think of what it brings to mind for you.\n3. Avoid adverbs or adjectives except when necessary to draw a distinct picture.\n4. Do not just write a long sentence covering three lines.\n5. Use present tense.\n6. Punctuation or capitalization is not necessary.\nBy Hillary Davenport\nLearn more about Japanese Haiku (with free infographic) at Hillary’s blog.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "For instance, the physical world was thought to be composed of earth, wind, water, and fire; for the human body the four humours were blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.\nTidy model. What are an identitifier's 'humours'? How about linkability, discoverability, uniquenessability, and memorability?\nIn On the Nature of Man, Hippocrates wrote that\nhealth is primarily that state in which the constituent elements [the four humours] are in correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quality, and are well mixed. Pain occurs when one of the substances presents either a deficiency or excess..\nCould have been a consultant. Or a therapist.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sunday, October 31, 2010\nTime for US Jews to Grow up\nTIME TO KICK THE ONE-PARTY HABIT\nBy: Uri Kaufman\nDate: Wednesday, October 27 2010\nFor Jewish-Americans, the December date that lives in\ninfamy is December 17. For on that day in 1862, Major-General Ulysses\nS. Grant issued General Order 11.\nThe order, which covered Grant's military district in portions of\nTennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky, declared that \"Jews, as a class\nviolating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury\nDepartment and also department orders, are hereby expelled from the\n[Military District] within twenty-four hours from the receipt of this\nThose who dared to return would be \"arrested and held in confinement\nuntil an opportunity occurs of sending them out as prisoners.\"\nThe order was countermanded by Abraham Lincoln before anyone was\nexpelled. But it became an issue when Grant ran for president in 1868.\nHow to justify the wholesale expulsion of an entire people? Grant\nasserted that he was furious over illegal smuggling of Southern cotton\nto the North and that \"the order was issued and sent without any\nreflection and without thinking of the Jews as a set or race to\nthemselves, but simply as persons who had ... violated an order.\"\nThis rather curious defense was apparently enough for America's tiny\nJewish community. In 1868, a majority of them cast their ballot for\nthe Republican candidate for president - General Ulysses S. Grant.\nTime has softened the hard choices facing Jewish Americans. It would\nbe somewhat more difficult today for a candidate to win nomination\nafter advocating a mass expulsion. But the Jewish practice of voting\nfor candidates who work against Jewish interests lives on.\nA politician could play out his career in a thousand arenas where\nworking against his supporters is suicide and only one where it isn't.\nBut that one applies when he works against Jewish Americans. In the\n19th and early 20th centuries this phenomenon worked to the benefit of\nRepublicans like Grant. Since that time it has worked to the benefit\nOne of the first to benefit from this trend was Franklin Roosevelt. He\nand Harry Truman never drew less than 75 percent of the Jewish vote\nand sometimes gained as much as 90 percent of it.\nHow did Franklin Roosevelt repay the Jewish community? By obstructing\nthe issuance of visas to Jewish refugees seeking to flee Europe. In\nJune 1940, Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long ordered\nAmerican consuls \"to put every obstacle in the way [to] postpone and\npostpone and postpone the granting of visas\" in order to \"delay and\neffectively stop\" all such immigration.\nRoosevelt knew, however, how to grant entry to refugees when he wanted\nto. In August 1940 he exploited a loophole in America's immigration\nlaw for British children, declaring them \"visitors\" who intended to\nThe story of Roosevelt and the Jews grew even darker during the war. I\nam prepared to concede that any reasonable cost-benefit analysis\nargued against bombing the rail lines to Auschwitz. The Germans would\nhave repaired them quickly and hundreds of hard-to-train flight crews\nwould have been lost - flight crews that were needed to win the war.\nWhat I cannot concede, indeed what I cannot understand, is why\nRoosevelt didn't simply announce to the world what was going on in\nAuschwitz. Eli Wiesel once said something that I recall hearing from\nmany others when I was growing up: Roosevelt knew what was going on\nthe camps, but the Jews didn't. Why didn't he go on the BBC or Voice\nof America - which everyone in Europe listened to - and warn them not\nto get on the trains? For that matter, why didn't he warn the Germans\nthat those involved in the killing would be brought to justice after\nA simple announcement like that would have cost the allies nothing and\nwould have saved countless lives. Why didn't he do it? This is one of\nthose questions that have no answer.\nArticle continues here: http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/45768\n2. UCLA: Where 'Queer Studies' and Middle East Studies Meet -\nPoofs for Palestine\nby Eric Golub\nOctober 31, 2010\nThe University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Near\nEastern Studies (CNES) is a delightful contradiction of incompatible\nnotions. On one hand, the professors take hard-left stances on\nsexuality and gender issues, claiming to staunchly support the rights\nof gays and women. Yet they also worship at the altar of radical\nMiddle East studies professors who act as apologists for Sharia law\nand other policies completely at odds with Western \"liberalism.\"\nThe UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2010, which took place on October\n8-9 and counted CNES among its sponsors, was a case in point. The\npanel discussion I attended, along with all of fifteen people, was\ntitled \"Trans-lating the Middle East.\" Let me \"trans-late\" and save\nothers the time of attending future UCLA conferences on the subject.\nGays in the Middle East are persecuted. It really is that simple. But\nthat didn't stop participants from engaging in the usual anti-Western,\nGil Hochberg, Vice Chair of Comparative Literature and LGBT Studies at\nUCLA, was the moderator. She decried the \"heterosexualization of our\nculture\" and the \"heterosexist portrayal of politics.\" Homosexuality,\nshe claimed, is an \"erotic disorder exclusively as [sic] a white\npathology like white racism ... fault, guilt, refusal of fault, and\nThere is an \"innate imperialism of gay rights movement, a white\nwestern women's movement,\" she continued. Gay Muslims are \"acting out\nof economic necessity.\"\nShe asked, \"Why has the West been so successful in imposing\nhomosexuality on the Arab world?\" and answered, \"People are seduced by\ngayness and Americanism. Natives are informants of the white gay\ninternational, not true Arabs.\"\nUniversity of Southern California (USC) sociology professor Evren\nSavci spoke about \"Bigudi: An Alternative Beginning.\" Her remarks were\nso scintillating that CNES director Susan Slyomovics briefly fell\nasleep. When Slyomovics snapped to it, she stated that she was having\ntrouble hearing the professor. She wasn't the only one.\nSavci's \"research\" consisted of \"five weeks working as a gay bar\nperson and four weeks pretending to be a bar client\" and led her to\nconclude that \"queer includes the butch feminine.\"\nUniversity of Austin Texas anthropology professor Sofian Merabet spoke\n\"On the (Im)possibility of Queer Translatabilities and the Formation\nof Gender Identities in Post-Civil-War Beirut, Lebanon\" -- whatever\nMerabet expounded at length about his \"one subject, a 73-year-old man,\na most eccentric fellow. He was stocky and had a hunch-backed\nphysique. He had posters of martyrs of Hamas and Hezbollah. He was a\ndevout Roman Catholic -- not a Christian supremacist, but a social\nMerabet is not a statistician, so perhaps he did not know that\nobserving one person -- whatever his religious proclivities -- does\nnot constitute an adequate research sample size.\nHe described his subject as \"a staunch Meditarraneanist,\" who\n\"yearn[ed] for the Ottoman Empire to be restored.\"\nMerabet then added, \"We also climbed the stairs where the host\nsunbathed naked and hoped to relieve himself from a skin condition. He\novertly showed his disappointment. We refused his ride home.\"\nI closed my eyes in case there were visual aids.\nGay people are \"living their lives on ambiguous margins,\" Merabet stated.\nWell, yes -- Islamists are trying to murder them.\nThere was \"a hint of Norman Bates in the air,\" he added.\nOne wonders if Merebet was talking about himself on this one. His\nremarks were a tad psychotic.\nContinuing on in this vein, he noted that there was \"a toilet seat\nfilled with dollar bills he had purchased from New York City,\" and\nthen opined, \"In France, I feel Oriental.\"\nGiven that this was a conference sponsored by the LGBT community, some\nlove for that community had to be forthcoming. What happened with\n\"Muslims woke them up by asking them to leave their lazy lives behind\nunless they want to burn in hell,\" Merabet stated.\nHe ended by declaring homosexuals to be on the \"ephemeral daily\nfringes of social behavior.\"\nNext up was Oren Segal, a graduate student in the University of\nMichigan's Near Eastern Studies Department. His topic was \"Returning\nto the Father's Land: Yotam Reuveny's Queer Nationalism.\"\nHomosexuals are \"sexual outlaws,\" he declared. We should \"segregate\nall the queers, create an all-male society, a new independent state\nMore bizarre commentary followed:\n\"There are three types in the world ... men, women, homosexuals, and lesbians.\"\n\"If gay men will act like real men, straight men lose interest to\npersecute and subjugate them.\"\n\"Heterosexuals cannot stop hating homosexuals. They can only hide it.\nIt is in their blood.\"\n\"The pride parade is a freak show to heterosexuals. Stop parading; go\nback to Sodom.\"\nSegal then launched into a tirade involving homosexuality and Judaism:\n\"Homosexuality, like Judaism, is a race.\"\n\"Gays, like Jews with Zionism, need their own separate space. Gays\nneed their own homeland.\"\n\"Stop hiding from false morals. Why are some homosexuals gayer than\nothers and obsessed with sex?\"\n\"Jews were compelled to be homosexuals to increase both types.\nHomosexuality is another case of Jewish deviance.\"\n\"Like gays ... be a Jew in your home and a man outside it.\"\n\"A Jew is a person who is considered by others to be a Jew. A\nhomosexual is a person who[m] others consider to be one. It only\nexists as others define it.\"\nActually, a Jew is a person born to a Jewish mother.\n\"Jews and homosexuals are too passive to found their own state.\"\n\"The Sodomite movement is similar to the Zionist movement.\"\nProfessor Slyomovics -- no fan of Israel -- laughed heartily at this remark.\n\"If Jews have a state where they are normalized, gays should have the same.\"\n\"Jews will always be outsiders in front of their fellow citizens, no\nmatter how hard they assimilate. A real solution to the Jewish problem\n... Homosexuals can first be put in ghettos and then put in\nconcentration camps ... then they will never be safe without a\nterritory and an army.\"\nSegal then offered his fantasy:\n\"A new society formed out of the 2012 gay holocaust in the same way\nIsrael was formed out of the Holocaust.\"\nDespite five minutes for questions, there were none. ince most of\nthese professors spent the time talking to each other anyway, they\nWhen asked by another professor, \"How do you define political?,\"\nMerabet replied, \"The political share my agenda, the apolitical\ndisagree with my agenda.\"\nHis honesty was refreshing.\nHochberg asked Segal about the future land of Gayistan: \"Is this new\nnation sarcastic? Will there be Jews, Arabs, and Palestinian gays?\"\nSegal responded that it is \"serious and parody. The founder is\nIsraeli, Jewish, Arab -- and Palestinian gays all over are invited.\nMen only -- no lesbians.\"\nProfessor Slyomovics laughed again, since excluding women is a\nhysterically funny topic.\nSegal concluded that \"[t]he Gay Holocaust started in America. After\nthe great war, Israel and Palestine don't exist anymore. A new state\nemerges. The state of Sodom emerges.\"\nSlyomovics laughed loudly, barely containing herself. I could not tell\nif she was celebrating the eradication of Israel or is just\nTo top off the absurdity of it all, the conference ended with a music\nperformance by a woman named Vaginal Davis.\nI'll leave that one to the imagination.\nEric Golub is the publisher of the Tygrrrr Express blog. He wrote this\narticle for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.\n3. Well, now even the leftist YNET is reporting that many of those\nincidents of Jewish settlers vandalizing olive trees of Arabs in the\nWest Bank are actually Arabs themselves and Jewish leftists staging\nthe vandalism to smear the settlers:\n4. Middle East Racism:\nFriday, October 01, 2010\nRuth Wisse on the Harvard Jihad\nby Isi Leibler\nOctober 1, 2010\n2. At Harvard, Groupthink About Islam\nA liberal editor stands accused of anti-Muslim bigotry.\nBy RUTH R. WISSE\nLast Saturday, at a university-sponsored event to celebrate the 50th\nanniversary of Harvard's Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, a\ngroup of former students launched a research fund in honor of Martin\nPeretz, a former teacher in the program and the longtime editor in\nchief of the New Republic. After the event adjourned, the afternoon\nturned ugly as police had to protect Mr. Peretz while he walked across\ncampus surrounded by a mob of screaming students.\nMr. Peretz admits that he wasn't blameless in the controversy. On\nSept. 4, blogging at the New Republic's web site, he lamented that\nMuslims don't respond more vigorously to acts of terrorism against\ntheir own people:\n\"Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. And among those\nMuslims led by the Imam Rauf [of the proposed Cordoba House mosque]\nthere is hardly one who has raised a fuss about the routine and random\nbloodshed that defines their brotherhood. So, yes, I wonder whether I\nneed honor these people and pretend that they are worthy of the\nprivileges of the First Amendment which I have in my gut the sense\nthat they will abuse.\"\nFor that final sentence, Mr. Peretz apologized and sought atonement.\nNonetheless, his column set off a firestorm. The Harvard Crimson\nreported over 500 protests against the honorary research fund by\nalumni, students and staff.\nHarvard accepted the money to create the fund. Yet a member of the\nSocial Studies Standing Committee extolled the protest, while also\ndeclaring that everyone on the committee \"was—without\nexception—appalled by Peretz's comments.\"\nWhy not, then, organize an open forum where Mr. Peretz might engage\nwith his critics? That, presumably, was out of the question: better to\nensure that students know which side \"everyone—without exception\" is\nTo date, no defense of Mr. Peretz has emerged from within the academy\nhe served so well as a teacher and benefactor.\nThe first at Harvard to exploit the Peretz case was Stephen Walt of\nthe Kennedy School of Government, who co-authored a book, \"The Israel\nLobby,\" which argues that a conspiracy skews American policy in the\nMiddle East in favor of Israel. Mr. Walt's blog on the web site of\nForeign Policy magazine offers readers a series of Mr. Peretz's\nstatements \"displaying hatred and contempt for Muslims, Arabs, and\nBut to wish that Muslims would condemn the violence in their midst is\nnot bigotry but liberality, treating others as you would have them\nOne student I spoke with offered a quainter interpretation than did so\nmany professors. Hadn't Mr. Peretz said something true, though far too\nWhat about Muslim disregard for Muslim life taken by terrorism? Have\nMr. Peretz's critics tried to show that Muslims really do value the\nlife of their co-religionists? Why were protests trying to shout the\nproblem down? In this student's view, the pressure for political\nconformism had combined with a suppressed anxiety about Islam into a\ntoxic mix of hostility against one man.\nThe student had sought me out to ask whether, as the Martin Peretz\nProfessor of Yiddish Literature, I might offer an opinion on the\nflare-up. Of course, donors do not dictate those who hold the chairs\nthey endow; indeed, the Belfer family may regret that Mr. Walt\noccupies theirs. And I doubt that Mr. Peretz and I have ever voted\nalike. But whatever qualities of his still excite his former students,\nI can be sure that they do not include any habit of wrapping himself\nin the opinion of \"everyone—without exception.\"\nLike him, I too regret that Muslim political culture in the U.S. and\ninternationally is not more confident, positive and life-affirming.\nWhere are the campus protests against Hamas torture and murder of\nfellow Palestinians, against Muslim suicide bombers in civilian\ncenters of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan? A necessary step toward a\nmore peaceful world is, indeed, greater respect of Muslims for Muslim\nlife. Universities ought to be encouraging, not inhibiting, that\nMs. Wisse, a professor of Yiddish and comparative literature at\nHarvard, is the author of \"Jews and Power\" (Schocken, 2007).\nThe Left's Peretz Problem\nPosted By Jacob Laksin On September 30, 2010 @ 12:30 am In FrontPage |\nIt doesn't take much to provoke the modern furies of political\ncorrectness, but longtime New Republic editor-in-chief Martin Peretz\ntouched off a still-raging storm earlier this month when he published\na blog post lamenting the general failure of Muslims to protest the\nsectarian murder of their coreligionists in the Islamic world. In the\npassage that most incensed his critics, Peretz concluded that\n…frankly, Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. And among\nthose Muslims led by the [Ground Zero mosque champion] Imam Rauf there\nis hardly one who has raised a fuss about the routine and random\nbloodshed that defines their brotherhood. So, yes, I wonder whether I\nneed honor these people and pretend that they are worthy of the\nprivileges of the First Amendment which I have in my gut the sense\nthat they will abuse.\nJudging by the howls of indignation and excoriation generated by that\npost, one might think that Peretz had called for the immediate\nextermination of all Muslims. Left-wing blogs condemned Peretz as a\n\"racist\" and a bigot. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called\n the post \"debased.\" The backlash was even more hostile at Harvard\nUniversity, where Peretz had taught for over 40 years and where he was\nhonored this weekend for an undergraduate research fund established in\nhis name earlier this year. What was supposed to be a celebratory\noccasion instead became a public inquisition, as student protestors,\nbearing signs with quotes from Peretz – evidence, by their standards,\nof the consummate evil of his views – heckled the honoree and\nharangued him as he tried to exit the campus. In that harassment they\nwere openly encouraged by some Harvard faculty and implicitly by the\nuniversity's administration, which all but sanctioned the protests\nwhen it called Peretz's comments about Muslims \"distressing to many\nmembers of our community, and understandably so.\"\nIt is not to excuse the more inflammatory name-calling of Peretz's\ncritics to note that some of his comments were indeed offensive. In a\nfollow-up to his initial post, a rightly \"embarrassed\" Peretz\napologized  for his crass and carelessly worded suggestion that\nMuslims should be denied First Amendment rights. And yet it remains\nthe case that Peretz's broader point, however artlessly made, was a\nThe controversy surrounding the mosque and Islamic cultural center to\nbe built two blocks from Ground Zero is a case in point. That project\nhas been defended on First Amendment grounds by everyone from Imam\nRauf to President Obama, who insist that Muslims have a First\nAmendment right to built where they please. But in truth none of the\nmosque project's opponents – who polls show include the majority of\nNew Yorkers, hardly a right-wing powerbase – have questioned the right\nto build a mosque at Ground Zero – only the wisdom and decency of\ndoing so at that sensitive and, for many New Yorkers, uniquely sacred\nlocation. No reasonable person would deny that Muslims should have the\nsame access to the First Amendment as all Americans, but the\npromiscuity with which proponents of the mosque project have tried to\nmake a constitutional issue out of what is really a debate about\npropriety certainly validates Peretz's concern about First Amendment\nThe hypocrisy of Peretz's critics is also striking. The same\nprotestors who professed outrage at Peretz's comments about the First\nAmendment tried to have him barred from speaking at this weekend's\ncelebration. How genuine are their concerns about the unrestricted\nexercise of the First Amendment if they are so eager to deny it to\nthose, like Peretz, with whom they disagree?\nAll the more rank is that hypocrisy when one considers that Peretz's\nother controversial comment – \"Frankly, Muslim life is cheap,\nespecially for Muslims\" – is not actually that controversial, and has\nbeen made so only through deliberate misconstruction. Thus, the\nEconomist absurdly interpreted the statement to mean that Peretz was\ndowngrading the significance of Muslim life generally and charged,\nequally absurdly, that America's military involvement in the Middle\nEast \"creates pressure to believe this sort of thing.\" But as would be\nobvious to any fair-minded reader, Peretz was simply making the\nirrefutable observation that Muslims are disproportionately\nresponsible for the deaths of their fellow believers.\nEvidence for the claim abounds. In a 2007 article, for instance,\nDaniel Pipes estimated  that of the approximately 11 million\nMuslims that have been violently killed since 1948, over 90 percent\nwere killed by fellow Muslims. Muslims may cry foul about Israeli and\nAmerican \"occupation,\" but the cold fact is that they are their own\nworst enemy. From Sudan, to Pakistan, to Afghanistan, to Iran, to\nIraq, to Gaza, no one kills more Muslims than other Muslims. What the\nEconomist considers a \"prejudice\" on Peretz's part is in fact a\nreality – a reality no less true for being so tragic.\n4. Two Cheers for Lieberman:\n5. Leftists are to Blame:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "William Blake used drawing and print media to express his own visionary universe, as well as that of authors such as Dante and Milton. His radiant watercolours and printed illustrations remain some of the most inspired and innovative images of the Romantic era.\nVisiting American antiquarian book expert John Windle discusses the incredible life and work of this English artist and poet for Melbourne Rare Book Week 2018.\nJohn Windle is an antiquarian bookseller based in San Francisco. He has published and contributed to numerous books and articles including studies of William Blake and Mary Wollstonecraft, and has served as an expert witness on the rarity and valuation of books, manuscripts, and book-related artwork. In 2016, Windle opened an art gallery devoted to William Blake and his circle.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Voices from the Grave\nIndividual Liberty and Public Control\nFrom \"Political Ideals\" (1917)\nIf there were gods\nSOCIETY cannot exist without law and order, and cannot advance except through the initiative of vigorous innovators. Yet law and order are always hostile to innovations, and innovators are almost always, to some extent, anarchists. Those whose minds are dominated by fear of a relapse towards barbarism will emphasize the importance of law and order, while those who are inspired by the hope of an advance towards civilization will usually be more conscious of the need of individual initiative. Both temperaments are necessary, and wisdom lies in allowing each to operate freely where it is beneficent. But those who are on the side of law and order, since they are reinforced by custom and the instinct for upholding the status quo, have no need of a reasoned defense. It is the innovators who have difficulty in being allowed to exist and work. Each generation believes that this difficulty is a thing of the past, but each generation is only tolerant of past innovations. Those of its own day are met with the same persecution as though the principle of toleration had never been heard of.\n“In early society,” says Westermarck, “customs are not only moral rules, but the only moral rules ever thought of. The savage strictly complies with the Hegelian command that no man must have a private conscience. The following statement, which refers to the Tinnevelly Shanars, may be quoted as a typical example: ‘Solitary individuals amongst them rarely adopt any new opinions, or any new course of procedure. They follow the multitude to do evil, and they follow the multitude to do good. They think in herds.’ ” 3\nThose among ourselves who have never thought a thought or done a deed in the slightest degree different from the thoughts and deeds of our neighbors will congratulate themselves on the difference between us and the savage. But those who have ever attempted any real innovation cannot help feeling that the people they know are not so very unlike the Tinnevelly Shanars.\nUnder the influence of socialism, even progressive opinion, in recent years, has been hostile to individual liberty. Liberty is associated, in the minds of reformers, with laissez-faire, the Manchester School, and the exploitation of women and children which resulted from what was euphemistically called “free competition.” All these things were evil, and required state interference; in fact, there is need of an immense increase of state action in regard to cognate evils which still exist. In everything that concerns the economic life of the community, as regards both distribution and conditions of production, what is required is more public control, not less—how much more, I do not profess to know.\nAnother direction in which there is urgent need of the substitution of law and order for anarchy is international relations. At present, each sovereign state has complete individual freedom, subject only to the sanction of war. This individual freedom will have to be curtailed in regard to external relations if wars are ever to cease.\nBut when we pass outside the sphere of material possessions, we find that the arguments in favor of public control almost entirely disappear.\nReligion, to begin with, is recognized as a matter in which the state ought not to interfere. Whether a man is Christian, Mahometan, or Jew is a question of no public concern, so long as he obeys the laws; and the laws ought to be such as men of all religions can obey. Yet even here there are limits. No civilized state would tolerate a religion demanding human sacrifice. The English in India put an end to suttee, in spite of a fixed principle of non-interference with native religious customs. Perhaps they were wrong to prevent suttee, yet almost every European would have done the same. We cannot effectively doubt that such practices ought to be stopped, however we may theorize in favor of religious liberty.\nIn such cases, the interference with liberty is imposed from without by a higher civilization. But the more common case, and the more interesting, is when an independent state interferes on behalf of custom against individuals who are feeling their way toward more civilized beliefs and institutions.\n“In New South Wales,” says Westermarck, “the first-born of every lubra used to be eaten by the tribe ‘as part of a religious ceremony.’ In the realm of Khai-muh, in China, according to a native account, it was customary to kill and devour the eldest son alive. Among certain tribes in British Columbia the first child is often sacrificed to the sun. The Indians of Florida, according to Le Moyne de Morgues, ‘sacrificed the first-born son to the chief. . . .’ ” 4\nThere are pages and pages of such instances.\nThere is nothing analogous to these practices among ourselves. When the first-born in Florida was told that his king and country needed him, this was a mere mistake, and with us mistakes of this kind do not occur. But it is interesting to inquire how these superstitions died out, in such cases, for example, as that of Khai-muh, where foreign compulsion is improbable. We may surmise that some parents, under the selfish influence of parental affection, were led to doubt whether the sun would really be angry if the eldest child were allowed to live. Such rationalism would be regarded as very dangerous, since it was calculated to damage the harvest. For generations the opinion would be cherished in secret by a handful of cranks, who would not be able to act upon it. At last, by concealment or flight, a few parents would save their children from the sacrifice. Such parents would be regarded as lacking all public spirit, and as willing to endanger the community for their private pleasure. But gradually it would appear that the state remained intact, and the crops were no worse than in former years. Then, by a fiction, a child would be deemed to have been sacrificed if it was solemnly dedicated to agriculture or some other work of national importance chosen by the chief. It would be many generations before the child would be allowed to choose its own occupation after it had grown old enough to know its own tastes and capacities. And during all those generations, children would be reminded that only an act of grace had allowed them to live at all, and would exist under the shadow of a purely imaginary duty to the state.\nThe position of those parents who first disbelieved in the utility of infant sacrifice illustrates all the difficulties which arise in connection with the adjustment of individual freedom to public control. The authorities, believing the sacrifice necessary for the good of the community, were bound to insist upon it; the parents, believing it useless, were equally bound to do everything in their power toward saving the child. How ought both parties to act in such a case?\nThe duty of the skeptical parent is plain: to save the child by any possible means, to preach the uselessness of the sacrifice in season and out of season, and to endure patiently whatever penalty the law may indict for evasion. But the duty of the authorities is far less clear. So long as they remain firmly persuaded that the universal sacrifice of the first-born is indispensable, they are bound to persecute those who seek to undermine this belief. But they will, if they are conscientious, very carefully examine the arguments of opponents, and be willing in advance to admit that these arguments may be sound. They will carefully search their own hearts to see whether hatred of children or pleasure in cruelty has anything to do with their belief. They will remember that in the past history of Khai-muh there are innumerable instances of beliefs, now known to be false, on account of which those who disagreed with the prevalent view were put to death. Finally they will reflect that, though errors which are traditional are often wide-spread, new beliefs seldom win acceptance unless they are nearer to the truth than what they replace; and they will conclude that a new belief is probably either an advance, or so unlikely to become common as to be innocuous. All these considerations will make them hesitate before they resort to punishment.\nThe study of past times and uncivilized races makes it clear beyond question that the customary beliefs of tribes or nations are almost invariably false. It is difficult to divest ourselves completely of the customary beliefs of our own age and nation, but it is not very difficult to achieve a certain degree of doubt in regard to them. The Inquisitor who burnt men at the stake was acting with true humanity if all his beliefs were correct; but if they were in error at any point, he was inflicting a wholly unnecessary cruelty. A good working maxim in such matters is this: Do not trust customary beliefs so far as to perform actions which must be disastrous unless the beliefs in question are wholly true. The world would be utterly bad, in the opinion of the average Englishman, unless he could say “Britannia rules the waves”; in the opinion of the average German, unless he could say “Deutschland über alles.” For the sake of these beliefs, they are willing to destroy European civilization. If the beliefs should happen to be false, their action is regrettable.\nOne fact which emerges from these considerations is that no obstacle should be placed in the way of thought and its expression, nor yet in the way of statements of fact. This was formerly common ground among liberal thinkers, though it was never quite realized in the practice of civilized countries. But it has recently become, throughout Europe, a dangerous paradox, on account of which men suffer imprisonment or starvation. For this reason it has again become worth stating. The grounds for it are so evident that I should be ashamed to repeat them if they were not universally ignored. But in the actual world it is very necessary to repeat them.\nTo attain complete truth is not given to mortals, but to advance toward it by successive steps is not impossible. On any matter of general interest, there is usually, in any given community at any given time, a received opinion, which is accepted as a matter of course by all who give no special thought to the matter. Any questioning of the received opinion rouses hostility, for a number of reasons.\nThe most important of these is the instinct of conventionality, which exists in all gregarious animals and often leads them to put to death any markedly peculiar member of the herd.\nThe next most important is the feeling of insecurity aroused by doubt as to the beliefs by which we are in the habit of regulating our lives. Whoever has tried to explain the philosophy of Berkeley to a plain man will have seen in its unadulterated form the anger aroused by this feeling. What the plain man derives from Berkeley’s philosophy at a first hearing is an uncomfortable suspicion that nothing is solid, so that it is rash to sit on a chair or to expect the floor to sustain us. Because this suspicion is uncomfortable, it is irritating, except to those who regard the whole argument as merely nonsense. And in a more or less analogous way any questioning of what has been taken for granted destroys the feeling of standing on solid ground, and produces a condition of bewildered fear.\nA third reason which makes men dislike novel opinions is that vested interests are bound up with old beliefs. The long fight of the church against science, from Giordano Bruno to Darwin, is attributable to this motive among others. The horror of socialism which existed in the remote past was entirely attributable to this cause. But it would be a mistake to assume, as is done by those who seek economic motives everywhere, that vested interests are the principal source of anger against novelties in thought. If this were the case, intellectual progress would be much more rapid than it is.\nThe instinct of conventionality, horror of uncertainty, and vested interests, all militate against the acceptance of a new idea. And it is even harder to think of a new idea than to get it accepted; most people might spend a lifetime in reflection without ever making a genuinely original discovery.\nIn view of all these obstacles, it is not likely that any society at any time will suffer from a plethora of heretical opinions. Least of all is this likely in a modern civilized society, where the conditions of life are in constant rapid change, and demand, for successful adaptation, an equally rapid change in intellectual outlook. There should be an attempt, therefore, to encourage, rather than discourage, the expression of new beliefs and the dissemination of knowledge tending to support them. But the very opposite is, in fact, the case. From childhood upward, everything is done to make the minds of men and women conventional and sterile. And if, by misadventure, some spark of imagination remains, its unfortunate possessor is considered unsound and dangerous, worthy only of contempt in time of peace and of prison or a traitor’s death in time of war. Yet such men are known to have been in the past the chief benefactors of mankind, and are the very men who receive most honor as soon as they are safely dead.\nThe whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible to those who know what others have believed. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity. Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.\nQuestions of practical morals raise more difficult problems than questions of mere opinion. The thugs honestly believe it their duty to commit murders, but the government does not acquiesce. The conscientious objectors honestly hold the opposite opinion, and again the government does not acquiesce. Killing is a state prerogative; it is equally criminal to do it unbidden and not to do it when bidden. The same applies to theft, unless it is on a large scale or by one who is already rich. Thugs and thieves are men who use force in their dealings with their neighbors, and we may lay it down broadly that the private use of force should be prohibited except in rare cases, however conscientious may be its motive. But this principle will not justify compelling men to use force at the bidding of the state, when they do not believe it justified by the occasion. The punishment of conscientious objectors seems clearly a violation of individual liberty within its legitimate sphere.\nIt is generally assumed without question that the state has a right to punish certain kinds of sexual irregularity. No one doubts that the Mormons sincerely believed polygamy to be a desirable practice, yet the United States required them to abandon its legal recognition, and probably any other Christian country would have done likewise. Nevertheless, I do not think this prohibition was wise. Polygamy is legally permitted in many parts of the world, but is not much practised except by chiefs and potentates. If, as Europeans generally believe, it is an undesirable custom, it is probable that the Mormons would have soon abandoned it, except perhaps for a few men of exceptional position. If, on the other hand, it had proved a successful experiment, the world would have acquired a piece of knowledge which it is now unable to possess. I think in all such cases the law should only intervene when there is some injury inflicted without the consent of the injured person.\nIt is obvious that men and women would not tolerate having their wives or husbands selected by the state, whatever eugenists might have to say in favor of such a plan. In this it seems clear that ordinary public opinion is in the right, not because people choose wisely, but because any choice of their own is better than a forced marriage. What applies to marriage ought also to apply to the choice of a trade or profession; although some men have no marked preferences, most men greatly prefer some occupations to others, and are far more likely to be useful citizens if they follow their preferences than if they are thwarted by a public authority.\nThe case of the man who has an intense conviction that he ought to do a certain kind of work is peculiar, and perhaps not very common; but it is important because it includes some very important individuals. Joan of Arc and Florence Nightingale defied convention in obedience to a feeling of this sort; reformers and agitators in unpopular causes, such as Mazzini, have belonged to this class; so have many men of science. In cases of this kind the individual conviction deserves the greatest respect, even if there seems no obvious justification for it. Obedience to the impulse is very unlikely to do much harm, and may well do great good. The practical difficulty is to distinguish such impulses from desires which produce similar manifestations. Many young people wish to be authors without having an impulse to write any particular book, or wish to be painters without having an impulse to create any particular picture. But a little experience will usually show the difference between a genuine and a spurious impulse; and there is less harm in indulging the spurious impulse for a time than in thwarting the impulse which is genuine. Nevertheless, the plain man almost always has a tendency to thwart the genuine impulse, because it seems anarchic and unreasonable, and is seldom able to give a good account of itself in advance.\nWhat is markedly true of some notable personalities is true, in a lesser degree, of almost every individual who has much vigor or force of life; there is an impulse towards activity of some kind, as a rule not very definite in youth, but growing gradually more sharply outlined under the influence of education and opportunity. The direct impulse toward a kind of activity for its own sake must be distinguished from the desire for the expected effects of the activity. A young man may desire the rewards of great achievement without having any spontaneous impulse toward the activities which lead to achievement. But those who actually achieve much, although they may desire the rewards, have also something in their nature which inclines them to choose a certain kind of work as the road which they must travel if their ambition is to be satisfied. This artist’s impulse, as it may be called, is a thing of infinite value to the individual, and often to the world; to respect it in oneself and in others makes up nine tenths of the good life. In most human beings it is rather frail, rather easily destroyed or disturbed; parents and teachers are too often hostile to it, and our economic system crushes out its last remnants in young men and young women. The result is that human beings cease to be individual, or to retain the native pride that is their birthright; they become machine-made, tame, convenient for the bureaucrat and the drill-sergeant, capable of being tabulated in statistics without anything being omitted. This is the fundamental evil resulting from lack of liberty; and it is an evil which is being continually intensified as population grows more dense and the machinery of organization grows more efficient.\nThe things that men desire are many and various: admiration, affection, power, security, ease, outlets for energy, are among the commonest of motives. But such abstractions do not touch what makes the difference between one man and another. Whenever I go to the zoological gardens, I am struck by the fact that all the movements of a stork have some common quality, differing from the movements of a parrot or an ostrich. It is impossible to put in words what the common quality is, and yet we feel that each thing an animal does is the sort of thing we might expect that animal to do. This indefinable quality constitutes the individuality of the animal, and gives rise to the pleasure we feel in watching the animal’s actions. In a human being, provided he has not been crushed by an economic or governmental machine, there is the same kind of individuality, a something distinctive without which no man or woman can achieve much of importance, or retain the full dignity which is native to human beings. It is this distinctive individuality that is loved by the artist, whether painter or writer. The artist himself, and the man who is creative in no matter what direction, has more of it than the average man. Any society which crushes this quality, whether intentionally or by accident, must soon become utterly lifeless and traditional, without hope of progress and without any purpose in its being. To preserve and strengthen the impulse that makes individuality should be the foremost object of all political institutions.\nWe now arrive at certain general principles in regard to individual liberty and public control.\nThe greater part of human impulses may be divided into two classes, those which are possessive and those which are constructive or creative. Social institutions are the garments or embodiments of impulses, and may be classified roughly according to the impulses which they embody. Property is the direct expression of possessiveness; science and art are among the most direct expressions of creativeness. Possessiveness is either defensive or aggressive; it seeks either to retain against a robber, or to acquire from a present holder. In either case an attitude of hostility toward others is of its essence. It would be a mistake to suppose that defensive possessiveness is always justifiable, while the aggressive kind is always blameworthy; where there is great injustice in the status quo, the exact opposite may be the case, and ordinarily neither is justifiable.\nState interference with the actions of individuals is necessitated by possessiveness. Some goods can be acquired or retained by force, while others cannot. A wife can be acquired by force, as the Romans acquired the Sabine women; but a wife’s affection cannot be acquired in this way. There is no record that the Romans desired the affection of the Sabine women; and those in whom possessive impulses are strong tend to care chiefly for the goods that force can secure. All material goods belong to this class. Liberty in regard to such goods, if it were unrestricted, would make the strong rich and the weak poor. In a capitalistic society, owing to the partial restraints imposed by law, it makes cunning men rich and honest men poor, because the force of the state is put at men’s disposal, not according to any just or rational principle, but according to a set of traditional maxims of which the explanation is purely historical.\nIn all that concerns possession and the use of force, unrestrained liberty involves anarchy and injustice. Freedom to kill, freedom to rob, freedom to defraud, no longer belong to individuals, though they still belong to great states, and are exercised by them in the name of patriotism. Neither individuals nor states ought to be free to exert force on their own initiative, except in such sudden emergencies as will subsequently be admitted in justification by a court of law. The reason for this is that the exertion of force by one individual against another is always an evil on both sides, and can only be tolerated when it is compensated by some overwhelming resultant good. In order to minimize the amount of force actually exerted in the world, it is necessary that there should be a public authority, a repository of practically irresistible force, whose function should be primarily to repress the private use of force. A use of force is private when it is exerted by one of the interested parties, or by his friends or accomplices, not by a public neutral authority according to some rule which is intended to be in the public interest.\nThe regime of private property under which we live does much too little to restrain the private use of force. When a man owns a piece of land, for example, he may use force against trespassers, though they must not use force against him. It is clear that some restriction of the liberty of trespass is necessary for the cultivation of the land. But if such powers are to be given to an individual, the state ought to satisfy itself that he occupies no more land than he is warranted in occupying in the public interest, and that the share of the produce of the land that comes to him is no more than a just reward for his labors. Probably the only way in which such ends can be achieved is by state ownership of land. The possessors of land and capital are able at present, by economic pressure, to use force against those who have no possessions. This force is sanctioned by law, while force exercised by the poor against the rich is illegal. Such a state of things is unjust, and does not diminish the use of private force as much as it might be diminished.\nThe whole realm of the possessive impulses, and of the use of force to which they give rise, stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.\nBut the motive underlying the public control of men’s possessive impulses should always be the increase of liberty, both by the prevention of private tyranny and by the liberation of creative impulses. If public control is not to do more harm than good, it must be so exercised as to leave the utmost freedom of private initiative in all those ways that do not involve the private use of force. In this respect all governments have always failed egregiously, and there is no evidence that they are improving.\nThe creative impulses, unlike those that are possessive, are directed to ends in which one man’s gain is not another man’s loss. The man who makes a scientific discovery or writes a poem is enriching others at the same time as himself. Any increase in knowledge or good-will is a gain to all who are affected by it, not only to the actual possessor. Those who feel the joy of life are a happiness to others as well as to themselves. Force cannot create such things, though it can destroy them; no principle of distributive justice applies to them, since the gain of each is the gain of all. For these reasons, the creative part of a man’s activity ought to be as free as possible from all public control, in order that it may remain spontaneous and full of vigor. The only function of the state in regard to this part of the individual life should be to do everything possible toward providing outlets and opportunities.\nIn every life a part is governed by the community, and a part by private initiative. The part governed by private initiative is greatest in the most important individuals, such as men of genius and creative thinkers. This part ought only to be restricted when it is predatory; otherwise, everything ought to be done to make it as great and as vigorous as possible. The object of education ought not to be to make all men think alike, but to make each think in the way which is the fullest expression of his own personality. In the choice of a means of livelihood all young men and young women ought, as far as possible, to be able to choose what is attractive to them; if no money-making occupation is attractive, they ought to be free to do little work for little pay, and spend their leisure as they choose. Any kind of censure on freedom of thought or on the dissemination of knowledge is, of course, to be condemned utterly.\nHuge organizations, both political and economic, are one of the distinguishing characteristics of the modern world. These organizations have immense power, and often use their power to discourage originality in thought and action. They ought, on the contrary, to give the freest scope that is possible without producing anarchy or violent conflict. They ought not to take cognizance of any part of a man’s life except what is concerned with the legitimate objects of public control, namely, possessions and the use of force. And they ought, by devolution, to leave as large a share of control as possible in the hands of individuals and small groups. If this is not done, the men at the head of these vast organizations will infallibly become tyrannous through the habit of excessive power, and will in time interfere in ways that crush out individual initiative.\nThe problem which faces the modern world is the combination of individual initiative with the increase in the scope and size of organizations. Unless it is solved, individuals will grow less and less full of life and vigor, and more and more passively submissive to conditions imposed upon them. A society composed of such individuals cannot be progressive or add much to the world’s stock of mental and spiritual possessions. Only personal liberty and the encouragement of initiative can secure these things. Those who resist authority when it encroaches upon the legitimate sphere of the individual are performing a service to society, however little society may value it. In regard to the past, this is universally acknowledged; but it is no less true in regard to the present and the future.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "United Kingdom, officially known as “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)” is a European country founded in 1922. It is the fifth strongest country in the world (in terms of military) as per 2023 Military Strength Ranking of Global Firepower Index and sixth largest economy by gross domestic product (GDP) as per the World Bank Reports 2023.\nThe British flag, also known as ‘Union Jack’ is the national flag of the United Kingdom adopted in 1801. The flag contains saltire (“×” lookalike) of Saint Patrick who was a Christian Preacher and a Missionary. It represents Ireland (or maybe just Northern Ireland since Ireland is no longer a part of UK since 1922). The red cross (the “+” lookalike) of Saint George who was a Christian Preacher and a soldier in Roman Army represents England and Wales.\nPolitical Map and Current Demographs\nUnited Kingdom (UK) consist of three countries namely Scotland, England and Wales and one province namely Northern Ireland. According British Census 2021, The state has an estimated population of 67 million individuals. Talking about the religious beliefs, 46.2% are Christians (Anglicans mostly) followed by non-religious making up to 37.2%, Muslims about 6.5%, Hindus 1.7% and so on.\nPrime Minister of UK and First Minister of England: Rishi Sunak (2022 – present)\nFirst Minister of Scotland: Humza Yousaf (2023 – present)\nFirst Minister of Wales: Mark Drakeford (2018 – present)\nFirst Minister of Northern Ireland: Paul Givan (2022 – present)\nMayor of London: Sadiq Ahmed Khan (2016 – present)\nGovernance and Political Science\nUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a parliamentary democracy with constitutional monarchy. It rules over the entire state along with the British Overseas Territories (BOTs) but not crown dependencies. (Learn more about BOTs and crown dependencies: Difference between UK, Britain, England, British Isles etc. – The Profound Report) The ruling British King/Queen of United Kingdom is considered as the head of state while the British Prime Minister is considered as the head of the British Government.\nThe political system can be divided into three parts:\nThe Executive level is known as the Crown where the head of state is chosen from the British Royal Family (either a King or Queen). This level includes the King/Queen, the British Prime Minister (elected), civil servants, Council of Ministers, Ministries and so on. It is responsible for ruling the state, government, formulating policies and making decisions.\nThe legislature level or the Parliament includes the House of Westminster (British Parliament) having House of Commons (Lower House) with 650 members and House of Lords (Upper House) with 778 members. This level is responsible for debates, freedom of speeches, conducting meetings, controlling/guiding the government and decision-making.\nThere is also local government governed by the people via elections in different cities, towns etc. often referred as ‘municipalities’.\nJudiciary level consist of the Supreme Court of United Kingdom including judges, magistrates, tribunal members and coroners. The role of this level is to safeguard the rule of law, democracy and human rights.\nBefore 43 AD, Today’s United Kingdom was mostly inhabited by various tribes, clans and the Celtic people.\nBetween 43 AD to 260 AD, Roman Empire ruled over certain part of today’s United Kingdom. The empire started expanding to today’s UK starting from England under King Claudius.\nFrom 260 AD to 275 AD, Gallic Empire ruled the territory after it overthrew Roman Empire under the Gallic King, Postumus.\nIn 275 AD, Roman Empire under King Probus came back to rule overthrowing Gallic Empire.\nBetween 275 AD and 927 AD, various empires took over the lands.\nIn 843 AD, Kingdom of Scotland was founded by King Kenneth I.\nIn 927 AD, Kingdom of England was founded by King Æthelstan.\nIn 1171 AD, Lordship of Ireland was founded by King John who was also the King of England.\nIn 1216 AD, Principality of Wales was founded by King Llywelyn.\nIn 1653 AD, all of these kingdoms and principalities were united as a single empire named ‘Commonwealth of England’ under the King Oliver Cromwell. This empire ruled over entire today’s British Isle.\nIn 1659 AD, King Charles II overthrew King Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth of England. He took over the entire today’s British Isles, ruling over England (including today’s Wales), Scotland and Ireland.\nIn 1707 AD, Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland were founded by George I. The kingdom included the entire British Isle.\nIn January 1801, Kingdom of Great Britain became ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland’. William Pitt the Younger became the first Prime Minister of UK.\nIn 1922, the southern region of Ireland left the United Kingdom become an independent nation named as ‘Irish Free State’ (it later became Republic of Ireland in 1937). This led to renaming of UK as ‘United Kingdom Great Britain and Northern Ireland’ over ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland’.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- Should the same drug cost different amounts in different countries? Many non-governmental organizations say no – they’d rather have lower-cost generic medicines.\n- The mysterious Kawasaki disease may have originated from northeast China, and may be able to be transmitted through the wind, researchers report.\n- Scientists have discovered a drug that helps patients with Type 2 diabetes. It helps keep insulin in the bloodstream longer.\n- Clinical trials are designed to be ethical in order to protect those that participate. But what happens when the National Institutes of Health interferes with ethical investigations into its own trials?\n- Gluten-free diets are becoming ever more popular, but a new study shows that there is no benefit to a gluten-free diet for people without Celiac disease.\n- Science writer Jo Marchant discusses how to use your mind to help heal yourself.\n- Some researchers are arguing that virus research could result in a global pandemic.\n- The heart remodels itself in endurance athletes, a new study finds. This leads to a lower resting heart rate as well as potential heart problems later in life.\n- The BBC has a tool that shows you what your body clock is up to at different points in time. Compare with our article last week about keeping your body clock functioning properly.\n- A couple children that don’t seem to age have been discovered. In a fantastic long piece for Mosaic, Virginia Hughes discusses how this may help researchers learn more about why we age.\n- The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which assesses the health of the U.S. population, will soon start analyzing Chicago residents.\n- Northwestern Medicine recently hosted a panel discussion to support new legislation, which may help provide more antibiotics to fight multi-drug resistant organisms.\n- Northwestern professor June McKoy wrote an article in the Pacific-Standard about the costs of cancer treatment.\nCover Photo by Tookapic via Pexels: Creative Commons", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Scientists have learned a great deal about cells and the biomaterials (DNA, proteins, metal ions, etc) within them. This knowledge has helped scientists treat diseases such as cholera, elucidate the genetics of famine and other health questions, clean up chemical waste, and synthesize anti-HIV drugs and other valuable materials, such as quantum dots.\nHowever, there is still a long way to go, even on fundamental principles. One such important (yet unanswered) question, of biological and technological importance, is how the cell cytoplasm (the interior of cells) organizes itself into a complex network of distinct functional subunits.\nThe common view of cytoplasmic organization is that cells possess many interior compartments, each surrounded by a physical barrier (such as a phospholipid membrane). However, proteins are known to localize to specific regions of the cytoplasm, in the absense of physical barriers.\nThis phenomenon is known as protein microcompartmentation. What enables it, and consequently the cellular functions it enables (e.g., DNA repair and intracellular communication)? Numerous hypotheses have been put forward, some of them heavily based in the biological sciences, and others more grounded in the physical sciences.\nThe aqueous phase separation hypothesis.\nOne of these hypotheses is that protein microcompartmentation is enabled by aqueous phase separation, which is typically the spontaneous segregation of proteins into multiple water-based (aqueous) phases. Proponents of the aqueous phase separation hypothesis point out that the cell cytoplasm possesses a high concentration of proteins (up to tens of weight percent).\nThese are conditions that are known to enable aqueous phase separation of proteins (and other polymers) in test tubes. Thus, a physical feature of the cell cytoplasm (its high protein concentration) may drive spontaneous intracellular organization.\nHowever, to date, aqueous phase separation has not been observed in living cells. Most relevant to biology, it has been observed in nonliving cells exposed to harsh conditions, and in artificial constructs designed to primitively mimic cells.\nThe observation of aqueous phase separation in living cells wouldn't necessarily demonstrate that it is a normal feature of the cell cytoplasm. Howver, such an observation would lend some weight to the aqueous phase separation hypothesis, and justify the search for evidence of the phenomenon as part of normal cellular physiology.\nCarlos Filipe (McMaster University, Canada) and coworkers have induced aqueous phase separation of polypeptides (proteins) in genetically engineered bacteria and plant cells. After a cell had produced a certain amount of the desired protein, the proteins formed their own aqueous phase(s), and localized to one or both ends (poles) of the cell.\nGenetically engineering the cells.\nThe scientists genetically engineered their cells to produce elastin-like polypeptides. Elastin is a protein found in certain cells that enable them to resume their typical shape after cellular deformation.\nElastin-like polypeptides are synthetic molecules that superficially resemble the protein elastin. Importantly for Filipe and coworkers, elastin-like polypeptides are known to undergo aqueous phase separation in response to appropriate stimuli.\nThe scientists' elastin-like polypeptides were affixed to a fluorescent protein as a part of the genetic engineering process. This enabled the scientists to localize the polypeptides, and prove the fluid nature of the protein phases, in living cells with fluorescence microscopy.\nConfirming aqueous phase separation.\nThe scientists first needed to demonstrate that their polypeptide undergoes aqueous phase separation, both in microscopic droplets and in living cells. For both purposes, their primary technique was fluorescence recovery after photobleaching.\nThe basis of fluorescence recovery after photobleaching is to shine a high-power laser beam at a small region, irreversibly destroying fluorescence from molecules within the region. Afterwards, nonfluorescent (damaged) molecules move out of the region, and fluorescent (undamaged) molecules move into the region, resulting in fluorescence recovery within the small region.\nThe rate of fluorescence recovery is related to the mobility of molecules within the small region being monitored. For these scientists' purposes, they were interested in demonstrating that the molecules within the presumed aqueous phases were fluid, not immobile protein clumps.\nThey observed a large amount of fluorescence recovery in microscopic droplets of phase-separated elastin-like polypeptides, demonstrating the fluid nature of the aqueous phases. Complete recovery was not observed, due to the inherent mobility of the polypeptides, and some unavoidable destruction of the fluorescent protein affixed to the polypeptides.\nWhether or not the elastin-like proteins underwent aqueous phase separation in living cells depended on how long the cells were given to synthesize the protein (i.e., protein concentration in the cell). Some aqueous phase separation was observed after 10 hours, more after 20 hours, and enough to coalesce into larger droplets after 36 hours; the scientists observed a large amount of fluorescence recovery in the cells, similarly to within the microscopic droplets.\nFunctional protein-enriched microcompartments.\nThe scientists used fluorescent dyes to confirm that the elastin-like polypeptide aqueous phases collected at one or both ends (poles) of the cell. Furthermore, nucleic acids (genetic material) and ribosomes (protein synthesis \"machinery\") were excluded from the polypeptide phases.\nThese observations are especially noteworthy. They demonstrate the spontaneous segregation of the polypeptides from other specialized regions of the cell.\nFrom a biotechnology standpoint, this segregation may be useful for a number of reasons. These include preventing polypeptide aggregation by nonspecifically directing them to a region of especially high polypeptide concentration, in-cell synthesis and subsequent isolation of toxic proteins, and possibly for preventing degradation by other intracellular proteins such as proteases (tested here in bulk solution experiments, not within living cells).\nFrom a synthetic biology standpoint, this segregation is useful for demonstrating the induction of protein microcompartmentation, via aqueous phase separation. No other technique currently developed is capable of generating these two phenomena in an unambiguous manner, in living cells.\nFilipe and coworkers have induced protein microcompartmentation, via aqueous phase separation of elastin-like polypeptides, in genetically engineered living cells. This development may enable scientists to test hypotheses of intracellular organization and assembly, in model systems that bridge the divide between entirely synthetic constructs and living cells in a physiological state.\nfor more information:\nGe, X., Conley, A. J., Brandle, J. E., Truant, R., & Filipe, C. D. M. (2009). In Vivo Formation of Protein Based Aqueous Microcompartments Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (25), 9094-9099 DOI: 10.1021/ja902890r", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cardinal and confessor of the faith. Born in 1204 in Portello, diocese of Urgel, Spain; died 31 August 1240 at Cardona, Catalonia. Having been taken from the womb of his mother after her death, he received the name Nonnatus (not born). He became a member of the Order of Our Lady of Ransom in Barcelona and, promoted for his piety and diligence, was sent as ransomer to free the captives at al-Djaza’ir (modern Algiers). There he endured the greatest hardship and persecution because of his persistence in converting the Mohammedans. Ransomed by his Order, he returned to Spain and was made a cardinal by Pope Gregory IX. In spite of his rank he lived as a simple religious. He died of fever on the way to Rome. Patron of midwives and those falsely accused. Relics in the chapel of Saint Nicholas, Portello. Feast, Roman Calendar, 31 August.\n- “Saint Raymond Nonnatus”. . CatholicSaints.Info. 6 August 2013. Web. 22 May 2015. <>", "label": "No"}
{"text": "William Grigg on the gang of criminals commonly known as \"government\":\n\"Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a vast scale? What are criminal gangs but petty kingdoms?\nA gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy wins so many recruits from the ranks of the demoralized that it acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues peoples, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of `kingdom,' which is conferred on it in the eyes of the world, not by the renouncing of aggression but by the attainment of impunity.\nFor it was a witty and a truthful rejoinder which was given by a captured pirate to Alexander the Great. The king asked the fellow, `What is your idea, in infesting the sea?' And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, `The same is yours, in infesting the earth! But because I do it with a tiny craft, I'm called a pirate; because you have a mighty navy, you're called an emperor.\"\nSt. Augustine, The City of God, book IV, chapter 4.\nOne obvious difference between a common criminal gang, and the specialized version of a criminal gang called a \"government,\" is this: Common gangs don't expect their victims to be abjectly grateful to be on the receiving end of criminal violence, and even to pay for the privilege of being plundered.\nThe more vicious variety of gangs called \"government\" not only expect such gratitude and tribute, they demand it. Indeed, they will literally kill to have it, sacrificing not only the lives of its victims, but of as many of its enforcers as may be necessary.\nRead the rest", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sport's psychology case study 1 kody springsteen november 4, 2014 hes 379 case study #7 case study #7 – marcus, coach marcus is a basketball coach in charge of a travelling elite summer team. Sport psychology interventions shane the contributors are able to address specific issues related case studies illustrate how sport psychology can be used in. How to write a psychology case study some great examples of case studies in psychology thoughts, feelings, and perceptions related to the symptoms should.\nMost cited psychology of sport and extensively investigated in sport psychology, past studies showing that related benefits from the. Please browse peaksports sports psychology success stories these are just a few case studies of athletes who have enjoyed our mental game coaching programs. Applied sport psychology a case study report of a self directed cognitive-behavioural intervention programme introduction see related essays.\nA sport-psychology related case study of the relationship between self-efficacy and performance in competitive gymnastics. Pe 305/560: applied sport psychology case study 3 - nancy: exercising again at 44 nancy is a 44-year-old mother of 3 who has been relatively sedentary most of her adult.\nAssignment samples & case study review sample: among the four main theories related to sport ethics in sport psychology is an essential aspect as ethics. Sports psychology is the study of how psychology influences sports, athletic performance, exercise, and physical activity some sports psychologists work with professional athletes and coaches to improve performance and increase motivation. Journal of sports medicine & doping studies has emerged as journal of clinical sport psychology sports medicine case related journals for sports psychology. Sports psychology studies the relationship between sport psychology is the scientific study of people and their behaviours in sport related links.\nSuccessful attempts promote self-efficacy and therefore motivation to make further mastery attempts in gymnastics this is vital as constant repetition of skills is necessary to become consistent. Basketball psychology is in essence the study of sport psychology, sports psychologists, sports performance, sports psychology articles, peak performance. Psychology’s 10 greatest case studies it is not really kitty genovese the person who has become one of psychology’s classic case studies sports coaches. Case studies in sport psychology case studies in applied sport psychology an educational approach pages with related products.\nThe case study is not itself a in psychology, case studies are often confined to the help show how different aspects of a person's life are related to each. Exercise and sport psychology are the scientific study of the psychological factors associated with participation and performance in physical activity.\nThe most downloaded articles from psychology of sport and exercise in the last 90 days related links a case study of a rugby union world cup winning team. Case study about improving performances psychology the following case study is on a 20 year old adequate treatment process for problems related to sport.\nAcl injury rehabilitation: a psychological case study of a professional rugby union player article in journal of clinical sport psychology injury related. The case study method of teaching abnormal psychology in the students cover concepts and terms related to classical and operant conditioning as. Sport psychology is an interdisciplinary science that draws on knowledge from many related one common area of study within sport psychology is in this case.Download", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By Vasileios Tsamis\nHow did old Europeans materialize reminiscence? fabric Mnemonics: daily Practices in Prehistoric Europe presents a clean method of the archaeological examine of reminiscence. Drawing on case reviews from the British Isles, Scandinavia, vital Europe, Greece, Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula that date from the Neolithic in the course of the Iron Age, the books authors discover the implications of our figuring out of the prior while reminiscence and mnemonic practices are positioned within the middle of cultural analyses. They talk about monument construction, own adornment, relic-making, mortuary rituals, the burning of our bodies and homes, and the upkeep of family areas and constructions over lengthy classes of time. fabric Mnemonics engages with modern debates at the intersection of reminiscence, identification, embodiment, and gear, and demanding situations archaeologists to contemplate how materiality either provokes and constrains the mnemonic procedures in way of life.\nRead or Download Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe PDF\nSimilar Cognitive Psychology books\nThe prestigious individuals to this quantity were set the matter of describing how we all know the place to maneuver our eyes. there's a good deal of present curiosity within the use of eye move recordings to enquire quite a few psychological approaches. the typical subject matter is that adaptations in eye hobbies point out diversifications within the processing of what's being perceived, no matter if in interpreting, riding or scene conception.\nThe Wechsler Intelligence Scale is the main primary intelligence attempt for kids around the globe. WISC-V introduces new subtests, composite rankings, procedure rankings, mistakes ratings, and scaled rankings as a extra complicated and actual technique of assessing cognitive talents. WISC-V review and Interpretation presents functional info for clinicians on number of subtest measures, management, and interpretation.\nWe're imminent the tip of the 1st century of makes an attempt to find how the mind permits us to obtain, continue, and use details in line with adventure. The prior a number of many years specially have witnessed an ever accelerating velocity of analysis. This raise is due largely to the advance of recent recommendations for the research of mind and behaviour.\nThe connection of language to cognition, specifically in improvement, is a controversy that has occupied philosophers, psychologists, and linguists for hundreds of years. lately, the clinical learn of signal languages and deaf members has vastly superior our figuring out of deafness, language, and cognition.\nExtra resources for Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Definitions of Recombinant Definition Biology\nWe’re anticipating your application! They’re two things that you’ve got to look at. That’s it for now. It’s been in existence for quite a while and maybe is beginning to get near deployment. Then by sudden growth of temp.\nThe issue is that the excellent technology really should be put to use in places where folks need this, and that’s the issue with having this fear-based discussion about health. We’re only trying to understand standard biology. Later on, the AI will democratize everybody’s capacity to receive the same accessibility to healthcare services and industrial advice. Speaking of all the issues that are found on Earth, sometimes it appears there is no other approach to solve them than with the assistance of AI. Make sure and look over the extra information provided below, as these questions could be tricky!\nWith advancements in transgenic engineering, it’s possible to create cheap and readily available vaccines that the whole world is going to have access to. General recombinationis an integral component of the complicated procedure of meiosisin sexually reproducing organisms. It simply isn’t a technology that’s universally applicable or even necessary in the majority of biotechnological solutions.\nIt was selected because of its simple physiology, short generation time and big yield of goods. The procedure was used to change DNA in living organisms and could have even more practical uses later on. The germ plasmsomatoplasm are associated with the genotypephenotype concepts, but they aren’t identical and shouldn’t be confused with them. This procedure is also referred to as genetic engineering.\nMoreover, there are numerous different uses for recombinant DNA technology. Gene cloning has a diverse array of applications. The development and application http://goodhearted.org/ideas-formulas-and-shortcuts-for-nursing-theories-social-support/ of recombinant DNA is a relatively new process that’s changing the area of science and technology. As with the majority of technology, there are fantastic added benefits and notable downsides to the usage of recombinant DNA technology. Recombinant DNA and biotechnology have been used to raise the efficiency of plant growth by raising the efficiency of the plant’s capability to repair nitrogen.\nIntroducing Recombinant Definition Biology\nIn the very first instance, for instance, a researcher might want to figure out the DNA sequence of the gene or study the aspects that control its expression (transcription). These enzymes are called restriction enzymes.\nWe’ll also review how to earn a recombinant cDNA library and the way to use this library to locate a particular gene. The vector is the part of DNA that’ll be carrying the bit of DNA that’s of interest, also called the donor DNA.\nRecombinant DNA is the overall name for a part of DNA that has been produced by the mix of at least two strands. It is the general name for a piece of DNA that has been created by combining at least two strands. Recombinant DNA (or rDNA) is created by combining DNA from at least two sources.\nThis is known as gene conversion. Gene Transfer is attempting to bring a trait that is not there or maybe take out a trait that’s there. Tracking the movement of genes caused by crossovers has proven quite helpful to geneticists. In transformation, the initial step is to pick a slice of DNA which will be placed into the vector.\nThe Unexpected Truth About Recombinant Definition Biology\nThis contributes to profuse production of human insulin in sizeable quantities. Flarebio delivers recombinant proteins of superior quality such as recombinant cdh1 at great rates. In this column, we’re likely to chat about the differences between HGH and steroid. That said, when it regards commercial food products, there are in reality very few varieties of modifications that seed makers use, together with very few GMO foods out there. Another key molecular element is the accession of expression factors. We would like to do anything it requires to earn insulin more accessible and reasonably priced.\nHowever, in addition, this is the one thing all GMOs have in common. In the usa and other advanced financial nations, the debut of GMOs has actually been an environmental boon. The drug is used as a treatment for diabetes. The worldwide biologics market was analyzed based on expected demand.\nThe bacterium is then going to be able to create human protein that’s otherwise only made by humans. High-resolution denaturing gel electrophoresis can be employed to separate fragments of distinct sizes. The recombinant DNA mixture is subsequently utilised to transform bacterial cells, and it is normal for single recombinant vector molecules to seek out their way to individual bacterial cells. The restriction enzymes play a major part within this technology. In the majority of cases, scientists either utilize protein antigens or peptide antigens for this goal.\nThere are several possible approaches to do this. Thus, the next thing to do is to seek out a means to choose the clone with the insert containing the particular gene in which we are interested. A similar procedure is utilized to acquire B chains. However, transformation is the most popular method.\nThat’s all done within the body as soon as you’ve consumed beta-carotene. They’ve a common starting point, but terminate in various nucleotides. It’s assorted with a various Deoxyribonucleic acid molecule. A sample of the yeast which can be genetically engineered to create insulin.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Brunei Darussalam is a monarchy.\nScholarships for doctoral study are awarded by Brunei Darussalam to citizens of other Commonwealth countries under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan.\nBrunei Darussalam (Brunei – ‘Abode of Peace’) is a small state in South-East Asia on the north-west coast of the island of Borneo, in the Indonesian Archipelago. Its 161 km coastline faces the South China Sea. On the land side, it is enclosed by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, which divides it in two.\nThe districts of Brunei–Muara, Tutong and Belait make up the larger, western part of the country; Temburong district the east.\nBandar Seri Begawan (capital, pop. 76,200 in 2009, comprising Kampong Ayer 42,500), Kuala Belait (28,400), Seria (28,300), Tutong (21,500), Muara and Bangar.\nThe country has 3,030 km of roads, 81 per cent paved. The main deep-water port is at Muara, with a dedicated container terminal. The Brunei, Belait and Tutong rivers provide an important means of transport. Passenger vessels and water-taxis run between the shallow draught port at Bandar Seri Begawan, Temburong district, and the Malaysian port of Limbang. Brunei International Airport is six km north-east of the capital.\nBrunei Darussalam is a member of Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Non-Aligned Movement, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, United Nations and World Trade Organization.\nThe coastal plain is intersected by rivers descending from the hilly hinterland. To the east are mountains, the highest point being Bukit Pagon at 1,812m. Most towns and villages are beside estuaries.\nTropical, with high humidity and heavy rainfall. There is no distinct wet season; the wettest months are January and November. Much of the rain falls in sudden thundery showers.\nThe most significant environmental issue is seasonal smoke/haze resulting from forest fires in Indonesia.\nMangrove swamps lie along the coast, and forest covers 72 per cent of the land area, a large part of this being primary forest, dense in places and of great genetic diversity. There are 15 forest reserves, covering about 40 per cent of the total land area. The government plans to increase the area of the forest reserves. Around 15 per cent of the land area is cultivated.\nMost of the mammals are small and nocturnal, including tree shrews, moon rats and mouse deer. There are numerous bird species, especially hornbills. Some 33 mammal species and 22 bird species are thought to be endangered (2014).\nSenior government officials from Commonwealth countries in Asia convene in Chandigarh, India, this week to review their priorities for youth development.\nCommonwealth capacity-building knowledge and experience can be tapped by the South-East Asian country", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Explain employees’ roles and responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control of infection. To ensure that their own health and hygiene not pose a risk to service users and colleagues To ensure effective hand washing is carried out when working with service users, giving personal care, handling/preparing food. To ensure they use protective clothing provided when needed and appropriate. Explain employers’ responsibilities in relation to the prevention and control infection. making sure employees are aware of the health and safety aspects of their work (e.g. posting information on notice boards, keeping an information file such as COSHH, training, and providing supervision)They need to keep records in relation to infection control using appropriate documentation to ensure that the relevant standards, policies and guidelines are available within the workplace. 2.1 Outline current legislation and regulatory body standards which are relevant to the prevention and control of infection.\nThe Health and Social Care Act 2008; Code of Practice for health and adult social care on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance. To help providers of healthcare, adult social care, (and others) plan and implement how they prevent and control infections. It includes criteria for CQC to take into account when assessing compliance with the registration requirement on cleanliness and infection control. Legislation, regulations and guidance that govern infection prevention and control.\nHealth and Safety at Work Act 1974, Management of Health and Safety at Work Act (amended 1994)\nThe Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984\nFood Safety Act 1990\nThe Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulation 1988\nThe Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations (Department of Health 1995) The Environment Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 1991\nHealth Protection Agency Bill\n2.2 Describe local and organizational policies relevant to the prevention and control of infection.\nThe following local and organizational policies relevant to the prevention and control of infection are The Public Health (control of disease) Act 1984, Social Care Act, the NICE guidelines and also company policies and procedures that relate to infection prevention and control. For example with regards to own company, it states that “Any persons suffering from an infectious or contagious disease must either have clearance rom own doctor or seek guidance from your line manager.\n3.1 Describe procedures and systems relevant to the prevention and control of infection.\nProcedures and systems relevant to the prevention of control infection ae following companies policies and procedures which relate to correct hand washing procedure, wearing correct PPE for example gloves, aprons and protective clothing, the correct disposal of waste and using the correct cleaning equipment when cleaning spillages, surfaces and equipment.\n3.2 Explain the potential impact of an outbreak of infection on the individual and the organization.\nThe outbreak of infection can be fatal if care is not taken; for instance an outbreak of MRSA that can be resistant to most antibiotics can be fatal. The outbreak of an infection has consequences for individuals, staff and the organization. It can cause ill health to all concerned and it can also impact emotionally because people that acquire infection relate it to being dirty and some infections may require people to be isolated from others for a period of time. The organization could lose money if most of the staff are off sick and as they will need to employ more staff which they will be paying to cover in addition to staff that are off sick. The organization could also be fined by not complying with the law and in turn this will damage their reputation.\n4.1 define the term risk.\nRisk means the exposure to the chance of injury or loss.\n4.2 Outline potential risks of infection within the workplace.\nIn the workplace supporting individuals with persona care activities and sharing facilities with others involve coming into contact with bodily fluids which contain pathogens. Cleaning areas such as bathrooms that are dirty and where bodily fluids are present may be more likely to be contaminated with pathogens. Handling laundry that may be dirty or contaminated with bodily fluids can also contain pathogens. Handling of disposing of clinical waste, emptying waste containers and receptacles that may also be contaminated with pathogens. Providing personal care activities that require being close to an individual and dealing with bodily fluids increases the chance of infection spreading.\n4.3 Describe the process of carrying out a risk assessment.\nRisk assessment helps makes us aware of the risks involved in any activity and know how reduce or remove the risk. It also helps to protect the organization’s reputation because the risk assessment identifies the risks in the workplace and the measures put in place to control or eradicate suck risks. In general, risk assessments are important as they reduce the risks of accidents and ill health to everyone. Identify the hazard – this means finding out what the hazards are and what might cause harm by observing but also by speaking with individuals, staff and visitors. Evaluate the risks – this stage involves deciding who might be harmed and how and involves considering everyone in the workplace such as individuals, staff and visitors. Take precautions – this involves deciding on what precautions must be taken to remove, reduce or avoid the hazards for example wearing the appropriate PPE might be a precautions.\nReview the risks – the effectiveness of the precautions in place should be checked regularly to ensure that they are sufficient. Report and record outcome – the findings of the risk assessment must be recorded and all those involved and who need to know should be given explanations and information on how these risks can be prevented and/or controlled. 4.4 Explain the important of carrying out a risk assessment. The main aim is to make sure that no one gets hurt or becomes ill. Accidents and ill health can ruin lives, and can also affect business if output is lost, machinery is damaged, insurance costs increase, or if you have to go to court. Therefore carrying out risk assessment, preparing and implementing a safety statement and keeping both up to date will not in themselves prevent accidents and ill health but they will play crucial part in reducing their likelihood.\nEmployers, managers and supervisors should all ensure that workplace practices reflect the risk assessment and safety statement. Behavior, the way in which everyone works, must reflect the safe working practices laid down in these documents. Supervisory checks and audits should be carried out to determine how well the aims set down are being achieved. Corrective action should be taken when required. Additionally, if a workplace is provided for use by others. The safety statement must also set out the safe work practices that are relevant to them. Hence, it is important to carry out a Risk Assessment and prepare a Safety Statement for Financial reasons\nMoral and ethical reasons\n5.1 Demonstrate correct use of PPE.\nHave the responsibility and to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) Appropriately to avoid contamination as far as possible.\n5.2 Describe different types of PPE.\nAprons and gloves are commonly used types of PPE. Disposal gloves have different types namely standard latex (example white gloves used for personal care tasks) nitrile (example used cleaning tasks) and vinyl example blue gloves used when handling food). Disposable plastic aprons are placed over uniforms and prevent the uniform from becoming soiled when carrying out different activities (example white apron for personal care and blue for handling food).\nOther PPE used in care settings can include uniforms (must not be worn outside of work and must be washed on a regular basis) and hats (worn when food is being prepared and served). PPE is used to reduce the risk pf pathogens being transferred from the support worker to the individual, from one individual to another, from one staff member to another. PPE form physical barriers from infections and protect staff from infection carried by individuals from any pathogens staff may be carrying.\n5.3 Explain the reasons for use of PPE.\nGloves – protect hands.\nGown/Aprons – protect skin and or clothing.\nMasks and respirators.\nRespirators – protect respiratory tract from airborne infectious agents Googles – protect eyes.\n5.4 State current relevant regulations and legislation relating of PPE.\nEmployees are responsible to use PPE appropriate and as instructed by employer. An employee has to check PPE before and after use and have to report any damage. Ensuring employees who store and handle dangerous substances are properly trained. Using appropriate precautions when handling substances – for example, wearing protective clothing or ensuring adequate ventilation. Checking containers are properly labelled. 5.5 Describe employees’ responsibilities regarding the use of PPE. It is the responsibility of employees to ensure that they take reasonable care to protect their own health and safety and that of their co-workers and other persons in or near the workplace. Report to management any hazardous or potentially hazardous conditions or risks that they identify in their work environment.\nParticipate in training provided by the employer, regarding the appropriate use, care and maintenance of PPE. Uses PPE in accordance with instruction provided and follow. 5.6 Describe employers’ responsibilities regarding the use of PPE. Employers’ responsibilities regarding the use of PPE include providing the correct PPE in relation to the specific tasks that are carried out and for staff members (example the correct fitting PPE); this must be provided free of charge. Employers need to have arrangements in place to make sure PPE is stored correctly and is available when needed. It is the duty of the employer to assess the need of PPE in the work environment. The employer must also train staff and provide them with information and guidance on how to use PPE. 5.7 Describe the correct practice in the application and removal of PPE. Before putting on an apron you must first wash and dry your hands and then the neck strap must be placed over the head and the waist ties fastened behind the back. To remove the apron it is important to limit the areas your hand will touch in order to reduce the possibility of cross infection.\nYou should pull at the neck strap and waist strap making sure that it does not fall to the floor, then scrunch it up into a ball in your gloved hand and then dispose of it in the yellow bin bag. When removing PPE avoid touching any surface, remove the item before moving to the next patient, place the item in the correct bin and wash and dry your hands afterwards in case of cross contamination. Clinical waste like gloves and aprons are regarded as high risk and must be disposed of properly to reduce the risk of cross infection. Infectious, hazardous materials should be placed in yellow bags for incineration; black bags are for food waste and other waste.\n5.8 Describe the correct procedure for disposal of used PPE.\nPut on medical gloves and place your PPE in a plastic garbage bag. Tightly tie and secure the garbage bag to prevent dripping. If dripping occurs and garbage touches your skin or clothes, wash them thoroughly. Put PPE in your workplace’s receptacles. It may be labelled for bio hazardous waste. Clean waste containers regularly. Your workplace may require you to clean receptacles daily depending on their policies; and wash hands thoroughly with soup and warm water after handling. 6.1 Describe the key principles of good personal hygiene.\nSome of the principles of good personal hygiene include washing hands before and after tasks and bathing regularly to prevent the spread of infection and body odor, keeping hair clean and tied back, wearing clean clothing and ensuring uniforms worn are washed regularly and only worn in the workplace to avoid the spread of infection, keeping nails trimmed and clean, not wearing jewelry at work as this can be a way to transporting pathogens.\n6.2 Demonstrate good hand washing technique.\nWet hands with water\nApply enough soap and hand wash to cover all hand surfaces\nRub hands palm to palm\nRight palm over the other hand with interlaced fingers and vice versa\nPalm to palm with fingers interlaced\nBacks to fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked\nRotational rubbing to left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa\nRotational rubbing, backwards and forwards with clasped fingers of right hand in left palm and vice versa\nRinse hands with water\nDry thoroughly with towel.\n6.3 Describe the correct sequence for hand washing.\nMake sure that you remove any jewelry\nTurn the water tap on and make sure that you can place both hands under the water comfortably and that it is at the right temperature so that you can wash your hands.\nWet both hands\nApply soup and lather both hands palm to palm\nRub each hand over the back of the other\nInterlock fingers and rub fingers\nRub palms together\nRinse to remove the soap residue\nDry your hands with either a paper towel or an air drier\n6.4 Explain when and why hand washing should be carried out. Hand washing should be carried out regularly to help prevent and control the spread of infection and should be washed before starting work and putting on a clean uniform, before and after using PPE, before and after specific tasks such as after using the toilet, before and after handling and serving food, after handling waste, before and after carrying out activities with individuals.\n6.5 Describe the types of products that should be used for hand washing. There are different types of products that should be used for hand washing and these include soup, antiseptic gels and alcohol-based hand rubs.\nLiquid soup from a dispenser should be used for hand washing in communal area as these will have less pathogens then if bars of soup are shared between different people. Antiseptic gels contain chemicals that destroy pathogens and these are used where there is a higher risk of infection. Alcohol-based hand rubs should be used in addition to and not instead of hand washing with soaps and antiseptic gels and add an additional protective barrier against pathogens. 6.6 Describe correct procedures that relate to skincare.\nHand washing should be carried out regularly to help prevent and control the spread of infection and should be washed before starting work and putting on a clean uniform, before and after using PPE, before and after specific tasks such as after using the toilet, before and after handling and serving food, after handling waste, before and after carrying out activities with individuals. It is important to take care of our skin as it protects from pathogens; if the skin is not looked after it could become dry and develop cracks which in turn could become the route of pathogens. It is therefore important that hand cream is applied to help keep skin moisturized so that it does not become dry.\nCourtney from Study Moose\nHi there, would you like to get such a paper? How about receiving a customized one? Check it out https://goo.gl/3TYhaX", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In this article, we’ll explore the top-down approach to programming. We’ll also look at some of the benefits and drawbacks of this design pattern. Lastly, we’ll see how it can be applied in a real-world scenario.\nThis Video Should Help:\nWhat is the top-down approach?\nThe top-down approach is a programming and design method that starts with the large picture and then breaks it down into successively smaller details. This is the opposite of the bottom-up approach, which starts with individual details and builds them up into bigger components.\nThere are many reasons why a programmer might prefer the top-down approach. One reason is that it gives them a big-picture view of the project, which can be helpful in understanding how all the pieces fit together. Additionally, starting with the big picture can help programmers identify potential problem areas early on and make necessary changes before they get too far into the development process.\nAnother reason to prefer the top-down approach is that it can make the programming job easier overall. When programmers know what the final product should look like, they can work on developing each section one at a time. This can help them stay organized and avoid getting bogged down in small details. Additionally, working on one section at a time can make it easier to identify and fix errors as they arise.\nThere are some potential disadvantages to using the top-down approach, as well. One downside is that it can be more difficult to make changes later on if the programmer vision for the product changes. Additionally, starting with a broad overview can sometimes make it harder to see all of the individual details that need to be taken into account. However, these disadvantages are often outweighed by the advantages of this approach for most programmers.\nWhat are the benefits of the top-down approach?\nWhen it comes to writing computer programs, there are two different approaches that a programmer can take ufffd the top-down approach and the bottom-up approach. So, what are the benefits of the top-down approach?\nOne of the main benefits of the top-down approach is that it helps to simplify the design process. By starting with a high-level overview of the system, programmers can then break down the individual components and work on them one by one. This can make the overall design process much simpler and easier to manage.\nAnother benefit of this approach is that it can help to improve a programmers job outlook. With a top-down approach, programmers can start working on a project without needing to have a complete understanding of the entire system. This means that they can more easily adapt to changes and new technologies as they are developed.\nFinally, this approach can also lead to a better product. By starting with an overall understanding of the system, programmers can ensure that all of the individual components work together seamlessly. This can lead to a more efficient and effective final product.\nHow does the top-down approach compare to other approaches?\nThe top-down approach is a computer programming design model in which the programmer divides the system into smaller sections from the general to the specific. It is also called stepwise refinement or decomposition. The programmer first designs a large section of code that performs a very general task. Then, he designs smaller sections of code that perform more specific tasks. This process repeats until the programmer has designed a section of code that performs a very specific task.\nThe top-down approach has several advantages. First, it allows programmers to design large sections of code before they design smaller sections of code. This makes it easier to see the big picture and understand how the system will work as a whole. Second, it allows programmers to design each section of code with a specific purpose in mind. This makes it easier to reuse code and avoid errors. Finally, it makes it easier for programmers to change the structure of their code without affecting other parts of the code.\nThe top-down approach has some disadvantages as well. First, it can be time-consuming because programmers have to design each section of code before they can move on to the next section. Second, it can be difficult to design each section of code so that it performs its task without affecting other parts of the code. Finally, it can be difficult for programmers to change the structure of their code once they have started working on it because they have to redesign all of the sections that come after the changed section.\nWhat are some common top-down programming techniques?\nThere are several common top-down programming techniques that computer programmers can use to design programs and components. The main goal of top-down programming is to break down a large, complex task into smaller, more manageable sub-tasks. This allows programmers to design and build programs one section at a time, instead of trying to create the entire program all at once.\nTop-down programming is also popular because it can help programmers to get a better overview and understanding of the product they are creating. This type of programming often starts with an overview of the entire program, followed by a more detailed look at each individual component. This helps programmers to see how all the pieces of the puzzle fit together, which can make it easier to spot errors and potential problems.\nWhile top-down programming requires a bit more planning upfront, it can ultimately save programmers time and effort in the long run. This type of programming can also help to improve the quality of the final product, since it is easier to spot errors when all the pieces are laid out in front of you.\nHow can the top-down approach be used in software development?\nThe top-down approach is a popular method of programming, especially among novice programmers. It is a style of programming in which the programmer begins by developing an overall plan or overview of the software product, and then proceeds to develop sections or smaller pieces of the overall product. This approach can be contrasted with the bottom-up approach, in which the programmer begins by developing small sections or pieces of the product and then proceeds to develop the overall product.\nThere are several benefits to using the top-down approach. First, it can help the programmer to get a better sense of the overall product before beginning to work on it. This can be helpful in terms of developing a clear vision for the final product. Second, it can help to make the programming job more manageable, as it can be easier to break down a large project into smaller sections. Finally, this approach can also provide a more positive outlook on the work, as it can be easy to become overwhelmed when working on a large project all at once.\nOf course, there are also some potential drawbacks to using the top-down approach. One potential downside is that it can take longer to complete a project using this method, as opposed to working on small sections simultaneously (as in the bottom-up approach). Additionally, there is always the risk that changes will need to be made to the overall plan as work on individual sections progresses; this can lead to frustration and wasted effort if not managed properly. Overall, though, the top-down approach is a popular and effective method for many programmers.\nWhat are some benefits of using the top-down approach in software development?\nThere are many benefits of using the top-down approach in software development. The main benefit is that it allows programmers to design and develop programs in a more organized way. In addition, it also provides programmers with a better understanding of the program’s structure and helps them find errors more easily. Finally, it can also help programmers to estimate the time and resources required to develop a program more accurately.\nHow does the top-down approach help to ensure quality in software development?\nThe top-down approach is a very important part of software development, and it is something that all programmers should be aware of. This approach helps to ensure quality in software development by helping programmers to design the product from the top down, instead of from the bottom up.\nWhen a programmer designs a product from the top down, they start with the big picture in mind and then break it down into smaller, more manageable sections. This is opposed to starting with the small details and then trying to build up to the big picture. By starting with the big picture, programmers can get a better sense of what they are trying to achieve and can better plan their work.\nThe top-down approach also allows programmers to get a better sense of how their work fits into the overall scheme of things. When working from the bottom up, it is easy for programmers to lose sight of the big picture and become bogged down in the details. By starting at the top, programmers can keep their work in perspective and ensure that they are making progress towards their goal.\nThe top-down approach is an essential part of software development and it is something that all programmers should be aware of. This approach helps to ensure quality in software development by helping programmers to design the product from the top down, instead of from the bottom up.\nWhat are some challenges associated with the top-down approach?\nThere are several reasons why a programmer might prefer the top-down approach to programming. One reason is that it allows them to see the overall picture of what they are trying to create. This can be helpful in terms of getting an overview of the project and understanding how all of the pieces fit together. Additionally, it can help the programmer to identify any potential problems that might arise and address them before they become an issue.\nAnother reason why the top-down approach is advantageous is that it allows for a greater degree of flexibility. If a programmer is not sure about how to solve a particular problem, they can try out different solutions and then choose the one that works best. This flexibility can be especially helpful when working on complex projects where there is no clear right or wrong solution.\nfinally, many programmers find that the top-down approach simply makes more sense to them. This is often because they are able to think more abstractly and see the bigger picture more easily. If you find that you work better when you can see the entire project in front of you, then the top-down approach may be the best choice for you.\nHow can the top-down approach be used in other areas of programming?\nThe top-down approach can be used in other areas of programming, such as in designing a program or in creating a product outlook. It is often used by computer programmers when they are first starting to work on a new program. By starting with the big picture and then breaking it down into smaller sections, programmers can better understand the overall design of the program and how each individual piece fits together. This approach can also help programmers to see potential problems that may arise during the development process.\nWhat are some benefits of using the top-down approach in other areas of programming?\nThere are several benefits to using the top-down approach in other areas of programming. For one, it allows programmers to get a broader perspective of the entire job. They can see how each section of the code interacts with the others and anticipate potential problems. Additionally, this approach results in a cleaner and more organized final product.\nFrom a programmer’s outlook, top-down design is often seen as more efficient because it speeds up the coding process. This is because programmers only need to code the section they are working on, rather than having to start from the beginning each time. Additionally, this approach often saves time in debugging because errors are easier to find when they are isolated in one section of code.\nOverall, the top-down approach is a more efficient way of programming that results in a cleaner final product. It is important to note that this approach is not always appropriate for every situation. Sometimes, a bottom-up approach may be more appropriate depending on the nature of the job.\nThe “Which of the following is a defining characteristic of microcomputers” is a question that has been asked many times. The answer to this question is that the term, “top-down”, refers to the type of programming methodology where all programs are created before being implemented in software. Reference: which of the following is a defining characteristic of microcomputers.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Biology is often an area of study that students find boring or difficult. How sad! Simply put, biology is a quest to understand the amazing world of 'living things'. We are born with a powerful instinct for discovery, a natural desire to explore the world around us. What a privilege to richly teach into that journey of discovery, helping maintain and refine a deep sense of interest and care for the world in which we live. This is the goal of the Beginner's Biology Program. Each lesson works to reveal the vital importance of all living things whether they are as big as a tree or too small to see. Every living thing is important and we all (because of course we are living things as well) work together in our amazing world. Biology is not primarily a subject to be taken at school, it is a relationship into which we are born. All living things are part of earth's wonderful family.\nBeginner's Biology is taught on Thursdays in the 3 year old preschool program and on Thursdays and Fridays in the 3 year old childcare program.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "[Editors note: Lionel Bopage was a former General Secretary of the JVP and was involved with the party since 1968 until his resignation in 1984. For more content with Bopage on Groundviews, click here.]\nDuring the last four decades Sri Lanka has witnessed three major insurrections mainly by its youth. Since the 1970s, younger generations of Sinhalese and Tamils from similar socio-economic backgrounds have revolted against the erosion of their democratic rights. These insurrections reflected the diverse, but significant and unfulfilled aspirations of the Sinhala and Tamil youth. Both the militant movements in the south including the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the militant movements in the north including the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been the products of the failures of economic and political development of Sri Lanka (Samaranayake 2008).\nThe post-colonial Sri Lankan state hardly considered it significant to protect the dignity and security of its socially marginalised and disadvantaged groups. Peaceful demands for social equity, justice, security and dignity were continuously disregarded and/or violently suppressed by the state. Whenever new social groups challenged the authority of state power, the establishment used repressive and violent force. The indignity and insecurity caused by the attacks on the physical and psychological integrity of disadvantaged individuals and communities motivated them to take up arms on behalf of their communities.\nSinhala, Tamil and Muslim communities in Sri Lanka have had their own positivist interpretations of their origins. A sizable majority of Sinhalese believe their race is of Aryan stock dating back to the fifth century B.C. Many Sinhalese take an ideological position that combine Sinhalaness with Buddhism and see themselves as custodians of the land.  The Tamils, including Malaiyaha Tamils, are of Dravidian origin. Non-Malaiyaha Tamils claim that they were part of the island’s original inhabitants, a claim strongly disputed by the Sinhalese. The identity of Malaiyaha Tamils is shaped by their social, economic, political and cultural lives centered primarily on plantations.\nThe Muslim people (Moors) trace their ancestry to Arab traders who settled in Sri Lanka some time between the eighth and fifteenth centuries. Moors today use Tamil, with words loaned from Arabic, as their primary language. Those in the south also widely use Sinhala. During the colonial period of the Portuguese, when they were persecuted, many of them fled to the Central Highlands. Their cultural identity is strongly defined by Islam, their religion.\nThe origins of the current conflict in Sri Lanka can be traced back to colonialism. The island’s post- colonial political establishment did not arise as a result of a coherent anti-colonial struggle that unified its people. Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus had aspirations to become free from colonialism. In the same process, Tamils had an additional expectation of protecting themselves from majority domination or assimilation. Nevertheless, the neo-colonial establishment carried forward the policies and practices to promote Sinhala majoritarian rule within a unitary constitutional framework.\nThis situation contributed to the incremental isolation of the communities from interacting with each other, exacerbated by the divisive policies of the elite. Behind this process of isolation one could witness strategies for the further plundering of the island’s resources. Also one may witness the continuous march towards authoritarianism, in which people’s hopes, aspirations, human rights and civil liberties have been increasingly dashed.\nBirth of militant movements\nThe post-colonial socio-economic and political developments generated new social forces, whose expectations remained unfulfilled. These new social forces adopted radical practices and tendencies against the existing political establishment. In the south, activities of these groups generally materialised in the form of class mobilisations. The attempts in the north and the east, however, took the form of nationalist aspirations. These origins reflect the dual character and outlook of the militant youth movements that later came into being.\nThe JVP militancy predominantly represented the aspirations of the rural young lower-middle class Sinhala Buddhist constituency (Samaranayake 2008). Similarly the Tamil militancy represented the aspirations of the rural young lower-middle class Tamils from Hindu and Christian religious backgrounds. The state repressed both these movements using brutal force. Both fought back uncompromisingly and at times simultaneously, but independently of each other, against the establishment and the presence of foreign forces. As militancy became manifested in the island, the responses of the state and the militants caused an extension of this radicalisation and alienation within and among the communities.\nMalaiyaha youth did not enter the process of militant radicalisation, because of their lack of social and political consciousness. Yet, with increasing awareness among the young generation of Malaiyaha Tamils, the coming decades will become critical: as pointed out by Bass (2001), ‘the growing number of over-educated and under-employed Malaiyaha Tamil youths may turn to militant protests and violence, as the JVP and LTTE did before them’.\nIn the 1980s, some Muslim youth also joined hands with Tamil militants. However, significant differences surfaced between them when Muslims opposed the merger of the North and East under the 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord (Guruge 2006). Later on, as the Tamil militancy also turned against the Muslims, some groups allegedly sided with the government, leading to massacres and eviction of Muslims (Ameerdeen 2006).\nLack of appropriate political and economic development and inequitable distribution of economic and social benefits paved the way for the radicalization of the youth. The universal franchise and the lowering of the voting age allowed young people to take part in active electoral politics. Free education was introduced in 1945, and the medium of instruction was changed to local languages, which expanded higher educational opportunities. This was seen as a welcome relief to the rural youth – to their increasing unemployment. However, these opportunities were marred by the disadvantages created by the general lack of university placements and employment opportunities caused by the discriminative practices of the elite.\nThis led to extreme discontent amongst the youth, who started questioning the existing socio, political and ideological status quo. Successive post-colonial governments regardless of their political hue, have been ignorant of the underlying socio-political, economic and psychological causes of this militancy. The more repressive the state apparatus became, the more militant the youth became.\nMany analysts portray ethnicity as the central theme of the current conflict, yet politics is at its root cause. Political leaderships of all ethnicities have opportunistically used ethnicity as a bandwagon to establish, preserve and enhance their political, economic and social power, and to distract people from the domestic policy and program failures, thus building barriers to social and political interaction, and planting mistrust between diverse communities.\nThe social base of the JVP\nThe social base of the JVP mainly comprised of rural Sinhala Buddhist youth, semi-proletarian to lower middle class in nature. Prior to the insurrection in 1971, the understanding the political leadership of the JVP had about the problems of the Tamils and other non-Sinhala communities was minimal. Moreover, the attempts of the JVP to carry out political activities among the Tamils were extremely limited.\nMany leaders of the JVP including its founder, the late comrade Rohana Wijeweera were originally from the Communist Party of Ceylon – Peking Wing (CPC-P). The leader of CPC-P, the late comrade N Shanmugathasan, was a Tamil by ethnicity. By the end of 1964, Rohana became a full-time cadre of the CPC-P, but gradually joined the dissenters within the party, who were dissatisfied with the leadership. He was expelled from the party in late 1966.\nRumours abounded that Rohana had left the CPC-P because its leader was a Tamil. This was not the case.\nIn 1960s, some on the left took the position that the vanguard of the socialist revolution in Sri Lanka lay with the Malaiyaha Tamils. The JVP disagreed with this position and argued that the international experience has shown that if the leading role of a revolution were based on a minority community, the ruling elite has used racism and communalism to undermine and prevent it from succeeding. In a country where more than 80 percent of the population was rural, more than 90 percent of the country’s poor comprised of the rural poor, and urban workers. Therefore the vanguard of the Sri Lankan revolution would be the urban working class allied with the rural peasantry.\nIndian Expansionism, one of the controversial political classes of the JVP, touched upon anti-Malaiyaha sentiments, at times, particularly, when Malaiyaha workers were compared with Sinhala chena workers. Malaiyaha workers were also considered allied to India not Sri Lanka.\nMost of the Sinhala youth who joined the movement did not have any social linkages to Tamils. The Engineering Faculty of the University of Peradeniya, where the student population was ethnically and culturally more diverse, provided one of the avenues for the JVP to reach towards Tamil students. However, the social aspirations and the needs of many of the students of the Science, Engineering and Medical faculties were different from those of the students of the Arts Faculty.\nThe leaders of the JVP, who were held behind bars after the 1971 insurrection, made use of the opportunity to reflect back on their Maoist political roots, and to study the national question in Sri Lanka and the related Marxist policy position. The Tamil youth led peaceful protests against the new Constitution of the island adopted in 1972. The blatant repressive measures adopted by the then government against these youth provided an enlightening environment regarding the issues affecting the Tamils.\nThe prisons in Hammond Hill, Jaffna, and Kandy where Sinhala and Tamil youth had long been held in detention provided an opportunity for low level exchange of political ideas. Nationalism had started crystallizing in a major way among the Sinhalese in the early fifties and for the Tamils in the early seventies.\nThe policy declaration of the JVP had been finalised by the early seventies. Its political program recognised the significance of carrying out political activities among the Tamil and Muslim communities, particularly, living in the north, the east, and the central provinces of the island. When the emergency rule was withdrawn in the mid-seventies, the JVP re-commenced its public political activities.\nBy this time, the JVP had already developed contacts with several Tamil comrades in the north, the east, and the plantations. Some of the JVPers had the opportunity to work in areas where Tamils and Muslims predominated, or in work places where they could develop initial contacts with them in Colombo and elsewhere. Also there were several contacts developed between the JVP and Tamil activists, particularly, comrade Rohana when both groups were detained in the prisons in Jaffna and Hammonds Hill.\nThe first central committee meeting of the JVP that was held in November 1977 allocated the responsibility and accountability of carrying out political work among the non-Sinhala communities to its politbureau. The first feeble JVP networks among the Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese in the north, in the east and in the plantations were established by the end of 1977 itself. In the north the first political cells were established in Chunnakam and Kilinochchi in the areas where traditional left previously had some hold. Within the next year the network extended to many areas in the north. The JVP activities did not progress much in the east, except in the areas where Muslims were predominant. In the hill country, the JVP established small groups in Kandy, Matale and Nuwaraeliya districts and there were party cells established in Nuwara-eliya, Talawakele and Hatton. Furthermore, there were strong political alliances established with the plantation workers trade unions.\nWorking among the Tamils and Muslims provided the JVP with the best opportunity to understand the real-life problems and issues the Tamil and Muslim people faced in the island. On the one hand, the ordinary people of these communities had socio-economic and cultural problems very much similar to the problems faced by the majority Sinhalese. On the other hand, because of their linguistic and cultural background and circumstances, they had to face specific problems that the Sinhalese did not have to face.\nMost of the resources were spent in certain areas where the social elite were resident, but the ordinary people in the villages were suffering from the worst kind of social and economic issues. These people lacked even the basic day to day needs to survive. They lacked land to work on, water for irrigation, and basic educational and health facilities. The JVP experienced these problems among the people irrespective of whether they were Muslim, Tamil or Sinhala.\nThe people who spoke only Sinhala or Tamil were treated with repugnance. If people wore their rural attire, sarong or vetti, they were looked down upon. In the south to look for employment, people had to go after politicians to get a ‘chit’ addressed to a bureaucrat. However, in the north and parts of the east, the situation was different, because the MPs of these areas were not in the government, thus making the employment opportunities of many educated Tamil youth even more precarious. When Tamil or Muslim people whose mother tongue was Tamil, and who could only communicate in Tamil, corresponded with government departments in Tamil, they received responses in Sinhala only. To find a translator, they had to go to the closest city, adding to their misery and resentment.\nMuslim people, especially in villages like Kaththankudy, had to face issues relating to lack of housing facilities, lack of land for paddy cultivation, and finding dowries to give their women folk in marriage. Most of the members of these families lived in small one or two roomed huts they shared for everything. In Colombo, Sinhalese and Muslim families who lived in slums, the situation was just as bad or even worse. Many male members of these families had to sleep in shifts due to lack of room to sleep. Many were compelled to engage in minor criminal activities to eke out a living.\nWhen the JVP approached the Tamil youth in the north, already most of them had gravitated towards nationalist political positions. By this time, Tamil youth had commenced associating with diverse Tamil militant groups. Communications between these youth and the JVP, both in public and in private, led to heated debates. It was clear that many young Tamil activists had committed themselves to the nationalist struggle rather than class struggle.\nFor many of the JVPers from rural Sinhala background who came to the north and east for political activities could not see much difference between the issues facing rural Sinhalese and Tamils. Yet it was difficult for them to identify with the issues the Tamil people were facing due to their cultural and linguistic background. They did not understand the language, tradition, customs and behaviors of the Tamil people. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the life in the north was the feudal remnants in the Tamil society such as caste, religion and social interaction, which was more noticeable than in the south.\nYet the Tamil youth in the north were industrious and productive; parents were keen to educate their children to find good employment that would allow them upward social mobility. Similar to the people in rural Sinhala south, the rural Tamil people in the north and east were hospitable, welcoming and open to communication. However, as time passed, the JVP also felt that there was a change in the political mood among the youth as the armed forces of the state, which were considered alien to Tamils, were present in many locations in the peninsula.\nThere were a few Tamil JVP activists in Alaveddy, Mallakam, Thirunelvely and Valvetithurai areas. They encountered verbal threats demanding them to stop their political activities. Which organisations carried out such threats against the JVP activities were not clear. This was because there were many militant organisations blooming at the time. In some areas like Velvetithurai and Thirunelvely such threats also emanated from those who supported the CPC-P. In other areas these threats were assumed to be from the militant nationalist groups.\nFor example, two major public events held in Jaffna in the early eighties by the JVP were attacked. A chair was thrown at the stage when ‘Songs of Liberation’ performance was held at the public auditorium in Jaffna. Again stones were thrown at the public meeting when Rohana was speaking injuring his forehead. Later on, the JVP activists in the north told us that both these incidents were reactions of the Maoist groups to protest against the growing popularity of the JVP in the north and to frighten Tamil people from joining it.\nOn the other hand, there were pressures building up in the early eighties from two sources within the JVP. One was from the Tamil comrades based in Kilinochchi and Visvamadu area who demanded that the JVP should specifically campaign for the rights of Tamil people without mixing up the issue of Tamil rights with the socio-economic issues affecting other people in the island. The JVP rejected this idea as it believed that all these issues arose as a result of the capitalist economic base and the elites’ astute policies of divide and rule. While raising the issues affecting all the working people in the island, the JVP also raised the issues that were related to the problems of the Tamil people.\nThe other pressure point was from comrades of the student wing of the JVP in the university campuses, particularly, some who were at the Katubedde campus. They wanted the JVP to completely drop any public discussions on issues affecting the Tamil people. The JVP rejected this idea also on the grounds similar to the ones raised previously. We also argued that Sinhala people should become aware of the issues the Tamil people in the north and east were facing. As there was a necessity to thrash out this issue in public, and to clarify matters to the cadres, a public lecture was held in the latter part of 1981, at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo.\nAs one of the instigators of the policy, I addressed a packed crowd at the Sugathadasa Stadium. I clearly explained the JVP policy position that the JVP accepted the right to self-determination of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. However, the JVP did not advocate separation as a solution to their problems; rather it advocated a united Sri Lanka with regional autonomy, where all residents could live as equals. At the questions and answers session, I had to respond to many questions.\nDuring the presidential election campaign, the JVP was able to hold successful public rallies in many places in the north and east. Yet, the number of people who voted for the JVP in the north and east were small, but not disappointing. Many JVP leaders, who had higher expectations, were not happy with the island wide election outcome and the number of votes the party received in the north and east. This poor election showing was interpreted to state that the Sinhala electorate did not like the JVP advocating the right to self-determination of Tamils. While this may have had some impact, it was not the major factor that led to this situation. In the Presidential election of 1982, the majority of the people were aware that only a candidate of the UNP or the SLFP would win. So, most of the symapthisers of other parties also became polarised between the UNP and the SLFP.\nThe JVP as a whole represented Marxist and Sinhala nationalist tendencies. The nationalistic element rested with the historic glorification of the past Sinhala Kingdoms. The current JVP has shed all its Marxist tendencies and become purely nationalistic. It wants to achieve a unitary Sinhala state by defending their ‘motherland’. Thus the Sinhala Buddhist cultural identity can be made to flourish while western cultural decadence and the influences of other cultures on Sinhalese could be negated. Their so-called idea of socialism has been subsumed by its commitment to safeguard this unitary state, which is ironically a colonial construct.\nBetween 1977 and 1982, the JVP made a genuine attempt to forge links between the Sinhala and Tamil youth. This was not successful due to the different historical and nationalist trajectories of these groups, their social base, and some of the opportunistic policies that the JVP espoused, particularly since late 1982. Both the Sinhala and Tamil youth movements expressed their dissatisfaction with the state and their desire for change through political violence. Both the JVP and the LTTE adhered to a mixed ideology of socialism and nationalism. The state was their common enemy; however, succumbing to their nationalistic politics of the glories of their respective feudal past, they saw each other as enemies not allies.\nThe JVP was able to successfully mobilize the southern youth, but it was adventurist and committed strategic and tactical errors. After the failed 1971 insurrection, the leadership of the JVP made use of the opportunity to reflect on its political theory and practice.\nImplementation of the new constitution for Sri Lanka in 1972 and the protests of Tamil youth against it also informed these reflections. After the release of its leaders in 1977, the JVP decided to pursue political activities among all communities in the island.\nIn the seventies and early eighties, the JVP was supportive of the right to self determination of Tamil people, and recognised Sinhala, Tamil and English as national languages of the land. The political interaction of the JVP occurred when many Tamil youth were hardening their nationalist positions because of the repressive policies of the state. Despite threats from some Tamil militants, the JVP persisted in its political activities in the North and the East until 1982. However, the poor showing of the JVP in the Presidential elections of 1982 led to a revision: some ideologues claimed that the party’s advocacy of the Tamil people’s right to self determination was one reason for this failure.\nFrom that moment, the JVP moved from a socialist party to a chauvinistic one. The political opportunism of its leadership was a critical factor in this shift. They revived the slogan “Indian expansionism” which had featured in the JVP program before 1972. The JVP’s social base mainly comprised of rural, semi- proletarian and petit bourgeois Buddhist Sinhala youth; The neo-colonial political and economic developments in the country were not conducive to building interaction between the Sinhala and Tamil youth; and the interaction of most of the JVP’s membership with Tamils was minimal, so that empathy towards the issues facing the Tamil people was also minimal.\nNevertheless, the muted examples of political dialogue during the late ‘70s and early ’80s indicate that dialogue is feasible among restive political elements on opposite sides of the fence. In the present situation such dialogue has become essential to ensure that the aspirations of the marginalised are fulfilled. However, this requires a paradigm shift in the attitudes and thinking of all the people residing in the island as well as the Sinhala and Tamil expatriate communities. The Diaspora now has the opportunity to become active drivers of this paradigm shift by changing their role as advocates of political violence to one of constructively creating this reality through their interactions with each other.\nAmeerdeen V. 2006, Ethnic Politics of Muslims in Sri Lanka, Kribs Printers, Colombo\nBass D. 2001, Landscapes Of Malaiyaha Tamil Identity, Marga Institute, Colombo\nBopage L 1977, A Marxist Analysis of the National Question, Niyamuwa Publications, JVP, Colombo\nGuruge L. 2006, Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Problem and Solutions, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Colombo\nWijeweera R 1985, What is the Solution to Tamil Eelam Struggle?, JVP, Sri Lanka\nWijeweera R 1977, Opportunism? Or Proletarian Internationalism?, Niyamuwa Publications, JVP, Colombo (in Sinhala)\nJVP 1978, Policy Declaration of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, Ginipupura Publications, London\nJVP 1978, The Constitution of Sri Lanka and the National Question, Ginipupura Publications, London\nJVP 1979, Our Past: A Self-criticism by the JVP, Ginipupura Publications, London\nSamaranayake G 1997, Political violence in Sri Lanka: A diagnostic approach, Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 99 — 119\nSamaranayake S V D G 2008, Political violence in Sri Lanka 1971-1987, Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi\n The so-called Indian or Estate Tamils, workers of Indian origin speaking Tamil who were brought by the British to work in their plantations in 1840s.\n The so-called Jaffna or Ceylon Tamils\n Muslims saw the percentage of Muslim population would drop after the merger from nearly 35 per cent in the East to about 17 per cent in a combined North and East.\n Ethnic conflict may occur between aggregations of people that share a collective view of themselves as being distinctively different from other aggregations of people because of their shared inherent characteristics such as their race, religion, language, cultural heritage, clan, or tribal affiliation.\n Included Sanath Boralukatiya, S V A Piyatilaka, W T Karunaratne, H B Premapala and D P Wimalagune, Wattala Milton, W D N Jayasinghe (Loku Athula) and others.\n Among these areas were KKS, Tellippalai, Udippiddi, Nellaidi, Chavakachcheri, Point Pedro, Manippai, Mulliawalai, Visvamadu, Iranamadu, Paranthan, Pungudutheevu, Nainatheevu, Eluvatheevu, Velanai, Karaveddi and Mallakam.\n In Trincomalee, Ampara, Kalawanchikudi, and Batticaloa also there were small groups of Tamils and Muslims supporting the JVP\n Particularly, of comrade Illancheliyan and Kandurata Tharuna Peramuna (Up-country Youth Front) led by comrade V L Pereira\n Many private and public discussions and talks, classes, and rallies were held at houses, libraries, or parks.\n . For example, in the early eighties when a Tamil comrade called Navaratnam was threatened by a militant organization, and the house of one of his relations was occupied by the militants, the JVP took measures to bring this comrade down to Colombo to stay in the party office for a while.\n One of the persistent questioners was the current Dr Dayan Jayatilleke, His Excellency the Ambassador of the Government of Sri Lanka in Geneva. He was then a simple “comrade Dayan Jayatilleke”. I still remember his main line of questioning because, even after the public lecture, he accompanied me up to the then head office of the JVP at Armour Street, consistently arguing that the JVP should recognise Eelam as the only solution to the problems the Tamil people were faced with. Later on he joined the EPRLF (one of the Tamil militant organisations) and became one of the ministers of the Eastern Provincial Council, the Chief Minister of which declared Eelam, when the Indian Peace Keeping Forces were present in the island. By and large I continue to hold the same political views I had during those days regarding the national question, but I cannot say the same about Dr Jayatilleke.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Based on current population growth, it is expected that well over one million people will be added to our region by 2040. A lot of work is needed to prepare for this growth.\nBecause it's impossible to know how this growth will unfold, exploring a variety of plausible future outcomes helps us plan for an uncertain future. Scenarios are a way to help explore how potential transportation decisions affect, are affected by, and ultimately fit with development patterns. When a road or transit line is built, it influences where people want to live and work and thus the location of new development. This also shapes where and how people travel and what transportation solutions make sense to build.\nAs part of the 2015 RTP, WFRC created four planning scenarios to review with partners, stakeholders, and the public. Based on the feedback, we then created one preferred scenario. To see those comments, click here.\nSee the diagram below for a better understanding of how scenarios fit into the 2015 RTP development process.\nClick here for more information on the Create and Evaluate Scenarios section of the 2015-2040 Regional Transportation Plan document.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Wind, solar and other non-hydro renewable energy sources generated 126 TWh of electricity in the United States in 2008, double the 64 TWh of output in 1990, according to the Department of Energy (DoE). The output from renewable energy in 2000 was 81 TWh.\nHowever, the percentage share in 2008 was 3.1% from non-hydro renewable energy, compared with 2.1% in 1990. The percentage in 2000 was also 2.1%.\nThe data are contained in the 2008 state-by-state summary produced by DoE’s Energy Information Administration.\nIPPs well ahead of utilities for renewable energy\nAlmost 7% of the output from independent power producers in 2008 (115 TWh) came from renewable energy facilities, while renewable energy accounted for only 0.5% of the output (11 TWh) from electric utilities. The respective levels in 1990 were 23.4% and 0.4%.\nThe annual report describes the electricity industry in each state, from 1998 to 2008, with data on generating capability, output, fuel use and prices, retail sales, GHG emissions, and net interstate transfers of electricity.\nThe use of coal to generate electricity in the USA has dropped since 1990 (from 51.8% share to 48.2%), petroleum dropped from 3.6% to 1.1% and hydroelectric facilities drop from 8.9% to 6.2%. Natural gas increased its share from 14.7% to 21.4% over the period, while nuclear also increased share from 18.6% to 19.6%.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Watching this resources will notify you when proposed changes or new versions are created so you can keep track of improvements that have been made.\nFavoriting this resource allows you to save it in the “My Resources” tab of your account. There, you can easily access this resource later when you’re ready to customize it or assign it to your students.\nApplications: Ultrasound, Sonar, and Medical Imaging\nUltrasound is sound with a frequency higher than 20 kHz. This is above the human range of hearing. The most common use of ultrasound, creating images, has industrial and medical applications. The use of ultrasound to create images is based on the reflection and transmission of a wave at a boundary. When an ultrasound wave travels inside an object that is made up of different materials (such as the human body), each time it encounters a boundary (e.g., between bone and muscle, or muscle and fat), part of the wave is reflected and part of it is transmitted. The reflected rays are detected and used to construct an image of the object.\nillustrates how a ship on the ocean utilizes the reflecting properties of sound waves to determine the depth of the ocean. A sound wave is transmitted and bounces off the seabed. Because the speed of sound is known and the time lapse between sending and receiving the sound can be measured, the distance from the ship to the bottom of the ocean can be determined. This technique is called sonar (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging).\nJust as ships on the ocean, certain animals, like dolphins and bats, make use of sounds waves (sonar) to navigate or find their way. Ultrasound waves are sent out then reflected off the objects around the animal. Bats or dolphins then use the reflected sounds to form a \"picture\" of their surroundings (this is known as echolocation).\nAssign this as a reading to your class\nAssign just this concept, or entire chapters to your class for free. You will be able to see and track your students' reading progress.\nlight waves and measuring the time between the transmission and receiving the reflection, sound waves and measuring the intensity of sonic boom, sound waves and measuring the time between the transmission and receiving the reflection, or light waves and measuring the redshift of the reflected light\nSource: Boundless. “Applications: Ultrasound, Sonar, and Medical Imaging.” Boundless Physics. Boundless, 21 Jul. 2015. Retrieved 28 Aug. 2015 from https://www.boundless.com/physics/textbooks/boundless-physics-textbook/sound-16/interactions-with-sound-waves-131/applications-ultrasound-sonar-and-medical-imaging-469-1647/", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In my last post, \"The Five Types of Communication in an Organization\", i mentioned about the different methods of communication within an organization, be it structured or spontaneous.\nNo matter what category either structured or spontaneous, communication is either written or spoken.\nLet us look at the various advantages and the disadvantages of written and spoken communication.\nSome of the main advantages and disadvantages of written communication are:\n- Written communication is good for complicated and vital instructions, which can be given in a precise and uniform manner.\n- There is a lesser chance for the message to be misunderstood.\n- Written instructions can be checked at a latter date. It serves as a useful reference.\n- Authority is transmitted more effectively with a written order than with an oral one\n- It is impersonal.\n- People may not always read them.\n- It does not answer questions and there is no immediate feedback.\nExamples of spoken communication that is used in the workplace include conversations, interviews, counseling/helping colleagues, meetings, conferences\n- Oral communication allows for immediate feedback such as the opportunity to ask questions when the meaning is not entirely clear.\n- The sender is able to check and see whether if the instruction is clear or has created confusion.\n- Spoken instructions are flexible and easily adaptable to many diverse situations.\n- Poor presentation of the message or the instruction can result in misunderstanding and wrong responses.\n- Spoken communication is influenced by both both verbal and non-verbal communication such as tone or body language which may skew the meaning of your message in the mind of the receiver.\nIf you have found this post useful, you might be interested in the following articles\n1) The Three Different Levels of Listening\n2) The Causes of Miscommunication in Daily Life\n3) Conversation Tips\n4) The Five Types of Communication in an Organisation\n5) Understanding the Communication Process\nYou might also be interested in The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Business Writing and Communication: Manage Your Writing (36 Hour)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Learn how to create a realistic pencil in Photoshop and use it to type a text with this pencil style. If yu are interested in a sketch pencil text in Photoshop you can check out this tutorial. The effect from this tutorial creates a vector PSD pencil that you can use to create interesting typography effects. You can combine different pencil crayon colors, different font types and so on. Hope you will enjoy this new text effect tutorial.\nYou might also like\nStart with a simple Background Layer and add it a notebook pattern as Pattern Overlay layer style.\nUse a font to writte your text. I have decided to use Kartika Font; you can download it from the internet and than install font in Photoshop in order to use it.\nStep 2 you will have to convert text in shape; you will see that the text has now anchor points and that can be edited as vector shape\nDuplicate the Text Layer and use the Pen Tools like the Convert Point Tool, Delete Anchor Point Tool and so on, to create these shapes. I have used black for the top text layer and yellow for the bottom text layer.\nUse also the Add to Shape Area and Subtract from Shape Area options to create these new shapes. If you are not familiar with the Pen Tool here is a set of tutorials that teaches how to use Photoshop Pen Tool\nNow comes the fun part where we add to these text layers a pencil effect using layer styles. So open the layer style window and add the following layer styles. Just remember that these styles work for this text size; if your text is bigger/smaller you will have to adjust the layer styles(scale effects)\nIf you want you can create different color effects by adjusting all the color inside the layer styles. The pencil text looks like this so far.\nFor a more realistic result you can try to apply a wood texture with an Overlay Blend Mode for example.\nNow Let's create the top part of the pencil. Use the Pen Tool to create this shape and add a Gradient Overlay using the following colors: #5e3718 , #e1c79f and #f6e9ce\nUse the same tool to create the pencil mine; use color black; add another small shape and make it gray to make it more realistic. We have now a nice vector pencil made in Photoshop in shape of a letter.\nConvert the Pencil Mine Layers into smart object and duplicate and add them on the other letters as shown in the image.\nNow we'll make the pencil eraser area with the same Photoshop vector drawing tool that we have used in the previous steps. Create the metal shape and add it a Gradient Overlay with soft gray color tones like in the image.\nAdd four line shapes like in the image. Also draw the eraser using soft pink color tones.\nConvert the Pencil Eraser Layers into smart object, duplicate and add them on the other letters as shown in the image.\nSelect all the vector pencil text layers into a new smart object and add a Drop Shadow effect.\nYou can get even more creative and make each letter a different color but you will have to adjust the layer styles and to use Gradient Overlay instead of Color Overlay; here is my result for this crayon pencil typography, I hope you like it and decide to try it yourself.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "and the Implications for Public Policy\nby Pedro A. Noguera\nAmerica is a violent society. All of the data on inter-personal violence show this to be the case. We lead the world in deaths by handguns, in juvenile violence and victimization, and in the number of people who possess firearms (Donziger 1996; Currie 1985). Violence in America is so pervasive and so central to our national identity that in both its mundane and extreme forms, it permeates the fabric of our society.\nPublic policy in response to the threat of violence in the U.S. has largely been characterized by an emphasis on the punitive. Traditionally, law enforcement, the courts and incarceration have served as the primary means for deterring violence. This has been especially true for the last twenty years, and as a result, the U.S. prison population has grown dramatically (Waquant 2000). Given the costs of this approach, in both human and financial terms, and given the disproportionate impact of these policies on low-income African American and Latino communities, the need to challenge the direction of policy and to propose alternatives could never be greater.\nThe purpose of this paper is three-fold. First, I will make the case that because violence is an integral part of American culture, punitive approaches to dealing with it are unlikely to succeed in making society safer. Secondly, because many of the deterrent strategies that have been implemented by policy makers target young people, I will show why it is important to incorporate youth perspectives on violence as way of deepening our understanding of the issues surrounding violence. Finally, drawing on my own research with young people and schools in urban areas, I will put forward a set of policy principles that I believe can be used to develop more reasonable and humane violence prevention policies and strategies.\nViolence is central to the character of American society. In fact, violence is so much at the core of American identity that U.S. history is typically taught through a series of narratives about war: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and I, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. ( 1 ) Prior to Vietnam we liked to claim that we had never lost a war and that our side has always been the righteous one. However, even after the debacle of Vietnam, our leaders continue to take pride in the fact that the United States is the most powerful nation on earth, and the only remaining superpower. Prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center Building and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Americans felt impervious to attacks from foreign enemies since the mainland has not come under attack since the War of 1812. Even as large parts of the world have suffered from wars in which innocent civilians were the primary victims, Americans have been able to view war with considerable detachment, often from the comfort of their living rooms. Our sense of invulnerability comes from knowing that we are the global policeman, the arbiter of conflicts between nations (at least when we choose to be), and the largest seller of arms on the international market. ( 2 ) After the terrorist attacks we may feel less omnipotent, but our leaders reassure us that we will be safe because we remain the most dominant, most well armed and most powerful nation on the planet.\nI begin with these observations on the centrality of violence in American culture because I believe it is the history and culture of violence in American society that sets the context for analyzing perceptions of violence among adolescents. Although young people are increasingly the target of law enforcement initiatives aimed at curtailing violence, the violent behavior observed among American youth does not occur in a social void. In a nation founded upon genocide, slavery, conquest and colonization, it should not surprising that this legacy of violence manifests itself frequently in the present, and especially among our youth. Throughout our past we have rationalized the use of violence to obtain what our leaders claimed were noble ends: our manifest destiny, the triumph over communism, and to secure peace through strength. ( 3 ) Even now, whenever our military leaders find it necessary to drop bombs on Iraq, Sudan, or some other land labeled a rogue nation, the incidental murder of innocent civilians is typically rationalized without remorse as collateral damage.\nBecause violence is not merely a thing of the past, a brutal but out-dated habit which time might render forgettable, finding ways to reduce the incidence of it is not easy. It remains a constant part of our contemporary lives penetrating our language, our entertainment, our politics and our social relationships. Violence is ubiquitous and as such, it is difficult to envision how we might escape our history to move forward to a more peaceful social order.\nI was reminded of how Americas legacy of violence influences present day issues when I went with my family last Fall to see an exhibit called Without Sanctuary: 100 years of Lynching. The exhibit was on display at the New York Historical Society and it featured photographs, newspaper articles, post cards and artifacts (these included pieces of clothing, hair and body parts) from lynchings that had occurred in the past. Aside from the physical cruelty meted out at these public executions -- the quartering, tar and feathering, and burning of black corpses -- the most disturbing aspect of the exhibit were the photos that captured the faces of spectators. While some depicted angry crowds enthusiastically engaged in vigilante justice, others showed what appeared to be family outings at which well-dressed observers were casually gathered to observe and show support for these public displays of carnage.\nAs I discussed these images with my children and tried to explain how the practice of lynching could have been tolerated for so long, I realized that at least some of the participants in the photos were probably still alive. When I pointed this out, my nine year-old son asked how those who participated in the lynchings had been affected by the experience. It was a good question, but one I could not answer. It was hard to imagine that one could partake in such brutal acts of violence and not experience some long-term effect. But how these effects were manifest I could not explain.\nAlthough lynchings are no longer common or sanctioned, public executions (albeit in a more sanitized form) and everyday violence continues to be a constant feature of the American experience. It infiltrates our consciousness through cartoons and video games, through torrid news accounts of street crime in the tabloids, and horrific accounts of violence perpetrated within families and between lovers. Even my nine year-old son has no difficulty providing numerous examples of they ways in which violence permeates our language, our entertainment, and the sports we watch on television.\nThose who seek to promote non-violence face incredible odds given the degree to which American culture is obsessed with violence. We identify too much with violence to free ourselves from it and we feel too little remorse about our violent past to extricate ourselves from the bloody legacy. In fact, we relish violence and within appropriate contexts (i.e. movies, sports, etc.) we admire those who excel at perpetrating it. In short, we get off on it and because we do it will not be easy for us to reduce or contain it. Violence is an inseparable part of the American character, it is who we are, and until we face up to our national obsession with violence, it is unlikely that we will make much progress in substantially reducing its occurrence.\nFor recovering alcoholics the first step to recovery is an admission of addiction. Similarly, it seems logical that a society that has been addicted to the use of violence must come to see that it may not be possible to achieve a greater degree of safety if it continues to treat violence as a legitimate means of exercising power. To hope for greater peace while simultaneously resisting efforts to limit the availability of guns, is to ignore a blatant contradiction that most young people recognize as duplicitous. Unlike many adults who learn to accept certain fundamental contradictions as normal, children often find hypocritical stances difficult to reconcile, and duplicity is rampant in America. Public service announcements urge young people to consider abstinence from sex, even as they are bombarded by advertising images that use sex to sell products. Similarly, there is no shortage of politicians who drape themselves in the moral trappings of Christianity as they champion the use of the death penalty, even upon the mentally retarded. Finally, there are the police who are held up as trustworthy role models by programs like Project DARE, even though in communities where poor children live they may operate more like marauding predators, harassing teenagers and occasionally shooting unarmed people in their violent pursuit of criminals.\nTo the degree that we recognize that violence must be seen as a cultural phenomenon, we must also understand that manifestations of violence are rooted in the structure of inequality in American society. Such a premise compels us to reject the idea that violence operates like an infectious disease, preying upon victims who are vulnerable and lack the immunity provided by security. To treat violence as part of the culture and structure of American society, and not merely as a social defect associated with certain subgroups or maladjusted individuals, is to acknowledge that violence can not be reduced unless we are willing to address its social and economic roots. Such recognition compels us to see that violence cannot be countered merely through increased law enforcement and incarceration, or through legislative reforms that increase penalties on violent offenders. Instead, operating from a cultural and structural framework, we are compelled to see that violence can only be countered through measures that strike at the roots of social inequality and through various forms of concerted cultural action that challenge its normalcy.\nTo anyone but the most naïve romantic, it may seem highly unlikely that Americas fixation with violence could ever be reversed. I share this skepticism, but I also know that cultures do change. However, they generally change very slowly and not always in ways that are predictable or subject to control. Yet despite the difficulty involved, we also have fairly recent examples, such as the campaign against smoking which show that even addictive habits supported by slick marketing and a powerful industry, can be undermined through concerted efforts. In relation to violence, cultural change may be even more difficult to bring about given that the promotion of violence remains a profitable enterprise for manufacturers of weapons and the media, and given the bizarre notion that gun ownership is an inalienable right. Nonetheless, even as we come to grips with the difficulty of the task it should not lead us to conclude that nothing can be done.\nViolence is a learned behavior, and in schools and other social institutions, it is an integral aspect of the socialization to which children are subjected. Again such a perspective runs contrary to conventional explanations of violence that have tended to treat perpetrators of violence as deviants and people suffering from personality disorders. ( 4 ) By recognizing violence as a behavior that is learned by children and by exposing the ways in which it is routinized in everyday life, it becomes possible to move away from the notion that violence is a social pathology perpetrated by bad people. Such a finding does not rationalize or condone violent behavior, nor does it let perpetrators of violence off the hook. There are indeed some people who are dangerous and a threat to others, and in no way do I mean to suggest that those who perpetrate acts of violence are without moral culpability. Rather, the most important question that any serious investigation into violence in America must confront is why does American society produce so many violent people? Similarly, if we genuinely seek to reduce and prevent incidents of violence we must also attempt to understand how violent behavior, whether perpetrated by the State, institutions, or individuals, comes to be seen as a normal and legitimate means to get what one wants.\nExploring these themes with adolescents is an important way to go about understanding Americas preoccupation with violence. The perspectives held by adolescents toward violence provide a unique window through which to understand how violence is enacted and how its meaning is conveyed in a variety of settings. Lacking power due to their age and status, young people, especially those who are poor and of color, are far more likely to be victims of violence than any other segment of society (Gilligan 1996). Some, particularly Black and Latino males, are statistically also more likely to be perpetrators of violence, and the two phenomena -- victimization and perpetration, are not unrelated (Earls 1991). ( 5 ) Increasingly, young people embody our collective fears about violence. This is true despite the fact that young people are far more likely to be victimized by adults than vice versa (Noguera 1995). As the objects of our fears and concerns, young people have much to tell with regard to the lessons they learn about violence from the adults charged with protecting them.\nAdditionally, analyses of the perceptions of young people are important to the study of violence because their views on justice, equality and power are often more honest and forthright. The candor conveyed through the voices of youth is both a product of this particular stage of emotional and psychological development (Erickson 1968), and also a result of the vulnerability inherent in their status. Unlike adults who can often avoid circumstances where their movements are controlled or where they may be subject to varying levels of subordination and disrespect, young people find themselves in these situations often. How they respond to the experience of subjugation, surveillance and bullying, can provide us with important lessons about the ways in which violence is mediated in institutional contexts.\nThe most obvious and perhaps most threatening forms of violence occur at the level of interpersonal relationships, between friends and family, between lovers and strangers. However, State sanctioned violence also plays an important role in perpetuating the normalization of violence and the criminalization of subordinate populations. The State is the only institution in society that possesses the right to use violence (Alavi 1982). Given that the State can rationalize its use of violence in the name of preserving law and order or national security, the State is in effect above reproach. As the killings in Waco, Texas at the Branch Davidian compound revealed, holding the State accountable for violence it perpetrates, even when the casualties are unarmed children, is extremely difficult if not impossible. It is undoubtedly for this reason that discussions of the States role in promoting violence in society are rarely considered in most of the research on this topic because the State's use of violence is taken for granted.\nDespite the legitimacy it enjoys, the role of the State in promoting and rationalizing the use of violence must be the focus of critique in any study of violence in American society. To assume that the State has a vested interest in the promotion of non-violence is a mistake. We are living at a time when a greater percentage of the adult population in the United State is incarcerated than at any other point in our history (Waquant 2000). Moreover, the United States incarcerates a greater percentage of its population (and the imprisoned are disproportionately comprised of Black males) than any other nation in the world. Despite relatively little public scrutiny or criticism over the growth of the prison population, there is no evidence that mass incarceration has reduced the incidence (Russell 1998) of violence or the fear of it. For this reason alone, the role of the state as enforcer, jailer and executioner must be at the center of any discussion of violence. Given that many of the imprisoned are non-violent offenders, and given that prisons are perhaps the most violent institutions in our society, the need to challenge mass incarceration as State policy could never be greater. ( 6 ) Moreover, public schools are State sponsored institutions, and as such, any effort to understand the causes of violence in schools must recognize that for the State, schools function primarily as institutions of social control. ( 7 )\nPublished in In Motion Magazine September 30, 2001\nIf you have any thoughts on this or would like to contribute to an ongoing discussion in the\nWhat is New? || Affirmative Action || Art Changes || Autonomy: Chiapas - California ||\nCommunity Images || Education Rights || E-mail, Opinions and Discussion ||\nEn español || Essays from Ireland || Global Eyes || Healthcare ||\nHuman Rights/Civil Rights || Piri Thomas ||\nPhoto of the Week || QA: Interviews || Region || Rural America ||\nSearch || Donate || To be notified of new articles || Survey ||\nIn Motion Magazine's Store || In Motion Magazine Staff ||\nIn Unity Book of Photos ||\nLinks Around The World || OneWorld / US ||\nCopyright © 1995-2012 NPC Productions as a compilation. All Rights Reserved.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Saving plant seeds for next season\nMany gardeners contemplate saving some seeds from vegetables or flowers for planting next season. Is it a good or bad idea? Consider all the information before gathering those first seeds.\nIf you are considering saving vegetable or flower seeds for next season, the first important step is to know if your plants are hybrids. Saving seed packages or tags from plants can give you that information. It is never a good idea to save seeds from hybrid plants unless you are not concerned with the quality of your future plants.\nA hybrid is created by crossing two closely related plants. Neither Mom nor Pop was fantastic, but the cross gives a plant with exceptional qualities that the parents did not possess. The problem is that the seeds from the hybrid revert back to one of the parents or are a scramble of genetic material that is most likely not going to be desirable. The chance of having a plant as good as the one you currently have is remote.\nIf you want to save vegetable seeds, you want seeds that were open pollinated. That means they were pollinated by insects, wind or other natural ways.\nLight frosts will probably not affect seed quality. Heavy frosts could damage seeds if they were not ripe at the time of freezing. Seed pods should dry naturally on the plant and the seed head should be brown as well as the contents. Seeds that are green or yellow are unripe. Often, they do not grow next season.\nThe only time that rule of brown and dry does not apply is if we’re talking about weed seeds. They attained their weed status by being able to put up with the most adverse conditions.\nWhen picking the seed heads from plants, remove the seeds from the pod or whatever is enclosing the seeds. This allows them to dry more. Dampness is the enemy of seeds. The seeds could either mold or begin to grow and neither event is wanted. Spread seeds in one layer in an open container. The seeds will dry more indoors in the presence of warm, dry air.\nStore your dry seeds in a paper envelope or paper bag. Avoid plastic because it can trap moisture. If the seeds mold, they are very likely dead. Store your seed packs at room temperature with air circulating. Label the envelopes so you know what you have.\nIn the spring, plant as you would regularly. Unless you are experienced at collecting and storing seeds, you may not want to just use your stored seeds if a food crop is important. Mark your rows and compare between what you have gathered and what you purchased. Be a smart gardener and compare the crops.\nMichigan State University Extension warns there are several things to consider when dealing with open pollinated seeds. Some vegetable garden seeds could be a problem if another closely related vegetable is growing nearby. Examples would be those in the cucurbit family like squash growing near gourds. The swapped pollen could create a mystery squash-gourd combination that is useless. Another example would be corn. Sweet corn growing near popcorn, Indian corn or field corn could give a bizarre mix-and-match ear that is inedible.\nThe last opportunity to collect seeds is right now, so consider these tips when collecting some seeds for next year’s garden.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Slinky: Metal vs. Plastic\nGrade Level: 4th - 6th; Type: Physical Science\nIn this experiment, students will find out whether a plastic slinky works as well as a metal slinky when “walking it down the stairs.\"\nWhat causes the “walk down the stairs” slinky trick to work?\nThe slinky has been enjoyed by many children and adults alike for 70 years since its creation by Richard James in the early 1940s. The toy itself is simple, yet kids can learn from it lessons on momentum and physical science.\n- Metal slinky\n- Plastic slinky of the same size\n- Flight of stairs\n- Stand at the top of a flight of stairs.\n- Get the metal slinky and place one end at the top step of the stairs. Hold the other end slightly up and give it a little push forward onto the next step. Watch as it “walks down”. Time this.\n- Do the same with the plastic slinky. Note that this trick may not work on some plastic slinkys, but it is still a part of your results.\n- Evaluate your results. Which slinky took longer to walk down? Why?\nTerms/Concepts: Slinky; Momentum; Weight; Incline plane\n- McGill and King (1995). Engineering Mechanics, An Introduction to Dynamics (3rd ed.). PWS Publishing Company. ISBN 0-534-93399-8.\nWarning is hereby given that not all Project Ideas are appropriate for all individuals or in all circumstances. Implementation of any Science Project Idea should be undertaken only in appropriate settings and with appropriate parental or other supervision. Reading and following the safety precautions of all materials used in a project is the sole responsibility of each individual. For further information, consult your state’s handbook of Science Safety.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Coins have played a crucial role in human civilization for centuries, serving as a means of trade, commerce, and a reflection of cultural identity. Over time, various civilizations have minted different types of coins, each with its unique characteristics, designs, and purposes.\nIn this article, we will explore the fascinating world of coins and delve into the various types that have shaped the history of currency.\nA coin is a small piece of metal, and sometimes other materials like leather or porcelain, that has a mark or marks indicating its specific value. The practice of using metal pieces for trading has been around for a long time and likely originated from the use of everyday metal ingots like bronze in commerce, which had intrinsic value.\nIn ancient times, metal coins were the primary medium of exchange until bills of exchange in medieval Europe and paper currency in medieval China came into existence. Even though coins are not as commonly used in everyday transactions now, they remain essential to modern economies, especially with the widespread use of coin-operated machines. If you want to learn more about paper currencies, you can refer to the topic of money.\nDifferent types of coins highlight the various roles that currency has taken on throughout history. These roles include everyday transactions, commemorations, investments, and even entertainment.\nHistorical coins are fascinating artifacts that provide valuable insights into the economic, political, and cultural aspects of different civilizations throughout history.\nAncient coins have the remarkable ability to transport us back in time, providing glimpses into civilizations that have long since disappeared. Whether it's Roman denarii or Greek drachmas, these artifacts serve as a connection to the everyday lives of our ancestors.\nMedieval coins, adorned with intricate designs, narrate tales of knights, kings, and kingdoms. Each coin is a piece of history, a tangible link to the medieval world.\nModern historical coins, while not as ancient, hold significant meaning. They commemorate events such as space exploration or political milestones, encapsulating the essence of our contemporary history.\nCollectible coins are coins that collectors seek because of their rarity, historical importance, unique designs, or other distinctive features.\nCollectors pursue rare coins, motivated by the excitement of owning a piece that is possessed by only a few. The scarcity of these coins adds an element of exclusivity and value to these highly desired treasures.\nLimited edition coins attract both collectors and investors. With only a set number available, their scarcity enhances their appeal and potential for investment.\nCommemorative coins celebrate special occasions, ranging from national anniversaries to sporting events. They act as reminders of these significant moments, often becoming cherished collectibles.\n\"Cultural coins\" may refer to coins that have significant cultural or symbolic value within a particular society or community.\nCertain coins transcend their role as mere currency; they embody the essence of a culture. These cultural coins feature symbols, traditions, and historical figures unique to a particular society.\nUsed in ceremonies and rituals, traditional ceremonial coins carry spiritual significance. They play a vital role in cultural practices, representing a bridge between the spiritual and material realms.\nCoins crafted from valuable metals like gold and silver possess intrinsic value beyond their face value because of the precious materials they contain.\nGold coins, with their timeless charm, have served as symbols of wealth for centuries. Both investors and collectors appreciate the enduring value and beauty associated with these precious metal coins.\nSilver coins, often more accessible than gold, boast their own charm. Their affordability and versatility make them a popular choice for both collectors and investors.\nPlatinum coins, being rarer than gold and silver, attract individuals looking for a distinctive and valuable addition to their collections. The radiant metal imparts an element of exclusivity to these coins.\nContemporary currency coins are those currently in circulation and actively used for daily transactions in various countries.\nDay-to-day transactions involve regular coins, typically adorned with national symbols or significant figures. Despite their commonality, these coins play a vital role in the economy.\nFrom pennies to euros, commonly used coins differ around the world. Examining these coins provides insights into the economic systems and cultural values of different countries.\nCoins with unusual shapes represent a unique and creative form of numismatic artistry. While most coins typically have a traditional round shape, certain countries have introduced coins with distinctive and unconventional shapes.\nDeviating from the conventional round shape, square coins defy traditional norms. These distinctive pieces make a statement in collections, infusing a touch of modernity.\nExpressing love and affection, heart-shaped coins go beyond the usual monetary symbolism. They make for distinctive gifts and tokens of appreciation.\nPolygonal coins, with their angular edges, showcase innovative designs. These geometrically shaped coins captivate collectors with their modern aesthetic.\nBi-metallic coins are a type of currency that consists of two separate metals, typically in the form of an outer ring surrounding a center disc. These coins are often used to enhance durability and deter counterfeiting.\nBi-metallic coins, featuring two different metals, are a testament to advanced minting technology. The combination of metals enhances durability and aesthetic appeal.\nCountries like the United Kingdom and Canada have embraced bi-metallic coins. These examples illustrate the global adoption of innovative coinage.\nCrypto coins, also known as cryptocurrencies, are digital or virtual currencies that use cryptography for security and operate on decentralized networks based on blockchain technology.\nIn the digital age, cryptocurrency has emerged as a revolutionary form of currency. Virtual coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum are changing the financial landscape.\nExploring popular cryptocurrencies provides insights into the decentralized world of digital currency. Understanding these coins is crucial in navigating the evolving financial markets.\nSpecialized collection coins are coins intentionally crafted or minted for collectors, often featuring unique characteristics, limited production numbers, or commemorative themes. These coins are tailored to the preferences of numismatists and collectors who are interested in acquiring distinct pieces for their collections.\nSports enthusiasts can blend their love for athletics and coin collecting through sports-themed coins. These specialized collections honor iconic athletes and commemorate memorable moments in the world of sports.\nMovie buffs can extend their love for cinema into their coin collections. Movie-themed coins immortalize beloved films and characters, becoming cherished items for fans.\nIn conclusion, coins, in their diverse forms, carry a rich history and cultural significance that spans across civilizations. Whether it's the coins used in everyday transactions, the intricate designs of collector's coins, or the precious metals in bullion coins, each type narrates a unique story. Whether you're a collector, investor, or just intrigued by the artistry and history of coins, delving into the varied world of coinage can be a fulfilling journey into the heart of human commerce and creativity.\nAncient coins can be valuable, depending on factors such as rarity, condition, and historical significance.\nRarity, limited editions, and historical or cultural significance contribute to a coin's collectibility.\nBegin by researching different types of coins, deciding on a theme, and gradually acquiring pieces that align with your interests.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Five hundred years ago the expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan was traversing the recently discovered strait leading to the Pacific. This was the culmination of the era of geographic findings and intercontinental encounters between civilizations that forever changed the vision of the world. And what better to reflect these revolutionary times than the crown jewel of the sixteenth-century cartography!\nThe Atlas Miller, drawn in 1519 by Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel and his son Jorge Reinel, with illuminations that are the work of António de Holanda is a bag full of wonders, but also apparent paradoxes. Sometimes, it clearly aims more to impress than to inform and a closer look at the lavishly decorated charts reveals not only routes towards new horizons but also hidden motives of its commissioners and a high-stake intrigue. Whose interests did it suit and, perhaps most importantly, who did this atlas seek to contradict?\nOur thanks to Moleiro Editor for this article and video. The facsimile editions of the Atlas Miller and other atlases and medieval manuscripts are available on www.moleiro.com. Visit also Moleiro’s YouTube channel for more captivating tales written on parchment: www.youtube.com/moleiroeditor.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hawks, Hawk Pictures, Facts, and Information\nDetailed, beautiful pictures of four different species of hawks flying, eating, and perched on an arm.\nThe Harris Hawk, formerly known as the Bay Winged Hawk, is a rather tame hawk. Both the male and female Harris Hawk are dark brown in coloring with chestnut colored shoulders, thighs and underwings. The bill is yellow with a white, fading into black, crooked down tip. Feet and legs are also yellow. The tail is black and white. These hawks have an impressive 46 inch wing span and stand up to 2 feet tall.The Harris Hawk can be found in southwest portions of Texas, Mexico and has been reintroduced to southern California. These hawks hunt together in groups of 2 or 3, taking turns chasing their prey until one of them makes the final kill. They feed on small birds and rodents, ducks, herons, rabbits and reptiles.\nThe Harris Hawk has more than one mate at a time, but is a solidary nester. A female will often have 2 broods of 2-4 eggs per year. The young stay in the nest for up to 50 days.\nThe Red Tailed Hawk is an extremely common hawk found through out North America and Mexico. It is the most common hawk in North America. The Red-tailed hawk has brown and black wings with white underwings. It has a white belly with dark streaks throughout. It's head is a lighter brown, streaked with white. It has a reddish tail that varies in shade. Baby Red-Tailed hawks have a dark brown tail with a black band.\nThe Red Tailed hawk eats a wide range of prey, from insects to small to medium rodents, small birds and bats and fish. It will eat its larger prey on the ground and perch to eat a small meal.\nThe Red Tailed hawk mates for life. They offer one brood of 2-3 eggs per year. Babies stay in the nests for up to 46 days.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Forest School continues. T-shirt weather in October. Dry soil and fragrant vegetation. Un-ending streaks of bright white sun dapple a hundred different values of greens and browns in every direction. This is not typical for mid-Autumn and we are soaking in every minute.\nOur sensory descriptive poems grow with more expertise as we pose and stretch with our tree buddies (they’re really good listeners, by the way). We are less distracted by the insects and mini-creatures that fill the forest floor as we get really close and focus on our own breathing. The only real sounds that are out of place during literacy time are my crunching footsteps as I travel from tree to tree, checking in on the learning.\nWe regroup and focus on the word ‘stewardship’. We create visual texts about enjoying Jaffa respectfully. Plants have feelings too…we think.\nGrade 3’s need to know how to use a coordinate grid map. What better way to practice this skill than with an authentic map of forest! We each selected five locations that we’ll visit tomorrow to capture sounds for a ‘forest soundscape’ (Thanks Ms. McCready!). We mapped them with coordinates and practiced our compass rose directions.\nWe then excitedly found amazing spaces in the forest to document in VIRTUAL REALITY! The Google Streetview app allowed us to create 360 photospheres of various parts of the Jaffa forest. I published mine to google maps, and anyone around the world can now take a 360 peak into our special forest classroom. Techy-geeky session to the extreme. I still can’t wrap my brain around the fact that we have this capability at our fingertips now. Incredible.\nWe built up a big hunger by now, and good thing because it was potluck day! It was a feast of delicious spoils. Thank you families for your contributions. Dan manned the open-fire cooking area and toasted fresh garlic toast and sautéed potatoes. We even used real plates to cut down on waste and used the environmental centres’ composting and recycling program to limit our trash impact. It was a classy affair, but students had to earn their lunch and complete a photo scavenger hunt of the buffet table and look for packaged vs. unpackaged foods. What might have been on an early settler’s or first nations people’s table 210 years ago?\nIf anyone ever needs help advertising why forest school is fantastic learning, please let my grade 3’s know! We feel we’ve almost done it all here. We are sad that tomorrow is our last day, but know that we’ve had an unforgettable opportunity. Tomorrow will be jam-packed with more tech-enhanced learning in our outdoor classroom. I hope our tree buddies don’t miss us too much!\nPS – Shout out to our favourite app, piccollage. It is so enjoyable sharing our learning with text and visuals in such impactful ways. Google comes in a close second place with the incredible-in-your-hands mapping and virtual reality capabilities. All free! Play!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The RevolutionaryNicholas P. Miller July/August 2007\nOn the contrary, Luther is more fairly accused of elevating the status of the prince at the expense of the church as well as the individual, at least in civil matters. His 1520 Address subordinates the church in civil matters. His 1523 discourse on the Secular Authority made clear that the civil sword was firmly in the hands of the civil magistrate, who was not to be actively opposed, even when overreaching and tyrannical. Even in religious matters, which he acknowledged were outside the civil ruler's legitimate oversight, he taught that spiritual \"outrage is not to be resisted, but endured.\"2 Duly constituted civil rulers were not to resist their unjust and ungodly superiors.3 All this was written more than a year prior to the events directly leading to the Peasants' War. These events began unfolding in the summer of 1524 in southwest Germany.4\nA month later, after the peasants had engaged in greater bloodshed, he wrote a tract whose title betrayed its target and its polemical tone—Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants. In this pamphlet, he criticized the religious aspirations and leadership of the peasants, particularly fingering Thomas M\nArticle Author: Nicholas P. Miller\nNicholas Miller, Ph.D., is an attorney and associate professor of church history at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan. He is the author of the The Religious Roots of the First Amendment (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), which more fully develops the theme of this article.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Past Greenland temperatures and moisture sources\nIce consists of water molecules that come in different varieties with slightly different masses, so-called isotopes. The amount of each of these isotopes in a certain ice sample depends on the formation history of the ice: Under which conditions did the water evaporate, and how much cooling did the vapour experience on its way to the ice cap before forming the precipitation that ended up as the layers in the ice cap? Information on the temperature and moisture sources is therefore stored in the isotopic composition of the ice.\nMolecules of water (H2O) consist of two Hydrogen atoms (H) and an Oxygen atom (O), and each of these atoms may be one of different isotopes of H and O. Most hydrogen atoms (1H) have just one proton in the nucleus and weigh one atomic mass unit, while a few have either one or two extra neutrons in the nucleus (2H and 3H), making these atoms heavier than the most common 1H isotope. Similarly, oxygen atoms come in three isotopes; the common 16O and the more rare heavier isotopes 17O and 18O, having 8 protons and 8, 9, or 10 neutrons in the nucleus, respectively.\nIn climate studies, especially the fractions of the water molecules with either one 18O or one 2H are measured (read more about the measurement techniques here). In general, there are less of the heavy isotopes 18O and 2H (also called deuterium, or D) in ice formed under cold conditions. The amount missing is very small, and for practical reasons, the measured amounts of 18O or 2H are given as the so-called δ18O (delta-O-eighteen) and δD (delta-Deuterium) values. These values are usually negative and range roughly from -80‰ to 0‰ for δ18O and from -600‰ to 0‰ for δD. One per mille of δ18O (or 8‰ of δD) corresponds to a temperature difference of 1.5-4°C.\nThe δ18O and δD values are used as indicators of past temperatures, so-called temperature proxies. From analyses of the isotopic composition of Greenland ice cores it is possible to obtain a record of past Greenland climate reaching more than 100,000 years back in time. For the past 8,000 years it is even possible to follow the annual temperature variations year by year in the isotope records.\nBut the isotopes also tell about the climatic conditions in the areas from which the moisture source originates. Roughly speaking, the δD values are 8 times the δ18O values because the relative mass difference between D and 1H is 8 times bigger than the mass difference between 18O and 16O. However, the difference δD - 8 ⋅ δ18O (called the Deuterium excess) varies and also carries information about the climate conditions of the moisture sources.\n- Isotopes and the delta notation\n- Fractionation and temperature: why do δ18O and δD reflect temperature?\n- Isotopes reveal changing moisture sources at the end of the glacial\n- Isotope measurements as basis for dating ice cores\n- Methods for measuring water isotope ratios\nIce Core Drilling Projects\nFor more information on the topic please contact Bo Vinther", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Gullfoss waterfall using long exposure from a drone, see all the people?\nThe wide Hvítá river flows southward, and about a kilometer above the falls it turns sharply to the right and flows down into a wide curved three-step staircase and then abruptly plunges in two stages 11 meters, and 21 meters into a crevice 32 meters deep. The crevice, about 20 meters wide and 2.5 kilometers in length, extends perpendicular to the flow of the river. The average amount of water running down the waterfall is 140 cubic meters per second in the summer and 80 cubic meters per second in the winter. The highest flood measured was 2,000 cubic meters per second.\nDuring the first half of the 20th century and some years into the late 20th century, there was much speculation about using Gullfoss to generate electricity. During this period, the waterfall was rented indirectly by its owners, Tómas Tómasson and Halldór Halldórsson, to foreign investors. However, the investors’ attempts were unsuccessful, partly due to lack of money. The waterfall was later sold to the state of Iceland, and is now protected.\nSigríður Tómasdóttir, the daughter of Tómas Tómasson, was determined to preserve the waterfall’s condition and even threatened to throw herself down. A stone memorial to Sigriður, located above the falls, depicts her profile.\nGullfoss is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Iceland. Together with Þingvellir and the geysers of Haukadalur, Gullfoss forms part of the Golden Circle, a popular day excursion for tourists in Iceland.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“When we storm forward and climb out of the trenches, we see the empty, unknown land in front of us where death goes about its business […] it appears as if a new dimension has opened up to us. Then we suddenly see up close, […] what awaits us in the land of the dead: the enemy. That is an unforgettable moment.” – Ernst Jünger (Kittler, 132)\nThe term terra cognita meaning “unknown land” in Latin, was created during the Age of Exploration in the mid 15th century lasting through the 19th century. Francaviglia writes, “The use of Latin as a universal language for knowledge was endorsed at the end of the Middle Ages, and so the term terra incognita perfectly captured both the spirit of the times and the character of unknown places” (Francaviglia 25). Latin becomes a signifier for knowledge and legitimation, revealing exploration as above all else the search for knowledge.\nThe search for terra incognita involves three stages of inscription:\n- the map as rational inscription\n- the sea as irrational and fleeting inscription\n- culminating with the gaze as relational and authoring inscription\nMapping the Unknown (Hic Sunt Dracones)\nThe acquisition of knowledge and the need to know has been the main fuel for exploration. World maps during the Age of Exploration were in flux, mirroring the age itself, since there were still bodies of land to be discovered and rendered onto the map. The map as evidence of rationality and legibility also exhibited gaps of unknown spaces pointing to its own limitations and lack. Expeditions sought to fill in all of the missing spaces to complete and solidify the scientific reason proposed by the map and reassert its legitimacy. The gaps undermine the authority of maps and name it as something unstable. These unknown spaces were often marked with the phrase terra incognita, although there is also account of some displaying the phrase hic sunt dracones or “here be dragons,” emphasizing the fear and intrigue induced by the unknown as well as its presence as a threat to knowledge, rationality, and authority. The unknown, then, destabilizes the logic of the map as archive.\nDuring the Age of Exploration, there was a rediscovery of ancient Greek maps, and Ptolymey’s world map completed in 391 A.D. served as a model for maps made in the 15th century. Although Ptolymey’s map was lost, writing and description of the map allowed scholars to make reconstructions, “The fact that the original was lost also enhanced its intrigue to an age searching for an elusive past” (Francaviglia, 26).\nState sponsored expeditions, acquiring knowledge as emphasizing state power\nShip becomes extension of state, state prosthetic\nship also as crypt and sea becomes crypt carrier (coffin traveling along the water) - danger and death was a huge part of these explorations. ship doubles as home and crypt, doubles again as the state and state crypt\nmap used to be a palimpsest, written over, rewritten, making additions\nThe Sublime as Blackbox and Erasure\n“But in what we are wont to call sublime in nature there is such an absence of anything leading to particular objective principles and corresponding forms of nature that it is rther in its chaos, or in its wildest and most irregular disorder and desolation, provided it gives signs of magnitude and power, that nature chiefly excites the ideas of the sublime.” (Kant 70)\nMise en abyme?\nThe sea insofar as it is the sublime is blackboxed, allowing one to experience it only through its projected surface interface, therefore one can only stand at the threshold or edge of the sublime. One can not enter into the sublime because it would result in death or complete madness. The sublime is blackboxed through and through, entering it wouldn’t unlock it as blackbox, it would continue to be lux, the impenetrable and opaque body of light. The threshold of the sublime then is like an event horizon, the position of the self at the interface of one’s own potential obliteration by the immense engulfing threat of nature.\nThe sea also denies writing. It is an unstable writing surface and acts as liquid erase, as each trace the ship leaves in the water vanishes in the moment it appears, it is swallowed and buried. The ship is not permitted to leave a trail or to mark on the water. In this sense it functions like a mystic-writing pad that strikes back where the writer cannot control the erasure of writing, but rather it is immediately subsumed into the unconscious and the act of writing becomes synonymous with the act of erasing.\nRegime of Vision\nThe Sovereign Gaze\n“Cartesian thought, for Ricoeur, ‘is contemporaneous with a vision of the world in which the whole of objectivity is spread out like a spectacle on which the cogito casts its sovereign gaze’” (Jonathan Crary, 48).\nThe moment of coming upon terra incognita and witnessing it is also a moment of engaging with the unknown as it becomes known. The male gaze of the explorer acts as a stylus writing onto the land, making vision synonymous with writing, and authoring the land as a blank page in that moment of recognition. The gaze as stylus not only writes onto the land, but also pierces and penetrates it. This moment of recognition is also an impass. In the seeing of terra incognita, it is no longer unknown, and becomes transformed by being placed within the field of vision. Just as the ship symbolically acts as state power, so to the male gaze acts metonymically/indexically as the sovereign gaze of the state which renders legible the previously illegible.\nIs this the land writing back on the gaze?\nAfterimage as Possession and Parallax\nA metaphoric afterimage is created in the moment of seeing terra incognita. The impression of this unforgettable moment creates an image that the explorer can take with him when he leaves. In the afterimage, the land as Other is remediated and re-presented. This idea is most clearly expressed in Lacan’s statement “No doubt, in the depths of my eye, the picture is painted” (Lacan, 96). This afterimage bceomes an objectified image of the land which remains under visual possession by the explorer. This also reveals that the land has the power to write back onto the explorer. The image becomes detached from the actual land, or the signified detached from its signifier, echoing Crary’s discussion of the afterimage as an “…optical experience that was produced by and within the subject (Crary 98).” The explorer is able to evoke this image and carry it as a possession. The eye becomes the archive which holds the image as a file. This is a similar effect to the mystic-writing pad. The image is written onto the eye and then subsumed into memory.\nThe explorer himself becomes a medium for carrying and transporting the afterimage of terra incognita, acting as Iris as opposed to Hermes, internalizing the message into his body. This internalization of the afterimage as message is also an internalization of the Other. The unknown is taken in by the explorer where it is consumed and transformed, then released and rewritten as something known. Upon returning to the home state, the afterimage is described as the photographic documentation of the land. This reveals the afterimage as parallax, as it is the slippage between the parallel lines of sight of the image and the recollection of the image, and results as the displaced product of the two.\nThe Spyglass and the War Machine\ntelescope as dioptric\nframes and borders the image, excludes periphery\nland becomes a target (Kittler, photography and targeting)\nVision is enhanced via a prosthetic (spyglass/telescope)\ncuts into the landscape, reforming and reorganizing the land (Walter Benjamin - surgeon/cameraman?) dissects and reshapes the subject\nCrary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Boston: MIT Press, 1992.\nHorn, Eva. \"Knowing the Enemy: The Epistemology of Secret Intelligence.\" Boston: MIT Press Journal Grey Room, 2003\nKant, Immanuel. The Critique of Judgment. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987.\nKittler, Friedrich. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.\nLacan, Jacques. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1978.\nFrancaviglia, Richard V. Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: a Cartographic History. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sendes vanligvis innen 7-15 dager\nPacked with need-to-know information, this handbook should be every painter's companion in the studio. With students and painters with limited time in mind, chapters focus on essentials: colours required for a basic palette; preparing a support; which are the most vibrant and permanent pigments etc., while describing how materials and techniques have developed over the centuries and how to apply them for the best results. The emphasis on practical advice will appeal to artists who like to explore and experiment, are economically minded, or simply find satisfaction in doing it all themselves. The author includes recipes for making glazes, acrylic ground, gesso and pastel sticks; information on photographing and archiving work yourself; a guide to setting up a studio; and the results of the author's own extensive testing of materials from paints to papers. The Painter's Studio Handbook is an ideal quick reference work for artists working in all media wanting to get started with a minimum of fuss with their painting or drawing.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This voluntary initiative came from Green economy policies, practices and initiatives\nDescription/achievement of initiative\nSource: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany\nThe new Renewable Energies Heat Act entered into force on 1 January 2009. It stipulates that owners of new buildings must cover part of their heat supply with renewable energies. This applies to residential and non-residential buildings for which a building application or construction notification was submitted after 1 January 2009.\nCopyright United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Organizational Influence on Individual Perceptions: The social representations of the Aboriginal military in the Canadian Armed Forces\nIn the context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report, the Canadian state is in the process of reaching out to Aboriginal communities. Public organizations must therefore be actively involved in integrating Aboriginal people into their communities so that they are representative of Canadian society as a whole. The question of the perceptions of Aboriginal employees becomes crucial because it may be a factor that facilitates or restricts the access of these people to public organizations. As such, Aboriginal people have a special, complex and rich relationship with the military. It seemed relevant for us to study the perception of the Canadian military with Aboriginal people. Using the theory of social representations, this research exposes the structure of these perceptions. We have discovered that the military perceives the army through the prism of excellence and legal authority. Thus, the perception scheme is not a priori an obstacle to the integration of Aboriginal people, but there are indeed prejudices and stereotypes on the periphery of the representational structure. These prejudices and stereotypes could constitute an obstacle to the effective integration of this population.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "For many writers and students, note cards (also known as index cards) are one of the best tools for planning large works and organising ideas. I use them all the time as part of my analogue note-taking setup, but also at my desk when I’m working through big ideas.\nConceptually, cards can exist on their own, or be grouped together into sequences or categories. Each card can be moved around spatially and reordered in ways that normal notebook pages cannot. This allows easy ordering and random access.\nThe physical limitations of the card help keep the content short and to the point. Having both a front and back helps add an extra dimension, if required.\nIn my system, the cards are used in addition to my notebooks and digital tools for many things, including:\n- Forming and processing ideas into groups or sequences\n- Planning order and estimated effort of tasks\n- Making disposable notes for myself or other people\n- Writing down phone numbers and details for calls to make\n- Testing pens and ink (this happens regularly!)\n- Anything random I don’t want to keep\n- Doodles (like below!)\nI have found the business card size to be better for my usage. I get blank ones with rounded edges from eBay – they’re cheap to buy in bulk and I’m happy with the quality for now. I used to use full size note cards, and certainly enjoyed using them, but now I’ve tried the smaller size, I find the larger ones to be too big for most of my tasks.\nFor me, the main benefit of their size is their portability. You can fit business cards into slots for bank cards as well as dedicated containers like portable business card cases, archive boxes, and other organisers. There’s no way I could fit a full size index card into my wallet!\nHere’s an example of use when planning to make a phone call.\nWhen I am going through my notebook on an evening, I may write down the details of a call to make to a utility company the next day. I would still write down the task in my notebook, but the phone number, account details, and any other bits of relevant information would be on the note card in my wallet.\nMaking the call could be done anywhere, as I always have my wallet in my pocket.\nWhen I am done, I would tick the task in my notebook and copy down any new information gained from the call. After that, the note card can be either disposed of or stored for future reference. Though I don’t currently keep an archive of these cards, but I may want to in the future. Right now I copy the information down into Field Notes or OneNote as required, then put the card itself in the recycling.\nI recently got a repositionable glue stick, which has similar properties to the glue on the back of a Post-it note.\nWhen you use this glue on the back of one of these note cards it can be used just like a Post-it note, including repositioning and sticking to walls. I will see how often I use this over time, but I did use this method at the start of the year in order to priorities projects and move ideas around. Sticking them on my wall helped keep my desk clear while I was grouping and ordering.\nFinally, I’d like to see this size of card gain more of a following. It would be fantastic to see a company like Nock Co. produce their DotDash cards in business card sizes. They are probably my favourite of the full size 3 × 5 note cards on the market, but I have yet to find anything of this quality in the business card size.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Located 240 kilometres east of Darwin in Australia’s tropical north Kakadu National Park is the largest national park in Australia. The park covers almost 20,000 square kilometers it is approximately the size of Israel. This unique archaeological and ethnological reserve has been inhabited continuously for more than 40,000 years.\nApproximately 300 Aboriginal people reside in the park, including traditional owners and Aboriginals with recognized social and traditional attachments to the area. The park contains one of the highest concentrated areas of aboriginal rock art sites in the world; the most famous examples are at Nourlangie Rock and Ubirr, sacred and art sites.\nThe traditional owners Bininj Mungguy have lived on and cared for this country for more than 50,000 years. Their deep spiritual connection to the land dates back to the Creation and has always been an important part of the Kakadu story.\nThe secret to discovering Kakadu is taking your time. You’ll find stories, secrets and sights never imagined. It is impossible to appreciate the full breadth and beauty of the park in a fleeting visit – if you can afford the time, spend a week or more.\nBecause of its diversity of land systems from marine and coastal habitats (which support substantial turtle and dugong populations) through to the arid sandstone escarpment, Kakadu is one of the world’s richest wildlife parks. Is home to 68 mammals (almost one-fifth of Australia’s mammals), more than 120 reptiles, 26 frogs, over 300 tidal and freshwater fish species, more than 2 000 plants and over 10 000 species of insects. It provides habitat for more than 290 bird species (over one-third of Australia’s birds). Its internationally important wetlands are a major staging point for migratory birds. Some of these species are threatened or endangered. Many are found nowhere else in the world and there are still others yet to be discovered.\nThe Creation Ancestors gave Bininj/Mungguy a kinship system linking people to all things and the cultural responsibility to look after them all. They have always understood the biodiversity of country and their traditional ancestral knowledge is a vital part of managing Kakadu’s rich environment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Proofreaders need to be pedants with an unwavering eye for detail. The discipline differs from copy-editing.\nBecause errors can happen during the design process, remember your final proofread should take place after:\n- the print document has already been laid out, complete with images and captions, or\n- the web content has been uploaded to the web.\nWhen proofreading, check that:\n- you have incorporated all edits from previous versions into the final version\n- all content conforms with this style guide\n- the images match text and captions\n- elements such as page numbers, tabs and headings are correct\n- line breaks, white space and tables have all been positioned appropriately.\nIf checking web content, also check that:\n- the page conforms with web accessibility guidelines\n- all hyperlinks are labelled correctly and work.\nOther useful tips:\n- Its fine to start on screen, but your final proof should be on a hard copy.\n- Proofing is best done in (at least) two stages: one proof for sense and style, and one for spelling, grammar and punctuation.\n- When proofing for sense and style, put yourself in the user's shoes.\n- Check the style aligns with Monash branding.\n- Be methodical. Take one line at a time. Use a ruler to guide your eyes.\n- Read one word at a time. Most people read about four words at a time, so you need to make a conscious effort to stare at each word in turn. This isn't as slow as it sounds; its just a different reading technique. Some proofreaders read the copy backwards.\n- Note any queries that need to go back to the content owner or the writer. Ask them.\n- If you don't know a word, or you are unsure it is spelled or used correctly, look it up.\n- Proofread in a quiet environment. Don't listen to music. Schedule frequent short breaks, and enforce a break if your concentration starts wavering.\n- Read the content aloud. (Under your breath, preferably.) This helps you to spot faulty sentence construction and bad grammar.\nDo not proofread your own work if you can help it. If you must, schedule another task between writing/editing and proofing.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "complementarity as conservative Catholics use the term, however, is more than biology.\nThis is the core of “complementarity,” and it would not seem to require an international colloquium to explain.\nNotice he said that complementarity is “a root” of family, not “the root.”\ncomplementarity also means, of course, than men and women are fundamentally different.\ncomplementarity com·ple·men·tar·i·ty (kŏm'plə-měn-tār'ĭ-tē)\nThe correspondence or similarity between nucleotides or strands of nucleotides of DNA and RNA molecules that allows precise pairing.\nThe affinity that an antigen and an antibody have for each other as a result of the chemical arrangement of their combining sites.\nThe concept that the underlying properties of entities (especially subatomic particles) may manifest themselves in contradictory forms at different times, depending on the conditions of observation; thus, any physical model of an entity exclusively in terms of one form or the other will be necessarily incomplete. For example, although a unified quantum mechanical understanding of such phenomena as light has been developed, light sometimes exhibits properties of waves and sometimes properties of particles (an example of wave-particle duality). See also uncertainty principle.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Science - We will explore the different animal groups and use this to help us identify the features of different dinosaurs. We will also discuss animal's and dinosaur's diets.\nHistory - The history of dinosaurs and looking at the chronology of history.\nArt - Observational drawings of fossils and landscape drawings.\nGeography - We will be building our map reading skills by hunting for fossils!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In general, GCC expects the system C library to provide most of the headers to be used with it. However, GCC will fix those headers if necessary to make them work with GCC, and will install some headers required of freestanding implementations. These headers are installed in libsubdir/include. Headers for non-C runtime libraries are also installed by GCC; these are not documented here. (FIXME: document them somewhere.)\nSeveral of the headers GCC installs are in the ginclude\ndirectory. These headers, iso646.h,\nstdarg.h, stdbool.h, and stddef.h,\nare installed in libsubdir/include,\nunless the target Makefile fragment (see Target Fragment)\noverrides this by setting\nIn addition to these headers and those generated by fixing system\nheaders to work with GCC, some other headers may also be installed in\nlibsubdir/include. config.gcc may set\nextra_headers; this specifies additional headers under\nconfig to be installed on some systems.\nGCC installs its own version of\n<float.h>, from ginclude/float.h.\nThis is done to cope with command-line options that change the\nrepresentation of floating point numbers.\nGCC also installs its own version of\n<limits.h>; this is generated\nfrom glimits.h, together with limitx.h and\nlimity.h if the system also has its own version of\n<limits.h>. (GCC provides its own header because it is\nrequired of ISO C freestanding implementations, but needs to include\nthe system header from its own header as well because other standards\nsuch as POSIX specify additional values to be defined in\n<limits.h>.) The system’s\n<limits.h> header is used via\nlibsubdir/include/syslimits.h, which is copied from\ngsyslimits.h if it does not need fixing to work with GCC; if it\nneeds fixing, syslimits.h is the fixed copy.\nGCC can also install\n<tgmath.h>. It will do this when", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Recently, there was a discussion on Twitter about the validity of using custom elements in the <head> section of web pages.\nCustom elements are part of the Web Components specifications, allowing developers to create HTML elements tailored to their needs.\nUsing custom tags, developers can build reusable and self-contained HTML elements that function independently from the rest of the code.\nOn Twitter, an individual asks: “Anyone know if it’s technically valid to have a custom element in the document head?”\nJohn Mueller, a Search Advocate at Google, suggested that this practice could potentially disrupt how Google renders and indexes the page.\n“Using custom elements in the <head> likely breaks page rendering in Google Search. If there are ‘search’ meta tags, etc. below the custom elements that should be in the <head> (like robots noindex), Google may not recognize them during rendering.”\nUnderstanding How Google Renders Web Pages\nTo fully grasp the implications of Mueller’s statement, it’s important to understand how Google renders web pages.\nThe rendering process is like cooking, transforming the recipe into the final product users see in their browsers.\nAs Google’s crawler retrieves the HTML, the rendering process begins by interpreting the code and assembling the resources to display the web page visually.\nThe SEO Implications Of Custom HTML Tags\nWhile custom tags benefit developers, their impact on SEO cannot be ignored.\nCustom tags can affect SEO because search engines like Google traditionally rely on standard HTML tags to understand a page’s content and structure.\nFor example, if a custom element is used in the <head>, Google may not recognize the standard tags that follow during rendering.\nThis could result in Google missing important meta tags relevant to SEO.\nThe Argument Against Using Custom HTML Tags\nAlthough custom HTML tags offer flexibility, there are reasons to use them cautiously.\nIn addition to Mueller’s concerns, custom HTML tags can potentially cause compatibility issues with older browsers and screen readers.\nThere are also possible clashes in the global namespace and concerns about separating functionality, meaning, and presentation.\nAn Alternative: JSON-LD Tags\nFor those who want to improve SEO while retaining the flexibility of custom tags, JSON-LD tags are a promising alternative.\nWhen structured properly, this data can be used in a <script> tag of type application/ld+json to provide structured metadata about the page.\nThis makes it easier for search engines to interpret the content.\nThis script communicates key information about an organization to search engines, increasing the chances of the page ranking in relevant search results.\nWhile web development continues to change with exciting new tools, the impact of custom HTML tags on SEO is still being understood.\nThose concerned about compatibility or SEO issues may prefer to use standard HTML tags or JSON-LD as alternatives.\nFeatured Image: Darko 1981/Shutterstock", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ralph was extremely frustrated with everyone because many of the boys did not care that the fire went out. Ralph realizes that fire is one of the most important things since that is the thing that is supposed to get them rescued off of the island. The boys, besides Ralph, are showing their evil by not caring that this happened to them instead they just brush it off like it is no big deal but in reality it is a huge deal for their survival. The way that Ralph was brought up in his society shows that he can control his evil reactions in tense situations since he does not want to lash out at somebody. Even though Ralph is from a controlled society, he was very eager to join the society that was taking place which leads to the killing of Simon: “The beast was on its knees in the center,...leapt on to the beast, screamed struck, bit, tore...they could see\nGolding’s timeless novel, Lord of the Flies, has an impact on society because it shows how boys, representing the world, may react in different situations and how human nature can create chaos, turning good to bad; a pandemonium civilization . The novel shows the inner self of each person will appear eventually , it only depends on how strongly you believe in your own conscience which Ralph possesses. As a leader Ralph is a better chief although he can’t regulate the group of boys well, the boys still choose Ralph instead of Jack as he cares for others and their survival unlike Jack. The reader experiences how people could change into ‘Jack’ easily and because of a lack of organization or rules, we would end up killing each other, as the boys do.\nWilliam Golding has very developed characters in Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Jack to be specific. Ralph is good at involving everyone in his decisions, but not good at reprimanding and punishing the boys. Jack knows how the boys feel and relates with them, but he can not identify his priorities or achieve them. These two leaders are both intelligent, but can not control their desire to kill. Without all the downfalls and all of the good qualities in Ralph and Jack would have been very different leaders, which might have a good thing for the boys, or could have make the situation even worse.\n“They get a chance to do everything.” (p.22) Since Bigger wasn’t at the opportunity of being able to be an aviator, he had to go in a search for a job. He ended up working for the Dalton family. He did not like his job ... ... middle of paper ... ... to Bessie, to even considering the thought of killing himself. The feeling never actually leaves him. It frightens him, and I don’t think it would be so bad if it weren’t for the discrimination and segregation.\nHe would be “as happy as a fly” (Morrison 142) if he could just escape the people he feels is holding him back and causing him so much despondency. Throughout... ... middle of paper ... ...lps Milkman realize how to fly and find himself. Flying is one thing that will make anyone feel boundless and free from worries and trouble. Everyone wants to feel this kind of freedom, however unless they can fly, they are unable to. It’s obvious that Milkman would want to feel this freedom from all of the burdens that he has been presented with through out the entirety of his life.\nMost gulls only learn the simple facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back. The others gulls just care for eating and not for the flying, however Jonathan loved to fly more than he loved to eat. He knew this was not a way to think and even his parents were dismayed by his daily experimentation. They asked Jonathan to be normal and even though he agreed he would go back to his old self and kept trying to fly. He learned about speed and tried, not successfully, to fly the fastest that he could fly but every time he would lose control and crash into the water.\nA ship may be near and there is no smoke to signal them. “Are you all off your rockers?” (Golding 108). Some may say the isolated environment caused the boys to argue with one another about the many issues that rose between them, but common sense seems to dictate the boys’ age related thinking made the majority of them decide to follow Jack’s belief that a fire was not important. If a fully mature group of men were on the island in the same situation, the majority of them would know Ralph was correct in thinking a fire was a necessary for smoke in making a signal for a large chance at rescue than without one. Only immature brained individuals like most of boys were on the island, would think otherwise and not realize their lives depend upon that smoke\nIn the case of this movie, the elected officials would be represented by Jack because he was representing the concerns of the boys in the group as he was trying to keep them all “safe” from the monster that lurked the island. The monster became the main concern of these boys and they were generally concerned of their safety. The bureaucracy would be represented through Ralph as he ended up with less support from the boys but the boys that did stick with him were more concerned about his expertise and skill and did not let the illusions of the monster steer them away. To compare both, in the movie considering these two groups as the bureaucracy and elected officials, the constant clash of the boys was apparent and clear to see. Jack and Ralph were not able to agree on specific situations and resulted in getting nothing done, which is why they ended up splitting.\nAlso he says “acting like a crowd of kids” as if was the adult on the island trying to help the “kids”. More proof of his clear thinking is the fact that Ralph relies on Piggy’s good advice to succeed. Without Piggy, Ralph would be lost. As the story progresses we see the boys drift apart however we see Piggy try to retain order as an adult might. When there is going to be a fight he says, “Come away.\nUnfortunately, it is because of his age and lack of experience that he understandably fails to maintain order when the constraints of civilization are overpowered by the boys’ savage impulses. Had they listened to him, many wiser decisions would have been made regarding their survival. Firstly, a notable trait that distinguishes Ralph from the other children on the island is his ability to think more rationally. As the boys become influenced by Jack’s rule, they regress into uncivilized savages that lack discipline. Whereas, Ralph is wisely able to keep the boys under order, which is particularly apparent through the meetings that he regularly holds.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Acton is underlain by the Nashoba Formation, an assemblage of old metamorphic rocks which were reshaped and covered during the continental ice ages. Original sandstones or similar sedimentary rocks were altered by heat and pressure over geologic time into metamorphic rock. The formation is largely gneiss, a relatively coarse-grained rock, which shows different layers of minerals upon close examination.\nThe mineral composition of the rocks in the Nashoba Formation varies considerably, and numerous subdivisions have been identified. Most of the formation in Acton is biotite gneiss, which contains small plate-like crystals of the mineral biotite, a black form of mica. The arboretum area is entirely underlain by this particular type of rock. Throughout the Arboretum, outcrops of bedrock show at the land surface. Several near Wood Lane are particularly easy to find, as is the outcropping just east of the reading circle.\nThe Nashoba Formation is relatively old, dating back to the Ordovician geologic period, which occurred between 430 and 500 million years ago. It has been subjected to extreme forces over geologic time as at least one mountain range rose and was eroded away. As a result, the formation is extensively folded and faulted. Hansen maps a fold axis through the Arboretum centered at the rock outcrop near Wood Lane. Elsewhere in Acton, the various subgroups within the Nashoba Formation are mapped as elongated bands that stretch from northeast to southwest, although no such bands are mapped within the Arboretum.\nFaults separate the formation from the neighboring rocks to the northwest and southeast. These faults are minor and do not present a significant geologic hazard. Nonetheless, small magnitude earthquakes occur once every year or two. If residents even notice these earthquakes, they often mistake them for a large truck passing on the road, although sometimes they are accompanied by a sudden loud noise like a cannon shot.\nThe Nashoba Formation is punctuated in places by younger volcanic rocks, known as the Acton granite. Granite deposits were formed when molten magma intruded from the subsurface into the Nashoba Formation. The intrusions, which are relatively small features, were mined in the past in several small quarries in Acton. A group of cut granite stones lie off the Highland-Bog trail towards Wood Lane. These stones show the remnants of drill holes where the stones were broken off from a much larger boulder. The remaining part of the boulder is not granite. It shows a flat, rather crystalline surface typical of the Nashoba Formation and was apparently the wall of the fault into which granite intruded long ago. The cut granite stones remaining near the boulder are similar to the large foundation stones seen in colonial houses and barns around Acton. For some reason, these particular cut stones were never removed and used.\nGlacial Striations and Deposits\nThe geologic character of Acton is largely determined by younger deposits that overlie the bedrock. These varied formations were deposited during the continental ice ages, which ended 10,000 years ago, a very recent time geologically. During the ice ages, sheets of ice over a mile thick in places blanketed Canada, the north central United States, and New England. The glaciers formed, wasted away, and reformed although only the effects of the most recent ice age are clearly discernible in the area's geology.\nDuring each ice age, massive sheets of ice moved over the landscape, scraping, and re-depositing rocks and sediment. In Acton, the last glacier moved more or less due south. Glacial striations, marks scraped by the moving glacier and the rocks it carried, can still be seen on smooth rock outcrops. The high bedrock ledge on the edge of the meadow near Wood Lane shows glacial striations that point more or less south, roughly parallel to Wood Lane. The striations are difficult to see, but can be seen as rough indentations that all line up at an angle of about 45 degrees from the grain of the rock.\nThe ice ages resulted in numerous and varied geologic deposits, formed when the glacier passed and also during the post-glacial period as the melting glacier produced torrents of water. Much of Acton is blanketed by glacial till, a compact mixture of sediment. Till is composed of a wide range of grain sizes, from very fine clay particles to large boulders. These various grain sizes were compressed under the moving glaciers into a poorly sorted mixture that is tight, almost impervious, to water. The widespread till deposits are also known as ground moraine.\nThe rocky soils that discourage farming in New England are typical of these glacial till soils. Colonial farmers removed the rocks from the soil on a yearly basis, forming them into stone walls like those seen at the Arboretum. In several places on the Arboretum, the soil was too thin or poor for farming; and rocks were simply dumped in large piles there. High water tables and poor drainage that interfere with planting are typical of till deposits as well.\nThe lower elevations in Acton's landscape are generally occupied by glacial outwash deposits, sand and gravel deposited by water running from the melting glaciers. Fine-grained clay and silt were washed from these deposits by the running water, as a result these soils are more open and drain more readily than the till soils. All of Acton's public water-supply wells are located in sand and gravel outwash, and these deposits generally require greater protection from pollution than the areas covered by till.\nThe Arboretum lies at a transition from the upland ground moraine to lower-lying outwash deposits. South of Minot Avenue and extending south of Route 2 as far as Fort Pond Brook lie kame terraces. Kame terraces were formed as sand and gravel accumulated along meltwater streams that coursed along the margin of the melting glacier, between the glacier and adjacent higher land. Immediately south of Minot is a kame terrace on the site of Conant School.\nLeading into the kame terrace south of Minot Avenue is an esker that courses through the Arboretum. Eskers, long sinuous gravel deposits, are found in several other locations around Acton. These deposits were probably made in tunnels under the wasting glacier or open crevasses in the glacier. Water in the meltwater tunnel or crevasse along the esker's path flowed southward to the kame terrace, depositing the sand and gravel that makes up the esker. Today, they stand as narrow causeways, 10 to 30 feet high, winding through the woods. Were it not for their tortuous path, one would mistake them for constructed road or railroad beds. A trail runs along the top of the esker at the arboretum. Over the years gravel was mined from the esker for the area roads leaving a large excavated bowl on its east side.\nThe meltwater streams that flowed along the course of the present-day esker and kame terrace discharged into glacial Lake Sudbury south of where Route 2 lies today. Glacial lakes formed when meltwater accumulated behind ice or earth dams. Lake Sudbury occupied an area covering parts of Sudbury, Maynard, West Concord, and South Acton. It may have consisted of several lakes rather than a single large lake. Where meltwater streams discharged into glacial lakes, they often formed kame deltas, deposits of sand and gravel that accumulated on the lake bottom. Kame delta deposits lie south of Route 2 as far as Fort Pond Brook.\nActon's geology continues to change. There are geologic formations that postdate the ice ages including swamp deposits, which are forming in wetlands throughout the town, and alluvium, which forms in streambeds. Swamp deposits are currently accumulating in the marsh on the Donald property on the west side of the esker, and even more dramatically in the bog. The bog was once open water, but has been filling in with sediment and sphagnum moss over the decades so that now it is a bog in transition to a meadow. Eventually, the bog will fill in sufficiently that all open water will be gone and a grassy meadow will take its place.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The following guide will help you plan, prepare, and get ready in the event that martial law threatens you safety and well being. It is divided into two parts. The first part describes the framework for martial law and the second part the actions to take in preparing or the actual declaration of martial law.\n* Martial law is defined as: military rule or authority imposed on a civilian population when the civil authorities cannot maintain law and order, as in a time of war or during an emergency.\n* Hitler turned Germany into a Nazi dictatorship through executive orders.\n* Executive Order 10995: All communications media are to be seized by the Federal Government. Radio, TV, newspapers, CB, Ham, telephones, and the internet will be under federal control. Hence, the First Amendment will be suspended indefinitely.\n* Executive Order 10997: All electrical power, fuels, and all minerals well be seized by the federal government.\n* Executive Order 10998: All food resources, farms and farm equipment will be seized by the government. You will not be allowed to hoard food since this is regulated.\n* Executive Order 10999: All modes of transportation will go into government control. Any vehicle can be seized.\n* Executive Order 11000: All civilians can be used for work under federal supervision.\n* Executive Order 11490: Establishes presidential control over all US citizens, businesses, and churches in time of \"emergency.\"\n* Executive Order 12919: Directs various Cabinet officials to be constantly ready to take over virtually all aspects of the US economy during a State of National Emergency at the direction of the president.\n* Executive Order 13010: Directs FEMA to take control over all government agencies in time of emergency. FEMA is under control of executive branch of the government.\n* Executive Order 12656: \"ASSIGNMENT OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS RESPONSIBILITIES\", \"A national emergency is any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States. Policy for national security emergency preparedness shall be established by the President.\" This order includes federal takeover of all local law enforcement agencies, wage and price controls, prohibits you from moving assets in or out of the United States, creates a draft, controls all travel in and out of the United States, and much more.\n* Martial law can be declared due to natural disasters, Y2k Crisis, Stock Market crash, no electricity, riots, biological attack, .... anything leading to the breakdown of law and order.\nSURVIVING MARTIAL LAW\n* Prepare before any declaration of martial law by becoming self reliant. You may become subject to a bureaucratic system and be prepared to stay one step ahead of it which is easy to do if you are prepared and in a position to be self reliant. You may also face mob rule, chaos, panic, or a complete breakdown in law and order. Surival situations may be easier to handle in rural areas than urban.\n* Avoid areas of marital law. Can be imposed due to natural disasters or man caused events. Important to have a retreat or place in a rural area away from populated areas.\n* Create alliances with like minded neighbors or community members that share your views. Team work and numbers may help your situation.\n* Become transparent in the sense that you do not draw attention to yourself or your family. For instance, do not tell people that you are storing food just store food. Be prepared to render assistance to neighbors if need be. You never know when you will need them.\n* Remain calm! Do not panic.\n* Avoid areas of civil unrest if possible. If caught in civil unrest take appropriate action.\n* Get informed and stay informed. Understand martial law can be a temporary crisis or an extended one. In extreme cases the shape of a whole nation can change.\n* Declaration of martial law means your rights are suspended and it is government by decree. Your constitutional rights may no longer apply. This could mean a state of National Emergency.\n* People can be arrested and imprisoned indefinitely without charges.\n* Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly can be suspended, and censorship of the media imposed.\n* Gun ownership will also come under severe attack during marital law. We could see house to house searches by the military or National Guard looking for guns and seizing any they find along with stored food.\n* Take a stand on issues and make a choice that fits your beliefs and the situation. Do you believe as Patrick Henry, \"Give me liberty or give me death?\" Realize you may have some hard choices to make. Understand you may have to sacrifice your principles on trivial matters or take a hard stand. Always remember that you may have to come back and fight another day.\nThe above found here\n* * * *\nThe below found here\nFound a good \"Civil Unrest & Rioting\" link? Contact Us On-Line!\nOperation Garden Plot (United States Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2) Under this plan for the deployment of Operation Garden Plot, the use of CIDCON-1 will be mandatory. This direct support of civil disturbance control operations is to be used by the Army, USAF, Navy, and Marine Corp. with an airlift force to be comprised of MAC Organic Airlift Resources, airlift capable aircraft of all other USAF major commands, and all other aerial reconnaissance and Airborne Psychological Operations. This is to include control communications systems, aeromedical evacuation, helicopter and Weather Support Systems. If any civil disturbance by a resistance group, religious organization, or other persons considered to be non-conformist takes place, under Appendix 3 to Annex B of Plan 55-2 hereby gives all Federal forces total power over the situation if local and state authorities cannot put down said dissenters. Annex A, section B of Operation Garden Plot defines tax protesters, militia groups, religious cults, and general anti-government dissenters as Disruptive Elements. This calls for the deadly force to be used against any extremist or dissident perpetrating any and all forms of civil disorder. See also: US HAS BEEN PREPARING TO TURN AMERICA INTO A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP\nGlobal Anarchy: North America Links to, or about, anarchists in Mexico, the USA, and Canada.\nJP 3-06. Doctrine for Joint Urban Operations. September 16, 2002. This publication addresses the planning and conduct of joint urban operations and explains how they differ from other operations. It focuses on the operational level of war and addresses issues across the range of military operations. It provides doctrinal guidance focused on capabilities and tasks that are unique to, or significantly challenged by, the urban environment at the operational level of warfighting. It does not attempt to replace or reiterate doctrine in overlapping areas; instead, it examines the special considerations required when conducting operations in the complex modern urban environment.\nJohn Stanton: Is Anarchy the Only Hope for America? The philosopher Plato was right when he opined that democracy ultimately leads to anarchy and then tyranny. But he was wrong to dismiss anarchy which, arguably, is the happy medium between failed democracy and treacherous tyranny. The USA has begun its flirtation with anarchy. But anarchy, like democracy, is anathema to the ruling classes and can't be tolerated for any length of time. As a result, the ruling classes will create a crisis and will attempt to implement a society as described in Plato's Republic - an alternative to representative government. The USA will transition from anarchy to a Platonic tyranny sometime during the second term (2004-2008) of George Bush II... That is, unless anarchy takes hold.\nSummary of Irregular Warfare Workshop (20 Sep 2005): Workshop Purpose: The US Special Operations Command and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict hosted an Irregular Warfare workshop on 20 September, 2005 for the purpose of reaching agreement on proposed Department of Defense (DoD) definitions for Irregular Warfare and Irregular Operations and a list of activities included in irregular warfare.\nInfantry Squad Tactics ~ Some Lessons learned during the Battle for Fallujah by Sgts EJ Catagnus, Jr. & BZ Edison and LCpls JD Keeling & DA Moon: [BIG PDF FILE] Historically speaking, military operations on urbanized terrain (MOUT) have created casualty figures that are extraordinary compared to similar operations conducted in different types of environments. The casualties in MOUT present a significant challenge to small unit leaders. Casualties in Fallujah hit Marine infantry squads and fire teams extremely hard because, generally speaking, the squads were already under TO&E standards... It is the small unit leaders' duty to accomplish the mission with the fewest casualties possible. In order for the small unit leaders to complete this task, they need tactics and techniques that will prevent casualties...\nThe Assaultman in an Urban Environment by 1Lt Carin Calvin, Marine Corps Gazette; Jul 2005; Some lessons learned concerning the SMAW during the battle for Fallujah - Operation Al FajrMISSIONS IN SUPPORT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT CHAPTER 7 FM 100-19 FMFM 7-10 DOMESTIC SUPPORT OPERATIONS 1 July 1993\nCOMBAT IN CITIES: THE LA RIOTS AND OPERATION RIO William W. Mendel, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS. July 1996\nLessons in Command and Control from the Los Angeles Riots CHRISTOPHER M. SCHNAUBELT Parameters, Summer 1997, pp. 88-109. \"Police officers responded to a domestic dispute, accompanied by marines. They had just gone up to the door when two shotgun birdshot rounds were fired through the door, hitting the officers. One yelled `cover me!' to the marines, who then laid down a heavy base of fire. . . . The police officer had not meant `shoot' when he yelled `cover me' to the marines. [He] meant . . . point your weapons and be prepared to respond if necessary. However, the marines responded instantly in the precise way they had been trained, where `cover me' means provide me with cover using firepower. . . . over two hundred bullets [were] fired into that house.\"\nFM 3-06, Chapter 1, Urban Outlook Modern urban operations span the full range of possible applications of military power. At the high end of the spectrum of conflict is major theater war (MTW) dominated by offensive and defensive operations that, when undertaken, will commonly include urban operations. At the lowest level are a multitude of urban peacetime military engagement (PME) activities. These activities foster and strengthen alliances and coalitions as well as deter aggression on the part of potential threats.\nFBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,The- Civil disorder- preparing for the worst - Cover Story Studies of the violent riots in Los Angeles and Miami, as well as a series of disturbances that took place in the Miami area throughout the 1980s, reveal a clear pattern in modern civil unrest. The seven elements of this pattern include...\nCivil Commotion, Civil Unrest Riots are a common facet of modern living everywhere. But what are the key exposures reinsurers should be aware of? Simon Sole, managing director of Exclusive Analysis, breaks these down and offers predictions for this year.\nThe Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 by CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR.; From Parameters, Winter 1992-93, pp. 2-20.: The letter that follows takes us on a darkly imagined excursion into the future. A military coup has taken place in the United States--the year is 2012--and General Thomas E. T. Brutus, Commander-in-Chief of the Unified Armed Forces of the United States, now occupies the White House as permanent Military Plenipotentiary. His position has been ratified by a national referendum, though scattered disorders still prevail and arrests for acts of sedition are underway. A senior retired officer of the Unified Armed Forces, known here simply as Prisoner 222305759, is one of those arrested, having been convicted by court-martial for opposing the coup. Prior to his execution, he is able to smuggle out of prison a letter to an old War College classmate discussing the \"Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012.\" In it, he argues that the coup was the outgrowth of trends visible as far back as 1992. These trends were the massive diversion of military forces to civilian uses, the monolithic unification of the armed forces, and the insularity of the military community. His letter survives and is here presented verbatim. It goes without saying (I hope) that the coup scenario above is purely a literary device intended to dramatize my concern over certain contemporary developments affecting the armed forces, and is emphatically not a prediction. -- The Author\nDomestic Operations: The Canadian Approach by Sean M. Maloney; From Parameters, Autumn 1997, pp. 135-52.: The application of military force by a democratic government within the confines of its borders, and in some cases against its citizenry, has long been a controversial and politically sensitive topic. Though that is not a new type of operation for either the American or the Canadian military establishments, the nature of the threats each is being asked to confront has evolved. The threats now include (in addition to natural disasters and minor urban unrest) cult groups armed with weapons of mass destruction, agents of narco-parastates in Latin and South America, organized and armed urban unrest, and the violent potential of private paramilitary groups. It is safe to assert that threats to North American domestic security will increase in nature, scope, and number in the next century. This in turn will presumably prompt more debate on and calls for an increase in the military's role in containing and neutralizing those threats.\nEpochal Change: War Over Social and Political Organization by Robert J. Bunker: From Parameters, Summer 1997, pp. 15-25.: The United States must remain prepared for war, but not one understood by traditional perceptions of security... Our most likely adversaries will emerge from a process of human advancement, a cyclical shifting between order and chaos... the cycle, which is the topic of this article, now may be shifting away from stability toward chaos, suggesting that the nation-state may be entering a period in which its usefulness as a concept for organizing societies will be severely challenged. The United States has been less affected by this process than most other Western nation-states; we seem to prosper despite such challenges. However, the breakdown of the family, increased drug use among our children, the growing specter of gang violence, and other forms of social terrorism suggest that our own institutions are not immune to a degree of chaos. This article examines two periods of similar transition, and analyzes characteristics of contemporary values and institutions which suggest that the Western world may face a period comparable to previous epochal shifts in warfare.\nThe Battle of Grozny: Deadly Classroom for Urban Combat by TIMOTHY L. THOMAS; From Parameters, Summer 1999, pp. 87-102.: The battle for Grozny, the capital of the small Russian Republic of Chechnya, took place in January 1995. It pitted a hastily assembled and unprepared Russian force against a Chechen force of regulars and guerrillas equipped with Russian weapons and a belief in their cause. The Chechens held their own for three weeks but eventually lost the city to the Russian armed forces in late January (the Chechens retook the city in August 1996). Both sides learned or relearned many lessons of urban combat, most of them the hard way. This article examines the most important of those lessons, the interesting and perhaps surprising conclusions drawn by the Russians about modern urban warfare, and their implications for US soldiers and urban warfare theory.\nThe Fed - Martha’s Civil Unrest Tips Recently, I have received a number of requests asking how to properly prepare a riot à la française. Many of my readers understand the good, old-fashioned American riot but have no idea where to begin with the French one. Do you burn the cars on the right side of the road or the left? My recipe for a Molotov cocktail is in gallons, how do I convert it into liters? What French expletive is customarily used? Worry no more, for I, Martha Stewart, will explain all...\nHow to Survive Civil Unrest - Travel Tips Sometimes things go bad -- really bad when you are traveling abroad. Hence The U.S. Government provides tips on what you should do when there is blood on the streets and tanks are rumbling through the central plaza.\nCivil Unrest We haven't seen any serious civil unrest here in North America - not in our lifetimes - not really. Probably, the racial equality riots in the 60's are as bad as anything we've seen. But even then in those cities, was there still some kind of civil control, did the water continue to run - did the power stay on and could you buy a gallon of gas? Kelly experienced a major civil war in Africa and knows exactly what can happen when 'things really break down.' I think you'll learn a lot from this story.\nMARTIAL LAW The guide will help you plan, prepare, and get ready in the event that martial law threatens your safety and well being. It is divided into two parts. The first part describes the framework for martial law and the second part the actions to take in preparing or the actual declaration of martial law.\nU.S. MILITARY CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLANNING: THE WAR AT HOME Under the heading of \"civil disturbance planning\", the U.S. military is training troops and police to suppress democratic opposition in America. The master plan, Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, is code-named, \"Operation Garden Plot\". Originated in 1968, the \"operational plan\" has been updated over the last three decades, most recently in 1991, and was activated during the Los Angeles \"riots\" of 1992, and more than likely during the recent anti-WTO \"Battle in Seattle.\"\nUNDERSTANDING RIOTS After the Los Angeles riot in spring of 1992, almost every pundit in the country took a turn at explaining why riots occur. The conventional wisdom on the subject went something like this: certain dramatic events such as political assassinations or unpopular jury verdicts crystallize riots from social rage. So to understand riots, one must understand the causes of social rage, usually said to be racism, poverty, lack of economic opportunity, and why people who experience this rage manage it in such a destructive manner. The usual suspects include breakdown of the family, television, and a generalized cultural disorientation.\n\"The Coming Anarchy\" Very interesting article by Robert Kaplan in Atlantic Monthly (1994). This article gave me the creeps and I just scanned it as quickly as I could (thanks to Evelyn Woods).\nReligiously based civil unrest and warfare Often, the media does not identify the precise causes of some of the conflicts around the world. Clashes are frequently described as being ethnic in origin, even though religion may have been a main cause. The true causes of unrest are sometimes difficult to determine. Frequently, there are a mixture of political alliances, economic differences, ethnic feuds, religious differences and others\nThe Effects of Civil Unrest Helping family and neighborhoods prepare for earthquakes, volcanoes, fires and floods, in Gig Harbor, Key Peninsula, and Pierce County.\nAnalysis of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest Beginning on the afternoon of April 29, 1992 and for the next three days, Los Angeles County was an area in turmoil. The verdict in the Rodney king trial generated an immediate response in the form of riots, looting and fires. Immediately after the civil unrest, the Employment Development Department (EDD) began an effort to assess the extent of the damage to businesses and the loss of jobs in the area. This report is a summary of EDD's findings following several months of research.\nLos Angeles Riots-Series of Reports ...As 4,000 regular Army troops and 1,000 federal law enforcement officers move into Los Angeles, people have begun to actually assess the severity of this latest day of \"revolution\". They find thirty-eight (38) people dead, 1,250 people injured, 3,600 structural fires, hundreds of businesses looted and closed, and more than 3,000 people arrested. At least four (4) police officers and three (3) firefighters have been shot and hundreds of other injured as they attempted to control the fires and lawlessness of the past three days.\nThe Detroit Riots of 1967- Events The Detroit Riot of 1967 began when police vice squad officers executed a raid on an after hours drinking club or “blind pig” in a predominantly black neighborhoods located at Twelfth Street and Clairmount Avenue. They were expecting to round up a few patrons, but instead found 82 people inside holding a party for two returning Vietnam veterans. Yet, the officers attempted to arrest everyone who was on the scene.\nNational Center for the Study of Police and Civil Disorder South Central Los Angeles, Liberty City, Harlem, Watts–the names of these American urban neighborhoods instantly remind us of how deeply the nation’s consciousness has been scarred by civil disorder. The spark that ignites the violence is always one incident, usually police-related. In its wake is a wounded city and a nation in shock.\nIraq Training Assessment Trip Report The following report summarizes my recent training assessment trip to Iraq during July. All topics listed below were identified by the various units/ individuals from the perspective of what topics/events frequently dealt with in Iraq should be incorporated into the Urban Warfare predeployment training program.G.N. McLean's The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America 1886 FROM ITS INCIPIENT STAGE TO THE FIRST BOMB THROWN IN CHICAGO. A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT CONSPIRACY CULMINATING IN THE Haymarket Massacre, MAY 4th, 1886. A MINUTE ACCOUNT OF THE APPREHENSION, TRIAL, CONVICTION AND EXECUTION OF THE LEADING CONSPIRATORS.\nComing Anarchy I don't really know where these folks are going - their tagline is \"Speak Victorian, think Pagan\" and their focus is all over the timeline. Interesting place to visit, tho.\nAnarchy in the U.S.A., by Charles M. Young Noam Chomsky interviewed by Charles M. Young, Rolling Stone, May 28, 1992. Some viewers may be insulted by this link. The point is, anarchy, riots, and civil unrest comes from disagreements (hatred, even) between parties and peoples - and LOTS of people think the way NC and the Rolling Stone do.\nRACE WAR IN THE FUTURE FOR USA? LBJ, and the Immigration Act of 1965 opened the floodgates of immigration from third world nations. California is the first state to show, via 2000 census, that traditional whites are a minority. If the trend continues, whites will be a minority in the entire nation by 2050. We could so easily see what happened in the Balkans, also happen here in the USA. Apparently multicultural, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic democracies do not survive long. The minute the majority race, or culture loses it's position of majority, the nation begins to undergo internal fracturing. It is my contention this is/was the plan beginning in 1965.\nRacial Equality How the KKK feels on the subject.\nWhat Drives Societal Collapse We do, however, have distinct advantages over societies in the past, because we can anticipate the future. Although far from perfect, and perhaps subject to unexpected non-linearities, general circulation models provide a road map for how the climate system is likely to evolve in the future. We also know where population growth will be greatest. We must use this information to design strategies that minimize the impact of climate change on societies that are at greatest risk. This will require substantial international cooperation, without which the 21st century will likely witness unprecedented social disruptions.\nMuslim American Society Islam is the fastest growing religion in North America. Islam’s appeal lies in the simplicity of its principles. In its harmonious interplay of faith with reason, its vision coordinates the sacred and the secular into a comprehensive whole. Due to Islam’s stress on equality and brotherhood of its community, it has special appeal for the historically oppressed. These egalitarian principles also draw converts from the middle class America. Thus, mosques, Islamic centers and schools truly represent a melting pot for the Muslims all over America...\nAmerica Alone The U.S. government’s National Intelligence Council is predicting the EU will collapse by 2020... How bad is it going to get in Europe? As bad as it can get – as in societal collapse, fascist revivalism, and the long Eurabian night, not over the entire Continent but over significant parts of it. And those countries that manage to escape the darkness will do so only after violent convulsions of their own.”\n* * * *\n* * * *\nClick Here for", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Spatial hearing research suggests that the most salient of the acoustical cues which determine the apparent position of a sound image are the interaural difference in time-of-arrival of the sound at a listener's two ears and the filtering of the sound by the listener's pinnae. An accurate virtual auditory space can be created by assuring that each sound source present in the space produces, at the listener's eardrums, the interaural delay and spectral cues appropriate to the intended position of the sound. If headphones are used to produce the sounds, synthesis of a virtual source can be accomplished by convolving the source signal with a left--right pair of filter impulse responses. Each filter includes a delay, a pinna filter that is appropriate to the desired source position, and compensation for the headphone characteristics. The fidelity of the resulting virtual auditory space depends critically on the similarity of the pinna filters used in the synthesis and the listener's own pinna filters. A currently available wireless consumer 3-D audio device incorporates listener matched pinna filters to render Dolby surround sound over headphones. Thus, the user hears sound from five locations exactly as if listening to a conventional home-theater system.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "\\”The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings. In the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem of what to say and how to say it.\\” Edward R. MurrowThis course will survey and critically discuss precedents and techniques for clear and effective design communication. Throughout the semester, we will study the process of developing, distilling, and articulating a project from thesis statement to final presentation. We will look at examples from within the disciplines of landscape architecture, architecture, and urban design, but will also draw from the fields of graphic design, writing, advertising, exhibition design, and public speaking. Through lectures, case studies, and guest speakers, we will explore the expanded potential of storytelling and how narrative techniques are employed by some of the masters of contemporary design and culture. We will discuss the importance of positioning a project with a particular argument, and will develop techniques for effectively communicating this position through written thesis statements and descriptive writing. We will also study some key competition winning entries, available media and its uses and limitations, editing and ordering visual material to tell a story, designing a presentation for a specific audience, public speaking techniques, and, ultimately, curating your project for maximum impact.This course is specifically designed to address multiple disciplines and enrollment is encouraged for students from the landscape architecture, architecture, and urban planning and design programs.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Picturing the Invisible I/III\n9/6/13 - 11/8/13\nHarold Edgerton—Flash Revelations\nIn scientific photography striking designs invisible to the human eye are often recorded in the course of investigations.\nHelmut Gernsheim, c. 1962\nIt was not an artist but the scientist François Arago who first announced the invention of photography to the public, in Paris in 1839, thus anticipating the close relationship that has linked science and photography ever since.\nGilles Mora, c. 1998\nHarold Edgerton was above all, more than a photographer with purely artistic concerns, a researcher and a scientist in search of new modes to see and to perceive the world. His images should be understood as visual and scientific experiments, where the possible findings were not previously conceived.\nJosé Gómez Isla, 2010\nThe stroboscopic record of ultra high-speed movements of [Edgerton’s] flash would make possible the visual materialization of paradoxes put forward by the Pre-Socratic philosopher Zeno of Elea, who held that both time and space are infinitely divisible. According to him, all movement by any body (for instance an arrow in flight) was nothing but the sum of the different positions at rest adopted by that object in space during its trajectory.\nJosé Gómez Isla, 2010\nPicturing the Invisible is a year-long exhibition series that examines various ways photography and the photograph have been used to explore and document what often goes unseen: scientific, personal, and social phenomena. Harold Edgerton—Flash Revelations, the first of these exhibitions, focuses on the pioneering work of Harold “Doc” Edgerton. A photographer, scientist, inventor, engineer, MIT professor, and explorer, Edgerton’s high-speed, stroboscopic photographic techniques are well known in the worlds of art, science and popular culture. Moreover, many fields outside those he inhabited have incorporated these methods, including the sports, entertainment and news industries.\nThe photographs in this exhibition offer a glimpse of Edgerton’s work from some of his earliest experiments to his most iconic images. Edgerton was driven by an insatiable curiosity and was often surprised by the results of his work. He would tweak his experiments to overcome issues he perceived as undesirable, often developing new techniques and equipment to achieve his goals. One example that beautifully illuminates the depth of his musings is Bullet Through Three Balloons. In this exceptional photograph, Edgerton not only wondered about what a balloon would look like at the instant a bullet pierces it, but also what would it look like to capture that event with a succession of three balloons rather than just one—each at a different stage in the bursting process. The few microseconds that separate each exploded balloon are frozen, with the first being in pieces and the last barely seeming to have changed at all. From his experiments, understanding about many subjects and phenomena has literally come to light.\nEdgerton’s contributions to photography are indispensible. Today, audiences around the world are used to seeing images of people and objects arrested in mid-movement, and yet few know whom to credit for these photographic miracles. Edgerton’s images, on the other hand, are widely recognizable and widely reproduced, as iconic as his achievements are within the scientific and artistic fields from which they emanated. Moreover, most history books written on the topics of photography, film and scientific documentation include a section dedicated to Edgerton’s accomplishments and contributions.\nA Brief History of Photography and Objects in Motion\nFrom the moment fixed photography was developed by two Frenchmen, Nicéphore Niépce and Louis Daguerre, between 1826 and 1839, photographers have had to deal with the problem of long exposures resulting in blurry images. The first step in the process to avoid blurs and “ghost images” was the invention of gelatin silver process in the 1870s by Dr. Richard Leach Maddox, John Burgess, Richard Kennett, and Charles Bennett, all of Great Britain. The process allowed for exposures up to twenty times faster than previous methods.\nIn 1872 Eadweard Muybridge created an early precursor to moving pictures by elucidating the movement of a horse in full gallop using a battery of sixteen cameras triggered by tripwires along a track. During the 1880s, Muybridge published an exhaustive study of animals and people in motion in a series of volumes entitled Animal Locomotion.\nInspired by Muybridge’s work, Etienne-Jules Marey (France) perfected the fusil photographique\n(photographic gun), which in his own words made it possible for “the production of successive images taken at set time intervals.”\nIn turn, the work of Muybridge and Marey inspired the Lumière brothers (France) to invent cinematography.\nMuch of Marey’s work anticipates that of Edgerton’s\nand often has a similar look. While Edgerton\nwas not the first photographer to create images that captured objects, people or animals in motion, he not only perfected the techniques, but also developed the science that made it possible for objects in motion at extreme speeds to be frozen in time in exceptionally high detail. It is Edgerton’s\ntechniques that are now standard practices in each of the fields his life’s work has enhanced.\nEdgerton: A Short Biography\nEdgerton [Freemont, Nebraska 1903-1990] was in full possession of his interests before the end of his high school years and those interests fueled his creative, scientific, and pedagogical practices throughout his career. Before he entered college in 1921, two defining experiences laid the foundation for his life’s work. A relative of his from Iowa instilled in him an early fondness of photography, and the vocation led him to set up his own photo lab in the kitchen of his family home. Additionally, Edgerton worked for the company Power and Light in 1920, where he was in charge of analyzing the large power generators and their power surges. Together, these early experiences served as germ seeds for all his subsequent accomplishments.\nEdgerton attended the University of Nebraska, graduating in 1925 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. By 1927, Edgerton had attained a Masters in Electrical Engineering from MIT—where he would be associated as both scientist and teacher for the rest of his life—for his analysis of engine rotors using a stroboscope and an innovative system of intermittent illumination. By 1931, Edgerton had developed a system of stroboscopic light to achieve amazingly sharp high-speed photographs, as well as multi-shot photographs to freeze different stages of a single movement on a single photogram, and the same year he obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT. In 1932 Edgerton published, in both technical and public magazines, his first ultra-high-speed photographs of movements that could not be perceived by the human eye. He would go on to patent one kind of stroboscope and register over forty inventions, among them electrical circuits, flash systems for professional photography, underwater cameras, and sonar systems to photograph the depths of the sea.\nIn 1939, Edgerton’s expertise was called upon by Life Magazine’s Gjon Mili to design and build various kinds of flashes for him, which produced ultra high-speed photographs that captured the attention of the world. In 1944 the U.S. Army and Air Force commissioned Edgerton for various projects concerned with nighttime aerial surveillance. In 1950, Edgerton worked with Herbert Grier and Kenneth Germeshausen to design a camera shutter device devoid of mechanical components, enabling exposure times of four to ten millionths of a second. Beginning in 1963, Edgerton worked with Jacques Cousteau on several experiments developing sonar, and later continued that work to develop technology to analyze seismic movements at the bottom of the sea. Today, locating a ship lost at sea would be near impossible without Edgerton’s contributions.\nThis shortlist of life achievements only echoes the fact that all of his inventions continue to bear fruit and inspire further development in each of the fields they touch. Edgerton died at age 86, in early 1990. His great grandchildren, Travis ’11 and Ben Law ’13, graduated from The Cambridge School of Weston.\nThe Thompson Gallery and the Garthwaite Center for Science and Art are particularly pleased and honored to offer our community this particular exhibit and wish to thank Ellen Law for her support of this project. I would like to acknowledge and thank Tony Loreti (Art Department) for his keen eye and enthusiasm for helping select the images exhibited. This show would not be possible without the support and materials provided by Palm Press, Inc., of Concord, MA, which provided the photographs and background information on the images. I am grateful for Mary Steele’s assistance with the logistics of the show and for Sam Walker ‘05 who prepared and framed most of the prints on exhibit. I also wish to thank Gus Kayafas—who was a studio assistant of Edgerton’s—for his support, enthusiasm, expertise, and, in particular, his descriptions of the photographs, found in the checklist pamphlets and the online slide show.\nGallery Director, Curator\nHelmut Gernsheim, Creative Photography—Aesthetic Trends 1839 to Modern Times\n, Bonanza Books, New York, 1962, P. 168.\nGilles Mora, Photo Speak: A Guide to the Ideas, Movements, and Techniques of Photography 1839 to the Present\n, Abbeville Press, New York, 1998, p. 169.\nJosé Gómez Isla, The Anatomy of Movement: Photographs by Harold Edgerton\n, exhibition catalog organized and published by Fundación BBVA, Bilbao, Spain, and La Fábrica Editorial, Madrid, Spain, 2010, p. 16.\nNote: The biographical information in this section is drawn from José Gómez Isla’s chronology of Edgerton, ibid, pp. 90-91.\nPhotos © Harold Edgerton/MIT, courtesy Palm Press, Inc.\nPhoto captions © Gus Kayafas, 2014\nExhibition installation photography © Todd Bartel, 2013\nA catalog for the exhibition is avaiable by written request only. Please send requsts for the Harold Edgerton—Flash Revelations\ncatalog to: email@example.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tapestries and Rugs by Jean Lurcat – A Pioneer in Modernist Design\nJean Lurcat Rugs and Tapestries – Jean Lurcat (1892 – 1966) was an artist, innovator and pioneer who revitalized tapestry making in the 20th century. Lurcat was a lifelong artist and an avid traveler. He lived through two world wars and fought alongside distinguished comrades in the French Resistance. Lurcat’s works combine surrealist elements, modernism and classicism. This results in tapestries and vintage rugs that range from grave and apocalyptic to cheerful and abstract. Colorful pieces like “La Mutua Ayuda” (mutual aid) radiate a warm and cheerful style while L’Apocalypse (the apocalypse) and L’Orage (the storm) have a much more somber aura.\nRead more …\nAt age 20, Lurcat moved to Paris from the mountainous Vosges district near Germany. He briefly lived with his brother Andre, who was a successful architect. Lurcat studied at the Academie des Beaux-Arts and became an apprentice to the master engraver Bernard Naudin and the painter Jean-Paul Lafitte. It was in Naudin’s atelier that Lurcat met Cezanne, Matisse and great artists who Lurcat would later exhibit with. During WWI, Lurcat returned from an Italian vacation to fight with the infantry. His stint as a soldier was cut short due to an illness that allowed him to perfect his artistic hand. In 1917, Jean Lurcat designed his first tapestry. These early tapestries were woven by Marthe Hennebert, a lady who Lurcat lived with in Paris. This was the start of a long and successful career. During the 1920s, he traveled throughout Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor. This exotic, international style is apparent in many Lurcat tapestries.\nIn 1933, Lurcat’s career was transformed when his first Aubusson tapestry was created. At the time, tapestry weaving was at a low point. When Lurcat moved to Aubusson, the industry changed. Before Lurcat, weavers had an unmanageable selection of 14,000 colors. Lurcat switched to a more practical palette of 32 colors. The simplicity of this style transformed Aubusson tapestries. Lurcat’s works were exhibited alongside the greatest 20th century art. He designed cartoons for 1,000 tapestries, including 300 that are displayed in the Jean Lurcat Museum. Lurcat was a revolutionary artist who modernized tapestries and made them part of contemporary decor.\nShow Less …", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Witches through the ages by Elizabeth Rose PIN 7430\nIn the middle ages people were afraid of witches and they played a large part in people’s lives.\nIn 1301 the Bishop of Coventry was accused of sorcery to acquire a large fortune. They thought that witchcraft was a threat to Christianity.\nIn 1509 Margaret Read was burnt at the stake in Kings Lynn for being a Witch.\nThey even believed that witches could turn men into animals at one point.\nThe Greeks had curse tablets – these were put into the graves where the dead could work their magic.\nA witch was said to have magical powers that could hurt people; however, it could be male or female.\nThe witch had to be hard and dead and hate people.\nYou would protect yourself and your home and family from a witch. They used marks like the letter M derived from the Virgin Mary around their home.\nThey would never let a witch enter their home and if they were spoken to by a witch, they would throw the words back at them to protect themselves.\nIn the 1590’s time the idea of a witch had transformed into an old ragged poor lame aged woman with a blind eye. Her dry twisted body it was believed could harm people or animals by just looking at them. However, they thought that a woman could not do this, it was the devil and witches became demon.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In the Shadow of the Pyramids\nThe Austrian Excavations at Giza (1912-1929)\nIn January 1912 an Austrian excavation team began to uncover the first mastaba tombs near the Pyramids of Giza. The campaigns brought to light numerous artworks and objects documenting the cultural history of the Old Kingdom (c. 2687 – 2165 BC) as well as seminal information about the tombs of the ancient Egyptians and their ideas about the afterlife.\nThe focal artwork in the exhibition is the life-size statue of Hemiunu, the architect of the Pyramid of Khufu. Vienna’s rich holdings are augmented by important loans from European and American museums. The exhibition offers insights into the civilization of ancient Egypt, and documents Austria’s seminal role in researching the Old Kingdom.\nIn connection with the show a digital presentation was developed in collaboration with the Technical University of Vienna that invites you on a digital journey through time to visit the Giza plateau during the Old Kingdom, and the Austrian excavators a century ago.\n22 January 2013\nto 20 May 2013", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Custom Python Classes for Generating Statistical Insights from Data\nIn computer programming, a class is a blueprint for a user-defined data type. Classes are defined in terms of attributes (data) and methods (functions). These data structures are a great way to organize data and methods such that they are easy to reuse and extend in the future. In this post, we will define a python class that will allow us to generate simple summary statistics and perform some EDA on data.\nLet’s get started!\nFor our purposes we will be working with the_ FIFA 19_ data set which can be found here.\nTo start, let’s import the pandas package:\nimport pandas as pd\nNext, let’s set the maximum number of display columns and rows to ‘None’:\npd.set_option('display.max_columns', None) pd.set_option('display.max_rows', None)\nNow, let’s read in our data:\ndf = pd.read_csv('fifa_data.csv')\nNext we will print the first five rows of data to get an idea of the column types and their values (column results are truncated):\n🔵 Intellipaat Data Science with Python course: https://intellipaat.com/python-for-data-science-training/In this Data Science With Python Training video, you...\nEnroll in our Data Science with Python training in Chennai. Best Data Science with Python Training courses in Chennai for 100% Job Placements Support.\n🔥Intellipaat Python for Data Science Course: https://intellipaat.com/python-for-data-science-training/In this python for data science video you will learn e...\nMaster Applied Data Science with Python and get noticed by the top Hiring Companies with IgmGuru's Data Science with Python Certification Program. Enroll Now\nFind out here. Although data science job descriptions require a range of various skillsets, there are concrete prerequisites that can help you to become a successful data scientist. Some of those skills include, but are not limited to: communication, statistics, organization, and lastly, programming. Programming can be quite vague, for example, some companies in an interview could ask for a data scientist to code in Python a common pandas’ functions, while other companies can require a complete take on software engineering with classes.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Bed-wetting — also called nighttime incontinence or nocturnal enuresis — is involuntary urination while asleep after the age at which staying dry at night can be reasonably expected.\nSoggy sheets and pajamas — and an embarrassed child — are a familiar scene in many homes. But don't despair. Bed-wetting isn't a sign of toilet training gone bad. It's often just a normal part of a child's development. Generally, bed-wetting before age 7 isn't a concern. At this age, your child may still be developing nighttime bladder control. If bed-wetting continues, treat the problem with patience and understanding. Lifestyle changes, bladder training, moisture alarms and sometimes medication may help reduce bed-wetting.\nBedwetting, also known as nocturnal enuresis, is the involuntary urination during sleep in children over the age of 5. Many potty trained children who have managed to stay dry at night may suddenly begin bedwetting during sleep this can go on for years. Wetting the bed before the age of 7 is a natural stage in development and is so common it can hardly be called abnormal. The problem will most likely resolve itself over time and single episodes of bedwetting are not a concern. However a growing number of parents are concerned about their school aged child’s inability to stay dry at night. It can be daunting trying to figure out why your child can’t seem to wake up during the night and use the bathroom, when previously this was a non-issue. The common term for this is secondary bedwetting, the child has achieved night-time continence and due to psychological stress or some underlying medical conditions starts experiencing nighttime wetness.\nAs a parents your first thought is usually that your child is to lazy to get up however, (unless your child tells you directly that they peed the bed because they where to tired to get up like son mine did) bedwetting has nothing to do with laziness. There are numerous factors that can be contributing to your child’s incontinence its important to look at the whole picture and not just the symptom. Here is a list of some of the contributing causes but keep in mind your child may not be affected by any of these:\n• Difficulty waking up from sleep\n• Delayed development of the central nervous system affects the ability to recognize a full bladder\n• A small bladder\n• Some kids produce more urine at night if their anti-diuretic hormonal levels are low\n• Infection in the bladder or kidneys\n• Defect in the urethral valves in boys or in the ureter in girls or boys\n• Deformity or injury of the spinal cord\n• Sleep apnea\n• Type 1 Diabetes\n• Chronic constipation - full bowels can put pressure on the bladder\n• Caffeine intake like soda, coffee, and chocolate\n• Certain food allergies\n• Children with Down Syndrome, ADHD, developmental delays\nMental and Emotional concerns:\n• Improper or stressful toilet training\n• Stress from new fears or insecurities such as:\no Arrival of a new baby\no A new school\no Sleeping away from home\no Moving into a new home\no Losing a family member\no Parents divorce\no Sexual abuse\no Being bullied or teased\no Being punished\no Feeling rejected\no Parental alcoholism\nTruth be told, you may never know the actually cause of your child’s incontinence but you can be reassured you that there is a homeopathic solution. Homeopathic medicine is very effective when it comes to childhood bedwetting. More and more parents are choosing homeopathy because it is safe, gentle and children respond quickly to Homeopathy. The homeopathic remedies act both on the psychological, physiological and physical level to relieve bedwetting. The Homeopathic remedies can prevent unwanted contractions of the bladder, restore normal bladder musculature, function and urethral sphincter control, and hence, prevent any involuntary passing of urine. Homeopathic remedies treat bedwetting naturally without disturbing the endocrine system and they reduce anxiety, which is attributed to cause bed-wetting in children. These remedies are natural, gentle, safe and can be given to children of any age. There is one major positive to having an older child who wets the bed which is the older child can usually explain specifically what he/she experiences emotionally and physically during the night hence making it easier to choose the exact remedy.\nMost kids are fully toilet trained by age 5, but there's really no target date for developing complete bladder control. Between the ages of 5 and 7, bed-wetting remains a problem for some children. After 7 years of age, a small number of children still wet the bed.\nMost children outgrow bed-wetting on their own — but some need a little help. In other cases, bed-wetting may be a sign of an underlying condition that needs medical attention.\nConsult your child's doctor if:\nNo one knows for sure what causes bed-wetting, but various factors may play a role:\nBed-wetting can affect anyone, but it's twice as common in boys as in girls. Several factors have been associated with an increased risk of bed-wetting, including:\nAlthough frustrating, bed-wetting without a physical cause doesn't pose any health risks. However, bed-wetting can create some issues for your child, including:\nHOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT :-\nHere are a few remedies that can be considered for patients large or small that are challenged by this problem:\nMost of the information has been collected from experience , different sources , books , newspapers, clinical cases etc for the benifit of humanity and guiding people to adapt the new way of disease free lifestyle.\nInternationally renound Homeopath & nutritionist.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Running CGI Scripts in UISacad\nA .htaccess file is a way to set configuration directives on a per-directory basis. When Apache serves a resource, it looks in the directory from which it is serving a file for a file called .htaccess, and, if it finds it, it will apply directives found therein.\nEnabling CGI access in your account\nChoose a directory where you want cgi enabled on. This directory must be somewhere inside your public_html directory. The easiest thing to do is to create a directory called cgi-bin inside your public_html directory. Using your favorite editor create a file called .htaccess in that directory. In the .htaccess file, you’ll need the following directives:\nAddHandler cgi-script cgi pl\nThis tells Apache that execution of CGI programs is permitted in this directory and that your cgi scripts will have the extension .cgi or .pl.\nWriting a CGI program\nThere are two main differences between “regular” programming, and CGI programming.\nFirst, all output from your CGI program must be preceded by a MIME-type header. This is HTTP header that tells the client what sort of content it is receiving. Most of the time, this will look like:\nSecondly, your output needs to be in HTML, or some other format that a browser will be able to display. Most of the time, this will be HTML, but occasionally you might write a CGI program that outputs a gif image, or other non-HTML content.\nApart from those two things, writing a CGI program will look a lot like any other program that you might write.\nYour first CGI program\nThe following is an example CGI program that prints one line to your browser. Type in the following, save it to a file called first.pl, and put it in the cgi directory you just created.\nprint “Content-type: text/htmlrnrn”;\nprint “Hello, World.”;\nEven if you are not familiar with Perl, you should be able to see what is happening here. The first line tells Apache (or whatever shell you happen to be running under) that this program can be executed by feeding the file to the interpreter found at the location /usr/bin/perl. The second line prints the content-type declaration we talked about, followed by two carriage-return newline pairs. This puts a blank line after the header, to indicate the end of the HTTP headers, and the beginning of the body. The third line prints the string “Hello, World.” And that’s the end of it.\nIf you created your cgi-bin directory inside your public_html directory then open your favorite browser and tell it to get the address:\nor wherever you put your file, you will see the one line Hello, World. appear in your browser window. It’s not very exciting, but once you get that working, you’ll have a good chance of getting just about anything working.\nInformation on this page was obtained from Apache’s website.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I'm wondering if the human brain \"predicts\" how certain weeks of the year should feel?\nFor example, a child who is going to school may have a more positive affect in anticipation of summer holidays, and may feel more negatively towards the end of the summer, as he/she knows that freedom and fun are about to end.\nAnother example may be siblings' or parents' birthdays, where the anticipation of the birthday increases positive affect.\nI'm wondering if year after year of such patterns (in childhood, the teenage years and maybe young adolescence) can create an association in the brain between positive/negative affect and the specific time of the year, or specific photoperiod duration (day length). What I'm trying to understand is, if a pattern of such ups and downs that may have been established in the childhood persists throughout adulthood?\nHave there been any studies that looked at the previous life history and incidence of mania/depression episodes in bipolar disorder, or the onset of depression in Seasonal Affective Disorder(SAD), and correlated them with holidays, birthdays, etc? I've read that SAD may manifest a depression in any season, not just winter, which got me thinking of the possible causes.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "*This post was originally published July 6, 2015 at Yale Books Unbound.\nAn August 2012 edition of The New Yorker magazine adopted an unseasonal topic for its front cover: Santa Claus. In the illustration, Santa is slumped on the ground against a striped pole, cheeks flushed, under the yellow orb of a bright sun. In place of a cheerful grin, his expression is one of dismay, surprise, or perhaps exhaustion. His fairytale frozen homeland has been reduced to a small iceberg in a sea of blue. There is little room for the elves to work or the reindeer to eat here. Santa is marooned.\nThe magazine cover conveys a powerful message of environmental changes that are ongoing today. The centrally placed sun evokes a warmer, climate-changed world. The isolated iceberg captures a landscape fundamentally altered by that sun. The figure of Santa Claus strikes a note of familiarity, yet his slouched stance and sad expression suggest that something is amiss. At the same time, the presence of this figure from western folklore alludes to ongoing questions among many members of the North American public about whether these environmental changes are in fact real, or, like Santa, just a myth. Despite an assembled body of conclusive scientific evidence, climate change continues to arouse skepticism and elude comprehension.\nMuch of the debate around climate change centers on the science. It is scientists to whom we turn to answer the fundamental questions of detection, attribution, and mitigation: Is the warming that we see today significantly different from the patterns of variability that characterize the global climate? Can we attribute that warming to anthropogenic causes? What technical advances could be called upon to mitigate this warming? Yet as the New Yorker cover implies, climate change is not just about scientific questions of hotter temperatures or melting ice. It is about stories and images, myth and reality, knowledge and ignorance, humor and tragedy–questions that are, at root, cultural in nature. To understand these complex dimensions, we have to look beyond the natural sciences and to a social science discipline that has not received much attention within climate change discussions to date: anthropology.\nAnthropological perspectives on climate change are shaped by the fieldwork methodology that in many ways defines anthropology as a discipline. Anthropologists typically conduct research over extended periods of time in a single community or set of communities, gaining a window into the everyday interactions between people and their environments. Through this kind of work, anthropologists have brought to light some of the ways in which different communities, from native groups in the Arctic to islanders in the Pacific and farmers in the Andes, observe changes in their weather, climate, and landscapes and respond to these changes. These detailed, on-the-ground insights are a valuable contribution to a debate that is often dominated by discussions of global atmospheric processes and international policy negotiations.\nBut anthropology is no longer restricted to providing a local perspective on a global issue. Over recent decades anthropology’s remit has expanded beyond its traditional focus on isolated communities to include studies of global movements of people, objects, and ideas, and research settings in developed countries and institutional centers of power. Thus a number of anthropologists have brought a similar fieldwork approach to studies of climate science itself, asking, in essence, how we know what we know about climate change. The aim of this research, conducted through observation at scientific meetings and interviews with scientists, is not to undermine the value of scientific knowledge, but rather to seek insights into how science is produced within particular social, political, economic, and cultural contexts–contexts that influence the research questions asked, the methods selected to answer those questions, and, ultimately, the results generated.\nA second major type of contribution stems from anthropology’s long interest in society-environment interactions. A central focus of work within archaeology and environmental anthropology has been on understanding more about how societies both shape and are shaped by the changing environments in which they live. This scholarship reveals that although the anthropogenic forcing of global climate through greenhouse gas emissions over the last century is unprecedented, many of the questions it raises have their roots in much older discussions. From the time of Hippocrates and before, prominent thinkers have asked questions about the degree to which climates determine societal characteristics, and have pondered the limits to human agency in its ability to manage the environment. For millennia, decision-makers have had to look to both the past and the future to understand the challenges of environmental management. This historical perspective provides a useful reminder that environments have never been static and that people have always impacted their environments and, in turn, had to respond to the impacts of environmental changes.\nA third main area of anthropological contribution is its broad, holistic view of society-environment relations, which draws attention to the fact that the new forms of production and consumption driving contemporary climate change are also altering people’s livelihood strategies, modes of interaction, and spatial and temporal horizons. Climate change is hence accompanied everywhere by other kinds of changes within society. While climate is sometimes the dominant factor that drives change, just as often it is outweighed by other factors. In some places people are talking and worrying about climate change, but in many places they are not. Anthropological research illuminates the difficulty of unraveling climate change from the complex web of social and material relations that mediate people’s interactions with their environments.\nAt a time of mounting opposition to action on climate change, as international negotiations flounder and climate skeptics capture the attention of the public, there is an opening for greater voice from the social sciences. Anthropology can play a central role in understanding the nexus of nature, culture, science, politics, and belief that constitutes this vital challenge. While climate science is obviously central, we should not forget Santa.\nBarnes, J. and M. Dove, eds. 2015. Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change. New Haven: Yale University Press.\nBarnes, J., M. Dove, et al. 2013. “Contribution of Anthropology to the Study of Climate Change.” Nature Climate Change 3: 541-544.\nLahsen, M., A. Mathews, et al. 2015. “Strategies for Changing the Intellectual Climate.” Nature Climate Change 5: 391-392.\nJessica Barnes received her Ph.D. in sustainable development from Columbia University in 2010 and held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Yale Climate & Energy Institute and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies from 2011 to 2013. She joined the University of South Carolina in 2013 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography with a joint appointment in the Environment and Sustainability Program. Her first book, Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt, was published by Duke University Press in 2014 and she is currently working on a new project on the cultural politics of food security in Egypt.\nMichael Dove is the Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology, Professor of Anthropology, Curator of Anthropology in the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Co-Coordinator of the joint doctoral degree program between F&ES and the Department of Anthropology, and Chair of Yale’s Council on Southeast Asia Studies. His current research takes a comparative, post-humanist approach to environmental relations in South and Southeast Asia.\nThis post is part of our thematic series: Anthropology and Climate Change: Intersections of Teaching, Interdisciplinarity, and Activism.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Frequency of Giardia duodenalis infection and its genetic variability in dogs in Cuiabá, Midwest Brazil\nIntroduction: Giardia duodenalis, a unicellular, eukaryotic, and flagellated protozoan, presents two evolutionary forms in its life cycle, namely, trophozoites and cysts. It causes diarrhea in humans, dogs, cats, rodents, and ungulates. Despite being morphologically similar, the isolates of G. duodenalis are genetically diverse, affecting the stability and unanimity of taxonomic classification. Since different Giardia assemblages may occur within one isolate, multilocus genotyping is recommended for the genetic identification.\nMethodology: To determine the frequency of G. duodenalis infections in domiciled dogs in Cuiabá Municipality (State of Mato Grosso, Midwestern Brazil) and characterize its genetic variability, fecal samples were collected from 147 dogs.\nResults: Overall, 6.8% (10/147) of the samples presented cysts of G. duodenalis, which sequencing and genotypic characterization using tpi and gluD revealed assemblages C and A, genetic grouping of G. duodenalis. Only three samples amplified by tpi and one sample amplified by gluD.\nConclusions: The risk factors age, gender, breed, diet and the presence of other dogs in the same house were not correlationated with giardiasis. The host-specific and zoonotic genotype warns of the risk of inter and intraspecies transmission and it provides, for the first time, information about genetic characterization of G. duodenalis isolates in dogs in Cuiabá, Midwest region of Brazil.\nCopyright (c) 2020 Yolanda Paim Arruda Trevisan, Arleana do Bom Parto Ferreira de Almeida, Luciano Nakazato, Thabata dos Anjos Pacheco, Jéssica Iglesias de Souza, Darlan Henrique Canei, Mariana Elisa Pereira, Maerle Oliveira Maia, Richard Campos Pacheco, Val´éria Régia Franco Sousa\nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.\nAuthors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:\n- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.\n- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.\n- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A filesystem is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve, and update data as well as manage the available space on the device(s) which contain it.\nLinux has a few dozen filesystems available, each with their own advantages and disadvantages when considering a particular use case.\n- bcachefs - A next generation, robust, high performance filesystem supporting CoW (Copy-on-write), compression, and encryption.\n- Cramfs - A memory and space sensitive compressed filesystem that supports random reading. It avoids the block device layer and tiny embedded systems with very tight memory constraints.\n- eCryptfs - The enterprise cryptographic filesystem for Linux.\n- efivarfs - a (U)EFI variable filesystem\n- ext4 - The default, GPL licensed journaling filesystem for many Linux distributions.\n- FAT - The File Allocation Table (FAT) filesystem. Originally created for use with Microsoft Windows.\n- JFS - A GPL licensed, 64-bit Journaled File System (JFS) developed by IBM.\n- Btrfs - A copy-on-write B-tree file system (Btrfs) with advanced features (an entirely open source licensed ZFS alternative).\n- NTFS - Microsoft Windows' New Technology File System (NTFS) (Windows' default filesystem).\n- Aufs - Advanced multi-layered unification file system (Aufs), formerly known as Another union file system.\n- OverlayFS - The only union-like filesystem built-in to the Linux kernel.\n- ReiserFS - Version 3 of the ReiserFS filesystem.\n- Reiser4 - Version 4 of ReiserFS filesystem. Currently not implemented in the mainline Linux kernel.\n- SquashFS - A compressed, read-only file system for Linux\n- UDF - Universal Disk Format - needed for mounting some kind of .iso files\n- GFS2 - Global File System 2: A shared disk filesystem. Typically used in compute clusters.\n- UFS - The Unix File System (UFS) also called the Berkeley Fast File System.\n- XFS - A GPL licensed, 64-bit journaling filesystem created by Silicon Graphics.\n- ZFS - A CDDL (non-GPL compatible) licensed, copy-on-write filesystem created by Sun Microsystems.\n- F2FS - A Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS) created by Samsung for the Linux kernel.\nVirtual filesystems, also called pseudo filesystems, are for storing temporary data in memory while the system is running.\n- debugfs - Used for debugging purposes; primarily Linux kernel development.\n- procfs - Used to output and change of system and process information.\n- securityfs - Used by the TPM BIOS character driver and IMA, an integrity provider.\n- sysfs - Used to output information about and to configure devices and drivers.\n- tmpfs - Used to store files in memory (RAM).\n- devtmpfs - udev requires devtmpfs (Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev) in the kernel.\n- Ceph - A distributed object store and filesystem designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability.\n- NFS - A common Linux network file system protocol.\n- SSHFS - Implements FUSE to mount filesystems in user space.\n- Tahoe-LAFS - A Least Authority File Store (LAFS).\n- GlusterFS - A powerful network/cluster filesystem.\n- CurlFtpFS - File system for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE.\n- exFAT - A FUSE filesystem for the extended FAT filesystem.\n- FuseISO - FUSE module to mount ISO filesystem images.\n- MTPfs - A FUSE filesystem providing access to Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) devices.\n- smbnetfs - A FUSE filesystem for SMB shares.\n- squashfuse - Mount SquashFS archives using FUSE.\nFilesystems can be mounted in several ways:\n- mount - The command used to mount filesystems. Requires administrative privileges or entries in /etc/fstab.\n- /etc/fstab - Contains descriptive information about the filesystems the system can mount.\n- Removable media - Mount on file demand.\n- Udevil - A small auto-mount utility with little dependencies.\n- AutoFS - Automatic mount on file access.\n- Bcache — a Linux kernel block layer cache.\n- Filesystem in Userspace — a way for users to mount file systems without needing special permissions\n- Linux Sea, by Sven Vermeulen, chapter about filesystems\n- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/ - An article providing detailed information on the advantages on next-generation filesystems.\n- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/03_lu_010-017_final.pdf - A Study of Linux File System Evolution.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Many sewing projects require a bit of hand sewing to finish up a job. Not every machine can sew on a button or do a hem stitch. So, first things first -- let's thread the needle.\nThreading a Needle\nFor Eagle Eyes\n- Choose a hand sewing needle appropriate for your project.\n- Select the right thread for the job.\n- From your spool, reel off a length of 18 to 24 inches.\n- Using sharp scissors, cut the thread at a 45-degree angle.\n- Pass the freshly cut end through the eye of the needle. It's easier if you slightly dampen the end of the thread first.\n- Pull the thread through the eye about 4 or 5 inches. This is the end that will remain unknotted.\nFor Everyone Else\nUsing a needle threader:\n- Push the loop in the needle threader through the eye of your needle.\n- Holding the needle and threader in one hand, pick up the thread and push it through the hole in the needle threader until it's about 4 or 5 inches through the threader.\n- Gently pull the needle threader back through the eye of the needle.\nThere are also self-threading hand needles that have a slot into the eye of the needle. Some have slots on top and some on the side. You simply gently glide the thread to the notch next to the slot. It will catch and then you can snap the thread into the eye. Ta Da!\n- Additional light helps.\n- Beeswax can be used to stiffen the end of the thread and make it easer to poke through the eye.\n- Place a contrasting color behind your needle to make it easier to see.\nTying a Knot\nIt's actually really easy, but you may need to practice a few times until you get the \"feel\" of it.\n- Hold the thread between you thumb and index finger.\n- Wrap a loop of thread completely around the tip of your opposite index finger (just at the base of your fingernail).\n- Close your thumb over the loop.\n- Keeping the thread taut, use your thumb to roll the loop towards the end of your index finger.\n- Just as it slides off, use your middle finger to step on the loop and hold while you pull the thread into a tight knot.\nFabric designer, Heather Bailey, has a knifty \"knot\" tutorial that shows another way to tie a knot.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "During the Late Cretaceous Period, much of what is now North America was covered by a shallow, warm water sea – known as the Western Interior Seaway. This sea teemed with life and one of the most notable inhabitants was the ammonite. Ammonites are extinct creatures that are related to squid, cuttlefish and the chambered nautilus. Ammonites, such as this, that are recovered from the 70 to 75 million year old Bear Paw Shale, shine with particular brilliance in hues of red, green and yellow.\nThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis\nThis file is licensed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.\nMarine animals, Fossil\nPaleontology -- Cretaceous\nFurther information on this record can be found at its source.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Project Environmental Benefits\n- Pipelines are the safest means of moving large volumes of liquids. Transporting petroleum products via the Pilgrim Pipeline is far more environmentally friendly than relying on trucks or fleets of traditional barges. In fact, the spill risk for barges is almost seven times greater than that for pipelines.\n- Based on an analysis of EPA and state data, the estimated annual total emissions of GHGs (in CO2e) for transporting the crude and refined products via Pilgrim Pipeline are approximately 20% lower than transporting the same volume of crude and refined products by barge.\n- Overall, the pipeline option does not represent a significant source of GHG emissions, and, by relieving congestion caused by transporting products by teams of traditional tankers and barges, and eliminating the tons of pollutants associated with these forms of transportation, the Pilgrim Pipeline will produce a net air quality benefit to the region.\n- The Pilgrim Pipeline route will utilize existing transportation and utility corridor in both New Jersey and New York.\n- Where applicable, environmental impact of the pipeline will be mitigated by use of directional boring, an innovative trenchless technology that involves no surface impact.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Karla Rodriguez travels around Texas telling students about the dangers of tobacco. She has traveled to El Paso, Odessa, McAllen, Austin, and even other states as one of the top leaders in tobacco prevention in Texas.\nRodriguez is a teen ambassador for a project called Say What! Say What! stands for Students, Adults, and Youth Working Hard Against Tobacco! and was created by Texas youth to help connect everyone working toward reducing tobacco use throughout the state of Texas.\nSay What! teen ambassadors are high school students who are passionate about the movement and focus on tobacco prevention and awareness. They actively lead tobacco prevention efforts in their own communities. Say What! is a student led organization where Rodriguez’ responsibilities are to help put on their action summits and to facilitate workshops.\n“I got involved my freshman year of high school and became a teen ambassador my sophomore year,” Rodriguez said. One project Rodriguez facilitates in the Kilgore community is called the Cigarette Butt Cleanup. “We go around with gloves and plastic bags and collect cigarette butts found on the ground. We replace each cigarette butt with red a flag just to show how prevalent smoking is and how harmful the second hand smoke is,” she said, “When we finish and look back at all the red flags it’s really shocking.” The cleanup of this toxic trash shows how relevant the issue of tobacco really is.\nIn addition to the Say What! project, Rodriguez is a Kilgore High School senior and also a member of the KC TRIO program on campus. Rodriguez got involved with TRIO through the Upward Bound program.\nUpward Bound serves high school students and helps to guide them in their preparation for college entrance.\n“They provide a lot of support for anything we need to get done. They help us with projects and also have computers and other helpful resources that give us access to things,” she said. “They’ve just been a really big help with everything, it is an amazing opportunity for high school students who could benefit from academic support to prepare for college and what is in their future.”\nShe is an involved high school student who is focused on her future. Rodriguez is a member of the Science Club, Robotics Club, Rocketry, Key Club, Art Club, National Honors Society, SayWhat,! Model UN, Citizens Bank Board, Smart Start, and she even takes dual credit English and Government classes at KC.\nUpward Bound Project Advisor LaKendra Weir said, “Karla is very hardworking, very diligent and she approaches her goals with a clear mind. You don’t find many seniors who are already working on college applications and scholarships as early as she was. She understands that going to college after high school is very important to her success.”\nHer outstanding determination for success hasn’t gone unnoticed. Rodriguez was recently awarded a scholarship from the National Hispanic Heritage Foundation, which she received with a personal visit to SMU in Dallas. She plans on majoring in Computer Science and to hopefully attend UC Berkeley or UT Austin.\n“My education means a lot to me and my mom sacrificed so much so I want to make a difference and make her proud,” Rodriguez said.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You can adjust the screen brightness using the computer monitor buttons along the front of the monitors, or the Control Panel menu can change your settings for your screens. After making any changes, be sure to restart your computer after saving any new settings.Continue Reading\nMost desktop monitors have buttons for adjusting brightness, contrast and color. Look first on the front of the monitor, or try sliding your finger along the bottom edge to feel for buttons. Adjust the brightness using the plus and minus bar as a guide.\nAn alternate method for adjusting screen brightness is found in the Windows XP Control Panel. Use the Start button in Windows to access a menu. Then click on Control Panel to open the Computer Settings application. Click the Display icon, and check under Advanced Settings for a brightness adjustment option. Some video drivers do not offer this option.\nIf your Windows XP computer is a laptop, simply hold down the Function (Fn) key while using the arrows on the keyboard to adjust the brightness. Some laptops are programmed to use the up and down arrows; others use side arrows. Try all of the directional arrows to see what works on your machine.\nOnce the brightness level has been adjusted to your liking, power down the computer and reboot. This final step ensures that the new settings remain in place.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Abstract of a publication based on research funded in part by the Australian Flora Foundation\nC. K. Orscheg1, N. J. Enright1, F. Coates2 and I. Thomas1\n1Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne School of Land and Environment,\nThe University of Melbourne, Parkville, and 2Department of Sustainability and Environment, Arthur\nRylah Institute for Environmental Research, Heidelberg,Victoria, Australia\nAustral Ecology (2011) 36: 936–943\nRecruitment limitation in canopy trees is receiving increasing attention as restoration of tree cover for connectivity, biodiversity offsets, carbon-trading and improved catchment health becomes more prominent. Recruitment limitation is often addressed by examining seed traits and germination requirements. Distance between trees is also often explored as a factor, particularly in agricultural landscapes where forest structure has been altered, with large distances between fragments generating Allee effects linked to pollen limitation. Fewer studies have examined how short distances between trees (high stem densities), which can characterize regenerated forests, might affect recruitment. This study examined recruitment limitation by exploring germination requirements of Eucalyptus tricarpa(red ironbark) and the effects of stem density on seed characters and germination. Eucalyptus tricarpa is a canopy species in the box-ironbark forests of central Victoria, Australia. During the early European settlement phase in the 1800s these forests were heavily impacted by human disturbances including mining, logging and livestock grazing. In many regenerated stands, now more than 100 years old, current stem density exceeds those documented in 19thcentury reports and there is little regeneration of key canopy species such as E. tricarpa. In laboratory trials seed germinated at 18°C in darkness, and while viability varied among populations, overall it remained high (91–96%) and did not differ among populations with different stem densities. An in situ germination trial addressing sowing season, ground-cover, soil-ripping, canopy-cover and stem density recorded no germination. High stem density in coppicing box-ironbark forest was hypothesized to limit resources for reproduction; however, no relationship was found between nearest neighbour distance, allocation to selected reproductive structures or seed viability. The relative insensitivity of reproductive allocation to intraspecific competition (high stem density) may be interpreted as a trait linked to unpredictable environments and consistent with long-lived species. In terms of management, recruitment limitation in E. tricarpa appears not primarily attributable to seed viability, tested seedbed treatments or stem density so further factors, including fire, now require exploration.\nKey words: competition, Eucalyptus, germination, recruitment limitation, regeneration, seed, stem density.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Three paragraph essay example - Compare and comparison essay\npoints of success. Paragraph 4: Comparison c (Topic 1 2). Published 3/10/2013, what is a Comparison Essay? A topic that lets you easily demonstrate your writing skills andget a high grade easily. If you hesitate either on choosing the essay topic or the idea for Comparison essay please feel free to contact us and we gladly help you any time you need assistance. Gather your ideas by writing down characteristics of each thing. Paragraph 5: Topic 2 (Contrast a). Second thing/person presentation (This part includes the comparison of this second thing/person with the first one.). Tell us something we don't know (or might not notice)! In this type of essay ordinarily analyze either only the similarities or only the differences.\nStrict emphasizes the high standards she expects everyone can meet. Topic 1, some teachers are\" simply and clearly. Cool while others are\" in the introduction thematic you state your thesis. Lax uses a more personal approach. People, topic 1 Comparison b, paragraph 3, their teaching styles early and expectations for students differ significantly. State the thesis Although Sally Strict Larry Lax are both respected teachers at our school. You will need to consecutively compare and contrast each of the similarities and differences in the given subjects.\nTraditional architecture vs modern architecture essay\nVery simple, the conclusion like the introduction should be a generalization of the thesis. If I wanted to write about Social Networking sites. Should open generally with \" introduction, heres a sample outline. APA, d need to write different thesis statements depending on my comparecontrast assignment. And you should feel quite confident in your writing. Iapos, what does that mean specifically regarding the comparison essay. Provide supporting details She collects homework every day english language paper 2 practice papers aqa 1-9 at the beginning of class. ChicagoTurabian, students should recognize how they benefit from the variety of ways their teachers inspire them. More official way, comparison essay format, however. You may allude to Topic 1 english paper 2 questions 3 example ib briefly.\nEvery piece of writing, whether it is a journal entry or a formal essay, must be typed and stapled.Differences and Similarities in Jane and Alices backgrounds.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6\nHace unas semanas vimos las preposiciones de tiempo en inglés y hoy vamos a hacer un repaso de aquellas preposiciones que pueden llevaros a cometer más errores. La mejor manera de interiorizarlas es que las practiquéis, tal y como hacéis en vuestros cursos de inglés. Ya sabéis que los profesores de Callan School Barcelona están aquí para ayudaros a que las apliquéis de manera correcta.\nComo dice Franklin P. Jones “La experiencia es algo maravilloso, nos permite reconocer un error cada vez que lo volvemos a cometer”.\nThis week’s blog is about prepositions. These words are often difficult for students to learn how to use, mainly because the use of a preposition depends on things such as location when speaking, the size of the thing you are speaking about or how you do the action.\nTwo prepositions that are often confused are ‘in’ and ‘on’. People often say “I am sitting in the chair”, but this is a mistake. You should say “I am sitting on the chair”. This is because of your position and the size of the object. The chair does not completely surround you, therefore you are not ‘in’ it, you are ‘on’ it.\nAnother common mistake is saying ‘arrive in’ or ‘arrive at’. We arrive in an area, whereas we arrive at a point. For example, we say “I arrived in Paris this afternoon” and we say “I arrived at the hotel at 9.00 p.m”. Paris is a city, which is an area and a hotel is a place, which is a point, therefore we must say ‘in’ for Paris and ‘at’ for the hotel.\nA lot of students say “I am going at home” or “I am going to home”, but these are wrong. We don’t use a preposition with ‘home’. We say “I am going home”; there is no preposition.\nWe say I’m standing “in” the corner of the room but we say I’m standing “at” the corner of the table. This can be for two reasons. Number one is that the corner of the room is an area of the room and number two is that it is much bigger than you, therefore you are “in” it, whereas the corner of the table is a point and you are bigger than it so we say “at” the corner of the table.\nWe “get in” a car and “get out of” a car, or a van, a truck or a lorry but we “get on” and “get off” a bus, a train, a ship, a boat, a motorbike, a bicycle or an aeroplane. This is mainly due to the size of the vehicle. For example, when you are on a bus, you can stand “on” it and be completely contained by the vehicle, whereas a car or a truck would be smaller and therefore you sit “in” it, even though a truck is very big, the part where you sit is not that big. With bikes in general you sit “on” them, not “in” them.\nTo practice what you’ve learned, try the exercise!\nVen a conocer la escuela y haz una prueba de inglés gratuita\n- La preposiciones de lugar en inglés\nRecursos Gratuitos de Inglés\n- Colloquial English Expressions and phrasal verbs – Part III\n- Los comparativos y superlativos en inglés\n- Easily Confused Words: Lie, Lie and Lay\n- ¿Cómo hacer preguntas en inglés?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Fast forward to this century, in his final interview with Asia Pacific Economic Review writer Steve Barth, Edward Demming reached the pinnacle of Japan's role in integrating western management principles into Japan, which in turn reversed by way of the likes of UCLA professor William Ouchi and his bestselling book on Japanese management style, \"Theory Z\". Japan has always been a synergistic doorway to the west, and arguably the west's most valuable portal to the east.\nSo why not in health care? Japan is one of the world’s most technologically advanced health care systems while at the same time still holds onto traditional medicine or Kampo. Japan Ministry of Health and Welfare created acronyms for its role in integrative medicine, and published it in cooperation with Shimane University Medical School. It believes the Japanese health care system is uniquely placed in facilitating the integration of evidence- based Japanese integrative medicine or eJim. The more common term used today is \"complementary and alternative medicine\" or CAM which Japan seeks to bring into the mainstream core of its healthcare offerings. And it claims to be doing it backed by science, the aforementioned \"evidence- based Japanese integrative medicine\", or e-Jim (see https://www.ejim.ncgg.go.jp/en/index.html for more information).\nWhen we talk about eJIM however, it inevitably leads back to the origins of healthcare in Japan over a thousand years ago, traditional Japanese medicine or Kampo, and beyond the island's shores to China and TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) (see https://en.bloguru.com/healthtech/356171/japanese-health-care-offers-private ). So how has Japan integrated traditional Kampo and alternative medicine into its modern western health care system?\nThe integration has become seamless, including widespread insurance coverage for Kampo. Today, Japan is taking it a step further, and -- a step deeper with proven, \"evidence- based Japanese integrative medicine\" or eJIM. Japan and other Asian countries like Singapore, India and China, are studying the chemical properties of herbs and foods, and making key connections to their influence on everything from our gut microbiome to our immune system.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Lord Ramachandra, also referred to as Lord Rama, is the incarnation of Krishna that appeared in Ayodhya during the Treta Yuga. According to the Vedas, the universe is constantly created and destroyed and each creation is divided in to four yugas, or time periods; Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and the Kali Yuga which we are currently in.\nThe reasons for the Lord’s advent were many and they differ slightly for each creation. Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita that “whenever there is a decline in religion, I personally come Myself to restore the tradition of the Vedas and to protect My devotees”. Prior to Lord Rama’s advent, there was a very powerful demon named Ravana who was wreaking havoc throughout the world and disrupting the sacrifices of the saintly people on earth. The sadhus of the world prayed for the Lord to personally come and save them and he answered their prayers.\nThere was a great king who ruled over Adyodhya at the time by the name of Dashrath who was very pious and respected by all. His life was perfect except for the fact that he had no son to whom he could pass down his kingdom. On the advice of his priest Vasishtha, Dashrath performed a yajna (Vedic sacrifice) for Lord Vishnu, and in due time his wives gave birth to four beautiful sons named Rama, Bharata, Lakshmana, and Shatrughna.\nLord Rama performed many glorious pastimes during His time on earth, but His most celebrated pastime was Hs slaying of the demon Ravana, who had abducted His wife Sita. Stories related Lord Rama’s life are beautifully told in the original Ramayana, written by Maharishi Valmiki, who was instructed to write the Ramayana by his spiritual master Narada Muni. Other historical accounts of Lord Rama’s life can be found in almost all of the Puranas (ancient Vedic stories), including the Mahabharata and the Shrimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana). Around five hundred years, Goswami Tulsidas wrote his own poem detailing the pastimes of Lord Rama, called the Ramacharitamanasa, also known as the Tulsi Ramayana. In this beautiful work, Tulsidas references all the stories of Lord Rama contained in various Vedic literatures, but especially the Valmiki Ramayana and the Brahmananda Purana, and merges them to tell the story of the Ramayana in a mood of devotion and love, and for this it is considered to be one of the most important Vedic literatures.\nLord Rama is considered an avatar of Vasudeva (Lord Krishna), and thus there is no difference between Him and God. He is usually worshipped along with His wife Sita, younger brother Lakshmana, and His greatest devotee Hanuman, collectively known as the Ram Darbar. Lord Rama played the role of a perfect human being, a role model for everyone. He was an ideal son, husband, friend, and king. He had no other interest in His mind other than to please His devotees and to serve them. Recitation of Lord Rama’s name is the only means of salvation in this age of Kali as it will immediately remind us of His beautiful form and wonderful pastimes.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Eight years ago today, President Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act, calling for regime change in Baghdad, but stopping short of direct military assistance.\n“The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people freedom at home,” Clinton said. “I categorically reject arguments that this is unattainable due to Iraq’s history or its ethnic or sectarian make-up. Iraqis deserve and desire freedom like everyone else. The United States looks forward to a democratically supported regime that would permit us to enter into a dialogue leading to the reintegration of Iraq into normal international life….\n“[W]hile the United States continues to look to the Security Council’s efforts to keep the current regime’s behavior in check, we look forward to new leadership in Iraq that has the support of the Iraqi people. The United States is providing support to opposition groups from all sectors of the Iraqi community that could lead to a popularly supported government.”\nAt the heart of the Iraq Liberation Act, it said:\nSECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.\nThis Act may be cited as the ‘Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.’\nSEC. 2. FINDINGS.\nThe Congress makes the following findings:\n(1) On September 22, 1980, Iraq invaded Iran, starting an 8 year war in which Iraq employed chemical weapons against Iranian troops and ballistic missiles against Iranian cities.\n(2) In February 1988, Iraq forcibly relocated Kurdish civilians from their home villages in the Anfal campaign, killing an estimated 50,000 to 180,000 Kurds.\n(3) On March 16, 1988, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurdish civilian opponents in the town of Halabja, killing an estimated 5,000 Kurds and causing numerous birth defects that affect the town today.\n(4) On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and began a 7 month occupation of Kuwait, killing and committing numerous abuses against Kuwaiti civilians, and setting Kuwait’s oil wells ablaze upon retreat.\n(5) Hostilities in Operation Desert Storm ended on February 28, 1991, and Iraq subsequently accepted the ceasefire conditions specified in United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 (April 3, 1991) requiring Iraq, among other things, to disclose fully and permit the dismantlement of its weapons of mass destruction programs and submit to long-term monitoring and verification of such dismantlement.\n(6) In April 1993, Iraq orchestrated a failed plot to assassinate former President George Bush during his April 14-16, 1993, visit to Kuwait.\n(7) In October 1994, Iraq moved 80,000 troops to areas near the border with Kuwait, posing an imminent threat of a renewed invasion of or attack against Kuwait.\n(8) On August 31, 1996, Iraq suppressed many of its opponents by helping one Kurdish faction capture Irbil, the seat of the Kurdish regional government.\n(9) Since March 1996, Iraq has systematically sought to deny weapons inspectors from the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) access to key facilities and documents, has on several occasions endangered the safe operation of UNSCOM helicopters transporting UNSCOM personnel in Iraq, and has persisted in a pattern of deception and concealment regarding the history of its weapons of mass destruction programs.\n(10) On August 5, 1998, Iraq ceased all cooperation with UNSCOM, and subsequently threatened to end long-term monitoring activities by the International Atomic Energy Agency and UNSCOM.\n(11) On August 14, 1998, President Clinton signed Public Law 105-235, which declared that ‘the Government of Iraq is in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations’ and urged the President ‘to take appropriate action, in accordance with the Constitution and relevant laws of the United States, to bring Iraq into compliance with its international obligations.’\n(12) On May 1, 1998, President Clinton signed Public Law 105-174, which made $5,000,000 available for assistance to the Iraqi democratic opposition for such activities as organization, training, communication and dissemination of information, developing and implementing agreements among opposition groups, compiling information to support the indictment of Iraqi officials for war crimes, and for related purposes.\nSEC. 3. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS REGARDING UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD IRAQ.\nIt should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime.\nAn act without action. It’s interesting how Clinton declared Saddam’s government “in material and unacceptable breach” of U.N. resolutions, made it his policy to support the replacement of Saddam’s regime with democracy, and rejected arguments that Iraqi freedom was unattainable because of Iraq’s history, ethnicity or sectarian make-up.\nThe Iraq Liberation Act authorized Clinton to spend up to $98 million arming and training Iraq opposition groups. When he left office in January 2001, Clinton had spent almost none of the money. (Can you hear Chris Wallace? “Do you think you did enough, sir?”)\nLess than five years after the Iraq Liberation Act, President Bush followed through. Bush took action to liberate Iraq.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis What is CT scanning of the abdomen and pelvis? What is CT scanning of the Abdomen/Pelvis? What are some of the common uses of the procedures? How should I prepare? How does the procedure work? How is the procedure performed? What will I experience during and after the procedure? Who interprets the results and how do I get them? What are the benefits vs. risk? What are the limitations of CT scanning of the abdomen and pelvis? What is CT Scanning of the Abdomen/Pelvis? CT scanning-sometimes called CAT scanning-is a noninvasive medical test that helps physicians diagnose and treat medical conditions. CT scanning combines x-ray equipment with special sophisticated computers to produce multiple images or pictures of the inside of the body. These cross-sectional images of the area being studied can then be examined on a computer monitor or printed. CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood vessels provide greater clarity and reveal more details than regular x-ray exams. What are some common uses of the procedure? This procedure is typically used to help diagnose the cause of abdominal or pelvic pain and diseases of the internal organs, bowel and colon, such as: infections such as appendicitus, diverticulitus or infected fluid collections, aka. abscesses. Inflammatory processes such as pancreatitis, pyelonephritis or inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn’s disease. Cancers of the colon, liver, kidneys, pancreas and bladder as well as lymphoma. Kidney and bladder stones. Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) and other diseases of the vessels such as blood clots and abnormal narrowings or stenoses of the vessels. CT scanning of the abdomen/pelvis is also performed to: Quickly identify injuries to the liver, spleen, kidneys or other internal organs in cases of trauma. Guide biopsies and other procedures such as abscess drainages and minimally invasive tumor treatments. . plan for and assess the results of surgery, such as organ transplants or gastric bypass. Stage, plan and properly administer radiation treatments for tumors as well as monitor response to chemotherapy. How should I prepare for the CT scan? You should wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing to your exam. You may be given a gown to wear during the procedure. Metal objects including jewelry, eyeglasses, dentures and hairpins may affect the CT images and should be left at home or removed prior to your exam. You may also be asked to remove hearing aids and removable dental work. You may be asked not to eat or drink anything for several hours beforehand, especially if a contrast material will be used in your exam. You should inform your physician of any medications you are taking and if you have any allergies. If you have a known allergy to contrast material, or “dye,” your doctor may prescribe medications to reduce the risk of an allergic reaction. Also inform your doctor of any recent illnesses or other medical conditions, and if you have a history of heart disease, asthma, diabetes, kidney disease or thyroid problems. Any of these conditions may increase the risk of an unusual adverse effect. Women should always inform their physician and the CT technologist if there is any possibility that they are pregnant. See the safety page for more information about pregnancy and x-rays. The CT scanner is typically a large, box like machine with a hole, or short tunnel, in the center. You will lie on a narrow examination table that slides into and out of this tunnel. Rotating around you, the x-ray tube and electronic x-ray detectors are located opposite each other in a ring, called a gantry. The computer workstation that processes the imaging information is located in a separate room, where the technologist operates the scanner and monitors your examination. How does the procedure work? In many ways CT scanning works very much like other x-ray examinations. X-rays are a form of radiation-like light or radio waves-that can be directed at the body. Different body parts absorb the x-rays in varying degrees. In a conventional x-ray exam, a small burst of radiation is aimed at and passes through the body, recording an image on photographic film or a special image recording plate. Bones appear white on the x-ray; soft tissue shows up in shades of gray and air appears black. With CT scanning, numerous x-ray beams and a set of electronic x-ray detectors rotate around you, measuring the amount of radiation being absorbed throughout your body. At the same time, the examination table is moving through the scanner, so that the x-ray beam follows a spiral path. A special computer program processes this large volume of data to create two-dimensional cross-sectional images of your body, which are then displayed on a monitor. This technique is called helical or spiral CT. CT imaging is sometimes compared to looking into a loaf of bread by cutting the loaf into thin slices. When the image slices are reassembled by computer software, the result is a very detailed multidimensional view of the body’s interior. Refinements in detector technology allow new CT scanners to obtain multiple slices in a single rotation. These scanners, called “multislice CT” or “multidetector CT,” allow thinner slices to be obtained in a shorter period of time, resulting in more detail and additional view capabilities. Modern CT scanners are so fast that they can scan through large sections of the body in just a few seconds. Such speed is beneficial for all patients but especially children, the elderly and critically ill. For some CT exams, a contrast material is used to enhance visibility in the area of the body being studied. How is the CT scan performed? The technologist begins by positioning you on the CT examination table, usually lying flat on your back or possibly on your side or on your stomach. Straps and pillows may be used to help you maintain the correct position and to hold still during the exam. If contrast material is used, it will be swallowed, injected through an intravenous line (IV) or administered by enema, depending on the type of examination. Next, the table will move quickly through the scanner to determine the correct starting position for the scans. Then, the table will move slowly through the machine as the actual CT scanning is performed. You may be asked to hold your breath during the scanning. Any motion, whether breathing or body movements, can lead to artifacts on the images. This is similar to the blurring seen on a photograph taken of a moving object. When the examination is completed, you will be asked to wait until the technologist verifies that the images are of high enough quality for accurate interpretation. The CT scanning is usually completed within 30 minutes. What will I experience during and after the procedure? CT exams are generally painless, fast and easy. With helical CT, the amount of time that the patient needs to lie still is reduced. Though the scanning itself causes no pain, there may be some discomfort from having to remain still for several minutes. If you have a hard time staying still, are claustrophobic or have chronic pain, you may find a CT exam to be stressful. The technologist or nurse, under the direction of a physician, may offer you a mild sedative to help you tolerate the CT scanning procedure. If an intravenous contrast material is used, you will feel a slight pin prick when the needle is inserted into your vein. You may have a warm, flushed sensation during the injection of the contrast materials and a metallic taste in your mouth that lasts for a few minutes.Some patients may experience a sensation like they have to urinate but this subsides quickly. Occasionally, a patient will develop itching and hives, which can be relieved with medication. If you become light-headed or experience difficulty breathing, you should notify the technologist or nurse, as it may indicate a more severe allergic reaction. A radiologist or other physician will be available for immediate assistance. If the contrast material is swallowed, you may find the taste mildly unpleasant; however, most patients can easily tolerate it. You can expect to experience a sense of abdominal fullness and an increasing need to expel the liquid if your contrast material is given by enema. In this case, be patient, as the mild discomfort will not last long. Many patients also receive iodine intravenously (injected into a vein) to help evaluate blood vessels and organs such as the liver, kidneys and pancreas. When you enter the CT scanner, special lights may be used to ensure that you are properly positioned. With modern CT scanners, you will hear only slight buzzing, clicking and whirring sounds as the CT scanner revolves around you during the imaging process. You will be alone in the exam room during the CT scan. However, the technologist will be able to see, hear and speak with you at all times. With pediatric patients, a parent may be allowed in the room but will be required to wear a lead apron to prevent radiation exposure. After a CT exam, you can return to your normal activities. If you received contrast material, you may be given special instructions. Who interprets the results and how do I get them? A physician, usually a radiologist with expertise in supervising and interpreting radiology examinations, will analyze the images and send a signed report to your primary care physician or the physician who referred you for the exam, who will discuss the results with you. What are the benefits vs. risks? Benefits Viewing a CT scan, an experienced radiologist can diagnose many causes of abdominal pain with very high accuracy, enabling faster treatment and often eliminating the need for additional, more invasive diagnostic procedures. . When pain is caused by infection and inflammation, the speed, ease and accuracy of a CT examination can reduce the risk of serious complications such as those caused by a burst appendix or ruptured diveticulum and the subsequent spread of infection. . CT scanning is painless, noninvasive and accurate. . A major advantage of CT is its ability to image bone, soft tissue and blood vessels all at the same time. . Unlike conventional x-rays, CT scanning provides very detailed images of many types of tissue as well as the lungs, bones, and blood vessels. . CT examinations are fast and simple; in emergency cases, they can reveal internal injuries and bleeding quickly enough to help save lives. . CT has been shown to be a cost-effective imaging tool for a wide range of clinical problems. . CT is less sensitive to patient movement than MRI. . CT can be performed if you have an implanted medical device of any kind, unlike MRI. . CT imaging provides real-time imaging, making it a good tool for guiding minimally invasive procedures such as needle biopsies and needle aspirations of many areas of the body, particularly the lungs, abdomen, pelvis and bones. . A diagnosis determined by CT scanning may eliminate the need for exploratory surgery and surgical biopsy. . No radiation remains in a patient’s body after a CT examination. . X-rays used in CT scans usually have no side effects. Risks There is always a slight chance of cancer from excessive exposure to radiation. However, the benefit of an accurate diagnosis far outweighs the risk. . The effective radiation dose from this procedure is about 10 mSv, which is about the same as the average person receives from background radiation in three years. . Women should always inform their physician and x-ray or CT technologist if there is any possibility that they are pregnant. . CT scanning is, in general, not recommended for pregnant women unless medically necessary because of potential risk to the baby. . Nursing mothers should wait for 24 hours after contrast material injection before resuming breast-feeding. . The risk of serious allergic reaction to contrast materials that contain iodine is extremely rare, and radiology departments are well-equipped to deal with them. . Because children are more sensitive to radiation, they should have a CT study only if it is essential for making a diagnosis and should not have repeated CT studies unless absolutely necessary. What are the limitations of CT Scanning of the Abdomen/Pelvis? A person who is very large may not fit into the opening of a conventional CT scanner or may be over the weight limit for the moving table. CT scanning of the abdomen may not be as sensitive in identifying gallstones as ultrasound of the abdomen. For some conditions, including but not limited to some liver, adrenal, kidney, pancreatic, uterine or ovarian abnormalities, the evaluation and diagnosis with MRI may be preferable over CT scanning.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Biology Spotted Wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) has an ovipositor that enables it to pierce the skin of healthy fruit still attached to the plant. Drosophila suzukii ovipositor (left): Spines black – color intensity increases sclerotization or hardness. Largest spin located at the tip of ovipositor; punctures the skin of the fruit, allowing insertion of the ovipositor. Non-suzukii ovipositor: Blunt tip of ovipositor. Spines not blackened – less hardened or sclerotized. Cannot pierce skin of healthy fruit. Reproductive Readiness of Spotted Wing Drosophila Spotted Wing Drosophila and Brown Marmorated Stinkbug Update Spotted Wing Drosophila – WSU Orchard Pest Management Online, Wenatchee SWD Biology, Courtship and Oviposition (slide show) SWD Behavior. Free software for viewing the movie can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/. SWD Threat for WA Growers SWD mating on strawberry. SWD ovipositor. SWD ovipositing. SWD life cycle.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "RADIOLOGY: HEAD: Case# 33614: MEDULLOBLASTOMA. This 18 month old child presented with upward deviation of the eyes and somnolence. T1 weighted sagittal MRI reveals a mass in the posterior fossa with areas of high signal intensity. T1 weighted sagital MRI after gadolinium shows mass posterior to the fourth ventricle. There is little change in signal intensity compared to the pre contrast study. T2 weighted axial MRI shows a heterogenous signal mass posterior to the pons. Notice the enlargement of the temporal horns of the lateral ventricles. Medulloblastomas are primarily childhood tumors, where they account for one third of all posterior fossa neoplasms. Medulloblastomas most commonly occur in the cerebellar vermis. In older children and adults they may occur laterally in the cerebellar hemisphere. Imaging studies depict the typical location in the cerebellar vermis, with filling and enlargement of the fourth ventricle. Typically the mass is solid, but cystic changes are not uncommon, especially in the laterally located tumors. Enhancement is variable, but usually moderate and heterogeneous. Medulloblastomas tend to metastasize widely through CSF spread, with CSF dissemination present in up to half the cases at initial surgery. For this reason, the brain and spine should be screened for metastases with contrast enhanced MRI.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Infectious diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide. Sepsis is a severe clinical syndrome related to the host response to infection. The severity of infections is due to an activation cascade that will lead to an autoamplifying cytokine production: the cytokine storm. Cytokines are a broad category of relatively small proteins (<40 kDa) that are produced and released with the aim of cell signaling. Our understanding of the processes that trigger this tremendous amount of cytokine production has made dramatic progress over the last decades, but unfortunately, these findings could not translate yet into effective treatments; so far, all clinical trials targeting cytokine production or effects failed. This review aims to summarize the pathophysiology of the cytokine storm; to describe the type, effects, and kinetics of cytokine production; and to discuss the therapeutic challenges of targeting cytokines. New promising therapeutic strategies focusing on the endothelium, as a source and a target of cytokines, are described.\nKeywords: Cytokine; Endothelium; Inflammation; Innate immunity; Sepsis.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "On this day – 20 December 1842 – Lorenzo D. Barnes (1812-1842) died at Idle near Bradford, England – the first missionary to die on a foreign mission.\nLorenzo was born in 1812 in Massachusetts. In 1833 his family made contact with the Church after they settled in Ohio and he joined with gusto. The following year he joined Zion’s Camp marching to protect the saints – an event which seemed to be of little worth until you estimate its impact in preparing men to follow and lead. In 1835 he was called into the first Quorum of Seventy thus initiating a series of missions over the next six years in the eastern states of Ohio, New York, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.\nIn January 1842 he sailed, as a missionary, to England, and on his journey he penned a poem entitled The Bold Pilgrim. The first and forth stanzas read:\nI am a bold Pilgrim—a message to bear\nTo Islands, and Countries, and Kingdoms afar;\nFor the Lord, from the heavens, a message has sent\nTo call on the Nations—Believe and Repent.\nGlad tidings! Glad tidings! let the nations rejoice!\nYe Elders of Israel, O, lift up your voice,\nLike Angels of God—and proclaim the glad news,\nWith sounds of rejoicing—to Gentiles and Jews.\nOur Bold Pilgrim was assigned to work around Manchester, then Cheltenham and finally in the Bradford Conference. He was working in Idle, Yorkshire where he died 20 December 1842.\nOn 1st May 1845 Wilford Woodruff sat in 36 Chapel Street, Liverpool and wrote a long letter to John Taylor (See Times and Seasons, May 15, 1845 for complete extract) which give more details of his death:\n“My visit to his grave was on the 20th of February 1845, which was a solemn day to my feelings in some respects, in consequence of walking over the ground which oft had been trod by our worthy Brother Barnes, and also of viewing the tomb where sleeps his sacred dust….When about half way we had a fair view of Idle and the church where our brother was buried, which stands upon a high piece of ground. We had a green vale to pass through before arriving at the spot; the fields were quite green, though in February…I felt solemn indeed, and was filled meditation, until I arrived at Idle, which contains a population of about five thousand, and a branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of thirty-seven members. We called upon Elder Thomas Cordingly and his family, who had the care of Elder Barnes during his sickness and death – They pointed out to me the room where he spent his last moments. After getting some refreshment we walked to the church-yard, and I gazed upon the silent tomb of our beloved Lorenzo.\n…I bowed my knee upon his sacred grave, and plucked some pebbles in memory of his worth.”\nWilford also provides us some insight into how he died:\n“During the last of September 1842, he walked one day about thirteen miles very fast in order to get to the railway in time for the cars, (some portion of the way he ran,) and got into a high state of perspiration, and only had time to step into the cars as they were about starting. He rode on this railway about twenty miles in the midst of piercing winds and became entirely chilled, which flung him into a severe cold, settled upon his lungs, and brought on the quick consumption, from which he never recovered.”\nWilford “decreed in his heart” that he would not return to his native country until a suitable headstone was erected. Accordingly,\n“At our general conference all the American elders labouring in this country with many of the English Saints, came forward and wished to donate their mite for the purpose of erecting a stone over the grave of our departed brother when five pounds five shillings and sixpence sterling, equal to twenty six dollars…The sum was immediately forwarded to accomplish the purpose, and the stone is now in course of erection, bearing the following epitaph:\n“In memory of Lorenzo D. Barnes, who died on the 20th of December, 1842, age 30 years. He was a native of the United States, an Elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a member of the High Priests’ quorum and also of Zion’s Camp in the year 1834, and the first gospel messenger from Nauvoo who has found a grave in a foreign land.”\nHis fellow missionary Elijah F. Sheets said of the stones,\n“They will be beautiful stones when finished, and it is a beautiful place where he is laid; and I judge the head stone will be as good a standing preacher, as a living one, for the people cannot go into church without seeing it.”\nA few years ago I spent some time searching the Idle graveyard for this preaching headstone, but could not find it anywhere. The reason, I later discovered, was because Barnes’ body was exhumed a decade later (1852) and buried in Salt Lake City! The Cemetery has this image of his Utah tomb, but it is not clear if this is the original British headstone which might have accompanied his body home? Joseph Smith would have been delighted to hear his body was back in America as he had commented:\n“When I heard of the death of our beloved Brother Barnes, it would not have effected me so much if I had the opportunity of burying him to the land of Zion.” (History of the Church vol.5:360)\nParley P. Pratt summed Lorenzo up nicely,\n“Brother Barnes was everywhere known, and universally beloved as a meek, humble, and zealous minister of the gospel, who has labored extensively for many years with great success.” (Millennial Star 4:74)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This week's book giveaways are in the iOS and Features new in Java 8 forums. We're giving away four copies each of Barcodes with iOS: Bringing together the digital and physical worlds and Core Java for the Impatient and have the authors on-line! See this thread and this one for details.\nDon't understand the problem. Do you mean comparing the sizes, contents or what? Have you been through the methods in the File class? Would you have to read the entire contents into a String and compare the two String?\nJoined: Dec 30, 2007\nI mean comparing the contents of the two files i.e. i want to know whether the two files are identical.\nJoined: Oct 13, 2005\nIf they are text files, try: Use a Scanner to iterate through the files. Whenever you get a new line append it to a StringBuilder. When myScanner.hasNext() shows false you can stop.\nThe StringBuilders won't show equal, but you can get them into a String and test like this:That's one way to do it.\nI would first check if the lengths are equal, and if not, return false. Then open two FileInputStreams wrapped with BufferedInputStreams, one for each file. Then write a loop that reads one byte from each file, and returns false if the bytes are not equal. Keep looping until one the end of a file is reached. (You already know they're the same length at this point, so you should reach the end of both files simultaneously.) If you reach the end successfully without returning false, then you can return true instead - all the bytes must be equal.\nNote that this technique works equally well regardless of whether you're using text files or binary files. It just tests whether they are exactly equal, or not.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There is a church listed on this site in the Domesday Book, and a new Norman church was built in 1106 and named St Mary Overie (meaning ‘over the river’, as most of London at that time was centred on the north bank of the River Thames). This church was almost completely destroyed during 1212 and there have been a number of church buildings on this site.\nThe present day church dates from the 1400s and is the oldest surviving Gothic building in London. Over the years it has been renovated many times and partly rebuilt during 1890 when a new nave was installed.\nIn 1424, James I of Scotland married Mary Beaufort here, but during the 1539 Dissolution of the Monasteries, King Henry VIII closed the priory and changed the main building into a parish church called St. Saviour, Southwark.\nThe church only became a cathedral in 1905, when it became the seat of the Anglican bishop of the newly created Diocese of Southwark. (the picture on the right is taken from from the 24th floor of the nearby London Bridge House. The official title of Southwark Cathedral is the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St. Saviour and St. Mary Overie, Southwark.\nThose known to have been married here:\nJohn Ratcliff and Ann Raffell, marriage date: 28/2/1803\nJames Reffell and Mary Waghorn, marriage date:14/2/1809", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)\n- List Price:\n- Buy New: $17.62\nas of 5/20/2013 13:11 EDT details\n- You Save: $5.37 (23%)\n- Sales Rank:463,098\n- Languages:English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)\n- Number Of Items:1\n- Shipping Weight (lbs):0.6\n- Dimensions (in):6 x 0.4 x 9\n- Publication Date:October 13, 2008\nAvailability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days\nRobert Frost is one of the most popular American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon close reading. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre. The poetry is discussed in detail in relation to ancient and modern traditions as well as to Frost's particular interests in language and sound, metaphor, science, religion, and politics. Faggen both looks back to the literary traditions that shape Frost's use of form and language, and forward to examine his influence on poets writing today. The recent controversies in Frost criticism and in particular in Frost biography are brought into sharp focus as they have shaped the poet's legacy and legend. The most accessible overview available, this book will be invaluable to students, readers and admirers of Frost.\nCERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If, upon booting, a computer terminal detects a script named \"startup\" in its root directory, this script will be run. Similarly, if a disk is present in an attached disk drive containing a script named \"startup\" that script will be run. Disk autorun scripts take precedence over root directory autorun. This means if both the root directory and the disk contain a file called \"startup\" the one on the disk will be executed.\nVery simple auto-install script to set up a single-use terminal (e.g. password-protected door):\n/disk/startup (installer script) /disk/startup.file (program to be installed on terminal)\nThe script could look like:\nfs.copy(\"disk/startup.file\", \"startup\") shell.run(\"startup\")\nWhen the disk is placed into a drive attached to a terminal, and the terminal is rebooted - the startup file on the disk will run. This startup file serves only to copy the program you've named \"startup.file\" to the root directory of the terminal with the new name \"startup\" - this will then run each time the terminal is booted, eliminating the need for the disk drive.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Human mortality improvement in evolutionary context.\nRepository Usage Stats\nLife expectancy is increasing in most countries and has exceeded 80 in several, as low-mortality nations continue to make progress in averting deaths. The health and economic implications of mortality reduction have been given substantial attention, but the observed malleability of human mortality has not been placed in a broad evolutionary context. We quantify the rate and amount of mortality reduction by comparing a variety of human populations to the evolved human mortality profile, here estimated as the average mortality pattern for ethnographically observed hunter-gatherers. We show that human mortality has decreased so substantially that the difference between hunter-gatherers and today's lowest mortality populations is greater than the difference between hunter-gatherers and wild chimpanzees. The bulk of this mortality reduction has occurred since 1900 and has been experienced by only about 4 of the roughly 8,000 human generations that have ever lived. Moreover, mortality improvement in humans is on par with or greater than the reductions in mortality in other species achieved by laboratory selection experiments and endocrine pathway mutations. This observed plasticity in age-specific risk of death is at odds with conventional theories of aging.\nPublished Version (Please cite this version)10.1073/pnas.1215627109\nPublication InfoBurger, O; Baudisch, A; & Vaupel, James Walton (2012). Human mortality improvement in evolutionary context. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 109(44). pp. 18210-18214. 10.1073/pnas.1215627109. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/14773.\nThis is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this article, please review & use the official citation provided by the journal.\nMore InfoShow full item record", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Fiscal policy -- government taxing and spending -- almost always is controversial. While the government has a role in promoting economic growth, full employment and price stability, its methods for doing so frequently are subject to contentious debate. Whichever side prevails at the moment, it must deal with limitations posed by the process and past application of fiscal policy. While there are many issues with fiscal policy, some stand out above the rest.\nDue to the nature of the political process, the time lapse between when a need is recognized and when the impact of the appropriate fiscal policy is felt may be considerable. First, the need for government intervention in the economy must be determined. That occurs after a rise in unemployment, for example, which is reported after a trend has already occurred. Then Congress and the President must come to terms on the appropriate legislation. If they can, only then is legislation is enacted and money appropriated. By then months may have passed, and the scope of the problem may have changed\nEconomics and Politics\nThe Congress and President are public officials, and as such they are accountable to the electorate. While the federal government has a responsibility to enact legislation to promote full employment, the drive to be reelected creates a need to bring money back to their respective constituents. Earmarks and other targeted measures create an upward bias on the amount of money the federal government spends. Spending for the home folks in order to get reelected distorts fiscal policy. Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin), with his Golden Fleece Awards, was one of the first to focus on this issue. Others have followed.\nImpact on Private Economy\nWhen the government borrows money to fund its fiscal policies, it competes directly with the business sector and consumers who also wish to borrow money. This crowding out effect can raise interest rates, forcing some borrowers out of the market. Another problem lies with fiscal policy applications, which may compete with private enterprise and even discourage private investment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Increasing knowledge for the cardiac cellular electrophysiology advances our understanding of cardiac arrhythmia and pathophysiology. Microelectrode recordings in intact tissue preparations and patch clamps in isolated single myocytes provide abundant information about the action potential morphology and pharmacological interventions in cardiomyocytes. Microelectrode recording, an easily learned procedure, can record the action potential with a longer period and avoid the impact due to isolation procedure. However, cellular interactions and complex electrograms from microelectrode recordings may interfere with the data interpretation. In contrast, single-cell recordings provide more direct evidence of action potential and ionic data from current-clamp and voltage-clamp recording. The action potential morphology is caused by the balance of inward and outward currents. Nevertheless, the isolation procedure, cell culture condition and rather short recording period make single-cell recording different from in vivo situations. Through the patch clamp, we can study the ionic mechanism underlying the pacemaker activity of single myocytes. This useful information provides the opportunity to investigate mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmia and develop potential anti-arrhythmia agents.\n|Number of pages||5|\n|Journal||Acta Cardiologica Sinica|\n|Publication status||Published - Jun 2009|\n- Ionic currents\n- Patch clamp\nASJC Scopus subject areas\n- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Blockchain technology can help immensely in banks, insurance, health and pharmaceutical industry, supply chain of many sectors (agribusiness, luxury, international trade, distribution, wines, aeronautics, and automobile), music industry, energy, and real estate. Blockchains have the potential to replace most of the centralized “trusted third parties” including banking trades, notaries, land registry, etc. by distributed computer systems.\n1. Medicines / Pharmacy\nBlockchain technology can be used to improve drug integrity. If drugs can be clearly identified and tracked from production to consumption, it could save up to one million lives each year. Because DHL is already working with Accenture to establish a track-and-trace serialization system based on blockchain technology.\n“At the moment, there are already more than 7 billion unique pharmaceutical serial numbers in the system. In addition, the system can now handle more than 1,500 transactions per second,” said Scott Allison, DHL’s President, Healthcare.\nAllison has not only the capacity of the system in mind. For example, track-and-trace serialization should reduce costs, increase security and confidence, and eliminate error-prone data movement. The technology can add additional verified information to the element, which cannot be manipulated. The validation is carried out by all participants.\n“THE SYSTEM NOT ONLY MEETS THE GLOBAL SERIALIZATION REQUIREMENTS, IT EVEN SURPASSES THEM,” Says Allison\n2. Fashion / Fashion\nThe CGS project allows consumers to track the entire lifecycle of a garment. This brings together companies from the fashion, apparel and consumer goods sectors to work together. With this solution, consumers no longer need to rely blindly on the value in sustainability fashion. Blockchain technology allows tracking of sustainability and conformity of the garment\n3. Cross-border payments\nIn developing and underdeveloped countries, access to capital for small food producers is often a big problem. Binkabi is a cross-border agricultural trading platform that is breaking new ground with the help of a block bridge solution from Sweet bridge. Thus, a system for fair commodity trading is to be developed.\nA blockchain banking solution has recently been announced by IBM. This is intended to make international payments faster and more cost-effective.\n4. Food safety\nIn the area of food safety, IBM is working with food manufacturers Dole, Nestlé, and Walmart. Thus, the data of breeders, suppliers, processors, traders, retailers not only to all parties involved but also to the supervisory authorities and consumers are available. So every transaction can be traced and all information about the food can be viewed. With all members of the food system having access to the blockchain, contaminated food can be quickly removed from the production and supply chain before it reaches the shelf.\nThe World Wildlife Fund (WWF) “tracks” fish and seafood using blockchain technology. In this project, the technology should help in the fight against illegal fishing. However, full traceability of fish and seafood is also of interest to fish wholesalers and fish retailers, as they want to prevent their products or brands from being associated with illegal activities.\n“CONSUMERS ARE ALSO INCREASINGLY SLANDERING FOR FULLY TRACEABLE FISH AND SEAFOOD THAT ARE NOT FROM ILLEGAL FISHING,” says Bubba Cook, WWF’s Western Central Pacific Tuna Program Manager.\n5. Humanitarian Crises\nBlockchain technology is not just used by companies. The United Nations currently uses blockchain technology in 16 areas, including:\n· World Food Program (Refugee Aid)\n· Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (donor financing, safeguarding, and monitoring of supply chains)\nIn addition, it is currently being investigated how blockchain technology can be used to tackle current problems, such as child trafficking, according to Mahrinah von Schlegel, Managing Director of Nonprofit Embassy 2.0.\nAs part of the public-private partnership ID2020, Microsoft and Accenture have announced a partnership. The goal is to give 1.1 billion people a legal form of identity and identification using blockchain technology.\nIn collaboration with Everledger, the jewelry company Brilliant Earth intends to use blockchain technology to accurately track the origins of diamonds and other gems. This ensures that only conflict-free stones are processed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Pleiades can be defined as a star cluster that is about 400 light years away from Earth. It is located near the constellations of Orion and Taurus in the night sky. There are seven bright stars included in this cluster. All of them can be seen with the naked human eye.\nThey also have other names like Messier 45 or the Seven Sisters. This star cluster is a close neighbors to our planet. It is about 110 arcminutes in size and has an apparent magnitude of 1.6.\nQuick Facts: –\n- The core star clusters within the Pleiades have a radius of about eight light years and its tidal radius is about 43 light years.\n- Although there are more than 1,000 stars in this cluster but only six of them can be seen without any telescope.\n- Just because of its huge size and brightness level, this star cluster is very easy to find in the sky.\n- It also contains a notable number of brown dwarfs. They constitute up to 25 percent of all the stars in this cluster.\n- These brown stars have less than 8 percent of the Sun’s mass. They are not heavy enough to ignite nuclear fusion in their cores.\n- The estimated age of the Pleiades is ranging somewhere between 75 to 150 million years.\n- A faint reflection nebula, also known as the Maia Nebula surrounds the brightest stars in the cluster.\n- It also contains a diffuse reflection nebula named as the Merope Nebula.\n- It is an open star cluster that means it will not stay gravitationally bound forever.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hearing the Sad News\nNothing can prepare you for the shock and sadness of being told that your baby has died or will die shortly after birth. The plans and preparations for the birth of your baby are all shattered with a few words telling you the sad news. You may feel afraid or angry, frustrated or shocked. It is also common to feel emotionally frozen as hundreds of questions go through your head – the main one being very simply “WHY?”\nThere are many reasons why babies die either before or shortly after birth. The baby may not be capable of life outside the womb, there may be a congenital abnormality causing death before or after delivery or other complications such as eclampsia or lack of oxygen.\nThe death of a baby at any stage of pregnancy can be a very real loss to the parents and family. From the very start of your pregnancy you will have begun to include this new baby in your future plans. A precious life has ended, whether you lose the baby through early or late miscarriage.\nOur booklet, A Little Lifetime has been written mainly for parents whose babies are stillborn or die shortly after birth; however, if you have had a miscarriage you may identify with much of what is said and what other parents have found to be helpful.\nA Little Lifetime Foundation have a booklet available to help create memories-\nBaby Born Before 24 Weeks – My Life Before I was Born\nYou may have been told that your baby has a serious abnormality and will die during pregnancy or after birth. Conditions such as anencephaly, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, Potters syndrome, Edwards syndrome and certain heart defects may be detected by a scan. It may help to find out more about your baby’s condition to prepare you for what to expect. When you are given such news it is normal to feel totally shocked. You may begin to ‘grieve’ for your baby even though he or she is still alive. You will have to think about telling your family and friends the sad news and preparing them for the birth and death of your baby. You may need extra support for the duration of the pregnancy. Many parents have found that being aware of their choices and making some plans before the birth allowed them to spend as much time as possible with their baby when he or she was born.\nIf your baby dies before birth – Intra Uterine Death/Stillbirth\nYou may have found out from a routine scan that your baby has died before being born. You may have been worried and hoped that the scan would reassure you that your baby was all right. Very often the bad news is written on the faces of the staff in the hospital long before they say anything. Being told that there is no heartbeat confirms your worst fears. It is very hard to accept that the son or daughter that you have been expecting, the baby whom you already know and who has lived inside you for many months, has died. Your immediate reaction may be to want the baby delivered as soon as possible. The question of how and when your baby will be born is something that you should discuss with your doctor. It is usually safer to wait until you go into labour naturally and ask your doctor to explain the reasons why. It will be a difficult time, but it will give you an opportunity to prepare for your baby’s birth.\nGoing home from hospital knowing that your baby has died and that you still have to give birth can be a very frightening time. Physically you may not feel or look any different at all, and it may be hard to accept that the scan was correct. You will miss your baby kicking but you may still have gentle movements, which can be confusing for you. If you have other children and they know about the pregnancy, try to explain what has happened. It is best to tell your family and close friends about the baby so that they are aware of the situation.\nYou may feel very sad and isolated, you may want to have somebody to talk to, or you may want to be alone. It can help to talk to somebody who has been through a similar experience. You can contact A Little Lifetime Foundation at the telephone number listed at the back of this booklet. In some cases labour has already begun and it is during labour that it is discovered your baby has died. Even with new technology and close monitoring by hospital staff there are babies who die during labour, just before or during delivery.\nTrying to cope with the birth and death of your baby at the same time can be very confusing. Wondering what your baby will look like and the fear of not knowing what to expect is normal. Don’t be afraid to express your fears. When the baby is born you can either ask one of the nurses to describe him or her to you, or ask to see a photograph first. Then, when you are ready, you can hold your baby. When you see your baby for the first time, you will realise that you have given birth to your son or daughter. You will be able to see what he or she looks like and you may even experience joy at having given birth.\nThe time you have with your baby shortly after delivery is very precious. Hold your baby for as long as you like and look at every little detail. Although it may seem like an intrusion at this time, it is lovely to have some photographs taken of your baby shortly after birth. This is your baby, a baby who will never be replaced and who will have a special place in your heart.\nA Little Lifetime Foundation leaflet – Precious Time–Precious Pictures\n(enclosed in A Little Lifetime Foundation Pack)\nmay be helpful to you in creating memories of your baby.\nIf your baby dies after birth-Neonatal Death\nIt is very difficult to accept that in spite of advanced medical knowledge and modern technology, babies are born with conditions that cannot be cured. Your baby’s condition may be diagnosed during pregnancy or immediately after birth. Sometimes everything may seem normal for a time and you may be celebrating the birth, only to be told that your baby will not survive.\nWhen your baby dies within minutes or hours of birth\nSome babies only live for minutes or hours after birth, giving you little or no time with your baby. Nothing can prepare you to face the birth and death of your baby in such a short space of time. Disbelief, shock and a feeling of numbness cloud what you hear and feel. Even though you may not have had the opportunity to care for your baby while he or she was alive, there is still time before the baby’s funeral to involve your family and other children, and create some special memories.\nThe Intensive Care Unit\nSeriously ill babies will be rushed to the Special Care Baby Unit and you may only get a quick look at your baby before he or she is taken away. The staff will usually take a photograph of your baby and bring it to you as quickly as possible. The doctors and nurses will tell you what is happening and explain your baby’s condition. They will prepare you for what to expect when you first visit the unit; they will tell you what your baby looks like, if he or she is attached to monitors or a ventilator, and how his or her condition is being treated. It may be necessary to transfer your baby to a Paediatric Hospital or Unit for tests, treatment or surgery. It is very distressing to be separated from your baby; you may feel very isolated and helpless knowing your baby is so ill.\nWhen you are ready to visit the Special Care Baby Unit (or Paediatric Hospital/Unit) you may feel very nervous and uncomfortable in such strange surroundings. It will be very warm and you may feel weak. The staff will explain the functions of the equipment and this can ease your fears. You may not be able to hold your baby straight away but you will be able to touch and talk to him or her. Where it is possible, you will be gently encouraged to hold your baby and help in his or her care. You may be nervous or afraid of hurting your baby and feel it is better left to the professionals. This is a normal reaction; however, helping to care for your baby now will be an important memory for you in the future.\nSometimes one parent may want to be in the unit with the baby all the time, while the other is reluctant to see and get to know the baby. These are both normal reactions but this may be the only time you can create memories as a family while your baby is alive. Parents also worry about how their other children will react when they bring them to see their brother or sister in the intensive care unit. Most children will not find the unit as frightening as adults. The staff will help you explain to them about their brother or sister’s condition and answer their questions. Involving your children is very important. Their memories are precious too and they will always remember you wanting them and helping them to be included. Spend as much time as you can with your baby and if possible include other family members so they too can take part in your baby’s short life. Try to have photographs taken of all the family together.\nGoing home while you baby is in the Unit\nGoing home without your baby, knowing that he or she may die at any time is very difficult. The staff in the intensive care unit or nursery will assure you that they will contact you immediately if your baby shows signs of deterioration. You can always contact them by telephone day or night for a report or simply to get reassurance.\nYour babys death\nYou may be anxious about how your baby’s death will occur. The doctor will explain to you what will happen. You may not have been able to hold your baby before because of the tubes and monitors connected to him or her. Some or all of the support systems may be removed so that you can now hold your baby as he or she dies. You may want to be alone with your baby or you may wish to have family members present.\nUnfortunately, if your baby’s condition deteriorates very quickly you may not have time to go to the hospital. You can be reassured that your baby will not be alone, as the staff who have nursed him or her will be there. They too will be upset when your baby dies. You might find it helpful to talk to them again at a later stage.\nBringing your baby home while he or she is alive\nIn some cases it is possible to take your baby home for a day, a weekend or for whatever time there is left. You need to think about this carefully, as your baby may have special needs for his or her care. The staff in the unit will show you how to manage this special care. It is also helpful if you contact your public health nurse, who may be able to help in a practical way with the baby’s care. The nurse’s visits may give you support.\nCaring at home for a baby who is going to die is very hard and the isolation from all the support systems in the hospital may make it difficult to cope. However, on the other hand having your baby at home gives you the opportunity to do everything you can as a family. It gives you a chance to take photographs and videos in your own home, making a little lifetime of memories to treasure afterwards.\nLet your family and friends know if you would like them to visit. They may be unsure of what to do and may appreciate knowing how they can help.\nYou may realise that your baby’s condition is deteriorating and you may want to take him or her back to the hospital, this is entirely up to you. If your baby dies at home it may be frightening, but it will be a very special memory for you to have. It may be possible, if there is time, to have someone who has cared for your baby there with you.\nWhen your baby dies you will need to tell the hospital or your family doctor. If you choose to tell your doctor, he or she will need to certify that your baby is dead. A post-mortem may be requested. Consider the request and ask any questions you may have before making a decision.\nYou may still take your baby back to the hospital at this stage so that you can prepare for the funeral or you may decide to do this at home.\nTake your time in making these decisions.\nContact A Little Lifetime Foundation at (01) 8829030\nor email- email@example.com if you need to discuss any details from information above.\nTHE FAMILY – SHARING THE EXPERIENCE\nThe whole family has been preparing for the baby’s birth and it is the whole family that experiences the baby’s death. These few days will be the only time you will have together and so it is important that family members are encouraged to see and hold your baby and family photographs are taken.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A number of local governments, businesses, and research institutions have discussed the usefulness and importance of \"green networks\" in recent years. However, most green sites are still perceived as isolated distributed patches, thereby potentially leading to their underuse and little awareness of their importance. We propose a participatory environment that can visualize connections of green sites based on the levels of visible green using celestial sphere images contributed by citizens. The system combines existing green coverage maps and smartphone-based image capture tools to show \"green routes\" in a city. We expect that the proposed approach can increase the networked uses of green resources, thereby increasing the awareness of green networks and potentially leading to collective efforts towards the development of richer connected green in cities.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pads need to be clean, even, and have a high coefficient of friction against the rotor for maximum braking performance. Disc brake pads are available in an array of compounds - all claiming certain benefits. One thing that is consistent is that the pad's compound will have a different coefficient of friction depending on whether it is cold or hot. As a general rule of thumb, the following compounds exhibit the following coefficients of friction:\nOrganic – cold 0.44, hot 0.48\nSemi-metallic – cold 0.38, hot 0.40\nMetallic – cold 0.25, hot 0.35\nCeramic– cold 0.38, hot 0.45\nThe higher the coefficient of friction, the \"softer\" the pad is said to be. Keep in mind that there are other factors to consider when selecting pads, such as noise and wear. The softer the pad is, the more rapidly it will wear.\nThe first letter of the code, sometimes known as the \"cold\" code, represents the normal friction coefficient. This is defined as the average of four test data points measured at 200, 250, 300 and 400 degrees Fahrenheit.\nThe second letter of the code, sometimes known as the \"hot\" code, represents the hot friction coefficient based on a fade and recovery test. Recovery is basically the period where the brakes are gradually cooling off. The hot friction coefficient is defined as the average of multiple data points: 450, 500, 550, 600 and 650°F on the first recovery cycle of the pad; and 500, 400, and 300°F on the second recovery cycle.\nThe ranges of friction coefficients assigned to each code letter are as follows: C = less than 0.15. D= 0.15 to 0.25. E= 0.25 to 0.35. F= 0.35 to 0.45. G= 0.45 to 0.55, and H= over 0.55.\nEach letter grade spans a range of coefficients, but the combination of the two letters and the order in which they come can be a useful indicator of pad performance as it demonstrates the change in coefficient of friction for that pad from cold to hot (and vice versa). For example, an FE pad will grab better when cold (i.e. tends to fade when hot) whereas an EF pad would not grab well when cold (i.e. would need to be warmed up for max performance). Note that the coefficient of friction of steel on steel is 0.25, so EE pads grab only marginally better than no pads at all! FF pads are usually considered the minimum for a high-performance brake pad.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Information about Spark’s Home Town\nWhen on a school languages trip to Spark, you’ll spend most of your time in the beautiful town of El Puerto de Santa Maria , or just El Puerto for short. Its name means “The Port of Saint Mary” in Spanish, and this small city is a cosy retreat away from the tourism and bustle of larger cities. Here are a few interesting facts about El Puerto.\n- El Castillo de San Marcos, shown above, was built in the 10th century and was originally a mosque in the Muslim village Al-Qanatif. Over the centuries, it has served as a castle, a church and a town hall.\n- Approximately 88,000 people live in El Puerto.\n- The magnificent Royal Bullring in the Plaza de Toros is over 60 metres across and can seat 12,000 people. It has a superb reputation — film star Joselito once said, “Whoever hasn’t seen a bull fight in El Puerto doesn’t know what a day at a bull fight really is.”\n- It is said that famous explorer Christopher Columbus lived in El Puerto for a few years and set off for his second voyage to the Americas from the port.\n- The Río Guadalete, which flows through the town into Cadiz Bay, is 157 km long and provides drinking water for a million people across Spain.\n- El Puerto has five different beaches which stretch along 16 km of the coast.\n- The patron saint of the town is La Virgen de los Milagros, the Virgin of Miracles. On 8 September, her holy day, there is a huge profession through the town, where bearers carry an efigy of the Virgin on a flower-decked float to the Iglesia Mayor Priorial in the Plaza España.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Medical transcriptionists play an important role in health care by taking the doctors' or other health-care providers' dictation and transcribing it into medical records. Documents that medical transcriptionists prepare include discharge summaries, reports of medical histories or examinations, reports from surgical procedures or consultations, autopsy reports, progress notes, and referral letters. Most employers prefer people who have a medical transcription degree or who have taken medical transcription classes. Several vocational schools, community colleges, and distance learning programs offer a two-year associate's degree or a one-year certificate program in medical transcription.\nNo matching programs found near you. Use the form for more results.\nA Career as a Medical Transcriptionist\nTo understand and be able to transcribe reports that have been dictated, you need to study medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, diagnostic procedures, pharmacology, and treatment assessments. You should study medical terminology and abbreviations so you can translate them into their expanded forms. Course work in legal issues relating to health-care documentation is highly recommended, as well. Knowledge of English grammar and computer skills are essential. Some medical transcriptionists are paid by the hour, while others are paid by how many reports they transcribe. Pay can range from about $10 an hour to more than $21 an hour. Medical transcriptionists can work from their home as independent contractors, or in a health-care setting such as a hospital or physician's office. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job opportunities for medical transcribers should be good, especially for those who are certified, as baby boomers age and the demand for health care increases.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Unquestionably, it’s not in question in park\nThe Everglades is home to one of the most unique ecosystems in the world. The community of plants and animals living together, which make up an ecosystem, signals a partnership between Florida’s environment and the millions who live in South Florida. At its core is Everglades National Park. This slide show focuses on aspects of the ecosystem. The park’s Paurotis Pond is dazzling at sunset, and visitors can spot nesting birds there, perhaps including the endangered wood stork. The Noble Hammock Canoe Trail twists tightly through the mangroves. The roots of mangroves stretch skyward trying to capture the sunlight. Trees with hanging moss at Flamingo in the park are reminiscent of the Old South. The great white heron is found across warmer regions.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Answer: Health communication can be defined as communication strategies used to inform and impact individual and community decisions with the goal of improving and enriching personal and community behaviors and public health practices. It includes the study of audience health attitudes and behaviors to determine the type, frequency, and format of messaging. Individuals with an education in health communication can find employment in public relations, patient education, health administration, digital and social communications, healthcare policy and advocacy, community health, health and pharmaceutical marketing, and other related fields.\nHealth communication is an expansive field that includes health education, risk communication, health and policy advocacy, outbreak communication, patient and provider communication, and health literacy. Health communication strategies allow doctors and nurses, community health centers, hospitals and hospital administrators, nursing homes, health educators, nonprofits, government agencies, and others to disseminate information that can positively influence personal health behaviors and choices. Health communication includes interpersonal communications, such as one-on-one meetings between a health care provider and patient, as well as community-focused communications, such as public meetings, local newspaper advertisements, pamphlets, or educational events. It also includes mass media communication, through social media, internet, television, and radio messaging to reach large audiences with information about preventative health care, disease prevention and treatment, immunizations, and more.\nIn addition, health communication is a scholarly field of research. Researchers in academia study how messages are created, shaped, and received within different demographic contexts, such as age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or political orientation. Communication researchers may consider how interpersonal communication influences an individual’s attitudes or beliefs around medical treatment, such as immunizations. They may explore how online messaging impacts trust levels regarding medical information, or examine the ramifications of how emerging media technologies (e.g. mobile phones) are changing the methods in which people receive and share public health and medical information.\nMaster’s in Health Communication Programs\nMaster’s in health communication programs provide students with a foundational understanding of the theory behind and effective practice of health communication in medicine, public health, epidemiology, and more. These programs introduce students to organizational and interpersonal communication practices in health care settings. Students gain skills in developing and implementing effective health promotion materials and disease prevention campaigns, participate in health policy advocacy, and evaluate strategic communication initiatives.\nHealth communication master’s programs address communication topics across the health care system, including one-on-one patient-provider discussions, family and community communication, patient advocacy, administrative communication, health care literacy, intervention and care planning, and more. Although most programs emphasize applied learning and professional skill development in health messaging and marketing, there are programs with a broader academic and research focus that prepare students for continued studies at the doctoral level. Such programs may have classes that ask students to explore the relationship of social psychology and health behaviors, examine how social inequality influences health behaviors, or to apply the principles of risk communication in developing new approaches to local disease prevention campaigns.\nFor additional information about the curriculum for master’s in health communication programs, degree requirements, and sample course plans, please refer to our Master’s in Health Communications Programs page.\n|Featured Online Master's in Health Communication Programs|\nOnline Master of Arts in Communication with an Optional Concentration in Health Communication\nOnline Master of Science in Communication with a Concentration in Health Communication\nOnline Master of Science in Health Promotion Management\n|Click on the school name to visit our school profile page for each program or visit the school's website to download a program brochure.|\nCareers in Health Communication\nA degree in health communication can open doors to potential career paths throughout the health care industry, in areas such as public relations, social marketing, patient advocacy, health education, community health organizing, and more. Professionals with a background in health communication can pursue employment with biotechnology firms, social advocacy organizations, non-profits, hospitals and health departments, state and federal health agencies, health foundations, community health centers, and other related institutions with a health-related mission statement.\nTheir strong written and oral communication skills, coupled with their understanding of human psychology and behavior, qualifies them to support important public health causes, empower patients through health education initiatives, and develop marketing strategies for companies that have products or services that promote consumer well-being. Graduates of master’s programs in health communication may assume roles such as one of the following:\n- Community Health Education Specialist: Health education specialists plan, develop, and implement preventative health, advocacy, and patient education initiatives. Their work involves frequent interaction with patients and health care providers. Their job also involves making connections with organizations in the community, such as schools, fitness centers, and reproductive health clinics in an effort to campaign for healthy lifestyle habits, health risk awareness, and other preventative care measures. Community health education specialists’ mission is to create educational programs for patients and the community that improve health outcomes in the short and long-term.\n- Social Advocacy Strategists: Social advocacy strategists who work for health-related organizations are experts in creating media campaigns that spread the message and further the mission of the organizations that employ them. Strategists employ written web content, video, public outreach events, and social media campaigns to create and spread important health-related messages that seek to create positive behavior changes in target audiences.\n- Marketing or Public Relations Specialist: Health-related companies ranging from hospitals to health insurance companies and fitness technology companies must develop sound marketing and public relations strategies. Marketing and public relations specialists at these companies wear many hats in order to uphold their company’s brand identity. Their daily work may include drafting public relations announcements in response to key company events (such as acquisitions or customer inquiries), developing marketing campaigns that combine patient/consumer education with brand promotion, and writing intra-company communications to help educate employees about their company’s mission.\n- Journalists: Journalists who specialize in health-related communication write about the health care system, the accessibility and quality of patient care, and the environmental and socioeconomic factors that affect the health of different demographic groups. Their goal is to spread awareness of issues relating to health, in order to empower their readers with the knowledge to better care for themselves and their families. Journalists in this field may also write articles and opinion pieces advocating for positive changes in the health care system and/or in government regulations that affect community health.\n- College Professor: In four-year public and private universities and colleges, professors conduct original research in health communication topics, teach graduate and undergraduate courses, write journal articles, present at conferences, and serve on committees. Their work focuses on advancing scholarship in health communication and preparing the next generation of communication professionals and scholars in the field. Graduates may also explore teaching positions in community and junior colleges.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Philosophy professor questions age-old thoughts on sound\nNovember 07, 2008\nPlease note: You are viewing an archived Bucknell University news story. It is possible that information found on this page has become outdated or inaccurate, and links and images contained within are not guaranteed to function correctly.\nLEWISBURG, Pa. -- The study of philosophy requires a natural skepticism of well-known “truths,” a keen ability to observe and the discipline to accept that definitive answers come rarely, if ever.\nSo it stands to reason that a philosopher would come to question a basic tenet of his field.\nJason Leddington, an assistant professor of philosophy at Bucknell University, studies sensory perception and the relationship between perceptual experience and thought. His study of the nature of hearing is challenging a well-accepted assumption in philosophy: that what we hear are first and foremost sounds and not the events that cause sounds.\nIn arguing that what we actually hear are the events, Leddington is going up against some of the most prominent scholars in his discipline, not the least of which is Aristotle.\n“Aristotle believed that each sense has its proper object. For sight, it’s color. For hearing, it’s sound,” Leddington explained. “I think that, strictly speaking, this view is false.”\nRethinking our world Leddington, who joined Bucknell in August, argues that sensory perception is our primary means of learning about and understanding -- or misunderstanding -- the world. The beliefs we acquire through our senses -- sometimes accurate and sometimes not -- shape our lives in fundamental ways.\n“Part of understanding ourselves is understanding how it is that we acquire knowledge about and come to be able to think about the world around us,” Leddington said. “If we get that wrong then what we’ve gotten wrong is a critical component of our understanding of ourselves and our position in the world.”\nLeddington most recently presented his work in a talk, “Naïve Realism and Perceptual Phenomenology,” at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study at the University of London, where he was a visiting research fellow. He also spoke at the 2008 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association at the University of Aberdeen, the main annual philosophical conference in the United Kingdom. A version of the talk, “Perceptual Presence,” is to be published in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.\nChanging the way we think Although philosophy, by its nature, does not always provide definitive answers, perception plays an integral role in how we think about and assess people and things in the world, Leddington noted. Judgments on the basis of perception influence the successes and failures of politicians, the decisions of world leaders and the conviction or acquittal of people accused of crimes. In asking us to reflect on just what we perceive, Leddington’s work could have far-reaching implications.\n“The kind of philosophy I do, in a certain sense, lacks practical application but contributes to the project of self-understanding,” Leddington said. “The basic point of my work is to understand our position as thinkers and knowers in the world, and perception is central to that. This project of self-understanding is valuable in and of itself.”\nLeddington, who began his research on perception in 2003 while working toward his doctoral degree at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., started with an investigation of how perceptual experience enables us to think special kinds of thoughts about the world. He continued his work at Centre College in Danville, Ky., and this past summer at the University of London.\nPerhaps surprisingly, Leddington’s research depends less on scientific experiment than on close attention to everyday speech.\n“I am paying attention to how we employ words and what that shows us about the structure and nature of thinking -- and about perception,” Leddington said. “Much contemporary philosophy is like this. It’s part of the project of understanding the world in which we live and of thinking more carefully and precisely about the things that are ubiquitous in our lives.”\nMany philosophers have come around to the idea that what we see, first and foremost, are objects, and that those objects have color, Leddington noted. Fewer philosophers subscribe to a similar point of view when it comes to hearing\n“They would say you hear a sound, and then there is the event,” he said.\nLeddington challenges that assumption. He uses the example of leaves of a tree rustling in the wind. While traditional philosophy says that people hear the sound of leaves rustling in the wind, Leddington argues that what we hear is the action or movement of the leaves, and that the sound is a property of that action. That may seem like a simple idea, but it is not commonly accepted among philosophers.\n'What was that?' Leddington is exploring his theories by examining how people describe sounds in speech. If, for instance, a person says she hears a bird chirping, she describes an action rather than a sound. Similarly, when a person hears something and asks, “What was that?” the common response is to refer to the event responsible for the noise, not to the noise itself.\n“You’d say, ‘That was the dog barking.’” Leddington said. “The answer, ‘It was a barking sound,’ is typically just inappropriate -- and that reveals something about what we perceive. What we hear first and foremost are events, not sounds. And just as colors are properties of objects, sounds are properties of events.”\nPart of Leddington’s project is to understand how we can come to know things about the world by means of sense-perception, and this has serious practical and ethical consequences.\nPeople have the ability to recognize objects, such as sunglasses and birds, simply by looking at them. Because we have these remarkable cognitive abilities, we sometimes think we can know things on the basis of perception when we can’t. In other words, we overestimate our abilities.\n“Sometimes we see something and we mistakenly think we know what it is just by seeing it. In this sense, we can make errors about the extent of our own capacities,” Leddington said. “Some people think by looking at someone you can tell if they are Jewish, heterosexual or gay, but for the most part you can’t. These are failures to recognize our perceptual and cognitive limitations. Understanding these limitations requires modesty and critical reflection.”\nThe following links are virtual breadcrumbs marking the 27 most recent pages you have visited in Bucknell.edu. If you want to remember a specific page forever click the pin in the top right corner and we will be sure not to replace it. Close this message.", "label": "No"}